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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7805841, member: 98035&quot;]Nice! Seller probably thought that by taping it to a metal toy car, it would slip through an xray undetected. I bought a couple coins from a German seller on ebay who always wrapped his coins in aluminum foil.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two coins of Albinus</p><p><br /></p><p>One as Caesar (this one minted during the Year of Five Emperors)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340688[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One from his brief stint as usurper v. Severus - ironically, the wear would indicate that it saw decades of circulation, possibly even past the end of the Severan dynasty.[ATTACH=full]1340689[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I never got a free toy with any of my ancients, but some of my favorite &quot;extras&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my usual Indian sellers always wraps their coins very neatly in pieces of paper and taped inside of cardboard, often scraps like cut up cereal boxes. One time, he apparently ran out of paper and folded it up in this doodle of... people playing cricket in top hats?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340695[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Even before that, I bought a lot of medieval Hungarian coins from a seller in Eastern Europe. The way they were packaged made me feel like I was buying drugs</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340696[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340697[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340698[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes that&#039;s an antoninianus, and yes of course it turned out to be fake <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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