Anyone know anything about these coins? A friend asked me my opinion. A Private seller is seeking what I feel is a low price. Apparently part of a massive hoard discovered, in the middle of the pile. I know nothing about world coins, so I am running to yall
This is a Roman antoninianus of Philip I (244-249 AD), better known as "Philip the Arab". The reverse shown features the goddess Laetitia. They're common coins, and commonly found quite nice. I'll defer to the others on the Ancient Coins board for the value, but I've bought these in the $35-45 range in the past. (That was, however, around ten years ago.) Here is a VCoins search for coins of Philip I (with Laetitia) so you can make some comparisons. (Some other stuff came up in the search results, but it did produce some similar coins.) I agree with @paddyman98 that Ancient Coins might have been a better place to get an answer, but that doesn't necessarily mean that "What's It Worth?" is the wrong forum. Repost this on Ancients if you like. I won't move the thread in this particular case, but will instead leave that up to you.
Here are the two Philip I antoninianii I owned about ten years ago. Both cost me less than fifty bucks. As ancient silver goes, they're kind of cheap, but are a decent value for the money, I'd say, since they're ancient, silver, and not too small. They're still relatively cheap since they're fairly common, but when I made that VCoins link for you above, I noticed that prices have generally risen a little bit. (Of course those VCoins prices are dealer asking prices, and therefore retail.)
How would they know that? What kind of documentation? Most - in fact, nearly all - ancient coins on the market came from buried hoards. That's a "so what" kind of detail, unless you've got specific documentation to one particular hoard (where and when it was found, etc.)
