Desert patinas...........

SteveX is ummmmm doing a great job of thread starting, so I thought I'd chip in with one.
I am really only prompted to add to my small hectic collection of ancients by how much a coin shouts at me when i see it. I have no list, no goals, but if i see a nice coin, i have to buy it.
I recently bought this Greek coin because of the Lemon coloured sand patina.....I have not photographed it myself yet, but here are the sellers pics. The obverse has had a hard time of it .....Its lovely in the hand.
Post your lovely desert patina coins.......
PHRYGIEN - APAMEIA BRONZE
19.98mm 7.93g

 

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That's a real beauty Pete! Here's a recent RR Semis...

 

Got to love that boat John.......
I have just bought 5 Postumus sestertii from France, one of which has a Galley reverse. Plan is to sell 4 to allow me to keep the Galley....heres hoping.

 

Constans from Antioch. A lot of coins from this region have these deposits...

 

I dont own it, I was outbid at 170$.......but I still want it. Hope you dont mind me posting a coin i nearly owned?? sold by the same seller......grrrrr
KINGS of COMMAGENE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. AD 38-72. Æ

 

Here's a proto-Nabataean of Athena/Nike typology overstruck on a Seleucid issue of some Antiochus. I believe the undertype is of Antiochus IV. Antiochus and Athena combine to form an unintentional Jugate portrait, and on the reverse, the inscription TIOXOY is quite clear. It looks like the lettering of the host coin came through unscathed on account of a chip in the overstriking die.

This is the only known example of a Nabataean coin struck over a Seleucid coin, and a glorious mess of a coin it is...

 

I like.....took me a while to spot the portrait in a portrait John.....

 

All other known proto-Nabataeans are overstruck on Ptolemaic bronzes, and most of them are so strongly overstruck that no detail of the host coin remains, other than the lathe centering dimple. Collectors of overstruck coins generally look for examples that present details of both the host and new coins.

Here is the common proto-Nabataean overstrike with a coin that could have been its host for comparison. The reverse of the Nabataean shows the eagle's claws, feathers, and some of the legend, and since they both have desert "patinas" they belong in the thread...

 

IBERIAN AE Semis
OBVERSE: Young male head right, Phoenician letter before
REVERSE: Bull right, crescent above, two Phoenicial letters below.
Struck at Castulo Late 1st century BC
15.6mm, 1.8g
Burgos 897

 

AUGUSTUS AE As
OBVERSE: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, radiate head left
REVERSE: S-C either side of large altar, PROVIDENT in ex.
Rome 22-30 AD
10.5g, 28mm
RIC 81 (tib)

 

NERVA AE Dupondius
OBVERSE: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, radiate head right
REVERSE: LIBERTAS PVBLICA S-C, Liberty standing left, holding pileus and sceptre
Struck at Rome, 97 AD
13.2g, 27mm
RIC 87

 

GALLIENUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG - Radiate head right.
REVERSE: VIRTVS AVG, Virtus standing left, resting hand on shield & holding spear
Struck at Mediolanum, 260-8 AD
4.10 gm., 22 mm
RIC 534

 

CONSTANTINE I AE4
OBVERSE: DV CONSTANTINVS P T AVGG, veiled head right
REVERSE: VN-MR to either side of Constantine, standing right, togate & veiled, SMANS in ex.
Struck atAntioch, 337-355 AD
2.1g, 15mm
RIC VIII 112

 

CONSTANTINE I AE3
OBVERSE: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, laureate head right
REVERSE: PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG, campgate, 2 turrets, 6 layers, star above, no doors, PTRE in ex.
Struck at Treveri, 327-328 AD
3.3g, 19mm
RIC VII 504

 

Anonymous AE Quadrans

 

CONSTANTINE I AE4
OBVERSE: DV CONSTANTI-NVS PT AVGG, veiled head right
REVERSE: No legend, emperor veiled to right in quadriga, the hand of God reaches down to him, star in top centre
Struck at Constantinople, 337-340 AD
1.39g, 16mm
RIC VIII 39

 

Antinochos VI