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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2798040, member: 85693&quot;]Do you ever go into a coin shop and come away with the unexpected?&nbsp; While shopping in the real (rather than the virtual) world, I sometimes wind up with an odd batch of stuff.&nbsp; Yesterday I got two things from a local dealer that made for a kind of Mutt n&#039; Jeff looking pair. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]651501[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]651502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]651503[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III Denarius. 240 AD. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right / PIETAS AVGVSTI, Pietas standing facing, head left, raising both hands. RSC 186; RIC 129 (2.96 grams).&nbsp; It has a dark, pewter tone to it that comes out darker in my lousy photos.&nbsp; I thought the portrait a pretty nice style.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Great Britain, 1797 Two Pence Cartwheel.&nbsp; Big and a little banged up.&nbsp; 56.11 grams / 1.979222 ounces</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m on an ancients binge at the moment, so the Gordian was just what I wanted.&nbsp; But I wasn&#039;t really in the market for a Cartwheel, but it is really big and cool and King George III said &quot;buy me!&quot; and etc.&nbsp; I got the both of them for $40, which seemed like a pretty good deal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any other oddball shopping spree stories out there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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