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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3972839, member: 98035&quot;]Nice grab - can&#039;t beat a 900+ year old coin for the price of a small coffee!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a modest collection of Chinese coins - couldn&#039;t really get into the swing of reading the script, so I have a binder page of early (pre-Tang) and one page for everything after. I haven&#039;t gotten through imaging those yet, but I do have pics of two recent buys - both from arguably the most interesting and collectible emperor of all - Wang Mang. These are both scarcer issues and cost about $15 and 30. Both claim to be value &quot;One Spade&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045488[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045489[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Common Wang Mang - the 1 and 50 cash coins - are quite inexpensive, only about $1 and $5-10 each, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things that drew me into the Indo Sassanian world is the affordability. They rarely exceed $25 for the choicest of specimens, average about $9, and on rare occasions can be had much cheaper than that. About a year one seller had a hoard of fully uncirculated coins - fine style and in bright, good silver. I won most of them for the $5 minimum bid or just a little over it - the entire hoard ended up costing less than a single nice Greek tetradrachm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045502[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>(And don&#039;t let misconceptions fool you - these coins are not billon but full silver of 75-90% fineness)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also who can forget the LRB&#039;s? This Crispus is one of my favorites for just $30</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045505[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Or here&#039;s a Tetricus that I pulled from a $2/coin lot, less than $30 for the whole lot</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045506[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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