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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 5010917, member: 80952&quot;]I am also a modern coins collector (or used to be, as ever since I discovered ancient coins there seems to be no coming back).</p><p>I simply don&#039;t like UNC coins. The minimum grade for modern coins I accept is F but I have just a few coins in XF condition or bette, rest&nbsp; of them mainly VF and everything is OK for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for ancients, being a beginner, I accept worn coins without issues, as long as they can be identified without doubts. All I want is the coin to look OK for me. And I still have the goosebumps when I realize that coin in my hand was used by someone who could have been an ancestor of mine.</p><p>Examples of modest quality coins in my collection</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201822[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I identified it as</p><p><font size="4"><b>Trajan AR Denarius, RIC 319, RSC 154c, BMC 581</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Denarius. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC, laureate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS VI P P SPQR, Fortuna seated left with rudder &amp; cornucopiae, FORT RED in ex.</p><p>The coin is slightly better in hand but still very worn.</p><p>From a lot of &quot;bronze coins&quot; - thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201828[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Same lot. I like this coin very much - my first sestertius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII</p><p>Reverse FELICIT PVBLIC S C</p><p>RIC 143</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201832[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you probably guess, same lot.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Magnentius, Arles, AE3. DN MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right, A behind head / VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET C[...], two Victories holding shield inscribed VOT V MVLT X, C in four lines. IS in lower centre. Mintmark PAR. RIC VIII Arles 181; Sear 18822.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some coins that will arrive in a day <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201833[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>MYSIA. Pergamum. Germanicus &amp; Drusus (Caesares, 14-19). Ae. Struck under Tiberius.</p><p>Obv: ΓEPMANIKOΣ KAIΣAP.</p><p>Bare head of Germanicus right.</p><p>Rev: ΔPOVΣOΣ KAIΣAP.</p><p>Bare head of Drusus right.</p><p>RPC I 2367.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought this was a rare coin&nbsp; and studied about it only after I won it but I don;t mind at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201836[/ATTACH]</p><p>I think this is Commodus,</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7378" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7378" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7378</a></p><p>Loved the colors, not sure if they are natural.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201840[/ATTACH]</p><p>A 30 mm Otacilia Severa from Cilicia</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3230" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3230" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3230</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t like extra worn 4th century coins and I don&#039;t like them generally speaking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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