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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8261709, member: 134416&quot;]I had started a recent debate about whether decrepit rarities are better or beautiful common/affordable coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was all ready to post about my newest coin, a Constantine IV from Rome which isn&#039;t in bad shape, but was ugly one day one, but Marc Breitsprecher&#039;s lightning fast shipping fooled me again!&nbsp; It&#039;s my Marc B order which arrived first.</p><p><br /></p><p>A note about decrepit coins. Like with all my hobbies, I have zilch desire in resale; they&#039;re solely for my own enjoyment, so who cares if a rarity or expensive coin is decrepit?&nbsp; One can always pick up a better example and have two!</p><p><br /></p><p>While a fairly worn coin, I&#039;d grade it about aF/VG, the picture makes it look super porous, which it isn&#039;t in person.&nbsp; One doesn&#039;t notice any porosity in person; it&#039;s a cleaned, worn coin.&nbsp; It looks better in person.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider myself to have excellent taste in the types of coins I collect, but on a regular person&#039;s budget (basically up to $1,000 in optimal circumstances), I don&#039;t really have a commensurate budget. So if this type of example pops up for a want, I&#039;m on it!</p><p><br /></p><p>I like my coins large and in charge, but I deeply enjoy Denarii of Sulla to the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457029[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Title: Octavian, as Sole Imperator (31-27 BC). AR Denarius / Actian Arch</b></p><p><b>Attribution:</b> RIC I 267 Uncertain Italian mint</p><p><b>Date:</b> 30-29 BC</p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Anipigraphic, bare head of Octavian right</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Quadriga, facing, set atop triumphal arch (the Actian Arch) with architrave inscribed with IMP CAESAR</p><p><b>Size:</b> 18.09mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 2.63 grams</p><p><b>Description:</b> (my grade: aF/VG).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure fellow CT members have much nicer examples.&nbsp; Post away!</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a couple of throw-ins.</p><p>I don&#039;t really like coins of the late empire, but I always wanted a Valentinian AE1. You probably guessed why; they&#039;re fairly large coins.&nbsp; I prefer the mints of the Western empire, but beggars can&#039;t be choosers.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">That brings up a point; what&#039;s the proper search terms to use if I want to search out AE1?&nbsp; There&#039;s so many different terms for them, AE1, AE 1, Maiorina, etc.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457034[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Title: Valentinian I (AD 364-375) Æ Follis / Emperor</b></p><p><b>Attribution:</b> RIC IX 2 Heraclea</p><p><b>Date:</b> AD 364-367</p><p><b>Obverse:</b> DN VALENTINI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> RESTITVTOR REIBVBLICAE, emperor standing right holding labarum and Victory; SMHA in exergue</p><p><b>Size:</b> 27.77mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 7.95 grams</p><p><b>Description:</b> good Fine+</p><p><br /></p><p>The third; a placeholder.&nbsp; I needed a coin of Tiberius Apsimar, and I didn&#039;t think it would last long when it popped up, so I hopped on it!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a hard coin to photograph, but in hand it looks less atrocious.&nbsp; It&#039;s kind of a dull, brown coin.&nbsp; The original collector probably wasn&#039;t far off when he said Fine.&nbsp; There&#039;s actually more detail in person, believe it or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it was a placeholder; a coin to tick the box of Tiberius Apsimar.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457041[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Attribution:</b> Sear Byzantine 1395 Syracuse mint</p><p><b>Date:</b> AD 698-705</p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Tiberius standing facing, holding globus cruciger and long cross</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Large M, palm branch to either side, SCL below</p><p><b>Size:</b> 21.75mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 3.73 grams</p><p><b>Rarity:</b> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///J:/PC%20Backup%2011/my%20coins%202022/Marc%20Breitsprecher%20-%20Lot%20Info%20Sear%201395%20Byzantine%20Empire.%20Tiberius%20III%20Apsimar%20(AD%20698-705)%20%C4%86%20Half%20Follis_files/6.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 6</p><p>my grade: VG, but looks less awful in person.</p><p>Mom&#039;s grade (who hasn&#039;t seen this coin): slag heap. (she calls all Byzantine coins that). </p><p><br /></p><p>Did Byzantine rulers of this time have the Christopher Columbus/Renaissance era-man hairdo?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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