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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3929837, member: 85693&quot;]This will be a let down compared to all those wonderful coins from the 2019 &quot;best of&#039;s&quot; everybody is posting.&nbsp; But I believe us bottom-feeders should throw out some junk now and again to provide contrast to the beauties.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I stopped by my local dealer on Black Friday.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t like to mess around with low-grade stuff, so his junk bins can be interesting.&nbsp; He handed me the $4 bin and said &quot;I threw some ancients in there.&quot;&nbsp; First thing I saw was a very yellow, decaying plastic flip with &quot;Carausius&quot; written on it.&nbsp; And then a Nerva.&nbsp; I got very excited at that point.&nbsp; The rest is a blur - I was in a feeding frenzy.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035824[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, now that I&#039;ve calmed down, I&#039;d have to admit that they aren&#039;t pretty, but several of them were &quot;firsts&quot; for me (first Carausius, first Nerva, first Berytus, first Jewish Revolt).&nbsp; And the price was right and it took me many hours of fun (mostly) to attribute them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m guessing on the Carausius - I couldn&#039;t believe how complicated his coinage is.&nbsp; This one has been varnished, I think - it has a kind of scary, possibly BD edge, but it is all very glossy and hard.&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep an eye on it, but I am afraid to touch it, basically (but I did put it in a new flip). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035815[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Romano-British Empire</b></p><p><b>Carausius&nbsp; Æ Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(c. 286-287 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Unknown British Mint&nbsp; </b></p><p>IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped bust right / SALVS AVG, Salus standing left with patera and sceptre, feeding snake rising from altar.</p><p>RIC 983 (see note).</p><p>(2.93 grams / 21 x 17 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Several types of Carausius with SALVS reverse; this seems to match FORVM example with &quot;early reign &#039;moustache&#039; portrait&quot;</p><p>cf. RIC V-2 983; Webb Carausius 1102; Hunter IV 75; Cohen VII 310; Linchmere Hoard 1102 (1 spec.); King Unmarked 13;&nbsp; SRCV IV -, Bicester</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035818[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Judea, First Jewish War&nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Æ Prutah</b></p><p><b>Year 3 (68-69 A.D.)</b></p><p>Amphora with two handles and lid with paleo-Hebrew inscription <i>Year Three</i> around / Vine leaf on branch with paleo-Hebrew inscription <i>The Freedom of Zion</i> around.</p><p>Hendin 664; Meshorer 204.</p><p>(3.70 grams / 18 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b> [ATTACH=full]1035814[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Sept. Severus &amp; Caracalla</b></p><p><b>(208-211 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 23</b></p><p><b>Berytus, Phoenicia</b></p><p>[IMPP CAESS SEVER ANT AVGG] Confronted laureate, draped, and cuirassed busts / [DEC-ENNAL ANT COS III COL BER], Astarte&nbsp; in temple, crowned by Nike on column.</p><p>BMC 122; AUB 86.</p><p>(10.84 grams / 23 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035819[/ATTACH] </p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Nerva&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Semis</b></p><p><b>(96-98 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Syria, Seleucis &amp; Pieria</b></p><p><b>Antiochia ad Orontem&nbsp; </b></p><p>[IMP C]AES[AR NERVA AVG III COS], laureate head right / S•C within laurel wreath; Γ below.</p><p>RPC III, 3493; McAlee 422(c); Wruck 128, CRS 186,</p><p>(7.28 grams / 22 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p>This Hadrian sestertius has been whacked, and so is bent.&nbsp; It was $12, but I just couldn&#039;t leave it.&nbsp; I felt sorry for it. </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1035816[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(134-138 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>HADRIANVS AVG COS III&nbsp; [P P], laureate head right / FEL[ICITAS] AV[G], S-C, Felicitas standing left, holding branch in right hand and long caduceus in left hand.</p><p>RIC 750d; BMC 1499.</p><p>(24.61 grams / 30 mm)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not ancient, but pretty - from Shah Jahan&#039;s father (of Taj Mahal fame), this is a &quot;Jahangiri,&quot; a brief experiment in a heavier Mughal rupee, but the merchants didn&#039;t like it. </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1035817[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>India, Mughal Empire&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Jahangir (1605-1627)</b></p><p><b>Jahangiri Rupee </b>(20% heavy)</p><p><b>AH 1016/2 (1607-1608 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Ahmadabad Mint </b></p><p><i>kalima shahada, hijri</i> date and <i>zarb</i> at bottom / <i>nuruddin muhammad jahangir badshah ghazi</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>KM 152.2</p><p>(13.72 grams / 21 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, a trio of Byzantines I found knocking around:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035822[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Post your uglies, your firsts, your junk bin treasures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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