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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 4452760, member: 75143&quot;]Yet again, I bought a bunch of ancient coins. This time, average cost was around $0.81 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>This lot included the following types of coins:</p><p>Roman Imperial - 261 or so</p><p>Roman Provincial - 8</p><p>Greek - up to 4</p><p>Seleucid - 1 or 2</p><p>Byzantine - 19 to 24</p><p>Celtic or Middle Eastern - up to 5</p><p>Roman Republican - 1</p><p><br /></p><p>Of which, out of the 261 Imperials:</p><p>31 were &quot;very low grade/cull&quot;</p><p>48 were &quot;low grade&quot; (just enough detail to id as Roman, but not much more)</p><p>80 were &quot;medium grade&quot; (enough detail to id an obverse and/or reverse type, but no confident id)</p><p>102 were &quot;better grade&quot; (enough detail to either fully id, or reasonably fully id)</p><p><br /></p><p>24 Emperors represented include:</p><p>Anastasius I</p><p>Arcadius</p><p>Augustus</p><p>Aurelian</p><p>Claudius II Gothicus</p><p>Constans</p><p>Constantine I</p><p>Constantine II</p><p>Constantius II</p><p>Constantius Gallus</p><p>Diocletian</p><p>Divus Constantine I</p><p>Gallienus</p><p>Gratian</p><p>Honorius</p><p>Julian II Apostate</p><p>Justin I</p><p>Licinius I</p><p>Theodosius I</p><p>Theodosius II</p><p>Valens</p><p>Valentinian I</p><p>Valentinian II</p><p>Valentinian III</p><p>Vrbs Roma commemorative </p><p><br /></p><p>Of which I did not have 4 of them (Anastasius, Diocletian, Justin I, Valentinian III)</p><p><br /></p><p>Highlights of this hoard included:</p><p>Elagabalus x1</p><p>Gordian III x3</p><p>Julia Domna x1</p><p>Augustus x1</p><p>Barbarous Constantine x1</p><p>Justin I pentanummium x1</p><p>Diocletian x1</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111223[/ATTACH] </p><p>Seleucid w/Athena Promachos reverse</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111224[/ATTACH] </p><p>Barbarous Constantine I with two victories sharing a pint</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111225[/ATTACH] </p><p>Justin I pentanummium</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111227[/ATTACH] Roman republican </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111231[/ATTACH] </p><p>Anastasius I</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111232[/ATTACH] </p><p>Diocletian with nice sand patina.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111233[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constans with a very striking portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111236[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Domna</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111237[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gordian III w/moesia reverse</p><p><br /></p><p>I do believe this will be my last purchase. There&#039;s plenty of fun, but it&#039;s sort of a money sink if I only put about 4 coins out of every hundred into my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next post will be a full financial breakdown and investigation of the viability of buying uncleaned hoards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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