I purchased three coins from Franks Bargain Bin sight unseen, and basing my selection solely on Frank's description and grade. Although all three arrived in the same envelope, one was snapped into two pieces. Of course, Frank refunded the cost of that coin and told me to keep the halves. Perhaps I should try gluing it together, but that's for another time. This may have been a much nicer coin, but the break seems to have also affected the patina (or maybe that's the way it was before the break). Frank had it graded as VF/F JULIA DOMNA Limes Denarius OBVERSE: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, draped bust right REVERSE: VENERI VICTR, Venus standing right, naked to waist, leaning on column to left, holding palm and apple Struck at Rome, 194 AD 2.8g, 17mm RIC 536 Number two seems about right for the grade which Frank gave, F+ CARACALLA AR Denarius OBVERSE: M AVR ANTON CAES PONTIF, draped bust right REVERSE: IMPERII FELICITAS, Felicatas standing left, holding caduceus and child on left arm Struck at Rome, 196-8 AD 3.2g, 16mm RIC 9, RSC 95, BMC 199 And the last I wanted because of Steve (little brother has an unusual fetish for animal coins). Frank's grade on this one was F+/F and is also about right. It's not pretty, but the humped bull is decent. TRALLES, LYDIA CITY COINAGE AE14 OBVERSE: Laureate head of Zeus REVERSE: TΡAΛΛIANΩN, humped bull walking left, head facing, ΩΡΠΛT monogram in left field Struck at Tralles 200-1 BC 3.1g, 16 mm BMC 63; SNG Munich 702; SNG Tuebingen 3866-3867 All in all, I got what I paid for and am pleased overall. After all, they are bargain bin coins.
Shame about the Domna & the Caracalla I was debating on too but didn't bother due to $. The Lydia is a nice coin too.
Congrats on your three new adoptions ... the young Caracalla is pretty sweet, but the bull is my favourite of the bunch
Ouch. I do like the young Caracalla. Still fresh-faced there. The scowl of the later tyrant is not to be seen yet.
Do we have an urge to buy coins Steve would like so we can be cool like him or is it just an attempt to keep up with the X6's? I bought three bullcoins from Frank's regular sale that Steve might like. I bought them anyway. Do you think Santa might bring one to him for Christmas? No chance, Santa does not go that far North. It's pretty bad when you are North of the North Pole, eh? What color is the inside of the Domna. A Limes AE should not break that easily. I wonder if it was a base silver with severe crystallization to start with.
That may be a F+ but that coin is usually pretty awful so this one was not appropriate for a junk lot. I don't have one (thought I did but guess I was wrong, again).
I seem to be in the same galley as you anymore. No, not generally. But sometimes I see coins here that I would like to have, Steve's included. Besides, Steve is like the Fonz. No one can be that cool (especially me).
Good picturing makes them vf congrats my coin friend my bin bargain from him. EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Dichalkon 135-36 AD Caduceus
Cool bin purchases guys!!! I'm going to have to visit 'Franks' site...... I grabbed an alleged 'limes' of Diadumenian (FAC):
oh man, to bad about julia...we want to see the crack on that coin...but not that much. caracalla is nice indeed....cool portrait. the greek is pretty neat as well, when i saw that humped bull "indo-greek' just popped in my head instead of ...."regular greek".
I picked up five coins from the bargain bin fixed price list, including this Roman Republican denarius. (Fourree in imitation of) L. Memmius Galena, 109 BC, 2.60g. FSR FPL Nov '16 #122 I couldn't pass this up; it is my first *serrate* fourree. I thought you folks might like to see how they managed that so I have included a shot of the rim. Bing: consider posting pictures of the edge of the broken coin. I have looked at the insides of many broken Greek silver pieces but I have never had a chance to see the inside of a limes denarius.
Now that you asked for an image of the inside of this coin, I'm not so sure of the "Limes" label. It looks pure silver to me. What do you think? Forgive the out of focus image.
Silver with a very hard life including crystals and the post office. I suspect many Limes labels are on similar coins but we don't always have to see the inside.
