More ROME - Help would be appricated - Silver and Bronz

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Siggi Palma, Jul 31, 2012.

  1. Siggi Palma

    Siggi Palma Well-Known Member

    Hello gang,

    As I said I got these coins from a collection and ancient coins are far away from my understanding. As I have never dove into the subject.

    I would love some help finding out were they are from and if possible aprox vale. If anyone is bored or just likes to help a member.

    All the best and with big thanks
    Siggi

    I´ll upload 4 at a time starting with these. All coins are around 20-25

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  3. Siggi Palma

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  4. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    From left to right:
    Domitian/Minerva, Roman Republic of I dunno, Trajan, looks like an anonymous roman republic.
    All are in about $40-$70 range due to condition.
     
  5. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    A greek I dunno of, an Antoninianus of empress Salonina, dunno, Looks like a follis of Galerius.

    The roman bronzes for the whole lot, I would guess $50. The greek $ wise I dunno.
     
  6. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Sorry I am not giving full attribution, having to use my phone since my home computer is messed up.
     
  7. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    Bronze #1 is the best coin of the lot IMHO. I'd guess it is worth double the other three combined but that still may be $50 or so. It is from Carthage, the great enemy of Rome, and has been discussed on this site recently. I'm away from my books so I don't have the quotes and details. Search for Tanit and Carthage as keywords.

    Bronze #3 is Probus from Alexandria in Egypt, year 3. Search for Probus Alexandria tetradrachm eagle.

    Silver #2 is a C Servilius Denarius. 127 BC but rough enough to have lowered value compared to the others as quoted by mat. If it sold for $40, I'd call that generous to the seller.
    http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/rsc/servilia/t.html

    The Domitian and the Anonymous Republican are better (top of mat's guess) while the Trajan is lower end.

    We all have different wants and standards. The Carthage, Salonina, Anonymous Republican #4 and Domitian are decent for their types and should sell easily to collectors like me. The others have less eye appeal to me and will probably be wanted by newer collectors who believe anything old should look rough. Price and demand go hand in hand but what makes some people demand one coin and not another is less clearly defined. All appear to be genuine.
     
  8. Siggi Palma

    Siggi Palma Well-Known Member

    Thanks Mat for your help I appriciate it very much :)

    Dougsmit, thank you very much as well for your help. You made me want to go into collecting these for a minute. Seconds later I looked at the post and figured I would be busy for 50 years ;) Thank you :)
     
  9. Siggi Palma

    Siggi Palma Well-Known Member

    Here are four more

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  10. Siggi Palma

    Siggi Palma Well-Known Member

    I not sure these are anything you can see out off but here goes

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  11. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    7 of the eight are easily identifiable so I'll leave them for those who love this sort of challenge. #3 in the top group is Alexandria Numerian. I think it is year 3 but the gamma is right at the edge of the reverse right and could be something else. That should make a big drop in price for the coin but many people don't care as much as I do. The 4th top row coin is a bit rough which should drop its price but the first two are decent, though very common types. The bottom row should sell for a quarter to a half of the top. None are rare; none are nice.
     
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