New ANA Ancient

Greetings fellow ancient collectors,
I have decided to participate in the ANA's Ancient Coin Project, and yesterday received my first coin from the program! It is a Claudius II, or better known as Claudius Gothicus, Antoninianus. This happens to be first ancient with an animal depicted, so to me this is rather exciting. Here it is:
The cropping of this coin was quite difficult, but after some time here is the finished product!
Thanks for looking and feel free to post any similar ancients!
-Mike

 

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Great coin Mike, it good to see others branch out to Ancient coins, welcome to the dark side.. Your picture looks good too!!

 

I also have a posthumous Claudius II from a large unattributed mixed lot. It might benefit from some careful cleaning.



Claudius II Gothicus
268-270 AD
Posthumous issue, 317-318 (?)
AE4, 16 mm, 2.2 gm
Obv: DIVO CLAVDIO OPT IMP (or OPTIMA, not sure); veiled bust right
Rev: MEMORIAE AETERNAE; eagle standing right with head left, wings open
Mint: Rome? should have R_ (P, S, T, Q) in exergue; can't see the MM
Ref: RIC VII Rome, 112?

 

Nice coin, Mike. Always nice to see new collectors. Dont hesitate to ask questions, if you have any.

 

I think the ANA has done a nice job in promoting Ancient numismatics.

Your coin is just dripping with history. Claudius II Gothicus is a forgotten, but important emperor who began the turnaround of the Roman Empire at the depths of the Third Century crisis. Claudius helped to reverse the destructive penetration into the Roman Empire by the Goths. The neutralizing of this barbarian threat allowed later emperors (especially Aurelian) to later reunify a splintering Roman Empire.

Unfortunately for the Roman Empire, the very capable Claudius died during the Cyprian plague (probably smallpox) around AD 270.

Always good stuff:




guy

 

Not a new collector, but I'm still an infant when it comes to ancient coin knowledge. Thank you anyways! Thanks for the comments everyone!

 

Double post. Sorry.

 

Wow, thank you for the history and video! You have given me a whole new appreciation of this coin that wikipedia did not do.

 

Very cool new pick-up ... yup, ya gotta love dem animal coins!! (well done)

 

Good coin. Here is my version:

CLAUDIUS II (GOTHICUS) Antoninianus
OBVERSE: DIVO CLAVDIO, radiate head right
REVERSE: CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing with head right or left.
Struck at Rome, 270 AD
3.4g, 22mm
RIC 266

I just checked and I paid $5.42 shipped

 

This confuses me absolutely. Please clarify what they are teaching. The first types used on ancients from c.600 BC were almost all animals. There are relatively fewer later than that one.

TIF: Your coin is a rather less common variation and is worth any effort you spend on it. These smaller ones are harder to find than the also small but larger commemoratives with the seated figure on the reverse.

 

I apologize for my minor error Doug, I forgot to include the word "my" before first.

 

Cool coin CoinMike747! Congrats!
Did you do a project?

 

Nice!

 

nice new coin CM, i have one of those as well...but can't find my pics.

 

Thanks! I had to do three of five different activities such as publish an article, do a talk on numismatics, etc. I'm actually going to submit for the second coin which is a Septimus Severus denarius!

 

Nice pickup! Isn't it amazing to hold something nearly 2000 years old?

 

CoinMike747, it would be hear an overview of your projects. I am a member of a couple of coin clubs and have been trying get some of young numismatist aware of and involved in ANA programs

 

Never knew ya' were a fellow YN. Hail!

I considered doing the copper project, and the ancient at one point, but I got caught up in doing similar stuff. I.E. coin talks (pun fully intended).

Anyhow, I decided that I had better things to do (Umm, schoolwork anyone?), so the idea was axed.

 

You won't be disappointed with the program. Unfortunately, I was passed the cut off age by the time I found out about the program. I had a pretty good discussion with an individual who was a fairly prominent participant in the YN ancient coin program, Steve Feltner. He was a coin dealer at All Good Coin in St George, UT. He has since been recruited by one of the grading companies to grade and slab coins in California. After he completed the program, he would regularly attend to help. He received some fairly decent coins including a greek bronze depicting the poet, Homer, seated on the back, an aspendus olympic stater, and some AE denomination I don't recall with Geta and Caracalla depicted on the front facing each other. The AE was fairly interesting as Geta's head had been struck from the surface. Per Steve's explanation, after Caracalla had Geta executed, he ordered all depictions of him to be struck out with a stamp when the coin crossed the path of a Roman Merchant. (I may have ruined the official story, if anyone knows anything more about it.) Regardless, the program is great from what I heard and can pay off up to $2,000 in ancients.