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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2245648, member: 19463&quot;]I have to agree with JA on this one.&nbsp; I have a thousand ugly coins but the ones I value are the ones that show something I can not show easily with a better coin.&nbsp; Lets look at an example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]443537[/ATTACH] </p><p>This Falling Horseman is almost as bad as Bing&#039;s new one but has just enough mintmark to read Constantinople.&nbsp; I would have bought it even if the CO were gone because what makes it IMO collectible is the legible obverse right legend identifying the coin as Constantius Gallus while the portrait is clearly wearing a diadem which can not be on the head of Gallus who was only Caesar and always shown with bare head.&nbsp; Sure I&#039;d rather have this coin in EF+ but it is what it is.&nbsp; It turns out that all that it is is an overstrike with the headgear provided by one parent and the legend by the other. That means it is not important in the grand scheme of things but just a novelty---one I&#039;m happy to have in the abysmal grade because it may be the best one I&#039;ll ever see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Falling Horsemen are a dime a dozen in terrible shape.&nbsp; We can take interest in being able to ID the coin by style but the correctness of our guess is not confirmible with certainty.&nbsp; I&#039;ll guess Constantinople with about 50% certainty and could rule out at least 10 mints with 100% certainty but that is not really an ID.&nbsp; The coin is a genuine ancient coin identifiable with 100% certainty to emperor Constantius II with certainty and could be a valued addition to the collection of someone who has no ancients and and a budget allowing spending a dollar per coin at the most.&nbsp; The others here are, like Bing said, less than special but, like JA said, worth having to a collector (like Bing, JA and I) who can overlook the faults and see the &quot;nice details and great character.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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