If anybody knows which coins are these, are they any worth (and how much approximately) please tell me..... THANKS Nick
The ones on the bracelet appear to be either ancients, or (very likely) tokens/replicas. If they had any value before the jeweler got his hands on them, they are now numismatically worthless because of the damage caused by putting them on the bracelet. The others have sort of a medieval look to them, but
OK, thank you very much Satootoko. I supposed that those on the bracelet are worthless,but I didn't know from what country,region or period are they. So if anyone could just recognize them,please tell me so I could tell the owner...
The others look like they might be from the Byzantine Empire based on the style. If you can post pics of both sides I might be able to look them up.
It feels like a picture of a sound I would say that all the ones on the bracelet are fakes, made for the jewelry trade. They all have the same fabric of the denarius coins of the middle late Roman Empire, circa 225-250 AD. However, they do not have the right "look" and they do have other wrong details. These are fantasy pieces. Starting at 9 o'clock -- This is a reverse, the "tails" side of the coin and I cannot make out the inscription or devices. The second coin has the design and the mintmark (CONOB) of Constantinople, but those coins did not have this "fabric" -- as if putting a fat modern UK "round pound" on the planchette of an 1800s shilling, or a Kennedy half on a Large Cent. The third has the scales and torch of Aequitas (Equality -- more like "Fairness"), but again, I cannot read the inscription, except that it ends in AVG (see here: http://www.mcintosh55.com/items/J00911a.jpg) The one at 12 might be Tetricus I (http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tetricus_I/RIC_0080.1.jpg). Then comes Salonina, wife of Gallienus. Last, another "Constantinople" coin with the Emperor and Jesus, but on the wrong coin. The two coins in the center, I think, would have been struck in gold, actually, or maybe on large, copper "cup-shaped" (scyphate) planchets. All in all, they are not coins, but jeweler's replicas. (And without acutally seeing them in real life, I could be wrong.) Also, I disagree with Roy's easy claim that if they were genuine, mounting them would have ruined them. Yes, that is true, just as it is true that Americans respect the President. That said, if you look at the plate coin of the Athenian Dekadrachm in Sear's Greek Coins and their Values, you will see that it was holed. Therefore, it is "ruined." Yes, it would be inferior to another coin just like it -- but no other such coin exists. So, yes, if you have two coins of the same type at the same price, the one with the least damage is preferred. That said, there are many factors, especially with ancients.
