Post a coin that caught your eye and made you buy it even though it's not in your collecting area

Thank you for the input, @mani!

Is it odd that this lead jeton mentions tobacco? I thought tobacco was a no-no in that culture.

 

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Yours is a bit exceptional in the amount of the legend that is on flan (at the expense of the elephant). There are several versions of this Satavahana bronze from different rulers distinguished by the legend. I believe this is Gautamiputra Satakarni. Mine has half as much legend but more elephant. These are common coins in this condition but I have not seen really nice ones.

 

Coin porn!

 

Amazing coins.. for me I think it would be the following






Korea. Yi Hyong. Tae Dong 2 and 1 Chon silver. Reverse in enameled "Hu".

Design wise they are not very pretty. However it has an appeal to me Reason being these are perhaps the only coins I know which are mixed with enamel.

 

Very interesting. They remind me of the Aksum coins with a tiny inly spot of gold.

Aksum, I bought this as Kaleb and successors 520-540 AD but it seems more like an anonymous of the Munro-Hay 316-398 series called Type 76. Of course the condition of mine and the Munro-Hay plate coins make matching difficult. I have a couple other Axumite coins but this is my only one with the gold spot.

 

Yes.. the Axum coin is also another beauty and very unique as well. I reckon it was probably an archaic attempt at bimetallic coinage. @Ancientnoob has a lovely specimen as well of its type

 

Winner of the thread I think!! Very cool!

 

I agree => Long-S had a pretty sweet coin ...




... but nobody puts Baby in a corner!!



Just jokes ... I love all of the coins in this example (great thread)

 

Thanks... I am missing the last piece of the set which is the 3 chon. Hoping to snag one someday..

 

As everyone knows, I collect ALL AV coinage/ also US/Canada obsolete banknotes/AR Roman. Well, I saw Fruhwald Auctions had 13 "mintstate" AR Talers from Archduke Ferdinand 1564-90 Hall Mint....could not resist to get one....like a "silver" 10 Dukaten. Beautifull coin from a great mint city.

 

That is a nice AV Stater "Golden age". Where was your coin minted? I am terrible at reading Greek! I have one from Babylon Mint.

 

This is my only Byzantine Empire coin. I don't have much interest for anything after they stopped issuing silver ants, let alone anything in the Byzantine Empire.
But, it was cheap and it's gold; so.....


Constans II and Constantine IV, AV Solidus Constantinople mint. Facing bust of Constans, with long beard on left, wearing plumed helmet. Facing bust Constantine, beardless, on right, crowned; each wearing chlamys; cross between their heads / VICTORIA AVGU and officina letter, cross potent on three steps between facing standing figures of Heraclius on left and Tiberius on right, both beardless, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding cross on globe; mintmark CONOB

 

I don't collect Indian coins, but it's gold, and was within my budget, so...

 

That would be his beard, a full beard, think Commodus or Hadrian, or Gerard Butler in 300, type beard.

 

This is not mine but same date, mint and grade.

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SRYAAOSwDuJWwO~t/s-l300.jpg

 

I'm not a modern US collector but the ASE reverse proofs made me an exception to my own rule.

 

Just bought this a few minutes ago. 10 Kopeks Catherine the Great.

 

Connecticut 1785 1M-E, high R-3 or low R-4. Rare

Mailed Bust Right

This was the only use of the obverse die.
This was the only use of the reverse die.