Post Your Favorite Damaged Ancient

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Aethelred, Jan 26, 2017.

  1. rg3

    rg3 Well-Known Member

    My only Athenian tet has a bit of character:

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    Decided to buy it since it was probably (it is ex-agora and ex-naville, each house estimating different dates/groups) struck when Cleisthenes made his democratic reforms. She's not pretty, but she's mine (and this is a good example of a biased coin - flipping to heads about 80% of the time).
     
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  3. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

    This one has some damage. The rim beading is broken off from 2:00 to about 6:30 on the obverse. It was in the very first NFA sale, NFA I, "Collection of Coins from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art" March 20-21, 1975, lot 410. At that time the beading from 2:00 to 3:00 was still there (3:00 to 4:00 on the reverse) but the image showed short thin flan cracks at the boundaries of that region. Apparently Bunker Hunt bought it because it became lot 975 in the Sotheby's Bunker Hunt IV sale, June 19-20, 1991. By then that edge piece had broken off (Sotheby's noted the damage, "edge chipped"). Beware flan cracks on thin coins!

    It was apparently bought by a dealer who sold it to the man who sold it to me in 2006 (for half what it sold for in NFA I and the same as is sold for in Hunt IV).

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    Procopius siliqua. 18-17 mm. 6:00 die axis. 1.69 grams.
    RIC IX Constantinople 13e2 "R".
    The coin is rare and valuable even with the damage, but it would be better if the rim were still intact.
     
  4. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

  5. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

    That's horrible! How can you stand it? As a friend, I offer to help you dispose of it into a lesser collection. PM me for my address. ;)
     
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  6. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

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    ... well, at least it's kind of symmetric, right?

    right?


    :bag:


    ... I still love this coin (it's not handi-capped, it's handi-capable)
     
  7. red_spork

    red_spork Triumvir monetalis

    I am certainly not terribly bothered by it, I just think it's an interesting phenomenon because of how many coins exhibit these test punches on the shield and how they are rarely noticed.
     
  8. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

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    Dameged Vitellius
     
  9. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

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    Nero sestertius
     
  10. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Here are my only damaged ones. The Byzantine AV Hyperpyron/ John V/VI is extremely rare. The guy that they paid to strike these should have been fired/ horrible job. The Carthaginian coin also was damaged from poor strike. 2233404l (1).jpg 2700759l (1).jpg
     
  11. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

  12. Ajax

    Ajax Well-Known Member

    This would probably be my favorite damaged coin
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  13. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    I really do like my scarred survivors. I have quite a pile... these are just a few favorites.

    I posted this rare Pherai hemiobol very recently but am more than happy to do so again :). Cracked and repaired...
    Thessaly Pherai - Hemiobol Dog.jpg

    Ex-jewelry Otho denarius with its cut edges...
    Lot - Otho2.jpg
    Lot - Otho edges1.jpg

    Thrace, Abdera. Everyone collector needs a classic Holed Coin...
    Thrace Abdera drachm.jpg

    I don't even know what happened to this poor Nero provincial from Ascalon, but it came to me this way in an uncleaned lot and I'm pleased to give it a permanent home in my collection.
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  14. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

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    Caligula sestertius
     
  15. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

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    Marcus Aurelius
     
  16. ro1974

    ro1974 Well-Known Member

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    You dont wana see the back
     
  17. rrdenarius

    rrdenarius non omnibus dormio

    My favorite damaged coin - This coin had the word forato in the description.
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    when I googled the word I found
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    Monte Forato is a mountain (1,230 m) in the Alpi Apuane, in Tuscany, central Italy. It is formed by two peaks of similar altitude, connected by a natural arch which has given the group its name (meaning "Holed Mountain" in Italian). The hole, nearly circular in shape, has a height of c. 12 m, while the arch itself is some 8 m thick. The arch can be seen from both Versilia and Garfagnana valleys at the two sides of the Monte Forato.

    I'd like to see this one day. Just think, two sun rises or sun sets.
     
  18. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    This Caracalla with a big gash on the cheek, like the classic GI Joe!

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  19. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    You bought that one from me, @Valentinian. Glad to see you're still enjoying it. :)
     
  20. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    My two favourites:

    AE4 of Flavius Victor. Too bad about the damaged reverse, but love it for that tiny portrait.
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    And an AH 79 dirham (first year of the reform, al-Basra). Chipped but very affordable.
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  21. Eduard

    Eduard Supporter**

    Guys, given the number of damaged ancients coins already posted in this thread, it seems to me the real challenge is posting one that isn't damaged;)!!
     
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