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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3202213, member: 56859"]Wouldn't it be great if we could trace all of our coins to the ground? That is so uncommon. For whatever reasons, "find data" isn't available for the <b>vast</b> majority of ancient coins in both old and new collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I have many coins with interesting and old pedigrees, I have only two coins which can be traced to the ground and both came from the same hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gnarly Tiberius "tribute penny" denarius shown below appealed to me for two reasons. One, its find information is verifiable and two, I wanted a Tiberius denarius but resent the crazy high prices for such a common type of coin and with such a boring design. The to-the-ground pedigree makes the price much more palatable. The find information is recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, record ID is <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/634521" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/634521" rel="nofollow">NMS-480CEE</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]828998[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Tiberius, CE 16-37</b></p><p>AR denarius, 20 mm, 3.46 gm</p><p>Obv: laureate head of Tiberius right</p><p>Rev: Livia, as Pax, seated right, holding scepter and olive branch</p><p>Ref: RCV 1763 (I have not yet tried to confirm catalog numbers)</p><p><i>Found Quidenham hoard, Norfolk, 2014; purchased from Chris Rudd 26 July 2018</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>As it appears on the PAS website:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ffinds.org.uk%2Fimages%2Fedarch%2Fmedium%2F60859_480CEE_RB_CoinHoard_21.jpg&hash=185ce6a0f66502d9d3a9cd4a571077ac" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the time I was aware of the sale of this small hoard most of the coins had sold. Here's an interesting Roman Republican denarius which no one else wanted. The reverse shows a one-armed soldier. I wondered if it might be the famous general Marcus Sergius but there is really nothing to link him to this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829008[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome </b></p><p><b>A. Licinius Nerva</b></p><p>47 BCE</p><p>AR denarius, 19mm, 3.25 gm</p><p>Obv: Head of Fides right</p><p>Rev: One-armed horseman galloping right, dragging Celtic warrior by the hair</p><p>Ref: Crawford 454/2</p><p><i>Found Quidenham hoard, Norfolk, 2014; purchased from Chris Rudd 26 July 2018</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>As it appears on the PAS website:</p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ffinds.org.uk%2Fimages%2Fedarch%2Fmedium%2F60859_480CEE_RB_CoinHoard_15.jpg&hash=804eb1f30446322213141b32645553c2" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3202213, member: 56859"]Wouldn't it be great if we could trace all of our coins to the ground? That is so uncommon. For whatever reasons, "find data" isn't available for the [B]vast[/B] majority of ancient coins in both old and new collections. While I have many coins with interesting and old pedigrees, I have only two coins which can be traced to the ground and both came from the same hoard. The gnarly Tiberius "tribute penny" denarius shown below appealed to me for two reasons. One, its find information is verifiable and two, I wanted a Tiberius denarius but resent the crazy high prices for such a common type of coin and with such a boring design. The to-the-ground pedigree makes the price much more palatable. The find information is recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, record ID is [URL='https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/634521']NMS-480CEE[/URL]. [ATTACH=full]828998[/ATTACH] [B]Tiberius, CE 16-37[/B] AR denarius, 20 mm, 3.46 gm Obv: laureate head of Tiberius right Rev: Livia, as Pax, seated right, holding scepter and olive branch Ref: RCV 1763 (I have not yet tried to confirm catalog numbers) [I]Found Quidenham hoard, Norfolk, 2014; purchased from Chris Rudd 26 July 2018 [/I] As it appears on the PAS website: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ffinds.org.uk%2Fimages%2Fedarch%2Fmedium%2F60859_480CEE_RB_CoinHoard_21.jpg&hash=185ce6a0f66502d9d3a9cd4a571077ac[/IMG] By the time I was aware of the sale of this small hoard most of the coins had sold. Here's an interesting Roman Republican denarius which no one else wanted. The reverse shows a one-armed soldier. I wondered if it might be the famous general Marcus Sergius but there is really nothing to link him to this coin. [ATTACH=full]829008[/ATTACH] [B]Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome A. Licinius Nerva[/B] 47 BCE AR denarius, 19mm, 3.25 gm Obv: Head of Fides right Rev: One-armed horseman galloping right, dragging Celtic warrior by the hair Ref: Crawford 454/2 [I]Found Quidenham hoard, Norfolk, 2014; purchased from Chris Rudd 26 July 2018 [/I] As it appears on the PAS website: [I][IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ffinds.org.uk%2Fimages%2Fedarch%2Fmedium%2F60859_480CEE_RB_CoinHoard_15.jpg&hash=804eb1f30446322213141b32645553c2[/IMG] [/I][/QUOTE]
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