Renewing my Bottom Feeders Club membership with Tribute Penny

The renewal of my membership to the Bottom Feeders Club was due, and I think I just earned my renewal with this puppy.


Tiberius, AD 14-37
AR Denarius, 3.6g, 19mm, 5h; Lugdunum, 36-37 AD.
Obv.: [TI CAESAR DIVI] AVG F AVGVSTVS; Laureate bust right.
Rev.: [PON]TIF MAXIM; Livia (as Pax) seated right on throne with ornate legs, holding long sceptre and olive branch.
Reference: RIC I 30, p. 95.

By Tiberius standards this one was very very cheap. Its a little off center on the reverse and a little bit of a weak strike, but it doesn't bother me. I think the portrait of Tiberius is worth what I paid for it and more.

I now have the following for my 12 Caesars Set: Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian.

So, does this qualify me for the Bottom Feeders Club again? Show of your Tiberius coinage.

 

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I wish. Talking of puppies, how is yours?

 

The toning is great and it has a pleasing portrait. Not a bad coin at all.


Here's mine. In hand it has a lovely toning and isn't as pitted as the pic looks:

 

I briefly owned this, maybe the world's worst Tribute Penny - a fourrée which came with two other coins for $35 for all three in a Rudnik auction in 2012. There wasn't any photo' in the lot description, so I didn't expect much but it was certainly worth ~$12. I donated it and two other (nicer!) coins to an auction for someone whose house had burned down and it sold for $19. I still have three, one a modern fake, one broken & crystallised and the other OKish, but maybe this was the most interesting of the four.



Here's a miserable Tiberius sestertius, only interesting because of the NCAPR counterstamp:

 

I can give your fouree Tribute Penny a run for its money, lol...

 

I've shown mine just recently, but, as asked, here they are again:

 

He is big and healthy. Not really a little puppy anymore.

 

My worst are the official ones. I love the patterens and style of the fourree and the Indian barbarous copy is one of my favorite coins. I will never own a 'nice' TP. They sell for more than I am willing to pay for a coin I have seen in a bag containing several hundred.
Deposits on surfaces:


Ugly style:


Fourree:


Indian (good silver):

 

Perhaps a checklist of necessary attributes needs to be drafted to clarify the lack of qualities required to descend into the murky depths of the Bottom Feeders Club.

 

If 'bottoming feeding' will get you coins like that, count me in. IMHO, a very respectable example.

 

TIBERIUS:


RI Tiberius AE As 14-37 CE Laureate-Pont Max Globe Rudder sinister left RIC I 58

 

I know this coin didn't sit well with you the first time around @Sallent but I feel I can't miss any opportunity to post it

 

is bath time fun?

 

Embarrassingly typical, but a tribute penny got me hooked on ancient coins. You're probably sick of seeing it, too, as you see it on every post I make!

This one is the one with the inverted spear, legs of chair ornate, triple line below, feet on footstool:


Tiberius, AD 14-37
Roman AR denarius, 3.87 g, 18.5 mm
Lugdunum, AD 16-37
Obv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right
Rev: PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated right, holding olive branch and inverted spear; legs of chair ornate, triple line below, feet on footstool.
Refs: RIC 28; BMCRE 45; RCV-1763 var.

 

Yeah, I'm sick of seeing it...you should get rid of it...should I PM you my address

 

Neat snag, @Sallent. The portrait's a nice one.

Mine wasn't a classic bottom-feeder buy, but it did come from a large group lot.

 

Sweet. Eventually I hope to upgrade to one half as nice as yours, but for now I'm completing my 12 Caesars on a budget as I don't want to take money away from my 3rd Century Roman Imperials buying spree. However, coins like mine can always be resold in a few years if I ever decide to focus more on the 1st and 2nd centuries and make a sweet downpayment towards any upgrade. Those early emperors are always super popular and sell well.

 

Nice

 

I'll see your hand and raise you one: could this possibly be the world's lowest grade Tribute Penny?

Barely recognizable on the reverse, but boy were we happy when we found it!