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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thejewk, post: 4194468, member: 100136&quot;]This month I&#039;ve spent my budget on a couple of small lots, something I&#039;ve not done before.&nbsp; I plan to make separate threads for each one, but here seemed a good play to post the seller photographs with a few notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1076554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1076555[/ATTACH] </p><p>This first lot came about thanks to a very obliging ebay seller.&nbsp; He had purchased a large lot of coins and was reselling them in random lots.&nbsp; Thankfully he was happy to combine the three London mint coins into one lot for me, and I grabbed them for £13.50 including postage.&nbsp; I&#039;ve now spent some time cleaning up the top two coins and they are starting to look much better.&nbsp; I won&#039;t be touching the last one due to the remaining silvering.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next lot is a big departure for me, and I imagine plenty of people would think me mad for buying these.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1076556[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1076557[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>These four Durotriges coins came to a total of £29 including postage, which to me seems like a bargain.&nbsp; I do wish to add a higher silver content stater of the Durotriges to my collection, but what better way to historically track a people than to show the decline of their coinage due to the events that surrounded them?&nbsp; Although they started out producing rather beautiful white gold staters, it is speculated that Caesar&#039;s campaign against the Gauls cut off the Durotriges from their sources of silver, and very quickly their stater became heavily debased, as can be seen by the billon stater to the left in this image.&nbsp; You can also see clearly the effects that using curved dies had on the end product.&nbsp; The inside of the cup, the obverse, retains much of the detail, but the reverse is worn almost completely blank due to being on the outside of the &#039;cup&#039;.&nbsp; Also the large flan crack caused by the curvature of the dies is a common feature of these coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the right is a silver plated stater with an aes core, another common find amongst the coins of the Durotriges.&nbsp; Whether these were an attempt to gain the acceptance of their coinage amongst neighbouring tribes, or are the work of an enterprising individual making some money on the side, I suppose we&#039;ll never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>The final two tiny &#039;quarter staters&#039; are speculated to be coins produced to pay troops during the final stand of the Durotriges against Vespasian and his troops in the Claudian conquest of Britannia in around 43 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of history for very little money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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