Show me your best coins under 200.00

As the title states, I want to see the best coin you got for 200.00 or less (not including shipping). Here is mine:

Theophilus (AD 829-842), with Constantine and Michael II. AV solidus (20.07 mm, 4.38 gr. Constantinople,

Obv: ΘЄOFI-LOS bASILЄ Θ,

Rev: MIXAHL S COhSTAhTIN', Sear 1653. Berk 249. DO 3.

Ex: Harlen J Berk

Purchased November 28, 2016.

 

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I think you already won the thread, lol.

 

Beautiful coin and real bargain for price, congrats.

 

WOW, you STOLE that at $200

4.38g gold x spot/g 39.51 x 0.90 (assume 90%? gold purity) = $155.75 USD GOLD value... so you spent $45 ($200 less the $155 gold) for a 1200 year old piece of History! KILLER

 

As far as well preserved coins go, I got this one for around $90 USD with shipping and auction house fees included.

On vcoins, $90 will get you a much rougher one.

 

t seems a shame no one wants to show coins but JA was right that any gold would seem worth the price. I don't collect gold for exactly that reason. To realize the full value of the coin, you should not have to melt it. I have a couple of Byzantine golds that cost $100 but that was well under melt back then.

I can almost play. I do not record prices without shipping, taxes etc. so I do not know exactly how much I paid for this one (not including shipping). It came from Canada so it may be legal even though my recorded price is $210 postpaid.


The coin is a Byzantine Anonymous A3 follis worth well under $100 overstruck on a Laetitia as of Gordian III also worth well under $100. I was willing to pay double for what I considered the cool factor of there being an 800 year gap between the two uses. I have several overstruck coins but none hung around for even 80 years (more likely just 8???) between uses so 800 seemed worth a premium.

 

i can win to i spent not almost 120 lol
bronze can be in my eyes more beatyful then gold

 

Nearly all my coins costs less than $200. How to pick just one? But I'll just say this is one I like alot

MARCUS ANTONIUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Praetorian galley, thyrsos behind prow
REVERSE: LEG XXII, eagle between standards
Patrae 32-31 BC
3.6g, 20mm
RSC 27

 

I posted this before as my first ancient coin. My Wife bought this for me for far less than $200.

 

Doug,
That coin is a very cool artifact. I like it very much. It seems to have multiple stories associated with its multiple strikes.

 

Curious... Isn't that what the ancients did? Value was placed on the coin's underlying precious metal content and value as a means of transaction value?

 

one off favorite under 200
i have a lot



i have nothing off all hehe

 

Can't say exactly if this is my best but its definitely up there in my favorites that are of <$200. It cost me around $150 and on top of that it is a rare reverse variety, with the city name around the cross instead of it being set up as two lines of text on top of each other in the field. Philip Grierson in Medieval European Coinage V.1 speculates that "[its] most likely explanation is an initial misunderstanding of a mint instruction prescribing the type, perhaps the ambiguity of some phrase like nomen nostrum habeatur in gyro et in medio crux, in altera parte nomen civitatis".

Louis the Pious, Carolingian Empire
AR denier
Obv: + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, legend around cross in circle
Rev: + METALLVM, legend around cross in circle
Mint: Metallum
Date: 816-819 AD
Ref: MEC 762

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Mine are cast -

This one was 110 euros plus vig....
Anonymous Aes Grave 280-276 BCE Rome, Triens,
O - thunderbolt between four value spheres
R - Delphin right floating, including four value balls,
Cr. 14/3
Syd. 10
Sear 538
Albert 13
Haeberlin 39, 13
Thurlow-Vecchi 3
s-ss, olive patina, 95.87 g.
Ex Münzhandlung Ritter, Dusseldorf

This RS fragment was 200 E plus vig. I think a pretty nice catch.
RAMO SECCO Fragment
Cast bronze from Central Italy
4th to 3rd century BC
Top – branch without leaves
Thurlow-Vecchi AS1

 

Hard to beat that deal, @Orfew!

Tough question. Maybe this, for $125. They typically go for a lot more because of the association with Scipio Africanus.

Spain, Punic Iberia, c. 237-209 BC. Æ Unit (24mm, 10.3g). Large male head l. R/ Horse standing r.; palm tree in background.

 

I would say about 95% of my collection is under $200. Can't say its my best, but its my current favorite.

 

@ValiantKnight

Wow, the denier is great. I love that it has the full text. I think you did incredibly well on that coin for 150.00. I have looked at many examples of his coins and any of them in the condition of yours were much more expensive. Great coin!

 

I have been looking for a coin of Scipio Africanus and yours is a great example for a really nice price.

 

under 200

vespasian and titus bull