Show me your best coins under 200.00

Yes, I believe so. Mine is not so unusual I think. Yours more so, I believe. btw Very nice portrait.

I have a couple other tetradrachms from Antioch and they seem to have had skilled engravers. I bought both my Sept Sev and Caracalla because the portraits seemed better than most I had seen from the region.

 

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I thought this was a steal at $150:

Spain, Malaca. Circa 80-20 BC. Æ 23mm. Head of Hephaistos (Vulcan) right wearing flat cap; tongs behind / Radiate head of Helios facing. CNH pg. 101, 10; SNG BM Spain 366; P.V. LXXXV, 6; Burgos 1152.

I've seen the same type, not nearly as pleasant looking, sell for a few times that. Just have a look at the CNG or ACSearch records.

 

That is a very interesting coin, Nicholas.
At first I thought It was a Celtic issue in Spain, but it is rather of greek origin from
what it seems.

 

I'm not really sure how I would classify it- Greek, Roman Republican Provincial?

 

I love that you can get these teensy, tiny coins for less than 50 dollars! This is an obol, less than a gram of silver, and a hair under a centimeter. Such detail on such a small coin, including a facing gorgon!

 

One more at less than $50. This is a hemiobol, and measures 7 mm, 0.48 grams! Quite frankly, I'm afraid to look at it sometimes as I'm pretty sure that with my luck, if I dropped it, it would roll into a space between the wood planks of my floors and disappear forever.

 

I like most of you have a lot of good buys under $200, but I will pick this $180 because I love the detail on the temple.
Trajan AE Dupondius.

 

Thank you.

As a side note, this coin has the most views of all the other objects and coins in my gallery here.....by a large margin (and it is not the oldest upload either.)

Yet it is the least expensive of them all.

I believe there is a lesson there.