Some Budget Ancients from Frank

Wasn't gonna bother getting anymore ancients for the year but got Franks cheap list and picked up 3 but got two, other was mailed later. They won't win any beauty contests but for under $45, can't go wrong.

An emperor I needed but never had a rush to have or even cared about. But was more than affordable, so I jumped on it.


CLODIUS ALBINUS (193 - 195 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES, bare head right.
R: MINER PACIF COS II, helmeted Minerva, standing front, head left, holding olive-branch, resting hand on shield set on the ground, spear against arm.
19mm
3.34g
RIC IV 7; BMCRE 98; RSC 44.

Ex Allan Barker Collection

Needed a large bronze of her, couldn't beat the price considering the description mentioned a great portrait.


OTACILIA SEVERA (244 - 249 A.D.)
Æ Sestertius
O: MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust right.
R: PIETAS AVGVSTAE, S C across field, Pietas standing left, raising right hand and holding box of incense.
Rome Mint
28mm
15.30g
RIC 208a (Philip I); Cohen 46

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Nice coins for the price. I, too, am addicted to Frank Robinson's budget list.

Those Otacilia sestertii circulated a long time and are typically pretty worn. Here's my example of your coin. It's not exactly museum quality.



14.33 gm; 27.7 mm

 

I tried to get 5 off that same list, but have two coming. I don't like buying site unseen any longer, but the prices were too good to pass up.

 

Very nice, like the patina.

Same, only 1 I got and ended up sending back due to it being past even my tolerance but was a few years ago.

The other that should be here soon is the Crispina Sestertius. I wanted the Hadrian tet listed but the "heavy red crust" turned me off, didn't want to chance another dud for my taste.

 

i don't have either of these either!

here's a budget coin of OS's hubby...

 

I picked up one coin from Frank's list, this provincial AE of Herennia Etruscilla from Viminacium in Upper Moesia. Hardly a gem coin, but not bad for $12.95:

 

Cool additions Mat!!

I have a modest and still unphotographed denarius of Clodius Albinus but here's a old photo of O Severa slabbed:

 

Nice coins, but who is Frank?

 

What he said......

 

Frank Robinson. This link will take you to his next auction: http://www.fsrcoin.com/p.html

 

Thanks Bing.

 

Thanks.

Still need one!

 

Man, those are some pretty nasty scratches on good ol' Clodius Albinus!!



... but for the price, congrats on scoring a dude that I don't have!!

Oh, and I really like your chick-coin (congrats on scoring another sweet lady)

Ummm, I happen to have a pretty sweet sestertius example of that lady as well ... perhaps you've seen her strutting her hipponess around this site?



Mat => I love both of your two new OP-scores ... I'm always glad to see you buying and posting coins!!

 

I have to say that is probably the worst coin I have ever seen sold with a provenance to a previous collection

with the possible exception of my Gallienus which is ex John Quincy Adams and worth about half of the label that came with it.

 

Ex Baron Louis Chaurand Collection

Naturally, it had to be another Gallienus . Mine is scarcer, but yours has a pedigree that beats mine by a mile.

Nice pickups, @Mat. The Clodius is one I might have gone for myself, but I had already gotten one from Frank's last auction. Also, I was late in seeing the e-mail about the budget coins and suspect all the good ones had already been snapped up .

 

Guys, cool it with the free publicity for Frank Robinson! Soon, everyone will be bidding in his auctions, and I won't be able to compete anymore! (Just kidding- I am always happy to see good dealers praised here, I want them to stay in business and be prosperous.)

 

Cool finds Mat, Clodius is on a longer "to get" list of mine.


Otacilia Severa AE As. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed draped bust right / CONCORDIA AVGG, S C in ex, Concordia seated left, holding patera & double cornucopiae. Cohen 11. RIC 203b
sear5 #9178

Roman Republic, M. Volteius M. f., 78 B.C., Ancient Counterfeit, Ex John Quincy Adams Collection
Fouree silver plated denarius, cf. RSC I Volteia 4 (official, Rome mint, 78 B.C.), Fair, illegal mint, weight 2.881g, maximum diameter 17.5mm, c. 78 - 40 B.C.; obverse laureate helmeted head of Attis right; reverse Cybele seated in chariot drawn by two lions; with a John Quincy Adams Collection tag from the Stack's Sale

Ex John Quincy Adams Collection, 6th President of the United States, and His Descendants, ex Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, ex Stack’s Sale , 5-6 March 1971. lot 907 ? ex Forvm

 

Nice additions, Mat, and nice prices too!

I have one or two coins from the JQ Adams collection as well. Some german state minors. By the looks of it he really did collect a wide variety of coins, including low grade and common type coins (which is what I got from him).

 

Lot 907 was a group of 17 antoniniani of Gordian III. I was unable to spot what I considered to be a likely lot but there was lot 626 which was a group described only as holed and damaged RR coins.