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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8137476, member: 80952&quot;]Good addition. </p><p>This is one of the aspects that fascinated me in ancient coin collecting - you can get very rare/unique coins - and sometimes without paying much. </p><p>I have some examples - and to be perfectly honest I realized this after buying them, the reason for buying was I simply liked the coins or matched my areas. </p><p><br /></p><p>First example was a Trajan quadrans</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418143[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Although this series with Trajan portrait and she wolf appears often in auctions</p><p>But with the obverse legend IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P is quite rare with only 3 specimens in Woytek and without a photo in OCRE (I am not sure if coins can be submitted in OCRE) </p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.693?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.693?lang=en" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.693?lang=en</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have submitted 2 coins to be documented (but not in RPC).</p><p><br /></p><p>First was this Nikopolis. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418145[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/offer-attributing-of-nikopolis-coins.334530/page-5" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/offer-attributing-of-nikopolis-coins.334530/page-5">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/offer-attributing-of-nikopolis-coins.334530/page-5</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] added this in &quot;Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov, The Coinage of Nikopolis ad Istrum&quot; Addenda #8 as the depicted coin in the book was worn and also it is not in AMNG or Varbanov. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most recent one was a surprise, I wanted to add an Istrus coin for a while but could not find one that would fit the combo good quality+affordable price. </p><p><br /></p><p>This was perfect. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418146[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Moesia. Istrus circa 280 - 256/255 BC</p><p>Obol or Trihemiobol AR 12 mm, 0,77 g</p><p>Facing male heads, the left one inverted / IΣTΡIH, Sea-eagle left on dolphin, ΔI beneath dolphin.</p><p>Dima, Tabelul III, Grupa IV, Subgrupa VII, II – Pl XXI, 10 </p><p><br /></p><p>Identifying subdivisions can be tricky and AMNG is not the perfect resource for it. </p><p>I identified it with CT help and submitted it also on Wildwinds as it was not present - new entry Dima III-VII, II[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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