Tray of Crappy Copies of Crappy Coins

You actually spent good money (US dollar) for this junk?

 

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Oh boy...

 

I can't speak for AN, but my tray of "junk" cost in the neighborhood of $1000. Some of these coins are incredibly rare. Coin 4 is the only known example struck over a Seleucid issue. Coin 11 is the third published example of the type.

I love my historical "junk" so much that I've been creating a website for it. Click here. Do coins have to have eye-appeal to be considered worthy or important?

 

Ouch!

That was a pretty interesting display/write up @John Anthony

You guys should see the "junk" I collect when not buying ancients...

 

I've seen it, in the exonumia thread. And frankly, the stuff that gets posted there is FAR more interesting to me than what gets posted by most of the collectors of moderns.

 

Are you making his money for him?

 

I wrote a page on my site detailing a contest among friends on who could do best with $100 at a coin show. Now it might be time for us to have a contest as to who has blown $1000 of coins that the rest of the world would not possibly understand. JA set the mark at 12 coins so part of me wants to see which 12 of my 99 1/2 favorites add up to $1000 and would leave the most of those in the hobby scratching their heads. I hope I am correct that JA would not accept an offer of $1000 for those 12 coins any more than I would accept that offer, or any offer, for mine. Let me be perfectly blunt on the matter. If your collection means nothing more to you than the cash value it represents, you are in the wrong place reading this list. We have quite a range of participants here in terms of dollar value spent. We have a couple regulars that might have trouble showing a coin that cost as little as $1000 so they might have to play a 100k game. We have others who collect things many of us might have trouble orienting correctly as to which side is up. To say we are a strange lot is understatement.

 

I wonder what folks were doing with imitative Roman coins at the bottom of a gem mine so many years ago.

 

To me, this is a great appeal because all of those people have the same thing in common - the passion for the hobby!

 

Lol, yeah, and I bet you said that about Sogdian coins a few months ago, right? All coins are interesting in their own right, they are just waiting for the right owner to come along. I think these Sri Lankan imitatives are cool. Let me know if the seller has any more AN.

Regarding "coin time", I am sitting at my desk as I type this with maybe 120 coins sitting here in their original shipper envelopes. I, however, do not have time to touch them since I have two major papers to work on for school. I would love to take a couple of days off and just have "coin time", but wife, kids, school.........

Of course a RATIONAL person would say to stop buying the coins to begin with, but we all know I am not rational.

 

Same here, they are interesting but not enough for me to want to seek them out. But even if I don't like what others collect I am respectful of them and their collecting interests and I don't crap on them for having those interests.

 

Aahahaha gawd, medoraman nailed-it!! ..... it took a while before Sogdian coins grew on me (thanks again for your help)

Ummm, but I sure hope that you tender-footed folks aren't rattled when somebody says something a wee bit negative about your coins? (why are you asking for opinions, if you don't want to hear the truth?)

Hey, on several occasions, I've posted a coin and then sat-back waiting for the usual positive comments and "likes" from the regulars (thanks for those, by the way) ... but I am also interested and impressed when somebody (usually doug) will make a comment that isn't 100% candy-positive and is actually quite negative and truthful (NOTE: sure, I admit that there is a difference between an educated negative comment and a random cheap-shot ... but honestly, *whatev*) ......... they're "my" coins (you guys aren't gonna think about them too much after my thread dies, so who cares what you say about them, right? ... I'm the guy that has to put my sweet new coin back into its album and love it all over again, tomorrow)

Oh, but I will apologize for taking that cheap shot at a few of you coin-brothers and your fine collections ...

=> "I am very sorry that I don't find some of your coins very interesting"

oh, but I still want to see them => they're all cool



On the flip-side, I'm pretty sure that some of you think that my animal-coins and/or my eagle-coins kinda suck and that they're common, blah-blah-blah (again, that's why this hobby is fun => if we all liked the same thing, then AJ would be King!!)



Luckily, there are a whole lotta "mini-kings" running around this ancient site ...

Noob => I went back and re-looked at your crap-tray and I still don't like it (that doesn't mean that your coins suck => it merely means that your coins are safe from my bid-hand!!) ..... you rock, my coin-brother!!

 

Converting modern day cash into "this junk" is what the people who hang out here would love to do all day and everyday .

 

about a hundred of them on the tray...the enjoyment is free...and the education is priceless.

There are far more crappier and far more expensive crappies that I would like to own, that I don't.

 

Thats cool bro, its all good.

Even if you did like them, you couldnt bid on these they are not in auction.

 

I like fishing for crappies, when i first started collecting ancients i bought 200 uncleaned lot from a guy in UK. there were some great coins in there, about half were crappies.

 

Very interesting pieces and thanx for the great writeup..;

 

I am with you Steve. I always prefer constructive criticism over shallow praise. If anyone ever thinks I am slamming their coins I apologize, but I am just trying to be honest. Go ahead and comment on the crappy condition of my Sogdian pieces, I know they are but they simply do not come better.

 

Honestly if these were just random stuff posted on a dealer site or even ebay, I would have skipped right by them. To me they do like they came from an uncleaned lot and then cleaned. But shows how much I know.

LRBs aren't my area, but reading what these are makes them alot more interesting & great to see they are being kept with someone who care about such items.

Hopefully the future owner will know whats special about them.

*Goes back dancing with his harems*

 

No, I like to profit from my useless collection that you can't buy a loaf of bread with.