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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3133039, member: 75937&quot;]There&#039;s a difference between rare and valuable. Value has much more to do with demand than with supply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every collector of Roman provincial coins has examples that are unpublished and therefore presumably rare. For example, this denarius-sized bronze of Julia Domna from Nicaea in Bithynia is nowhere to be found online. Although this reverse type is known for Septimius Severus, there isn&#039;t one of Julia Domna in <i>Recueil général des monnaies grecques d&#039;Asie mineure</i>; it&#039;s not at Wildwinds, not at Coin Archives, not at acsearchinfo, not at CNG&#039;s archives, not in BMC, not in Sear Greek Imperial. It isn&#039;t in the ISEGRIM database either, which supposedly includes everything from Lindgren, Waddington, and the major SNGs for Nicaea.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]799439[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ (diassarion?), 3.78 g, 17.6 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Bithynia, Nicaea, AD 193-211.</p><p>Obv: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Right: ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ, eagle (or phoenix) standing right.</p><p>Refs: SGI --; Recueil Général --; BMC --.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite its rarity, there isn&#039;t any demand for it, and I&#039;d be lucky to get $40 for it at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another that is apparently unpublished and which appears nowhere else online:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]799441[/ATTACH]</p><p>Severus Alexander and Julia Mamaea.</p><p>Roman provincial AE Pentassarion, 10.1 g, 25.7 mm.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, AD 225-229.</p><p>Obv: ΑVΓ ΚΜ Α[VΡ CΕVΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟC ΚΑΙ] ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΜΑΜΑΙΑ, confronted busts.</p><p>Rev: ΗΓ ȢM [ΤΕΡΕΒΕΝΤΙΝΟV ΜΑΡ]ΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤ-ΩΝ, Dikaiosyne standing l., holding scales and cornucopiae, E (5) in field, r.</p><p>Refs: Not listed in: AMNG, Moushmov, Varbanov, BMC Greek, Sear Greek Imp, SNG Cop, SNG von Aulock, or Hirstova and Jelov.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, because of low demand, I doubt I&#039;d get $80 for this at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even in the Roman Imperial series, a coin may be very hard to come by, but because of little demand, it doesn&#039;t command a premium compared to common coins of that particular emperor. Take, for example, this denarius of Nerva. There are three obverse inscriptions to be found on coins with this reverse. Online, there are lots of examples of RIC 6, with the IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P obverse legend and of RIC 18, with the IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P obverse legend. But mine&#039;s RIC 30, which reads IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P <b>II</b> COS III P P.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]799443[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not in Wildwinds, coinproject.com, coin archives (free version), Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE), Sear 5th ed., or CNG archives. Only four others are to be found at online databases. There is one at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris (the Cohen specimen cited in RIC), one was auctioned recently by Pegasi, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3887461" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3887461" rel="nofollow">another </a>by NAC, and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1049236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1049236" rel="nofollow">another</a> by Rauch. Nonetheless, there are few collectors who are in search of all three varieties of Nerva denarii with the IVSTITIA AVGVST reverse type and the coin does not fetch a premium for all its scarcity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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