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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3133775, member: 36818&quot;]I have several rare coins. Some are expensive, some not. All are valuable. Here&#039;s an example of a very rare coin that nobody seems to want except me. I paid less than $200 for it. Maybe too much for such a worn example. But you will be hard pressed to find one outside of the British Museum, and even their examples are rough. It has great historical value as a record of Julia Domna&#039;s presence in the military camps amongst the soldiers, and was probably struck during the Severan invasion of Britain (her hairstyle had already become helmet-like near the end of Severus&#039;s reign):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]799880[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julia Domna.</b> Æ dupondius or aes, Rome, c. 208 CE; 26.5mm, 11.22g, 12h. BMCRE 789, RIC S881, C 121. Obv: IVLIA – AVGVSTA; draped bust r. Rx: MATE–R CAS–TRORVM | S C; Julia, diademed and veiled, standing l. sacrificing out of patera held over altar and holding caduceus; in front, three standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>_______________________________________</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another very rare coin of Domna, for which I paid considerably more, even with its somewhat battered condition:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]799886[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julia Domna.</b> AR denarius, Rome, 211–7 CE, 3.30g. BMCRE C33a (p. 435), Hill 1291 (R4), RIC —, RSC 251a (C.L. Clay and Vienna). Obv: IVLIA PIA – FELIX AVG; draped bust right. Rx: VOTA PVBLICA; Pietas (Julia?) standing l., dropping incense on lighted altar and holding open box. Very rare; this type apparently unknown to P.V. Hill in 1964 (none in twenty-six studied hoards, including Reka Devnia), although an example was purchased by the British Museum in 1973; another from the G.R. Arnold Collection sold in the Glendining sale, 21 November 1984, lot 113 (a pair of denarii), pl. V (this type illustrated); hammer price for the lot £120.</p><p><br /></p><p>_______________________________________</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet another very rare coin of Domna, for which I paid around the same as first coin above, this despite some damage and overcleaning. But the scratch across the deity on the reverse looks like a deliberate defacement, which intrigues me:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]799887[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julia Domna.</b> AR denarius, Emesa, ca. 200 CE; 2.97g, 17.5mm, 7hr. BMCRE p. 102 †, Hill —, RIC S616a (R2), RSC 13a Obv: IVLIA DO–MNA AVG; draped bust r. Rx: CERER F–RVG •; Ceres standing l., holding two corn-ears and lighted torch. Very rare; RIC S616a cites “Mouchmov, Réka Devnia, p. 106” referring to no. 15,&nbsp; “Cerer. frug. Var. 2,” of which there were three examples. However, Mouchmov describes no. 15 Var. 2 as corresponding to Cohen 13, which is the same type as this coin, and for which there are none in Reka Devnia. Rev. softly struck, with rim dent and scratches on rev (Ceres seems to have been deliberately defaced).</p><p><br /></p><p><i>References:</i></p><ul> <li>Murphy, Barry P. <i>The Barry P. Murphy Collection of Severan Denarii </i>(n.d.), <a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/jdemesa1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/jdemesa1.htm" rel="nofollow">SEV-461</a> (obverse die link).</li> </ul><p> <ul> <li>Trustees of the British Museum, “<a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1208222&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=domna+616a&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1208222&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=domna+616a&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">1979,0614.33</a>,” Collection online (London, n.d.), (die duplicate).</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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