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Message:: [QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 8092058, member: 109923"]Those coins don't look wretched to me. I'd have the Æthelwald Moll and Wiglaf tomorrow! This one isn't rare, but it's rarity comes from it being one of around 20 found in the UK. The reason that matters is because it was the coin used as the inspiration for the first British coins. Since they were all well-circulated before they got to Britain, and were lost singularly rather than being protected by hoards, most are terrible. I have seen one that is pretty good, but it sold for more than I could afford. Massalia Hemiobolion, late 3rd to mid-2nd century BC[ATTACH=full]1406472[/ATTACH]Bronze, 15mm, 3.92g. Head of Apollo left. Bull butting right, MA above (for Massalia) (ABC 115). Found near Dover, Kent. Most of my wretched coins are in that condition not because they're so rare I couldn't get a better one, but because the ones that are in very good condition are rare and very expensive. This is my filler for a Hadrian Britannia, waiting for the day I win the lottery and can upgrade it to a really nice one. Hadrian As, 119[ATTACH=full]1406473[/ATTACH]Rome. Bronze, 10g. Laureate bust right; IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG. Britannia seated facing, holding sceptre, large shield to right; PONT MAX T R POT COS III; BRITANNIA in exergue (RIC II.3, 241). The first representation of Britannia.[/QUOTE]