From: drazz
Category: Information
Date: 23 Jan 2000
Time: 17:27:44
Remote Name: 207.105.44.146
...what I posted above? Copied and pasted
***...several hundred uncleaned (and they really weren't, I'm surprised to say) Roman and Greek coins. They are tedious, which I like for the intricacy, and once the legends are revealed...God, they're so beautiful.
I've always loved the art of coins and find money so expressive. Nothing super-great shakes has been found but I've uncovered some great art. A nice Antiochos VI, Valens' for days, of course, common Constantine's and a couple not so common Constantine's (Veiled head / Quadriga - RCV 3889; RIC 37 Obverse legend: DV CONSTANTINVS PT AVGG, veiled head right. Reverse: Constantine in a quadriga, reaching toward the hand of God above, CONS (for the Constantinople mint) in the exergue) and a coin that I ache to identify but haven't found in my net searches. Some not worth the metal used, some generic, some intricate, some too-light strikes, a few worth maybe $1-$2 or as much as $25-$50. On Merkin coins, have a nice MS65/66 '55 DD 1 cent, 2 '72 DD's 1 cent, some aberrations and a huge vanity Imelda/Ferdinand Marcos gold coin (nearly 3 oz) with incredible art, strike errors, off-metals, etc
Sam, this coin I'm wanting to ID is silver, fat round button-like, about 8 grams, cluster of grapes or fruit of some kind? fluffy bearded face I can't make out? on the obverseand a perfect winged horse on reverse (?) No text either side. This horse is tiny and breathtaking in detail, flawless under a 10x lens. Any idea(s) of an ID on it? I suspect Greek and BCE since there's no text. I can't scan it but maybe a buddy will do it next week or so. Also found one gold coin, tiny with a barely discernible bust on the obv. and an incuse square w/ 2 dots on the rev. If I get scans, will you take a look at them? What's your e-mail?
Tell me about your interest in ancient coins...vocation or avocation? I love old stuff...any old stuff but especially arrowheads, stone implements, stone fetishes, earplugs, small sculptures, etc and have collected all my life. I personally found all the stuff in my collection in the wild (creek beds, plowed ground, caves), so to speak, so I know all is genuine and ancient. Ancient coins are new to me...make that I'm new to them!...but Oh, Man! I'm on fire with these old coins. Any good coin sites you can point out? Pictures help greatly with my newbieness.
Have pals who are Ren Faire goers and they're going to shop me some coins there if they don't look cleaned and re-dirtied. I like them very encrusted with lots of effort needed to ID. There's one truly reliable guy on eBay, according to the gift givers, and they got mine from him for the most part. The coins not from him had been scraped on the edges to ID the metal, were re-muddied, and an insult to the intelligence but they figured it a cheap lesson as did I.
I ran on, eh? When I'm enthused, I'm enthused. I thought I'd run through all the things (affordable) that piqued my interest until I held that first coin...gggggggggzzzzzzzzzzzzzzkkkkkkkkk, I'm electrified. I can't wait to finish these and beg for more. Any other coin-afflicted types out there?
draz* It's not the money...it's the love of money that's the root of all evil *zig
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