The legionary denarius looks very nice, and I paid a really good price for it. These tend to go fast, I found, poking around VCoins and places where they’re sold. If you snooze, you lose. This one that I got I happened upon by an email update of new items from a place called Ancient Imports, which is a great place. The owner gives you a slip with your coin with a really full attribution, including relative rarity of the coin. I have gotten widow’s mites from him before, as well as others, and I’ll probably go again. But anyway, right now I am considering what I am going to be doing as far as ancient coins go. I am not as gung-ho as I used to be. Right now, still looking for a piece of eight, but that’s about as close as my desire goes. Who is to know what the future brings? We shall see what we shall see.
December 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I just bought a coin from Ancient Imports too after getting their last email update. Mine was a Quadrigatus from the Second Punic war. I believe it is a debased emergency issue that shows the strain that Hannibal was putting on the Roman treasury. I could be wrong though. I share your sentiment on Ancient Imports. I have bought a number of nice coins from them at very reasonable prices.
March 30th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
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