ancient coins are AMAZING

[alkemyst]

Awesome. I didn't know they went for so little either. I'd totally love to have a stash of those old coins.

Mint condition (MS-60) and above coins that old probably are very expensive.

My fiancee had a few hundred $2 silver certificates and about $2000 in $50 and $100 silver certificates of various ages. Most were in 'good to great' condition, but not worth much over face value due to not being uncirculated. She also had about $500 in coins that we just converted to CoinStar Amazon GC's with no surcharge. No coin collector was even going to deal with it unless we hand picked coins for review.

I think for the whole stash the best offer she got was $50 over face value.

 

[brianmanahan]

How much for one of the 30 silver denarii?

they actually think those were tyrian shekels, or possibly staters or tetradrachm

unfortunately those run anywhere from 500$ to 1000$

but i will keep looking for one that strikes my fancy at a reasonable price

 

[brianmanahan]

Omg, this thread.

lol i know, this thread is a hoot

it took a turn which i did not expect

 

[brianmanahan]

The Athenian owl coins are just adorable.

yup! i want to get some early greek coins, the fact that every city was doing their own (and doing them so artistically) is very cool

 

[brianmanahan]

I did my masters on ancient Jewish coins from c.140bce to 100ce. Not even joking.

awesome! i have a couple more coins from that era i want to get, pontius pilate prutah and tiberius denarius

and maybe a shekel of tyre if #MINO

 

[brianmanahan]

dang it, i have already put 280$ into these coins in a month

i better scale it back!

 

[norseamd]

you need to buy some ancient norse coins

 

[brianmanahan]

you need to buy some ancient norse coins

i have some irish ones from the 1200s on my to-buy list, does that count?

if not, maybe you can dig some real ancient norse coins up and send em to me :awe:

 

[phucheneh]

I went to a local shop to get rid of a bunch of wheat pennies...I think they paid like 2 or 2.5c each, and rather than try and sort them, the guy basically said that it was less than one in a million that anything really valuable was in there...I had personally already skimmed them for the more known rarities and found nothing but a few that might be worth a few extra cents. He just sold them in bags, assumably for kids to look through and build sets and whatnot.

Anyway, I had that and some silver coins. They were very fair people. I walked back out with a pair of the stupid Zimbabwe trillion notes (he even confessed he had sheets of them and just kept one or two in the case at all times- fast seller for impulse buys), and, what I liked even more, piles of old foreign coins from the 'four for a dollar' bucket.

While they have no practical value, I dig stuff that is a) cheap and b) neat. Sounds like OP is on a similar kick, albeit with a little more money involved.