Post a coin, token or medal that isn’t perfectly round

Justacommeman · January 23, 2019 2:29PM

Hex, oct, clipped etc

This is a most recent pick up.

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coinsarefun · January 23, 2019 2:46PM

Well crap! That’s a tuff one to follow spectacular
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ctf_error_coins · January 23, 2019 2:51PM

Senator32 · January 23, 2019 2:52PM

@Justacommeman said:

That is an amazing pickup! Congrats!

Here is one of my favorites:

FredWeinberg · January 23, 2019 2:52PM

.....most of my inventory

JRocco · January 23, 2019 3:01PM

Lot of the 5 KOPEKS are not perfect...

Weiss · January 23, 2019 3:09PM

The Lydian Siglos of Croesus (from the saying As Rich as Croesus). This was the first silver coin ever made, from a series which included the first gold coin ever made. Indeed, some numismatists believe these were the first true coins ever made, because the earlier proto-coin electrum pieces made by his father Alyattes were imprecise and therefore incapable of the critical element of being easily exchanged from one transaction to the next.

The Croeseid series were standardized, with 1 gold coin (of 8.1 grams) equivalent to 10 silver coins of (10.7 grams each).

I believe the dawn of coinage was one of the most significant events in human history. And this piece and its brothers and sisters are why we are all here, literally and figuratively.

cardinal · January 23, 2019 3:24PM

cardinal · January 23, 2019 3:35PM

This one is almost round, but just not quite round; although, not bad being 750 years old!

CCDollar · January 23, 2019 3:46PM

Well...nothing like the above coins but I've had it for quite some time. I hope it fits the category.

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SaorAlba · January 23, 2019 3:59PM

Nice tanner @coinsarefun and love the pyataks @JRocco - I have a load of those Pyataks from when they were inexpensive and easy to get out of Russia. The tanner is one I'd love to own.

Here is one of my favourite ancients, when it came up on Martina Dieterle's webpage I didn't even hesitate to buy it.

Circa 410 BC. Hemilitron (3.21 gm; 18 mm x 14 mm). Head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, in field right, laurel twig; whole in linear circle / ΣΥΡΑ Dolphin right, below, pecten. Calciati II, 55, 24. SNG ANS 418. This piece, though unsigned, may have been created by one of the greats of Syracuse minting, as it displays superior skills in artistic approach and engraving.

And another with a much larger casting sprue:

This coin is a hemi litron from ca. 405-395 BCE. Curiously this is a cast piece, and the casting spur was never removed from the coin, making for a very dramatically formed coin which probably did not circulate for long, but may have been saved as a curiousity or perhaps never circulated at all. This piece has a portrait of Arethusa on the obverse and a dolphin and clam shell on the reverse.

Syracuse Sicily Hemilitron ca. 410 BC

Justacommeman · January 23, 2019 4:13PM

@CCDollar that’s EXACTLY what I was looking for when I stared this thread.NICE

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Josh32 · January 23, 2019 4:29PM

@Justacommeman
Great pictures. Did you take them yourself? Curious as how you got the toning to show so well.

JRocco · January 23, 2019 5:32PM

Thanks SaorAlba, your knowledge never ceases to amaze me.

Here is a Billon tetradrachm of Salonina
Minted in Alexandria
266-267 AD
Obverse KOPNHLIA CALWNEINA CEB - Diademed and draped bust right
Reverse L / ΙΔ - Eagle standing left, wreath in beak, palm-branch behind