Common and inexpensive Ancient Coins?

Millertime

If I was looking to add my first Ancients to my collection what would I look for? I would be looking for common and inexpensive coins with nice detail date 500 a.d or earlier. Any suggestions and price ranges?

Millertime

ajaan

How inexpensive is inexpensive?

Millertime

What's the cheapest I could expect to find. If I adjust the date, say 1000 a.d. or earlier, would that make a big difference?

Millertime

CIVITAS

Well, it depends on how far down the quality scale you're willing to go. Uncleaned ancient coins are available for one to two dollars each in quantity. We sell low quality cleaned Roman coins for $5.00 each and medium quality ones for $10.00 each. There are a lot of middle period Roman bronzes and silver coins (ca. 230-290 A.D.) availalble for $20.00 - $30.00 that are quite nice. Check the ancients section of our website to see the full gambit of quality and price.

ajaan

What he said above.

coachleonard

just-dug, dirty-but-can-be-cleaned ancient roman coins can be bought in lots for $1-$2 apiece---oftentimes, less than $1 apiece. If you're talking about high-grade common ancient roman (fine to very fine) bronze coins, 1.500-700 years old, maybe $10-1$20 apiece

Millertime

<< <i>Well, it depends on how far down the quality scale you're willing to go. Uncleaned ancient coins are available for one to two dollars each in quantity. We sell low quality cleaned Roman coins for $5.00 each and medium quality ones for $10.00 each. There are a lot of middle period Roman bronzes and silver coins (ca. 230-290 A.D.) availalble for $20.00 - $30.00 that are quite nice. Check the ancients section of our website to see the full gambit of quality and price. >>



In your sig pic there's 3 coins I'm curious about. The 2 end coins in the first row and the 1st coin in the second row. Can you tell me about them? Grade, price, etc...

Coming from the lightside the older the coin the more valuable it is. Just glancing at your webside it appears that's it's pretty easy to find coins that are over 2000 years old for less than $100. Why is that? Are they that common or the interest isn't as high?

Thanks,
Millertime

CIVITAS

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<< <i>Well, it depends on how far down the quality scale you're willing to go. Uncleaned ancient coins are available for one to two dollars each in quantity. We sell low quality cleaned Roman coins for $5.00 each and medium quality ones for $10.00 each. There are a lot of middle period Roman bronzes and silver coins (ca. 230-290 A.D.) availalble for $20.00 - $30.00 that are quite nice. Check the ancients section of our website to see the full gambit of quality and price. >>



In your sig pic there's 3 coins I'm curious about. The 2 end coins in the first row and the 1st coin in the second row. Can you tell me about them? Grade, price, etc... >>



Certainly. These links should have the information you need:

http://www.civitasgalleries.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?keywords=AC12661

http://www.civitasgalleries.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?keywords=AC12674

http://www.civitasgalleries.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?keywords=AC12641




<< <i>Coming from the lightside the older the coin the more valuable it is. Just glancing at your webside it appears that's it's pretty easy to find coins that are over 2000 years old for less than $100. Why is that? Are they that common or the interest isn't as high? >>



It's kind of a combination of both. Many ancient coins are far more common than a lot of people generally realize. In addition, the collector base is significantly smaller than that of U.S. coins. They also do not have the benefit of large national program/volume buyers (i.e. Littleton, NGE, Heritage, Blanchard, telemarketing firms, etc.) that are always buying common material at set numbers.

ajaan

Josh,
Your second link no work.

Millertime: You can't go wrong with purchasing from Civitas. Josh is a standup guy with great material and knowledge.

coinmickey

Millertime: You can't go wrong with purchasing from Civitas. Josh is a standup guy with great material and knowledge.

Ditto....

CIVITAS

Thanks for the compliments and the link warning (that damned aixelsyd again).

Millertime

Thanks for all the help everyone. I checked out Civitas' website and really like the Roman Republican, Celtic & Greek coinage. Maybe I'll have to divert a little of my lightside budget to the darkside.

Millertime

sumnom

Let's not forget Chinese coinage. Coin from the Wang Mang interregnum, around 8 AD or so, can be had cheaply. I bought my oldest Chinese coin the other day, a five shu piece from the Sui period (late seventh century) for about five bucks. I usually see these going for something closer to 20.00 so I got a pretty good deal (assuming it's the real thing but the dealer seems like a good guy....)