My Best Buy Today (I prefer to buy at a fair price)

covers

I just purchased the coin below. I prefer to buy at an appropriate price rather than seach for bargains which are usually
'bargains" for a reason.

JZrarities

Nice Piece.

How much was it?

covers

Doesn't really matter, but it was £1500.

JZrarities

I love the reverse design...and the coin looks like hit has great luster.

covers

Thanks - I bought it for the interest in reverse design (to go with another "camel" coin purchased recentlyby moneyer Scaurus).

Sear comments on this ("Roman Coins"): Aulus Plautius strike as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by Harlan in RRM (pp 116-118) who identified the kneeling figure as Aristobulus, the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome" (55 BC)

Inscriptions / description: A Plautius Denarius. 55 BC. Turreted hd of Cybele right, A PLAVTIVS before, AED CVR SC behind / supplicant offerng palm-branch, camel behind; IVDAEVS before, BACCHIVS below. Cr431/1, Syd 932, Hendin 741.

farthing

I will not collect ancients!
I will not collect ancients!
I will not collect ancients!
...



Maybe if I repeat it over and over I can maintain my resolve

Very nice coin!

JoesMaName

That piece is a beauty and has survived through some amazing periods of human history,
but had I seen it on a dealer’s table for $300 I’d still have passed on it as being too pricey
as I know so little about ancients I seldom dare to pull the trigger.
In other words: I wouldn't know a great deal on an ancient if it bit me...

However - if I were to ever narrow my collecting interests and specialize,
I could be happy with the issues of the late Roman Republic and early
Imperial coins of the Principate.

BBQnBLUES

WOW !! What an amazing coin.. Must to be the _Finest known seeing it's condition.. Congrats Richard !

covers

BBQnBLUES - Thanks. I found an image of at least one with nicer centering on reverse design so, not the finest known but probably the finest I am likely to have a chance to buy in the next several years. The design is intriguing enough to compensate for anything lacking in quality.

ColinCMR

thats a a real nice coin!

Hussulo

Lovely coin