Let's see your favorite coin from your favorite ruler
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Thought it might be fun to have a little history-based show and tell. Let's see your favorite coin of your favorite ruler. Any country or time period. More than one is more than acceptible 
Everybody has 1 or more ruler in a specific country's history that they like more than the others. I'm guessing most of us on the forum have an example or two in the collection.
I'd start, but I just bought it today and have to wait for it to arrive! No hints other than it's almost 2000 years old...
Everybody has 1 or more ruler in a specific country's history that they like more than the others. I'm guessing most of us on the forum have an example or two in the collection. I'd start, but I just bought it today and have to wait for it to arrive! No hints other than it's almost 2000 years old...
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His history can be read here.
Newer photo of the coin can be found here.
scary guy...
was he a good guy?
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I bought this one:
Antoninus Pius Aureus - Standing with globe
Laureate head right
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II
Antoninus wearing toga, standing left, holding globe in right hand
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"Rome rules the world"
Struck: AD 155-156, Rome
Size: 19.5mm
Weight: 7.26gm
Catalog: RIC 256a (laureate head, 256b is bare head)
He was a good guy.
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Great question, Billy! And it's a very hard choice, too. I am reading up on some history right now, about the kings of England to be specific. And you know, the more I read, the less likeable those fellows seem. But the interesting thing to me is more the quality of life than the rulers of the day.
It's hard for me to pick between the Plantaganets and the Tudor era, but I'll go with the earlier era. Here's a Henry II tealby penny-
Lodewijk Napoleon (first) King of the Netherlands (1806-1810) , he was a good guy, infact to good for the Netherlands, so his brother, Emperor Napoleon send him back to France,
and the Netherlands became a French province untill the defeat of the emperor at Waterloo,
in 1815 the Netherlands once again became a Kingdom untill the present day.
Lodewijk Napoleon /shield of 2 dutch lions & 2 french eagles 50 Stuivers = 2 1/2 Guilders - silver 912/1000 - 26.35 Gram - 38mm - cable edge- circa 2.5 Million ex. minted - design George F. / A.J. v.d Monde - mintmaster (Bee) = G.J.L de Marchie Servaas - mintplace Utrecht
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<< <i>He looks like the Devil himself....
scary guy...
was he a good guy? >>
Read the link to his Wiki page and judge for yourself. For a roman emperor he was OK, not nuts like the majority.
Lovely old gold.
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William, how in the world were you able to ID that penny? I think I'm more in awe of the fact that you could ID it than the coin itself, LOL!
<< <i>William, how in the world were you able to ID that penny? I think I'm more in awe of the fact that you could ID it than the coin itself, LOL! >>
Lol! The tealby penny is probably the most crudely struck coin that I know of. The strikes are notoriously weak and off-center, and the planchets are almost always crudely cut and even warped. But they were the first coins struck under Henry II, just as England was getting back on her feet after years of civil war and conflict.
But it's an easy coin to identify (because of it's crudeness), but a difficult one to attribute. The lettering is hardly ever legible, so the moneyer or the mint is often impossible to discern.
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Pennies in 90 percent bronze and 10 percent silver were the first of very few coins struck in Scotland bearing a portrait of Mary, this as an infant. This particular coin is from the first coinage with the portrait of Mary with an arched crown, a particularly rare coin, struck in small quantities, and one of the few with Mary crowned on a coin. The legend on the front of the coin is + MARIA D G R SCOTORVM whilst the reverse is OPIDVM EDNBVR. I have more dear pieces of Mary's coinage, gold, silver etc. They are not quite as rare as this one though, these are very rare no doubt due to their diminutive size and the difficulty finding them with a detector.
But, how can anyone be sure they are authentic.??
am not trying to be funny here at all.
If the orient can produce nearly anything....
are they also maybe producing any of these?
again, am NOT at all trying to imply anything.
they are just soooooooo old..and soooooo coooooooool
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Not sure if he's my favorite (not sure I have a favorite), but he definitely lived in interesting times... King Billy!!!
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YQQ, a valid question. We really can't be sure ANYTHING is real...unless we saw it made...and obviously everything in this thread precludes that. That's why we gather knowledge from as many sources as possible- experts or people you hope are experts, even other collectors, who don't know every little detail, usually still have something to contribute.
Eventually, when you do it enough, you start to be able to spot the real deal or a fake or at least hope you can. If you weren't sure of your skills in judging a real verse a fake you won't be in the hobby...or most others...long.