Celtic/Roman British Coins - Stockists?

[Mongo]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

Edited July 23, 2012 by Mongo

[HistoricCoinage]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

Check out Chris Rudd and Andy Gillis.

[Mongo]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

Check out Chris Rudd and Andy Gillis.

Thanks very much!

I was browsing your own shop yesterday Clive. I have no idea about grading hammered, and could not see grades listed with your coins. Could I PM you and ask the grades of some you have for sale? I would like to have a nice example, with exellent clear detail, of a hammered coin, but I am very worried about trying to correctly grade/price them myself

Edited July 23, 2012 by Mongo

[Peter]

A nice Eddie 1 are affordable (London or Canterbury mint) Cantor or DOH. Go for a nice round coin,centred and you will catch the bug.Grading hammered is another story.Go for eye appeal every time.

[Mongo]

A nice Eddie 1 are affordable (London or Canterbury mint) Cantor or DOH. Go for a nice round coin,centred and you will catch the bug.Grading hammered is another story.Go for eye appeal every time.

Thanks Peter. That is what I will try and find, a nice round one with a central strike.

I was looking at this coin, Henry VI Quarter Noble, beautiful! Just a shame it is about £700 over my budget

http://www.historiccoinage.com/shop.php?action=full&id=369

[Peter]

I missed out on hammered gold.You could pick up nice examples for diddly a few years back.

Clive's 1/4 Nobel is looking for a home.Only 20 nights on a sofa with castella's,brandy and diet coke.Kick the Chav out of you.As they say one in Kate Bush is worth two in the hand.

[Peckris]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

You could go for specific Roman coins minted in Britain, but there's not much point unless you're specialising - they're rarer and more expensive, and anyway coins circulated throughout the Empire. The best value are denarii of the later emperors, you can pick up high grade examples for under £100. The early coppers - big beasts like the dupondius and sestertius - are quite pricey, but later, smaller bronzes can be very cheap. Especially those of Constantine, Constantius, Constans, etc. Again, high grade examples can be picked up comparatively cheap. Then there's the anoninianus - these virtually replaced the tdenarius in their cash-strapped economy, and are basically bronze coins washed with silver. Also cheap.

Roman coins are nice to have, and as you've noticed, very affordable.

[HistoricCoinage]

I was browsing your own shop yesterday Clive. I have no idea about grading hammered, and could not see grades listed with your coins. Could I PM you and ask the grades of some you have for sale? I would like to have a nice example, with exellent clear detail, of a hammered coin, but I am very worried about trying to correctly grade/price them myself

Most certainly! I don't tend to include grades in my description as it all differs from person to person. I'd be more than happy to help.

[Mongo]

I missed out on hammered gold.You could pick up nice examples for diddly a few years back.

Clive's 1/4 Nobel is looking for a home.Only 20 nights on a sofa with castella's,brandy and diet coke.Kick the Chav out of you.As they say one in Kate Bush is worth two in the hand.

Oi! Only Im allowed to call me a Chav, Peter.... INNIT

[Mongo]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

You could go for specific Roman coins minted in Britain, but there's not much point unless you're specialising - they're rarer and more expensive, and anyway coins circulated throughout the Empire. The best value are denarii of the later emperors, you can pick up high grade examples for under £100. The early coppers - big beasts like the dupondius and sestertius - are quite pricey, but later, smaller bronzes can be very cheap. Especially those of Constantine, Constantius, Constans, etc. Again, high grade examples can be picked up comparatively cheap. Then there's the anoninianus - these virtually replaced the tdenarius in their cash-strapped economy, and are basically bronze coins washed with silver. Also cheap.

Roman coins are nice to have, and as you've noticed, very affordable.

Thanks Peck. Your post has just reminded me of something! Perhaps the coin bug seed was planted in me long ago, and has just been laying dormant, I completely forgot about this. Here is that little story

When I was around 12 years old, I was browsing a boot fair with a friend. I walked past a stall that had one of those glass cabinets full of jewellery and such. Something caught my eye, it was not a shiny piece of metal, but more like a lump of dirt! Turned out it was a "Roman" coin, which I purchased for the sum of £1.

I took it home and showed my parents, and asked "how can I clean it?", the advice was to stick it in vinegar! Which I did. In the morning ALL of the claggy dirt had gone, and I was left with a coin that had a nice looking portrait, and what looked like a pig feeding its young on the reverse.

The next weekend, me and my friend (without permission of course), "bunked" a train to Rochester, visited the Guild Hall Museum and asked if they could tell me anything about my coin.

They kindly took us into what looked like one of those posh libraries you see in films, sat us down and said "we wont be long". They came back with a little piece of paper with the details of my coin written on it, and a book with a picture of similar reverses.

Turned out it was a coin dated sometime just before BC! It is a shame I can not remember the details now. The coin was tucked away, never touched again, until ebay hit the internet! I sold it for around £25-£30 if I remember rightly. I wish I had kept it now

The buyer left feedback saying they loved the coin, so I guess that is some consolation, that it went to a good home.

Phew!... That was a long post, like a can of Pringles, I could not stop

[Peckris]

Morning all,

Could anyone recommend websites that deal in Celtic and/or Roman British coins? I would like to add at least one of each to my collection. Looking at my spink book, there seems to be a few that are very affordable. I would love to own a "British" coin that is over a thousand years old!

You could go for specific Roman coins minted in Britain, but there's not much point unless you're specialising - they're rarer and more expensive, and anyway coins circulated throughout the Empire. The best value are denarii of the later emperors, you can pick up high grade examples for under £100. The early coppers - big beasts like the dupondius and sestertius - are quite pricey, but later, smaller bronzes can be very cheap. Especially those of Constantine, Constantius, Constans, etc. Again, high grade examples can be picked up comparatively cheap. Then there's the anoninianus - these virtually replaced the tdenarius in their cash-strapped economy, and are basically bronze coins washed with silver. Also cheap.

Roman coins are nice to have, and as you've noticed, very affordable.

Thanks Peck. Your post has just reminded me of something! Perhaps the coin bug seed was planted in me long ago, and has just been laying dormant, I completely forgot about this. Here is that little story

When I was around 12 years old, I was browsing a boot fair with a friend. I walked past a stall that had one of those glass cabinets full of jewellery and such. Something caught my eye, it was not a shiny piece of metal, but more like a lump of dirt! Turned out it was a "Roman" coin, which I purchased for the sum of £1.

I took it home and showed my parents, and asked "how can I clean it?", the advice was to stick it in vinegar! Which I did. In the morning ALL of the claggy dirt had gone, and I was left with a coin that had a nice looking portrait, and what looked like a pig feeding its young on the reverse.

The next weekend, me and my friend (without permission of course), "bunked" a train to Rochester, visited the Guild Hall Museum and asked if they could tell me anything about my coin.

They kindly took us into what looked like one of those posh libraries you see in films, sat us down and said "we wont be long". They came back with a little piece of paper with the details of my coin written on it, and a book with a picture of similar reverses.

Turned out it was a coin dated sometime just before BC! It is a shame I can not remember the details now. The coin was tucked away, never touched again, until ebay hit the internet! I sold it for around £25-£30 if I remember rightly. I wish I had kept it now

The buyer left feedback saying they loved the coin, so I guess that is some consolation, that it went to a good home.

Phew!... That was a long post, like a can of Pringles, I could not stop

Fascinating - I found a Julia Domna denarius in the spoil heap of an archaeological dig ("finders keepers" was the rule with spoil heaps), and I too cleaned the clag off it by soaking overnight in vinegar. Sadly as an impoverished student in the 1970s I needed cash and sold it to a dealer for £7, a good few pints back then But I have since bought a Julia Domna denarius in quite high grade so all is not lost (and the £60 I paid for it was only a tickle to me then compared with the £7 in the 1970s).

[scott]

i bought a Julia Domna denarius last week for £27 fantastic grade, shame it has a chunk missing. could be cleaned but has a nice colour to it regardless.

i rarely buy roman, i usualy get the odd one in ebay bulk lots, which has a mix of stuff in

i love sorting through and identifying... but not very well usualy with roman, usualy portrait is worn in those so hard, or legend has bits missing

Edited July 25, 2012 by scott

[Peter]

Get your Romans into olive oil (watch out for Popeye) I have turned some real crud coins around.