I actively collect all things Antony. There was a time when I couldn't pass up buying a legionary like this. I felt I had to save them all. I've since upgraded most of them and sold the unidentifiable ones. There are Antony fans out there that would love to have it. In the current market I'm sure it would sell for about $20 on ebay and if the legion number can indeed be seen a bit more!
I seem to have been upgrading Antony legionaries since about 1990. I must have bought a hundred of these coins over time. The initial ones were in basal condition like this coins, and the gradually I upgraded to
Fine examples with legible legions, then I wanted some relief, then I graduated to VF coins etc. They are an amazingly difficult series to collect because although ultra common in
Fair condition, even above VF and into EF they come with bad surfaces and offstrikes and flat strikes. So, you think you've a reasonable VF and then see another VF and realise how many problems your existing coin has. Then you buy that VF and see a better centred example or with a reasonable galley. So you graduate to coins described as EF and realise they also come with terrible surfaces, bad silver, flatness and offstrikes. It's not like other coin series where one can buy a nicely
toned centered well struck VF+ and never upgrade it in your entire life.
Below are pictured my current legionaries (mobile phone snap, apologies for
quality). I've owned many more numbers than this batch of 20 over time, but disposed of those missing numbers in very worn condition. They look not bad, but as I said, I've probably
had to buy 100 legionaries to get to these 20, and every one of the 20 has problems (from the perspective of a collector of nice coins). Of these 20,
LEG XI is probably the best; II and III are quite nice;
XII ANTIQVAE has great surfaces but is double struck; others that look
good such as IV and V have clear reverses but lousy obverses. XIX also has
good surfaces but lots of flatness. They'll get better in time.
