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"Slabs do take the fun out of tossing 1900 y/o coins at people shouting "catch.""
Heh, Randy.
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Here is another one I took out of it's slab... it was
certified by one of those less than perfect certification companies 'National Numismatic Certification' sometimes called NNC, as I am sure many of you have heard of.... this coin they
had graded as being "
AU-50" heh...... I could tell the
flan was a large
flan when it was inside the slab, so when I got it out, alot easier this time since it
had been opened already, it kinda peeled in two. I weighed it with my digital coin
scale, the coin all by itself of course, and it weighed in at an even 5.0 Grams.... that is pretty heavy for a
Postumus era
Antoninianus. So I like the
weight and the large
flan, plus the
portrait and obv are quite nice, the
reverse less so. My only coin with
Moneta right now.
I was told this one was likely from the
Cologne or Lyons
mint, but no one can tell me for sure.... My knowledge of
Roman Empire coins kinda dies off for a while after the time of Valerian (and even with Valerian and
Gallienus Ants I can very rarely tell the
mint by looking at the coins, and am not sure where most of the ones I have of
Gallienus,
Salonina and
Valerian I were struck).... so I know little of telling Gallic mints apart.... so if anyone knows which
mint this
Postumus Antoninianus is from, that would be great info for me to have.
So anyway, yes I like this coin alot more now that it is slab-free, I keep it in an envelope(same thing I do with most of my
Roman and
Ancient Coins), a small kind of envelope, little 2inch by 2 inch ones I buy at my local
coin shop so I can take it out and hold it, look at it, or let someone else actually hold it while I am showing and explaining it to them, which can cause some interesting reactions from people..... I also like these envelopes since I can write info about the coin on them.
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