Post your thick, bent, 3D, or high relief phat coins - PILE ON THREAD

It’s mid-week so here’s a fun pile-on thread. Please post your coins that are in someway thick (3D) and possibly difficult to store. I can start by posting these phat examples:



This first one is an Aegean Turtle Stater which is round like a marble. I speculate that the original planchet was basically spherical & the weak strike didn’t do much to flatten it to a disk shape.





This DiShekel was just manufactured with an inordinately thick planchet. The coin doesn’t include a particularly high relief design. It’s just that the darn planchet is over 5.5 mm thick





Here, the owl is struck within the incuse square leaving a really thick rim below the owl. This coin has always been challenging to fit into a holder because the lower finned edge is over 7.5 mm thick





These two beauties are just plain phat. They include very high relief designs. The challenge I have is keeping the high points from receiving contact. Storing coins like these in slabs has helped me to protect the high points.



I’ve got a couple more that are deliberately bent by the mint and are challenging to fit in the collection.



Please post ‘em if you got ‘em.

 

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Gandhara Satamana Bent Bar-

By its nature, this is a really 3D coin. I keep my one example in an old slab to accommodate the thickness.




This Thai 4 Baht coin is just totally bent & twisted.

 

phat Persian siglos

 

most Aes formatum protomoney 3D coins are hard to put in slabs,
they live together in a wooden case

 

Phoenician coin representing the sea-god Yamm. Arados circa 400 BC

 

Aegina stater

 

This is an admirable coin & is one of my favorite coins ever viewed at CT. As I recall it weighs 12.0 grams. I would gladly trade all my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for this one phat turtle.

 

My two Greek Tetradrachms

 

kool! i'd never seen roman protomoney

 

Roman protomoney is an area that I like. This tray of bronze items was sent by a dealer. I am not usre if it was all from one find, but these pieces are typical of cast bronze that might have been buried together. Note the Ax, some cast par pieces and aes rude.

I am not sure if this was a bronze decoration or "pre-money". Either way, it is neat and mentioned in Italian Cast Coins by Vechhi.

I bought these pieces as a lot. You can see a broken cast coin, a broken bar, and two other pieces.

At the NYINC, I saw (held) a Roman Republican As and a large Aes rude (about 1.5 asses). This is the largest Aes Rude I have seen. I hope it found a good home.

Last but not least are some scale weights that were lot one in the New York Sale auction. These are dated 800 to 1000 BC. These were standards ancient money changers used when crude metal was used in trade. FYI, they predate money by a couple of centuries.

 

these things are a real pain to store...



Isaac II Angelus, 1185-1195 AD
O: Mary, holding infant Christ, R: Emperor. Constantinople mint. SB 2003, 3.2g 29 mm

 

I don't know what this thing is (from India?) but it's as thick as 6 Lincoln cents.

 

THICK COINS!

INDIA:

India- Shakya Janapada AR 5-Shana 6th-5th C BCE Buddha Ref-Hiramo-I-8-29 RARE 19 known


India Gandahara AR Bent Bar 11.3g 650-600 BCE RARE two dots - also have on BOTH sides VERY RARE


ROMAN REPUBLIC & ITALIA:

Etruria or Umbria Aes Grave 3rd C BCE Sextans 23mm 25.15g Club-2 Dots HN 54 Vecchi-Th 172


ITALIA Aes Formatum AE Bronze Ax Head ca 5th-4th C BCE sextans size 44.8mm 56g


RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Obv-Rev Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi


Italia Aes Rude - bronze ca 5th-4th Century BCE 29.7mm 32.4g

 

ALEXANDRINE:


(YEAH, I stole @Collect89 's cool pic...)
Makedon Alexander - Alexandrine Babylonia Di-Shekel LIFETIME 328-311 Baal-Lion

ACHAEMENID PERSIA:

Persia Achamenid Type IV Artaxerxes II to Darios III 375-336 BCE AR siglos 15.2mm 5.45g kneeling-running stance right holding daggar and bow incuse BMC 172ff rev


Persian Achamenid Type III spear over shoulder Darius I to Xerxes II Ca 485-420 BCE AR Siglos Bankers Marks Incuse rev

 

These two sestertii of Antonius Pius have really thick planchets. Almost 5,5 + mm.

I am afraid I'll damage them when stored in trays.

 

Nice! Those are chunky

 

My only complaint about Ancient Chinese coins is that they are so difficult to store.

 

wow, cool coins

I'll have to go check