One Roman coin in this box is worth $1,000

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Shuffling around a junk box is always a thrill! Even when you are used to handling fancier stuff, this kind of tray reminds you that fascinating coins come in all price brackets. And if you know your stuff, it can also be worth your while in terms of monetary value, although you definitely wont hit the jackpot always.

[@stephencampbell2735]

Oh wow... the kind of channel I was thinking of searching for was right there at the top of the comments section! Very cool.

[@speederscout]

Garrett, seriously, I could sit and talk and listen to you for hours. I've designed some museum exhibits in the past, and one of my favorite parts of that job was talking to and listening, and learning from the scientists, researchers, curators, and scholars. So rewarding and fulfilling! Thank you for continuing that experience for me.

[@larsrons7937]

I always love going through such "junk boxes", even though I know I won't find anything worth a lot of money, I always find something interesting which is of value in itself, at least to me. And I often find coins to toss into my own small "gift junk boxes" I occationally give to kids in my family. I try to keep a bit track on what they have in their collection as to make them exited when I give them a bunch of coins that "happen" to include some they miss in their own collection. Thanks for a lovely little video.

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

My pleasure! I know that feeling well.

[@larsrons7937]

@@toldinstonefootnotes 🤩😇

[@Docre_T]

Honestly any of those "not valuable" coins are invaluable to someone who loves History as I do. I would never sell a single coin I owned, be it worth 1 dollar or a million.

[@Dave_Sisson]

Really? I suspect if Diego was hard up and he had a coin that could buy him a nice house, I think he would sell the coin.

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

@@Dave_Sisson Unless one was independently wealthy, selling would be the wiser course. In addition to buying that house, one could always spend part of the profit on far less expensive, though no less historically interesting coins.

[@yallahyallah4220]

old coins always remind me of my grandfather who had many books full of them, whenever my mum and me would visit my grandparents as a small kid who wasn't even going to school yet i would keep begging him to pull out one of his books from his giant old cupboard and tell me about them, where they came from and why they were all so different in size, material and design. i was so mesmerized and overwhelmed by them at the same time. Collecting coins til this day remains the most exciting hobby i can think of. You hold in your hand a small piece of metal, a messenger and evidence of history, with a relation to geography, which more often then not is a little piece of art that has the potential for a great story. All the things i loved throughout my life, History, Geography, Art/design and storytelling.

[@williamwilliam5066]

Lucky person

[@TheLordRichard]

2:48 I’m no expert, but I’m 99,99% certain that is Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) The text to the upper right looks like ‘ANTONINUS’ Also he’s one of the few early emperors with a beard.

[@jkay8417]

It is.

[@alexanderjentes]

Among the best of American narrators…

[@hunterhines7130]

Awesome video!! Thanks again Dr. Ryan!

[@cerberus6654]

Dr. G! You forgot to plug your book! Are you feeling unwell?

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

Egad - I must be losing my touch!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and Crusty Coins

[@DonariaRegia]

I'm not sure about the value ratio of gold to silver in imperial Rome, but If one possessed the only gold from the Decebalus Treasure today, it would be the rough equivalent to sixteen-thousand tons of silver.

[@Pantsinabucket]

The value of silver:gold was roughly 12:1. When the Aureus was properly standardized under Caesar, it was worth 25 denarii (3.9g silver), and contained 8.18g gold. So it weighed about 2.1x as much as a denarius while being worth 25 of them, coming to a silver:gold ratio of roughly 11.92:1 Obviously, this is a massive departure from the modern silver:gold ratio (caused by a century of trends towards solely gold standardization & later gold bugs). Currently a gram of silver is $0.75, while a gram of gold is $63.70, making for a silver:gold ratio of 84.93:1.

[@quickumentaries]

Thank you so much for all the work you put into educating and entertaining us!! One day I might get around to a video or 10 explaining how I got into ancients over 40 years ago while stationed in Sinop, ( or Sinope) Turkey!

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

I love the junk trays. When I first collected I couldn't afford anything else but I still manged to build up a nice picture of the late third century emperors and even managed to find a die link.

[@simplepixel5617]

I prchased in Barcelona a month ago from a market a coin that was made under emperor Valerius Valens. Hope its worth more than 10 euros or atleast equal :)

[@intuned373]

More of this please!! This would be an amazing segment!

[@rightlyso8507]

That certainly was an awesome video! As a kid, I was always fascinated by Roman history, as well as the Saturday afternoon "sword and sandal" films on the TV. Once able to, I was amazed how it was possible to get my own pieces of history, while not spending a whole lot of money. I've not checked any of them for years. But, I do remember saving up my allowance money and getting a sestertius of Trajan. The reverse commemorates the king of the Parthians, Parthamaspathes (pardon the spelling - an off the top of my head moment), meeting the emperor. Using the Seaby book, I remember I was able to pinpoint the date of the coin, as well.

[@noreaster08]

Buy far I'm no expert on Roman coins but I can tell you that several of those lumps of encrusted coins that I bought and soaked in distilled water have been gold and some lumps, gold nuggets. It's certainly fun. I have Coinage and history of the Roman Empire by David L. Vagi, two volumes and none of my hundreds of coins are in those books. Thanks for your videos. Perhaps a video about female villains of Roman, my friend just did a tour and came back full of tales of female villainy.

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

Bravo! I've seldom found anything better than a few worn denarii in an uncleaned lot.

[@keithagn]

You lucky son of a gun! I'm as jealous as all get out! Regards from Canada 🇨🇦

[@liljonrules5657]

Really fun idea for a video, great work!

[@rickb3078]

Loving this video!

[@KingNik1994]

Very interesting video, thank you for all the fantastic content!

[@alexanderjentes]

So if a sestertius would be equivalent to a provincial-issue drachm, then a denarius would be equivalent to a provincial-issue tetradrachm, correct?

[@alexanderjentes]

Garrett, are these all from Nero Coins?

[@hamiljohn]

Thanks for this, I'm also a coin lover and you've made consider getting into Roman coins

[@QuantumHistorian]

Not having the whole box in frame is incredibly frustrating!

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

Yeah...I tried to adjust the camera so that both my head and the box were in frame, and a half-view of the box was the best compromise I could find

[@luke379]

I don't know why but I keep on coming back for this video - prolly because I still haven't bought coins

[@thebihnsworkshop1338]

I went through a “junk box” at a show and i found a rare Licinius II follis RIC VII 94. From Ticinum.

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

That's a great find! I'm hoping to return to this junk box for a more careful perusal later. There are definitely other treasures among those thousands of coins.

[@thebihnsworkshop1338]

@@toldinstonefootnotes I hope you find something amazing in that box! Good Luck!

[@naciremasti]

@Toldinstone Footnotes film it, and don't forget to plug the book.

[@Moredread25]

Neumismatics has so much depth.

[@jewyork718]

This video made my day!

[@clearymc]

I loved it!

[@CHRISM-TV]

Where can I buy a job lot of coins ?

[@fleischer236]

Loved this video! I may have a new hobby

[@naciremasti]

Would Roman documents be worth more than coins as they're papyrus instead of metal?

[@gremlin7665]

Knew it was gonna be a sestertius! What’s on the reverse? I got my own with a ROMA reverse and at a steal too cuz it was overcleaned. Even tho it looks like a Cheeto with some visible brass the portrait and legend is still in great condition

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

That's a Port of Ostia sestertius - it has a stylized version of Portus (the new harbor that Nero finished, just north of Ostia) on the reverse.

[@chipwalter4490]

I had no idea about this kind of thing. I didn’t know that a surplus of so many coins of this type even existed or were up for sale at affordable prices. By my calculations if these coins are retailed at shows for $20 or $30 each - then a box containing “thousands” of these coins is worth $20,000. (I’m not a math scientist so I could be wrong) So imo by calling it a junk box that is crazy. My question, then, is, are any of these coins the same value now as they were at the time of their original circulation? Probably these are all the nickels, pennies, & dimes of their day. Adjusted for inflation is there a coin that used to hold about $20 in currency during its original use, that we can now buy from the junk box for also twenty dollars? I would like to find a coin to collect that had this apropos attribution to it. Seems like it would be a pretty steady investment.

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

In some cases, the coins in the junk box probably are worth about as much as they were in antiquity! (The same can be said, by the way, for many common imperial denarii, which retail as low as $20-30.) But in any case, even for a collector, there's a real thrill seeing so many coins together, just waiting to be sorted.

[@chipwalter4490]

@@toldinstonefootnotes thank you for the reply. So essentially these coins, despite not having any block-chain encryption, have held steady. If people were more inclined to invest in Roman antiquities instead of FTX, we’d be living in a different world, wouldn’t we! 🙃

[@nathanielscreativecollecti6392]

Were you able to buy it for the $30?

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

Sadly, no...

[@KarenKostanyan-do8hm]

У меня есть one cent 1961D и до 1999P коллекция продаю

[@Zlorthishen]

am i wrong for only wanting to buy coins in a NGC slab?

[@toldinstonefootnotes]

When it comes to ancients, slabbed coins are almost always overvalued (or so my dealer friends tell me).

[@apo11o38]

I want to buy that entire box sans the $1000 coin

[@tavuzzipust7887]

Sadly, the Nero sestertius with the port of Ostia is not in good enough condition to be desirable.

[@leoborros]

Thats what you think