! Genuine Roman coins at a discount price !

Please have a look at the German Version of this website which has many more offers!

Our offers:
- Uncleaned Roman coins (our major import)
- Cleaned Roman coins (sold as single coins on request)
- Denarii (Roman silver coins)

Please see my current ebay auctions (include many good coins at bargain prices)

Note: The cleaned Roman coins and the denarii are from a different source than that of the uncleaned Roman coins. This way I can ensure that they are not picked! And also, this is the only way that I can offer uncleaned coins of this quality.

Cleaned Roman coins (*from 2,09 Euro each)
prices/delivery costs

On this website you can purchase beautiful cleaned Roman coins from 2,09 Euro each. In case you are dubious: I guarantee that these coins are absolutely genuine! The coins are at least 1500 years old!

Quality
Almost all of the coins I sell are from the Roman Imperial era. (approx. 100 B.C. to 450 A.D.), a few are from earlier or later times. The coins are very good quality. I can guarantee that the sales lots are totally unpicked by myself. There are no broken coins in the lots, but small edge damage is possible.
Sizes: The lots include all sizes coins from 12mm to 35mm (Ases, Folli, Sestertii, Antoniniani, Maiorine, Denarii etc….), many are of the smaller size because those were the coins that were used most every day, similar to dimes, nickels and quarters in the USA today. Very large coins over 30mm are rare.
In ancient times the coins were designed and struck by hand, every coin being struck using a die on white hot metal. As a result, all the coins are unique, because of the die and its amount of wear, the temperature of the metal, the centering of the die on the metal and the strength applied to the actual striking.

Source of the coins
The coins come from places such as Sirmuim (region of Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia). There were no banknotes in those days and the only banking system (a very basic system offered almost exclusively to the ruling classes) and so all transactions were made in cash (= coins). These were often buried in the cellar, beneath trees, next to local landmarks such as aquaducts and bridges. When the owner died (many of the owners were soldiers sent off to serve elsewhere), the coins were forgotten. Today, nearly 2,000 years later they are being found using electronic means and you can buy them.

Market value and identifying the cleaned coins
The coins can be identified either using a website e.g. (Wildwinds.com), a book (e.g. by David Sear or David VanMeter) or using auction catalogs which can often be bought quite cheaply on ebay. There are literally thousands of different coins from over 200 Roman emperors. Some types of coin have over 1,000 different variations. Every emperor and empress issued his or her own coins in numerous values and variations. The general value, or value class is often given in books, as well as on Wildwinds.com although the values given in books older than 3-4 years old (which gives values from $15-$10,000) can no longer be fully relied upon, due to the number of hoards currently being found. Normal values these days are between $15 and $200 for nice, not over-cleaned examples.

"Why should you collect them?"
Some of my clients invest their money in Roman coins. They sell any multiple copies and invest the money in more coins to increase the size of their collection. Such collections will never lose their value because Roman coins are a limited commodity, no matter how many are being found. They will never be made again ! Other buyers collect them just for interest, from a love of history and of our common past, others are teachers who use them to make history classes more interesting, parents buy them as a project for their children, as talking points, to make jewelry, as a unique gift for their friends and loved ones etc.

What do cleaned roman coins look like?

The following scans show beautiful examples of cleaned roman coins: e.g. Agrippa, Aureus of Faustina, Maximinus, Constans, Diocletianus...

 

Why Roman coins are a good investment
Roman coins have been collected for about the last 100 years. Before 1960 there were very few found and these were mostly sent to museums, and so it was extremely difficult for collectors to get hold of them. But once electronics came to the assistance of detectory, the export began to grow. At first they came from Yugoslavia, the Lebanon, and, as Communism ended and borders were re-opened, also from Eastern Europe, where they were found in huge numbers and exported. The prices at first were lower than they are today because of the sheer numbers being found.

During that time there were a few people who earned a lot of money by buying millions of coins on spec, as it were and simply putting them into storage. Amongst these people were some US soldiers serving in Bosnia after the civil war there who smuggled huge numbers of cheap coins into the US when they returned home.

The past few years has seen a slight increase in price (also in view of inflations). Recently there has been the threat of a shortage because less and less coins are now being found and so the prices are going up. There will always be a demand for Roman coins but it is very likely that soon there will be no more large numbers available. When that time arrives the prices will rise sharply because there is no longer the supply to fill the demand. That is when the hamsters will begin to draw from the coins they have feretted away and sell them at high prices. And when those have been sold, the price will take another jump upwards.

You still have the chance of buying uncleaned Roman coins at a sensible and acceptable price. The assurance that these make a good investment comes from the fact that their value will increase faster than inflation.

Prices / Postage / Payment

1-9 pcs.	2,87 Euro ea.
10-29 pcs.	2,72 Euro ea.
30-99 pcs.	2,57 Euro ea.
100-499 pcs.	2,39 Euro ae.
über 500 pcs.	2,09 Euro ea.

Under certain circumstances, regular customers receive a special discount and are informed of special offers.

The prices above are for uncleaned Roman coins. Please contact me for larger quantities. Orders for 50 coins or more receive a couple of bonus coins.
Postage basically costs 3.00 Euro within Europe (International: 4.50 Euro) until 101 coins. For orders of more than 100 coins, there are some additional postage Euros, dependent of the amount bought and their weight. Registered post costs 3,50 Euro more, and insurance costs an addition 5.00 Euros (no matter how high the quantity). Coins to D, CH and AT are guaranteed customs free. Your order will be filled and sent within 24 hours of receiving your payment and it should take 1-3 days to reach customers in Europe, 5-7 days to reach customers in the USA, a little more to Canada and about a week longer to Australia and New Zealand. Coins are sent in a bubble bag in order to minimize damage in the post.

I normally ask for payment in advance. On special request I can send the coins before payment is received, especially for very large quantities in which case I use a fiduciary (trustee) whose fee we would share, in order to maximise security. I accept the following methods of payment: PayPal, Bank transfer to my bank accounts in Switzerland or Germany, cash in a (registered) letter, by Check, by c.o.d. or in cash should you wish to pick up the coins in person. Other methods could be discussed if you require.

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