Currently on holiday with the family in France, came across a coin shop and went in to ask if they had ancient coins (not many do). To my delight they did, although in a fairly middle quality.
Still, it was priced fairly and to reward the guy for pulling out the stuff for me I bought this Philip I antoninianus with a victory reverse for 30 euro.
That is a great price for a random shop. It’s a great coin and it’s really cool you were able to stop in and find coins. The shops I vist here in the US, all the prices are 3 to 4 times what they should be, if they have any at all.
I find those green splotches a little worrysome, are they exposed bronze beneth the silvering or is it BD?
They are not powdery, I expect it’s simply a mineral deposit.
I mean, coins this old definitely need to be exported to the US