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  1. Ryro
    Ryro

    Fulvia: She was a better man than I... or Marcus Antonius for that matter

    Fulvia 83(ish)-40 BCE. Italian born. Died in Greece:

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    Here we have my latest dream girl. The first Roman coin with the image of a woman on it, that isn't a godess. Though, with that adorable wind blown back hairstyle, thin supple neck and as she was a most fertile Mertyl (having at least 5 children) was probably a mynx in the sack, she's certainly a godess to me. I pretty much stole her at Sunday's Savoca auction and already have her in hand:
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    FULVIA, first wife of Mark Antony, died 40 BC. AR Quinarius (12 mm, 1.65 gm), yr. 41 (42 BC). Bust of winged Victory with likeness of Fulvia / Lion walking. RSC.3. Cr.489/6

    Fulvia married 3 prominent Roman statesmen. Most believe she had a hand in all their political affairs. Led the fortification of a town under siege. Saved her family, well her husband's family anyway. She would save the life of Marc's brother before his political misjudgments would cost him his life. Before the...
    Ryro May 27, 2020 Read More Replies: 5
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  2. Milesofwho
    Milesofwho

    The Bright Dynasty

    This entire series of posts comes from a group lot of coins I recently bought. I thought it would be interesting to write up all of the Ming dynasty. My sources are Cast Chinese Coins, 2nd Edition by David Hartill, China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition by John K. Fairbank and Merle Goldman, and other random snippets from Wikipedia and the like. All coin images are mine except the two from Hartill. The map below comes from Fairbank and Merle.
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    The Ming (“Bright”) dynasty was formally declared on January 23, 1368. During its over two and half centuries of rule it would be seen as a golden age due to its role as a native Han interlude between two foreign conquerers, the Mongols and the Manchus respectively. It would turn out to be the last native dynasty. Much of the Great Wall as we know it today was built by the Ming, and the Forbidden City served as the apex of imperial ostentation. For all its magnificence and...
    Milesofwho May 26, 2020 Read More Replies: 21
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  3. DonnaML
    DonnaML

    The Four Sons of Constantine the Great

    I recently posted my coins of Constantine I in the "Death of Constantine the Great" thread. So I thought I'd start a new thread to post my one coin of each of his four sons -- the oldest by Minervina, and the other three by Fausta.

    1. Crispus Caesar (son of Constantine I), Billon reduced Centenionalis, Arelate [Arles] Mint (3rd Officina) 321 AD. Obv. Laureate bust right, CRISPUS NOB CAES / Rev. VOT • V in three lines within laurel wreath, CAESARVM NOSTRORVM. In exergue: T [Crescent] A. RIC VII ARLES 235 (p. 260), Sear RCV IV 16747, Cohen 30. 20 mm., 2.73 g.

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    Ever since I first read about the fates of Crispus and then Fausta, I've found it extremely odd that those events so closely parallel the myth of Hippolytus and Phaedra, which I vividly recall from reading Mary Renault's The Bull from the Sea. Which makes me wonder if some elements of the Crispus-Fausta story as it has come down to us were invented after the fact to fit the myth.

    2....
    DonnaML May 26, 2020 Read More Replies: 23
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  4. hotwheelsearl
    hotwheelsearl

    Noble Roman Coins "Premium Uncleaned" REVIEW

    **LONG POST WARNING**
    Grab a coffee I guess, and try to enjoy this review more than I enjoyed this whole nightmare of a process. Haha

    As promised, here is my review of NRC's "Premium Uncleaned" coins.
    You can find them for sale here:
    https://nobleromancoins.com/product_info.php?products_id=1167

    You may remember from my previous post on NRC's "Deluxe Beginner's Set," where I gave the overall package a pretty low score of 6/10.
    In that review, I gave the uncleaned coins a 5/10 rating.
    However, that was before I finished cleaning everything, and I would like to revise my 5/10 into something somewhat better, with a different grading scale.

    Since the dichotomy between the successes and failures were so dramatic, I will present each successful coin, in order of worst to best, and give a grade for each.
    At the end I'll tally it up and see what we get.

    As for the roaches, I'll chalk those up to "comes with the territory" and ignore them for the grade.
    However, I want...
    hotwheelsearl May 24, 2020 Read More Replies: 18
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  5. Cachecoins
    Cachecoins

    An Interesting Artifact from the Early Atomic Age

    Encapsulated Neutron Irradiated 1943 Mercury Dime

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    I found this to be an interesting relic of a very specific time and place.

    My family hails from Chatanooga Tennessee and a little town called Rossville right across the border in Georgia. Some people here may be familiar with this area as it is very steeped in history, particularly regarding the Civil War with places like Lookout Mountain and of course Chickamauga Battlefield Park in Fort Oglethorpe, the site of the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, second only to the Battle of Gettysburg in terms of casualties.

    These Irradiated Dimes are from the Oakridge Museum of Atomic Energy in Oakridge Tennessee which proudly pronounced itself the 'Atomic City', which was relatively close to where they lived. Apparently my grandfather, who passed on long before I was born, made a visit to the Oakridge Museum if Atomic Energy and picked this up while there....
    Cachecoins May 25, 2020 Read More Replies: 34
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  6. johnmilton
    johnmilton

    Two Old Gold Coins, One British, One American, That Had Similar Values

    Here are two old gold coins, from England and the United States, the guinea and the half eagle. Both coins have a similar size and had similar values.

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    England introduced the guinea on February 6, 1663. The name “guinea” came from the African nation which was the source of much of the gold that went into these coins initially. It originally had a value of one British pound or 20 shillings. As it was the United States, the bimetallic system did not work well. Over time the value of the coin varied from 20 to as high as 30 shillings. Ultimately the value settled down to 21 shillings.

    This coin contained 0.2472 ounces of gold. The rule of thumb was that it was a quarter ounce of gold. In terms of the U.S. dollar, it was valued at about $5 in the 1790s and early 1800s give or take.

    This guinea dated 1798 is a common date. It is called a “spade guinea” because of the shape of the British shield on the reverse. The British stopped issuing these coins not...
    johnmilton May 25, 2020 Read More Replies: 2
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  7. kevin McGonigal
    kevin McGonigal

    How Good Was Antoninus Pius?

    A few weeks ago I posted a thread on how bad was Nero. After thinking a bit about that one, I decided it was only fair to post a thread on his possible opposite, Antoninus Pius. From the previous posting we discovered that Nero may not have been quite as bad as he has been portrayed to have been, except for the matricide part, which is pretty hard to overlook. As we all know Antoninus Pius has the reputation of being squeaky clean, ultra virtuous, without blemish and well, very "pious". But was he all that upright a person? Does he deserve that reputation? Let's take a look.

    First of all the primary sources. What do they have to say? Interestingly, not very much. For Nero, and other not very nice emperors, we have far more abundant sources. Since Suetonius and Tacitus liked slumming it, vicariously, with the more murderous and scandalous emperors of the First Century AD, we have a good deal of information ranging from the anecdotal and incidental to the hand rubbing and...
    kevin McGonigal May 25, 2020 Read More Replies: 43
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  8. Orielensis
    Orielensis

    800 years ago: The Mongols are coming!

    This year sees the 800th anniversary of an event that, though seldomly taught in high school history classes, shaped world history to an extent comparable to Alexander’s conquest of Asia, the Punic Wars, or the expansion of the British Empire in the 18th century. In 1220, the Mongols under Genghis Khan annexed the Khwarezmian Empire, paving the way to becoming a world power whose realms eventually stretched from Beijing to Baghdad, and from the Volga to the Indus river:
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    Social isolation gave me enough time to read Peter Jackson: The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion (Yale University Press, 2017), which I can strongly recommend to anyone interested in this part of history. While reading this book, I recognized that as a medieval coin collector, I could illustrate much of the history of the Mongol westward conquests with coins from my collection, especially since I recently developed a side interest in “Eastern” medieval...
    Orielensis May 25, 2020 Read More Replies: 26
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  9. Roman Collector
    Roman Collector

    An Issue for the Pythian Games

    The iconography on the reverse of this Roman provincial coin of Gordian III minted in Thessalonica perfectly epitomizes the Pythian games, for it depicts a tripod and apples and is explicitly labeled ΠVΘΙΑ (Pythia).

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    Gordian III, AD 238-244.
    Roman provincial Æ 25.6 mm, 10.61 g, 2 h.
    Macedon, Thessalonica, AD 238-244.
    Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓΟΡΔIANOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
    Rev: ΘЄCCAΛΟΝΙΚЄΩΝ ΝЄ, tripod surmounted by five apples; Π-V/Θ-Ι/Α across field.
    Refs: Touratsoglou, Thessaloniki 80; Varbanov 4523; Moushmov 6815.


    The Pythian games were held at Delphi, a sanctuary called "Pytho" in poetic language. According to myth, it was here that the god Apollo had killed the serpent Python. Several Roman provincial coins share the common reverse motif of Apollo preparing to slay Python, as I have...
    Roman Collector May 23, 2020 Read More Replies: 20
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  10. Collecting Nut
    Collecting Nut

    The Old North Church

    This church was founded in 1722. It was built in 1723 and is known as The Old North Church. It is Boston's oldest surviving church and it's the most visited historical site in Boston. It is an Episcopal Church and still holds services.

    On the evening of April 18, 1775, when the church sexton, Robert Newman, and Vestryman Capt. John Pulling, Jr. climbed the steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal for Paul Revere that the British were marching to Lexington and Concord by sea across the Charles River and not by land. This fateful event ignited the American Revolution.

    In 1775, on the eve of Revolution, the majority of the congregation were loyal to the British King and many held official positions in the royal government, including the Governor of Massachusetts, making Robert Newman’s loyalty to the Patriot cause even more extraordinary. The King gave the Old North Church its silver that was used at services and a bible.

    Each year over 150,000 visitors come to this site to...
    Collecting Nut May 23, 2020 Read More Replies: 14
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