Post Your Ancient Coins!!!

Here is a denarius of Roma/Nike driving Quadriga. circa 120 BC,

 

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M. Tullius here honors his ancestor Servius Tullius whose victory over the Sabines made him the first Roman awarded the laurel wreath (shown at reverse top) that later became the standard symbol of victory. Nice type.

 

:smile Thanks DS, its my best Republic coin. Glad you like. I have learned much from you over the years. Regards. Traci/Ripley

 

A number of members here have, in the past, posted coins from their collections in older threads. You might want to try combing through the older threads looking for those postings - it's worth the time and effort, especially if you're new to ancient coins, since you learn a lot just by reading older postings.

Here's a link to some coins that I had previously posted from my collection, to get you started:

http://www.cointalk.com/t210208/

 

Old post shopping is a good idea. One thing you may see is that there are a lot of options when it comes to ancient coins. There were a lot of types made by a lot of different authorities using multiple mints over a period of over 1000 years. If you look at the whole history of coinage from the first to the present, you will see that half way is roughly the time of Charlemagne. Each of us who post here probably own at least one coin that no one else here has. There has never been and will never be a complete set of ancients. As a beginner a very important thing for you to do is look at as many coins as you can and decide just which ones you might want to own.

 

Ripley: I went to a coin show yesterday and look what followed me home. I might have passed it up as just another random chariot but because I had just looked it up I decided I needed it. They are different dies and both are worn suggesting they circulated for a few years before being hoarded. 120 BC is relatively early for moneyer identified denarii and the flans are a bit larger (3.79g even with the wear) so the coin is better looking 'in hand'.

 

How about another ancient Chinese coin (please pardon the crappy scan):

CHINA, Western Hàn dynasty. Wǔdì. 141-87 BC.
Æ (25mm; 2.94 g). Cast circa 115-113 BC.
Wu Zhu in early Hánzi
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Hartill 8.9; Thierry 3

The Wu Zhu coinage was issued in the same types for a period of several hundred years. Dating of this vast series is accomplished by careful comparison of calligraphic variations between specimens found in various Hàn tombs and surviving dated coin molds. This particular variety, with a distinct angular shape of the <i>Wu</i> character, is one of the more readily apparent variations.
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i need to get one of those

 

some more ancients...

 

and another, my first roman

 

OK, yes, as an ancient coins collector I'm somewhat hooked to this thread. I can't resist showing off with my most emblematic roman coin :


Republic, Didrachm
Rome mint c. 269-266 BC
No legend, Diademed head of young Hercules right, with club and lion's skin over shoulder
ROMANO, She wolf right, suckling Romulus and Remus
7.29 gr
Ref : RCV # 24, RSC # 8

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That is one magnificent coin. Just look at the face on that wolf.

 

That one is awesome!

 

I'll through a couple more up the RR AE my most recent coin.

 

Super DS, I just so love the coins of the roman Republic era. :yes:

 

Helios/Rose of Rhodes cica 350 BC :hail:

 

Bactria
AV Stater ND Ai Khanoum Mint
Diodotus I

 

Wow! You reactivated a 6 year old thread! I never knew I still had a watch on this one.

 

Yeah, this was before my time, I am a newbie to CT, plus I got this coin recently.

 

Wow, we went back to 2012!



I remember @Ripley what ever happened to her? Hope she is well.