Some Ancients from the ANA Money Museum

The wife and I went to Colorado Springs today for my birthday to tour the Money Museum and the art museum nearby(which had an awesome Georgia O'Keefe exhibit going on). Between bouts of excessive drooling I managed to snap a few photos with my phone. The museum is only 5 bucks so if you ever find yourself in Colorado Springs you need to check it out. Even the wife who "tolerates" my coin habit had a blast.

If you want to see the full album, click here https://imgur.com/a/Q207p I've just posted the highlights here so I don't overload the thread. There's an 1804 dollar in there too for the US collectors

 

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I like #2

 

Great stuff, Red.

 

FAKE!!

 

There actually is a fake in there, labeled as such too. #3 in the first picture. I told my wife "I really don't like those surfaces, no way that was struck" and my suspicions were confirmed when I checked out the label underneath that said it was a cast counterfeit.

 

Ummm, did your wife call you a coin geek? (my wife often reminds me that I resemble that remark)

 

She calls me that all the time. She also likes to describe my relationship with coins using adjectives such as "addicted" and "obsessed"

 

yah, I hear ya ... my wife often refers to me as her ex-husband, on-deck!!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

definitely check out the full album, there are some cool pics in there...thanks for posting RS.

 

??? => Birthday? ... is it my birthday? (is it somebody else's birthday?)

 

Someone said it's always Steve's birthday.

 

Great Trip and post.
However, I have some reserves on Caesar coin. I can't make a final judgment from the photos, but to me looks like a museum electrotype replica.
It is a very common practice that museums display exact replicas. The real deal are in a safe underground. Even most of employees are not aware of this little trick, designed to be the first line of defence against theft attempts.

 

Beautiful stuff , I'm definitely going to pick up one at the ANA show , hopefully Greek , but if not Roman Republic denari would be sweet too .

 

double congratulations

 

I'll see ac.m's reservation and raise it to include every coin shown there. I have seen fakes of every type shown there. I'm sure ANA knows the difference but the fact that they display them and don't have signs saying they are replicas confirms my decision to drop membership nearly fifty years ago.

I once attended a travelling exhibit at the Smithsonian showing coins of "Rome and the Germans". I even bought a nice booklet of the exhibit with photos of the real coins. The exhibit itself was entirely plaster with really excellent paint jobs. There was a time where museums were places you went to see stuff piled in cases with a few labels here and there. Now they are spending more on interactive exhibits and less on stuff to pile in cases.

 

I like that giant hunk o' Ptolemy.

Steve thinks it's always his birthday!

 

Party, Party

 

I guess I 'm not surprised that 'Museums' tend to display perfect replicas (almost all dino exhibits are perfect molds) but I would prefer they label it as such---presumably, the coins would not be as desirable to thieves as the genuine article as well...

 

Dear Mikey, I agree with you at some point. But... would you go in a museum to see fabulous coins, and the flyer you hold on hand, say all these gorgeous coins are replicas ??

 

The coin room at the Getty Villa is all real. Was nice cause not many people went into it.