Post your Ancient Coins here

I really need to photograph all of my coins and gather up all the attributions+other info. I have a gallery on CCF but stopped adding to it after a year and even then it was only like half-completed. And I have a personal file documenting my collection but it hasn't been updated in months. I'm tempted to start a gallery again, but I don't think too many people would be interested in looking at my mostly lower-grade collection consisting primarily of later Romans and Byzantines.

 

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This took quite a bit longer to put together than I'd care to admit but the process was enjoyable! It isn't my entire collection but it's a representative cross-section, intentionally showing the "better" sides of most (i.e. ignoring incuse punches)

 

I can just sit here and get lost in that image!

 

Hers some. You can click the link below too.

 

Personally, I prefer the obverse of the Kyrene stater with the forward-facing quadriga.

You need to re-do this picture immediately! ;-)

Really, how many Photoshop layers were involved in this picture?

 

Well I just found my new wallpaper!

 

Is that the obverse and reverse of Augustus with Agrippa Nemausus As I see in there. Do you have two?!?

 

No, just one I included both sides of coins where both sides are interesting/aesthetic.

 

Both sides are included for that stater - I couldn't play favorites for that particular coin! It is about 140 layers from ~90 coins, resulting in a 1.5 GB Photoshop PSD.

 

Thanks! If it doesn't download at a high enough resolution, send me a PM and I can get you a nicer version.

 

I can't show my whole collection, 970 coins at the moment, with about 2/3 being LRB from hoards, the rest picked up here and there. Here is a fairly recent one, Trebonianus Gallus, an emperor of which I had no example yet.

 

Great thread, Noah! Here are my Judaean, Nabataean, and Vespasians.

 

WOOOOW, Museum quality stuff!! really awesome, congrats!

 

Yep, see it now... just missed it earlier. My bad.

All the coins seem roughly the same size -- did you try a collage with each coin displayed in its relative size (to other coins)?

 

Here is a mixture of some of my coins and my bro's coins :







Erin

 

Just noticed this image is 2560 x 1600 -- exactly the native resolution of my external Apple HD Cinema Display. Same monitor?

 

Awesome Tyre shekel

 

No, just plain Doctorate. Don't worry, I have been wasting money on my hobby, just not enough time to post much here. Good news is classes are ending in a couple of weeks, then I just have to write the dissertation.

 

Coins Are SOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

 

Thanks Svarog!

It first belonged to me and then I sold it to my brother.

Erin