A Group but not a Lot

I have a bit of a weakness for buying large group lots, but this next pic is not of one of them. It's instead a group pic of accumulated purchases representing my somewhat out-of-control buying over the course of October and November... these things happen, right?

Anyway, I just got back home yesterday after having been out of town for a few weeks, and naturally couldn't wait to get at the little stack of coin-filled envelopes that had been delivered while I was away. They did not disappoint! And, since I love pics of coin piles, I thought I'd let my new guys cosy up and shoot some pics of them getting to know one another...



There are a total of 46 coins in the pile, and a number of them probably deserve their own threads. These purchases have really taken my coin budget for the rest of the year (and beyond) into the severely negative range, so I guess I'll just be spending the next few weeks ooh-ing and aah-ing over this group, and hopefully also do a little research and take some proper pics of them. Actually, I do have a few more coins presently in transit, but I have plenty on my plate as it is .

 

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These things seem to happen to you quite often

Nice group!

 

No, they don't!

Okay, they do...

I swear I'll get some professional help...

next year...

maybe...

 

It's good to have you here on the boards @zumbly : when things go wrong (i.e. buying myself waaaaay too many coins) I'll be able to indulge thinking "well, "Z" did even worse !"

Looks like a terrific group of coins BTW

Q

 

Wow! And I thought I had been on a buying spree!

Those look like great additions to your collection. I hope you'll be photographing and posting them individually over the next several weeks.

 

There’s a lot to like in that group! What are the reverses for the AP & ID at 9 o’clock?

 

Heheh. What are friends for, eh, Q. I'm glad to be a source of comfort .

 

Thanks! The A-Pi is a Tyche reclining (ex stevex6 Collection) and the Domna is a MATER DEVM with a lovely Cybele enthroned reverse.

Yup, I plan on doing so!

 

Looks like a fine group of coins z.

 

A fantastic looking lot.

 

Nice group, can't wait to see their individual threads.

 

Wow, a lot of tasty looking stuff there!! Do we get to guess IDs?

 

Haha, sure, if you want to, though I don't know that they're arranged to make it either easy or hard, or that the coins even lend themselves to it!

 

@zumbly from what I can tell, he's paying you a compliment.

 

Very nice lot! May I ask which one is that to the very right-middle with what looks like a stone type club?


Thanks,
Jacob

 

Yeah, I know... she is always paying me compliments... right, @TIF ?

 

Thanks, Jacob... that big ol' club of Hercules is something, isn't it? The coin is a didrachm of Nerva from Cappadocia. I don't have my own picture of it yet, but it's one of Steve's and here's his old pic and description...

Nerva AR Didrachm
CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia
AD 96-98
Struck AD 98
Diameter: 20 x 22 mm
Weight: 6.64 grams
Obverse: Laureate head right
Reverse: Club set on ground; date in legend
Reference: Metcalf, Caesarea 45; Sydenham, Caesarea 153

 

Stunning coin!

Thanks,
Jacob

 

It was an honest typo. On TIF's website there is a comment under the "story of my infection" that touches on how " every girl should have a Pegasus" that I read sometime ago.

 

That's a sexy looking group of coins! Man I want to touch that big ol' AP drachm!

And look at that sweet galley! And MFB! And what's that thing right of the virtus reverse?