10,000? Ya got me licked. I've only got 4,997 posts as of this present post. I'd do something to celebrate 5,000 but I think I'd rather save up to do something special for the community for my 10,000th post. That's only around February or March of 2020, so it won't be long, and it gives me time to plan and fund the "Mother of all Give-a-ways" or maybe a random "Surprise mid-tier coin for random poster", or something like that. Here is an area I'd like to focus more on over my next 5,000 posts. Celtic! No, not those Celtics, these guys! The ancient Celtic coinage from the tribes that often get ignored by historians focused on the Greeks and Romans, and even by coin collectors too. I want to focus a little more on these guys and their coins. Here is a beauty: CELTIC, Gaul (Armorica). Circa 75-56 BC. Curiosolitae tribe Billon Stater, 21mm, 6.6g, 3h; Class II. Obv.: Crude head right, anchor-shaped nose. Rev.: Celticized chariot right; Celticized boar below. Reference: P. de Jersey, Coinage in Iron Age Armorica, fig. 51, class II; SCBC 15
I have too many specialties to post all but will offer two coins that cover three specialties (the third being strange coins): Septimius Severus Alexandria mint with Venus reverse more suitable of an empress: Julia Domna Emesa mint with II COS date more suitable for an emperor:
Congrats for reaching 10,000! There are several coins I can post that can represent my speciality. I like this one. Vespasian AR Denarius, 3.19g Ephesus mint, 71 AD RIC 1426(5A)2 (R3). BMC - . RPC - . Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r. Rev: LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS; Heads of Titus, bare, r., and Domitian, bare, l., confronting; no mint mark Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
I hope you being away has no serious issue attached. I've always enjoyed your posts and coins and hope that you're able to find time to chime in. The coin below is from my first interest in ancients, military themes! There is some speculation that it was produced for Hannibal's troops while deployed to Spain...sort of like an ancient military trade token! (Military trade tokens are my true specialty!) Carthaginians in Hispania AE 1/4 Calco, 1.5g, 13mm; mobile military mint, 218-208 BC. Obv.: Wreathed head of Tanit left. Rev.: Crested helmet left, with cheek guards. In my scattered approach to collecting ancients I have noticed a few areas that seem to call to me more often which include provincial Caracalla, Postumus, etc. Here's an Indo-Greek (not sure if that's the right description) I haven't shared: INDO-GREEK KINGDOM. Hermaios Soter, 90-70 BC. Bl Tetradrachm (posthumous imitation), 24mm, 8.4g, 12h; after 70 BC Obv.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ EPMAIOY; Diademed and draped bust of Hermaios right Rev.: "Maharajasa tratarasa Heramayasa" in Kharosthi; Zeus seated slightly left on throne, extending arm and holding scepter; in left field, monograms.
No need to explain, @Alegandron . All of us drift away in order to deal with stuff once in a while. CONGRATS on your 10,ooo posts.
Meal do naidheachd, mo caraid! Gach dùrachd!! (Congrats, mate! Best wishes!!) A miss yer greet sense o humor, buddy, a howp ye are weel! I thought about you this summer in the Lorient Interceltic Festival: Cymru was the featured nation this year! Glorious!!! So, no coins today, just enjoy the ride, mate: Iechyd da! https://www.festival-interceltique.bzh
I don't know who you are, but your coins could easily be mine. They're all speaking to me. Mines are different, and I've chosen the ones for their eye appeal on this picture. And some rare ones. I hope you'll find this pleasant, and hope your next posts, even rarer, will still be full of passion.
I like your pile. It reminds me of my wallpaper image which I faded out to make icons show better and trimmed to work as a tiled image to repeat and fill any size desktop.
I like yours too. And thank you for sharing your knowledge. So much passion in each of your chosen coins. I can recognize a part of me in your choices. My first Septimius' COS I (VICT AVG walking left, unknown to RIC; not on this photograph) for example, I bought to a young dealer who didn't know (for once !) what he sold.
If you look carefully at "the Garden of Earthly Delights" you will see flowers sprouting from unlikely orifices. If you are interested in this kind of art I highly recommend a look at some of Goya's woodcuts. Dark and fantastical.
Would you be surprised if I confess your assembly instigated mine ? No shadows, no tilts, but no time enough, and I don't have your skills. Thanks for the dreams related to so many of your coins !
I'm flattered! No skill was involved, but it did take some time. I just used presentation software to pile up the images, Keynote in my case, but PowerPoint would work fine. The apparent tilt is entirely illusory, created by the "curved shadow" setting. Your coins instill much envy also, I love every coin in that photo: the Philip tet, the cistophoric tet, all the lovely Celtic, and even the modern French stuff.
