Ancient Collectors! What do you collect? (Quick poll)

I was thinking that this would make an interesting montage if someone would like to take the time to substitute historical heads.

 

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What do you consider Roman Republic coins minted in the PROVINCES of the Roman Republic, BEFORE it was considered the Empire or those after Octavian?
The Republic did all this cool stuff BEFORE the Empire.


RR Roman Occupied Macedonia Gaius Publilius, Questor Amphipolis Mint As AE26 As ROMA Griffin MAKEDONWN TAMIOV GAIOV POPAILIOV oak wreath BC 148-146 SNG COP 1318



RR Macedon occupation Alexander - Club Coin chest Quaestor Chair wreath Aesillas Quaestor AR Tet Thessalonika Mint BC 90-70



RR Prv Macedon Province 168-166 BC Tamios Quaestor Athena Cow - Eeyore



RR Prv Macedon Amphipolis AE Semis 187-131 BC Zeus Prow giraffe shape SNG Cop 69

 

I guess these would be considered provincial. I usually only think about Imperial times from my relatively small viewpoint. But you are correct!

 

Yeah, understood. I like to go after some of the interesting niches not general collected by the majority of Ancients collectors. It seems it is the EMPIRE or nothing else. And, those coins are CE / AD or, LOL, as consider more MODERN coins.

Like I said earlier, most of my coins were minted BCE.

 

I asked a similar question about what one would call coins minted in places like Lydia after it came into the possession of the Republic: just "Greek," or something like "Republican Provincial"? I don't think I've ever seen the latter term used, though. And the Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) project begins only in 44 BCE. See https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/.

 

LOL, yeah, those Republic people... they always did things FIRST!

 

Okay, that's what I thought. The phrase Greek Imperial makes it seem as if ancient Greece had an empire of its own, not a part of the Roman empire.

 

What do you consider Roman Republic coins minted in the PROVINCES of the Roman Republic, BEFORE it was considered the Empire or those after Octavian?
The Republic did all this cool stuff BEFORE the Empire.

My answer: Roman Provincial coinage, which I'm thinking could be during Republic and afterwards. My understanding is RP coinage is just part of Roman rule but with non-standard designs including Greek words

 

Here's what I have, according to what I've managed to enter into Excel spreadsheets:

Roman Republic: 19
Roman Imperatorial: 6
Roman Imperial (including Provincial): 248
Byzantine: 12

Pre-Islamic Persia:
Achaemenid: 7
Seleucid (minted in Persia): 1
Parthian: 73
Persis: 12
Elymais: 22
Characene: 4
Sasanian: 102

Pre-reform Islamic:
Arab-Byzantine: 8
Arab-Sasanian: 12
Tabaristan: 3
Arab-Bukharan: 2
Eastern Sistan: 2

Early Post-reform Islamic:
Umayyads: 10
Abbasids: 3
Umayyads of Spain: 1

This of course does not include later Islamic, India, China, "Greek", and various other stuff. The numbers say that I'm mainly a Roman collector, but my interests right now are mainly pre-Islamic Persia and Pre-reform Islamic. I haven't added many Roman coins in the last few years, most of that collection I bought years ago and am not actively studying.

 

If I am to be honest, I really love Ancient Greek coinage, silver, electrum and gold. I'm trying to develop a decent collection of Roman Republic and Imperial coins but am concentrating only on the Emperors and periods that I (and millions of others), are familiar with. Don't know enough about bronze coinage to venture into that field even though it can be very fulfilling.