Orielensis' Top 10 of 2021

Super selection! #1, #5 and #6 for me...But I do like that Postumus reverse!
Congrats on a good years collecting.

 

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You added some very nice coins in 2021. My favs are #1 #2 and #10

 

Orielensis, you scored some handsome coins this year . My favorite is #4, the beautiful stater, followed by #6 & #10. After seeing that handsome bracteate of William Longsword, I've got an urge to watch Braveheart again .

 

you had a good year, my favorites #1, #6 & #8.

 

The 1/6 th stater and Pegasus have my preference. Some great coins

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Excellent list @Orielensis ! My favorites;

• #3 - This is a wonderful example of an iconic Greek coin. Nice examples of these are surprisingly hard to come by. Nicely done.
  
• #1 Another iconic coin of a fascinating historic figure: Croesus. Well done picking this out of a group lot.
  
• #6 What an interesting story! I wasn’t aware of these.

I always enjoy your posts @Orielensis . Here is to hoping for another good collecting year and plenty of time for coins in 2022!

P.S. I also like your Dyrachion Stater! Here is mine.

 

Thank you a lot for the compliments, everyone!

My personal top three would have been (in this order) #1, #3, and #10, with #6 following closely. It's interesting to see that this almost matches your votes, with the bracteate taking a good fourth place.

Please be careful - bracteates can be quite addictive! (Speaking from experience... ;-)

That was my thinking, too. I honestly don't understand why the auction house decided to put this coin as well as the Corinth and Croton staters in my list in a mixed lot. My guess is that someone wanted to sell an estate collection quickly and didn't have the patience to let the auction house do proper listings and pictures.

To illustrate the point, here is the whole lot. The Persian siglos on the left has found a new home with @furryfrog02:

I very much like the mythologically fascinating coins from Kaulonia. Nice!

Thanks a lot. Yes, that definitely was a good and important step, though renovating it also is a lot of work. (I spent most of my weekend replacing a rotten ceiling beam...)

That is a great example. At some point, I might start a subcollection of Welf coinage. There are many interesting types.

I grew up in Schleswig-Holstein but have some family in Wolfenbüttel, so I know the area a little bit. It's a nice place!

Concerning the dating of the bracteates, I have asked myself the same question. Berger's catalogue of bracteates in the Kestner museum lists different hoard finds for most Welf types from Brunswick, which I assume have allowed to date them with relative precision.

Lovely coins!

That is a very nice stater. My only coin from Korkyra is much less spectacular:

Korkyra, Korkyra, AR hemidrachm, ca. 450–400 BC. Obv: amphora; above, crescent. Rev: eight-rayed star; crescent in field. 14mm, 2.46g. Ref: BMC 76; SNG Evelpidis 1876.

 

Wow - That was QUITE A MIXED LOT!