Anyone collect the Roman gold Aureus?

Similar. The one thing about manual work is it takes a toll. I have relatives who spent their life in the trades and can hardly walk/bad backs, etc. Not all, and seems like @panzerman found himself a good outdoors niche without hopefully the hardest parts involved. However, I tell anyone who will listen college is not needed. If you are a self starting, hard working person you can make as much or more in trades than college majors. This coming from someone who also graduated from what I call the "21st grade".

 

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Errr, maybe not. It's pretty much a gamble with very iffy financials.

Of course there's always the feeling that if you bought it at 10 per cent, and sold it at the market peak, then you would've done okay.

Or you could be holed up w/ Sam Binkman-Fried in the Bahamas.

 

Right on Last time I saw a Doctor was when I was in highschool. I have never had a sore back/ pain anywhere. I went 181 days straight/ mostly going 90+ hrs/ never felt tired/ always busting with energy. I am in better shape now then when I was 18. Secret to stopping ageing is never stop going full tilt physically and mentally. Doing weights in Winter is also very helpfull in maintaining physique. Also working long hrs = rewards. I added 90+ gold coins so far this year.
John

 

I've collected 2 aureii so far, one in 2004, the other ca. 2018 or 19. On Panzerman, I believe there is significant medical research that shows that some strenuous physical activity, such as weight-lifting, is very beneficial for health and longevity.

Here's one of my two aureii, not particularly high grade but I went for rarity instead. Also at the time, this one was not too much more than a high-end silver denarius and the aureus has much more going for it.


Rome, Imperial, Otho aureus, rv: Victoria Othonis, mid-April, 69 AD.
The spot near the "I" at 6:00 obv. appears to be some sort of old organic material, maybe remains of old leather. Maybe in the future, they can do some sort of molecular analysis.
ex-Stack's, 2004, at 13K.

I sent the coin to Victor England of CNG for examination and he sent me a letter attesting that it's a very nice piece without problems. He did not charge me for examining it: not even charging me for his insured postage!

 

That is a very rare Aureus/ congratulations/ fine addition to your collection. There was a study that proved that if a person walks around 50K a week/ it slows ageing/ physical impairments by 25 percent or more. In otherwords/ the more the better. I walk an average of 250K a week/ I have never been tired/ burntout/ exactly the opposite/ I feel full of energy every day I wake up. I have never had a "RedBull" or any other so called energy drink. I think if i had a one/ I might explode! They always say older people break bones in little mishaps/ thats BS. I wiped out on my Arctic Cat ThunderCat at 100 mph/ my body went "Six Million Dollar Man" style on the ice for 800 feet! I was embarassed/ found my machine 500 feet further/ jumped on it and finished my trip. That was 5 years ago. On hot days I do bring some icy Coronas for thirst quenching

 

If I had to pick only one, it would be an aureus of Marcus Aurelius. The grade I would want and the particular legend, reverse, design, etc. and most of all, the price, means it will likely take a long time, if ever, to find the right one at a price I am willing to pay.


@panzerman

Said it before, but love your collection and the absolute work=reward situation in which you function.

My question is, what kind of work shoes do you wear? They have to be comfortable and durable.

 

Merrill running shoes/ flecktarn camo pants/ ballcap/ no shirt if temps are 20 cel. and above

 

Picked up this sharp (and very high-relief) aureus of Diocletian earlier this year.

 

This topic is about people that collect though, rather than show coins for sale.

 

Well I am a collector, and buy coins based on my personal interest. I have a website where I post coins in my collection and if somebody likes them better than I do, then they can buy them from me. If not, I'll continue to enjoy them.

I certainly wasn't posting this to advertise, if that's what you're suggesting - though I guess I should thank you for digging through my website and posting this as free advertising?

 

Very beautiful. Do you have a weight? I also need to find a good digital balance.

 

Normally I really dislike most coin dealers and think that like, the Visigoths, the hobby would be better off with far fewer of them.

In this case tho, your Diocletian aureus seems very fairly priced. You don't seem rapacious like the majority of those coin dealers, whom I'm convinced are the descendants of those who sacked Rome in 410.

Note that Diocletian was also the first to introduce the solidus although those are very limited in number. I think the 1st solidii were generally issued under Constantine.

 

Being German. I wonder who mine are? Saxons? The Visigoths ended up in Spain. So Portuguese/ Spaniards are from Visigoths.
John

 

Well I think this is definitely an ancestor of yours, not only being German, but standing here in the top of a Panzer III. The Panzer 3's were often confused for the much heavier "Tigers" due to their squared-off turrets. But they were actually light tanks (30 tons). -- taken this summer at Normandy at a "privately-owned" tank museum. Is it yours???



Here I am but next to a rusty Sherman. You won't see more of these lying around in the future as rich Arabs from Saudi Arabia are paying huge sums to "collect" them.

Now who's the real Panzerman?

 

The real "panzerman" was my uncle Karl. He knocked out 66 Russian tanks in March/ April 45. Most were the Josef Stalin 2 heavy tanks. He was luckily in best tank of the War/ the KönigsTiger.

 

Wow a Tiger II tanker! When a kid I built a motorized Panther from a kit but I really wanted a Tiger model. It was too expensive at $12 as I was getting paid $3 per lawn for cutting grass. So I got the Panther instead ($8).

Yes the Tiger-II's or King Tigers were probably the best tanks of WW-II deployed in any numbers: but they were still very limited due to cost and numbers. They were very expensive. I recall only 300 or 500 being built. There were some other tanks, like a US Super Pershing (90 mm gun) but only 2 were built with only one actually being used in combat. Mainly the Allies had to make due with the extremely inferior Shermans but some were outfitted with an extra-long 76 (.1?} mm gun {the British Firefly}.

At Normandy I learned that people to this day come and put flowers every year on Whitman's grave. He was the German tank-Ace but commanded only a Tiger-I.

It's interesting that when you see pix of knocked-out tanks during WW-II, they seem mostly intact. I recall seeing British tourists posing next to a Tiger in France in the 1950s and aside from looking a bit overgrown with bushes, the tank looked perfectly serviceable.

Today when you see destroyed tank pix from the Ukrainian war, the Russian tanks are often in pieces or just twisted scrap iron. Why do you think that is?

 

The Russian tanks are absolute crap/ plus their ammo is stored inside in poor places/ thus they blow up when hit by Ukrainian anti tank rockets/ frying the entire crew. Wittmann with his 138 enemy tanks/ plus 132 PAKS (anti tank guns) was only the 9th best German Ace. Kurt Knispel a Czech-German ace had 190+ Soviet tanks kills. I think Otto Carius even had more then 200+
Rudolf von Ribbentrop ended up facing 100+ T-34s in Kursk Battle and ended up knocking out 11 and surviving the engagement. Knispel was NEVER awarded the Kight's Cross/ due to his unruly behaviour towards officers!

 

Very interesting. My son {age 13} also likes tanks a lot. I think Whitman made Colonel or equivalent at Normandy? Yes, I've heard that during WW-2 the Russians did not like to keep stats on how many tanks it took to take out a single German one for morale purposes.

My son was also with me when we went to Normany this past summer. If finances hold out and I buy no coins for the next 6 months, then perhaps during summer vacation in 2023 we'll visit some of the tank museums in Britain.

I should apologize somewhere for digressing a lot from Roman aureii... Okay I'll have to find a new thread to post this on.