Ancient => Approx how many coins and which "centuries" are your interests?

Go get em WC!!

 

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Hey, thanks for manning-up ... honestly, it looks very good on ya!!

3,000 coins => wow, you actualy are the coin-bomb!! (very nice)

Yah, I'm 50 years old, so apparently I lose in all categories!! (less coins, and more fricken age!! ... *rats*)

=> but hey medoraman, you seem like a really good **** (guy) ... and thanks for manning-up (it looks good on ya)

Cheers, dawg

:cheers:

 

WC: One thing ole Jerry has right. You do have to make time for other interests. I think you can do without two of the three for now. Drugs never and sex can wait till you are ready. For now, keep up the good work in school. You'll be thankful one day (I guarantee it).

 

Ooops ... ummm, so apparently I'd be a bad parent, or what?

Sorry Bing, my bad ...

... Larry & Buster understand Dad's rules!! (no biting shoes!!)

 

I would double that guarantee. Five to ten years of hard work, and a lifetime of extra coins as your reward.

 

Larry and Buster are not the only ones that understand. I understand too, Jerry. Good parent? I'd be willing to bet kids would make a huge difference in your life. You love your dogs? Multiply that a 100 fold for offspring.

 

Ummm, do I love my dogs? => I would go to war over Buster and Larry => Bing, you must know that my darling wife and my awesome dogs are "my life" ...

Sadly, I could not, and will not be having any actual "'human kids" ... but yes, if I could have had kids of my own, I would have rocked as a parent (just imagine those lil' coin spark-plugs, eh?) ... yup, they'd be trying to chisel their friends outta their lunch-money ... ahhh, it brings a tear to your eyes, no?!!)

 

Hmmm? => 100-200 AD is the most popular time-period!!? (why do you think that is?)

 

Hmmm. I have never thought about counting them this way (or counting them at all to be honest). Let me have a look.

Doesn't include uncleaned etc. etc.
600-500 BC = 5 coins
500-400 BC = 15 coins
400-300 BC = 25 coins
300-200 BC = 15 coins
200-100 BC = 15 coins
100-0 BC = 10 coins
0 BC-100AD = 40 coins
100-200 AD = 520 coins
200-300 AD = 850 coins
300-400 AD = 400 coins
400-500 AD = 5 coins
500-600 AD = 0 coins
600-700 AD = 0 coins
OTHER < 1600 = 0 coins
Total: ~1900 coins

Martin

 

Thanks

It's been a good year


I bought my first Ancient while I was at the Olympics in London, England...

I've only been collecting Ancients for just under 9 months

I do...

What!?!

No Chocolate?

I'm a straight A student doing a Grade level above in Math and Music (and excelling)...

I think I'm doing well in School


Next year... 3 Grade 12 Courses

Math, Music and Classical Civilizations

 

I'm slowly learning about ancient coins through osmosis. My current interest is in the 5th through 3rd Century B.C. but there are neat coins from every century

500-400 BC = 1
400-300 BC = 1
300-200 BC = 3
200-100 BC = 2
100-0 BC = 0
0 BC-100AD = 0
100-200 AD = 4
200-300 AD = 2
300-400 AD = 0

 

here's the quick answer before i have to take my kid to karate...


i have 143 ancient or pre-1600 coins currently, not including coins that are uncleaned and in the works or in my cull bag or for sale.

110 are lrb...3rd to 5th century, mostly 4th.

33 in all other catagories (byazantine, seleukid, greek, chinese, medieval hungary...from 2nd cent. bc to 15 centry).

 

"16 Voters" so far ...

=> please try to cast your vote and/or give a list of your distribution (great job, gang!!)

... yah, I admit that it isn't a landslide, but it does kinda give an indication of the "hot-spots" .... one Roman and one Greek!!

Please try to help-out (thanks again)

 

600-500 BC = 1
500-400 BC = 3
400-300 BC = 9
300-200 BC = 18
200-100 BC = 15
100-0 BC = 9
0 BC-100AD = 33
100-200 AD = 51
200-300 AD = 100+
300-400 AD = 50+
400-500 AD = 10
500-600 AD = 0
600-700 AD = 1
OTHER < 1600 = 5 or 6
uncleaned? = I have a conglomerate glob of a bronze mess about the size of a baseball. 500+? lol

 

600-500 BC = 8 coins
500-400 BC = 68 coins
400-300 BC = 107 coins
300-200 BC = 57 coins
200-100 BC = 105 coins
100-1 BC = 118 coins
1 BC-100AD = 128 coins
100-200 AD = 858 coins
200-300 AD = 731 coins
300-400 AD = 612 coins
400-500 AD = 25 coins
500-600 AD = 37 coins
600-700 AD = 23 coins
OTHER < 1600 = 160 coins

This whole count is faulted by so many coins not being dated more exactly than by ruler and that ruler crossing a century mark (e.g. Augustus is 1st BC and 1st AD). Where this happened, I guessed. I have a similar number of coins from the 1600's and even a couple from later than that that don't appear above. I have a coin purse with several 20th and 21st century coins, too, but they don't count either. This is an average of about 60 coins a year since 1963 or so. Several years added zero and 2013 has seen 35 new ones in 3 months so I need to slack off a bit to avoid a pace like Steve's.

 

Thanks for posting your distribution!! (very, very "very" impressive)


... huh? ... although I was stupid enough to allow "multiple-votes", it is pretty obvious that the majority of us/you seem to like Roman Rulers, eh?

NOTE => I also found it extremely interesting and a bit embarrassing that "I" seem to be the only dude in the whole bunch that seems to have an utter random shotgun-scatter!! (yah, I guess this is because my "animal-coin" collection recognizes no boundaries?!! ... they're all the same in God's eyes!!?)

Thanks again for everybody's participation!! (you guys are great!!)

 

You may find it hard to keep up the pace buying Classical Greek coins at the same rate you have so far unless you strat assembling a set like Syracuse tetradrachms by Boehringer numbers. The number of these offered each year is not quite the same a the number of 3rd century antoniniani. You may also choke up a bit after you get the 200 cheap ones. Both Martin and I have a ridiculous number of Septimius Severus denarii which show up in our counts. I have known collectors with 500 tetradrachms but they were not many. So far your collection is 'balanced'. Someday you will find a specialty and your counts will develop a spike or two. My specialty is cheap junk. That explains the numbers that I have in the cheap periods.

 

My Collection is going to be shotgun-shot too...

400 BC to 146 BC for Carthage...

With non-Classical from the start until ~800...

Except for the Sassanid-type degraded-style coins and a few more interesting pieces (a Sri Lanka Queen Lilavati piece like Chris has [picture here:http://www.cointalk.com/t222883/])

Not much concentration on Classical Coins (outside of what will help me with school)

 

Hey, sorry that the "VOTE OPTION" is no longer active (this thread is a year old) ...

=> but I've bumped this thread and "updated" my collection (apparently I've added another 100, or so coins!!)

... anyway ... here is my "updated" coin distribution

=> if you want, you can update your list and/or add-in your distribution for you newer members to this site ... thanks

=> cheers, gang!!

600-500 BC = 7 coins
500-400 BC = 30 coins
400-300 BC = 27coins
300-200 BC = 22 coins
200-100 BC = 31 coins
100-0 BC = 21 coins
0 BC-100AD = 12 coins
100-200 AD = 23 coins
200-300 AD = 49 coins
300-400 AD = 16 coins

400-500 AD = 1 coin
500-600 AD = 2 coin
600-700 AD = 3 coins
700-800 AD = 1 coin
800-900 AD = 1 coin
900-1000 AD = 1 coin
1000-1100 AD = 1 coin
1100-1200 AD = 2 coins
1200-1300 AD = 1 coin
1300-1400 AD = 1 coin
1400-1500 AD = 1 coin
1500-1600 AD = 1 coin
1600-1700 AD = 1 coin
1700-1800 AD = 1 coin

1800-1900 AD = lotsa coins
1900-2000 AD = lotsa coins
2000-TO DATE = lotsa coins

=> ummm, still a fairly random distribution ... 200-300 AD is apparently my most recent feeding-ground (but I still have a pretty good archaic feeding as well) ... it's kinda interesting to take another "snap-shot" after another year of collecting ...

 

0 BC-100AD = 12 coins Not the 12, I trust? Did you go down on this century or are these numbers to be added to the first post?