My main collection consists of my Roman, Byzantine, and early Germanic and other Dark Ages coinage. Between those three I have, as of 5/19/2014: - 298 attributed coins - 99 rulers (emperors, empresses, Caesars, kings, etc.) - 13 nations/states (Roman Republic, Roman Empire, West/Eastern Roman, Carolingian Empire, Ostrogothic Kingdom, etc.) - Coins from 39 mints - The top 5 rulers I'd say are my rarest (in no particular order): Libius Severus (Western Roman), Louis the Pious (Carolingian), Theodahad (Ostrogothic), Gelimer (Vandalic), Majorian (Western Roman) - 1 gold, ~22 silver, the rest bronze or silver-plated bronze In addition, with all of my attributed and unattributed coins, and including those ancient/medieval not in my main collection, my entire ancient/medieval collection ranges from early 4th century BC to 1482 AD, a span of over 1900 years, from the days of ancient Carthage, to the beginning of the Early Modern era and the Age of Discovery. How does your collection look like?
I'm too lazy to count my coins, but in general I own about a hundred Romans, a handful of Greek, and a handful of US type. But the one part of my collection which stands out is Nabataean. I challenge anyone to come up with more than 30 Nabataean type coins.
Mines all clearly organized in my gallery. I still have a dozen or so to add to both the tesserae and Islamic sections.
612 = Attributed coins 47 = Greek 63 = Roman Republic and Imperatorial 42 = Julio Claudians 5 = Civil Wars of 68-69 AD 22 = Flavians 55 = Nerva to Pescennius Niger 70 = Severan Dynasty 108 = Maximinus I to Carinus 19 = Gallic Emperors 46 = Tetrarchy 91 = Constantine Era 39 = Divided Empire 5 = Byzantine My oldest coin is an ATTICA, AEGINA AR Stater, 480-457 BC My newest coin is ROMANUS III Follis, 1028-34 AD
I wish I was organized as you are.. I'm dizzy and satisfied with my coins. Excuse my simple but intimate expression. charles
No freaking clue. I am sure I cannot match you on different types of Nabateans John, but maybe in volume. I have a double row box almost exclusively Nabatean. unidentified mainly, yeah, but I have them in a box at least. I did go through a year ago my Sogdian coins and found out I had 32 different types of these coins, and have bought about 8 other types since then. Roman emperors? Most of them in one sort or another, even though "I don't collect Romans". I just got a Vitellius recently seemingly at random.
Sorted by "Metal-type" AU (gold) => 1 coin AR (silver) => 106 coins AE (Bronze, Billon, Potin, Cu, Silvered-Follis, etc) => 151 coins Sorted by "BC & AD" BC => 141 coins AD => 117 coins Sorted by "Greek/Roman/Other" Greek => 114 coins RR => 24 coins Roman => 104 coins (69 different Rulers/Mates) Byz + Med => 16 coins
14 Attributed Coins 5 Bronze or copper coins 1 4th century CE (Constantine) 1 2nd century CE (Trajan) 3 1st century CE (Augustus, Caligula, Agrippa) 7 Silver Denarii 2 BCE (MN Cordius Rufus, Julius Caesar) 5 1st century CE( Claudius, Nero, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian) 2 Fourees (Marcus Aurelius, Commodus)
AV = Zilch (prowling...) EL = Zilch (seriously prowling...) AR = 136 AE = 74 PB = 1 (1st BCE Sri Lanka) Fouree = 1 Cast Fake RR = 1 (my "keeps-me-honest" memento) TOT = 213 (for the moment...) RR = 100 RE = 60 GK = 14 Carthage = 8 Makedonon = 13 Other = 18 (Parthia, Ancient China, Ancient Sri Lanka, RE Fouree, RR Cast Fake...) TOT = 213 (again...for the moment) BCE = 151 AD = 62 TOT = 213 Have Aes Rude, RR pre-denarii issues, and RR denarius en route... Few more wants, needs, and desires on bid...
The necroing of my thread reminds me that I basically have to redo my whole Roman coin file , check to see what I still have, what I don't have anymore (what I've sold/traded off), what I still haven't added to it (have really neglected that lately, due to being busy/lazy)... I also have to do the same thing with my Byzantine, early Germanic, and medieval/Islamic as well but they are nowhere near as bad as with my Romans. This will be a challenge...
