Ancient/Medieval Coin Collection Stats

Thought this would be another interesting thread to start (this was done in the past but the only thread I found was from three years ago). Where are you with your collecting at the moment, numbers-wise? And your centuries/areas of interests?

I went through my collection and did a count (and a recount with my Byzantines because I fudged up with those ) and came out to 234 total coins (I used to have more, around the 300-400 range, but for the past year I've really trimmed down my collection, but that's pretty much stopped now).

My ancient/medieval collection spans around 19 centuries from the 400s BC to 1482 AD, with the most emphasis on late Roman Imperial, early Byzantine, and early Germanic coinage (my main "things"), with smaller concentrations in Islamic, later Byzantines, and Roman Republican coins.


600-500 BC = 0 coins
500-400 BC = 2 coins
400-300 BC = 1 coin
300-200 BC = 1 coin
200-100 BC = 2 coins
100-0 BC = 6 coins
0 BC-100 AD = 9 coins
100-200 AD = 6 coins
200-300 AD = 12 coins
300-400 AD = 60 coins
400-500 AD = 55 coins
500-600 AD = 44 coins
600-700 AD = 11 coins
700-800 AD = 5 coins
800-900 AD = 4 coins
900-1000 AD = 2 coins
1000-1100 AD = 5 coin
1100-1200 AD = 3 coin
1200-1300 AD = 2 coins
1300-1400 AD = 2 coins
1400-1500 AD = 1 coin

(note: not knowing for sure when my few Augustus coins were minted, I evenly divided them between BC and AD)

If you don't feel comfortable or just simply don't know your numbers, you could give guesstimates.

 

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Here's what mine look like(I did 299-195 that way because some RR issues fall into a period that sort of straddles the line there):
399-300 B.C. - 1
299-~195 B.C. - 15
194-100 B.C. - 18
99-1 B.C. - 14
1-99 A.D. - 6
100-199 A.D. - 1
200-299 A.D. - 6
300-399 A.D. - 13
400-499 A.D. - 0
500-599 A.D. - 2
600-699 A.D. - 0
700-799 A.D. - 0
800-899 A.D. - 0
900-999 A.D. - 1
1000-1099 A.D. - 0
1100-1199 A.D. - 1
1200-1299 A.D. - 1

Total: 79

My collection hasn't grown much in number over the past year but has consistently grew in value as I sold off coins to focus my money and collection towards the Roman Republic along with the occasional LRB.

 

A total of 706 coins

600-500 BC = 0 coins
500-400 BC = 16 coins
400-300 BC = 12 coin
300-200 BC = 33 coin
200-100 BC = 49 coins
100-0 BC = 71 coins
0 BC-100 AD = 62 coins
100-200 AD = 83 coins
200-300 AD = 183 coins
300-400 AD = 178 coins
400-500 AD = 11 coins
500-600 AD = 6 coins
600-700 AD = 0 coins
700-800 AD = 0 coins
800-900 AD = 0 coins
900-1000 AD = 0 coins
1000-1100 AD = 1 coin
1100-1200 AD = 1 coin
1200-1300 AD = 0 coins
1300-1400 AD = 0 coins
1400-1500 AD = 0 coins

The highest concentration is between 200-400 AD; however, lately I have added more to coins minted prior to 100 AD

 

BTW, do you have the link to the old thread. I would like to compare my numbers.

 

100-0 BC =6
0 BC-100 AD =20
100-200 AD =6
200-300 AD =1

 

Yeah, right here.

 

What a pain in the ass stat style to count, I will just say from ancient to early modern I have 272 total, not much.

 

Cool idea for a thread!

I am embarrassed to say that I don't have a database to query for my stats. I will do a manual count if I can.

 

The coins-by-century thing? For me all of my counting took less than an hour, so it might take only a little longer for you since you have just 38 more coins than me.

 

So far I have 49 ancients. I haven't been up to date with my spreadsheet so I can't diverse them into years yet.

 

600-500 BC = 0 coins
500-400 BC = 1 coins
400-300 BC = 2 coin
300-200 BC = 1 coin
200-100 BC = 3 coins
100-1 BC = 1 coins
1-100 AD = 1 coins
100-200 AD = 0 coins
200-300 AD = 10 coins
300-400 AD = 12 coins
400-500 AD = 1 coins
500-600 AD = 0 coins
600-700 AD = 0 coins
700-800 AD = 0 coins
800-900 AD = 0 coins
900-1000 AD = 0 coins
1000-1100 AD = 0 coin
1100-1200 AD = 6coin
1200-1300 AD = 8 coins
1300-1400 AD = 1 coins
1400-1500 AD = 3 coins

 

Guess that means I have 50 total. I have more, but they need to be cleaned and attributed...

 

Looking back at that thread I've added 152 coins with still the same collecting strategy.

 

600-500 BC = 0 coins
500-400 BC = 0 coins
400-300 BC = 0 coins
300-200 BC = 0 coins
200-100 BC = 2 coins
100-0 BC = 0 coins
0 BC-100 AD = 2 coins
100-200 AD = 3 coins
200-300 AD = 10 coins
300-400 AD = 7 coins
400-500 AD = 0 coins
500-600 AD = 0 coins
600-700 AD = 0 coins
700-800 AD = 2 coins
800-900 AD = 0 coins
900-1000 AD = 2 coins
1000-1100 AD = 1 coin
1100-1200 AD = 0 coins
1200-1300 AD = 7 coins
1300-1400 AD = 1 coin
1400-1500 AD = 0 coins
1500-1600 AD = 1 coin

 

My aproximate numbers are:

700-600 BC = 1 coin
600-500 BC = 4 coins
500-400 BC = 3 coins
400-300 BC = 3 coin
300-200 BC = 11 coin
200-100 BC = 2 coin
100-0 BC = 5 coins
0 BC-100 AD = 20 coins
100-200 AD = 20 coins
200-300 AD = 51 coins
300-400 AD = 356 coins
400-500 AD = 225 coins
500-600 AD = 70 coins
600-700 AD = 9 coins
700-800 AD = 3 coins
800-900 AD = 2 coins
900-1000 AD = 4 coins
1000-1100 AD = 1 coin
1100-1200 AD = 3 coin
1200-1300 AD = coins
1300-1400 AD = 2 coins

Etc, total are near 850 coins

 

I have around 280 provincials, 44 BC to its end in AD 296/7, mostly from different cities.

 

My rather pathetic collection, try not to laugh! Keep in mind I've oonly been collecting for 7 months

600-500 BC = 0 coins
500-400 BC = 0 coins
400-300 BC = 1 coin
300-200 BC = 5 coins
200-100 BC = 4 coins
100-0 BC = 1 coin
0 BC-100 AD = 1 coin
100-200 AD = 4 coins
200-300 AD = 7 coins
300-400 AD = 0 coins
400-500 AD = 0 coins
500-600 AD = 0 coins
600-700 AD = 0 coins
700-800 AD = 1 coin
800-900 AD = 0 coins
900-1000 AD = 0 coins
1000-1100 AD = 0 coin
1100-1200 AD = 0 coins
1200-1300 AD = 0 coins
1300-1400 AD = 0 coin
1400-1500 AD = 0 coins
1500-1600 AD = 0 coin

24 official coins

*I don't count non-silver ancients, of which I have 5 or 6 that I will give away or sell shortly.

 

PS: There was no such thing as the year 0BCE, it went from 1BCE straight to 1CE

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an...nd-which-centuries-are-your-interests.226325/

Wow, that's an awesome thread ... that guy was a fricken genius!!

 

Hahahahahaha!