Ancient/Medieval Coin Collection Stats

Last few years? Try last few decades

 

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That is a few years.

 

Not to people my age

 

Understood. All time is relative. We have a common interest in Ancient coins...and we discuss coins from several hundred to a couple thousand years old...

 

I've been into the fantasy stuff since I was a kid. Not that I truly believe in it, but I was reading sic-fi books at a very early age. And even before that I really liked mythology, even read the Odyssey even though it wasn't required by school.

Maybe thats why I'm into ancient coins, especially Greek coins with mythical creatures on them.

 

We are all basically babies when compared to our coins

 

I currently have "374" non-modern coins ...

=> spread-out amazingly evenly throughout the first 10 coin-centuries:

600-501 BC = 5
500-401 BC = 34
400-301 BC = 54
300-201 BC = 27
200-101 BC = 45
100-1 BC = 39
0-99 AD = 23
100-199 AD = 33
200-299 AD = 56
300-399 AD = 30
----------------------- things thin-out a bit after this (only "28" coins)
400-499 AD = 3
500-599 AD = 4
600-699 AD = 3
700-799 AD = 1
800-899 AD = 1
900-999 AD = 1
1000-1099 AD = 2
1100-1199 AD = 3
1200-1299 AD = 3
1300-1399 AD = 2
1400-1499 AD = 1
1500-1599 AD = 2
1600-1699 AD = 1
1700-1799 AD = 1
-----------------------
1800-2016 AD => thousands of "Moderns"

Oh, and my average $/ancient-coin is $221

=> $82,564 for my non-modern colection alone (apparently I could have had a sweet loaded muscle car, or my cool ancient coin collection) ...... hmmm, they're both cool hobbies, eh?

Maybe a late-life-crisis will change this? (vrooom-vrooom) ... hopefully not

Sadly, I'm pretty sure that my entire ancient coin collection is worth less than one of the high-flier's awesome coins, eh?

 

600-500 BC = 9
500-400 BC = 41
400-300 BC = 59
300-200 BC = 62
200-100 BC = 80
100-1 BC = 110

1-100 AD = 180
100-200 AD = 193
200-300 AD = 443
300-400 AD = 285
400-500 AD = 3
500-600 AD = 3

The last time I did this was over two years ago... it took much longer this time around. It was a worthwhile exercise, though, and told me something about how my collection has been growing. In short, too large. Apart from that, my BC collection has grown a great deal since I've gotten more interested in Greek and RR coins. I still don't collect LRBs, though... yeah, I'll be sticking to that story .

 

Fascinating, what a thread! Naturally, I was flabbergasted by the gold coins of Panzerman. I love gold, too, but my attention is easily distracted to nice silver and bronze, and dozens of dear little coins, when I should have bought ONE Really Good one.

Not only I forgot my Parthian Bronzes, I also forgot the sorting box with recent acquisitions that should be measured, weighed and described before I put them in my coin trays: 88 coins yet to add, among these 28 Nabataeans bought in one lot. Have to add it all up, will show in fifteen minutes.

 

600-500 BC = 1 coin (1 AV)
500-400 BC = 7 coins
400-300 BC = 5 coins
300-200 BC = 13 coins
200-100 BC = 18 coins
100-0 BC = 22 coins
0 BC-100 AD = 90 coins
100-200 AD = 42 coins
200-300 AD = 75 coins
300-400 AD = 65 coins (1 AV)
400-500 AD = 48 coins
500-600 AD = 24 coins
600-700 AD = 90 coins (3 AV)
700-800 AD = 32 coins
800-900 AD = 7 coins (1 AV)
900-1000 AD = 18 coins (2 AV)
1000-1100 AD = 22 coins
1100-1200 AD = 57 coins (2 AV)
1200-1300 AD = 31 coins
1300-1400 AD = 1 coin
1400-1500 AD = 1 coin
1500-1600 AD = 4 coins
1600-1700 AD = 7 coins
1700-1800 AD = 3 coins

Total 665

Not counting the (about 50) coins in my swap tray, because mentally I already removed them from my collection. The gold coins are a minuscule Phocaean, a majestic Kidarite Hun, 3 Byzantines, 2 Norman Sicilians and some Arabic coins.

 

I really enjoy sci-fi, but more from the plausible science approach. I enjoy an author who takes a scientific theory and extrapolates it into a realistic future. Fantasy does not interest me as much.


Marsic Confederation... Oath Scene... 90BCE

 

Wow, Steve, I knew you had several Moderns, but did not realize "thousands". Are these mainly Canadian Issues, or do you get into other areas?

 

Z-Bro => I just checked that link to my sweet ol' thread and in March-2014 you only had 225 coins ..... you've been burnin' like a comet these past two years!! (you now have way more than 1000 coins ... well played, my friend!!)

 

Funny, eh? ... all this talk about sweet gold and silver coins

=> my favourites by far, are the sweet AE babies with the wonderfully coloured patinas!! (maybe I just like cheering for the underdogs?)

 

sorry Gandalf, I didn't see your response until just now ...

=> all Canadian (well, I have a hundred wonderful "International Coins" from my Granny's collection (RIP, she rocked)) ... but my early coin-days were all about "Dominion of Canada" (paper notes and quarters)

 

Way cool! And, hey, I am a big fan of AE too... Check out my AES recent posts... Patinas and colors make them!

 

Sorry I'm late for this party....but I find it interesting that most of us have that 'unfocused' love of coins stretching all periods and types.

Since I received my full retirement benefits this past January, I've been on a bit a of a buying binge (just won three more with two pending) and haven't inventoried them since Steve's thread but I believe they are about:

1/3 Greek to late Roman Republic; 1/3 Imperial to just before Diocletian; and about 1/3 from the Tetrarchy to a few Byzantine.....about an even split between 'bronze' and silver with two gold coins.

BTW: one of my recent wins at Roma was a Diocletian argenteus with the tetrarchy reverse I was missing until that auction.

Great posts guys!!!

 

Man, if we include moderns then I probably have about a thousand from 19th-21st centuries. Mostly American and British decimal.

In terms of the books, I enjoy both Sci-Finand fantasy for the same reasons, and that is exploring humanity under different circumstances - examples being Robert Heinlein, and Terry Pratchett (currently reading Mort by Pratchett - I just love his view of the world).

 

I am old fashioned I prefer BC and AD to BCE and CE, before I give a count, can I assume that prior to 400 AD is ancient and after 400 AD is medieval?

Here's my favorite:


Attica Athens AR Tetradrachm 440 to 404 BC

One of the local coin dealers has one of those expensive machines that tell you what a coin is made of, it registered at 89% silver, is approximately 2 1/2 cm at its longest, and weighs 14.4 grams, all three are within what a real one should be. The dealer thought it was genuine, but I guess at some point I'll send it to NGC Ancients for certification.

 

Never heard of that machine, whats it called?