Last Acquisition of The Year. Looking Forward and Beyond.

I don't anticipate garnering anything new unless David Lawrence Rare Coins actions tempt me this Sunday and the following one. Not likely, though. I've got all I want and need and that, in itself, is a blessing indeed. Looking back upon this year I've enjoyed seeing all of my friends here post their finds and their triumphs. So, while we are about to celebrate the Christmas Holiday and New Year, post your last purchase of the year.

 

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Nice photos as always!

 

Nice, Green!

This one is probably my last purchase of the year. Just came last week as the newest addition to my type set.

 

Beautiful!!

 

Very nice!!

 

Didn't find anything I wanted this year but have my eyes on something. Hope to see it in hand at the FUN Show.

 

I haven’t bought much in the past few months because I’m saving my money for an expensive coin or two that I need to complete one of my collections.

 

Nice coins. My final purchases of 2025 were two relatively inexpensive items, a Roman provincial AR Tetradrachm from Antioch, and a lead seal. I'm told that it may well be a seal of Theodosius I, with his two sons.


Attribution: SC 2488.2 Antioch
Date: 69-57 BC
Obverse: Diademed head right
Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟV / ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟVΣ / ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟV, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; A in inner left field; H in exergue
Size: 24.90mm
Weight: 15.15 grams

Description: toned nearing VF. Ex CNG Electronic Auction 303 (29 May 2013), lot 73 with tag.


Roman lead seal - 5th c. AD - similar to Rostovtsew & Prou . 18, fig 1 type - 383-450 - 3 busts (14.23mm, 3.89g)

 

Considering the unlikely hood that I'll find something I like on Ebay in the next 11 days or, weeks, I guess this is my last for the year.

Kent Coin Club medal, Kent Ohio, antique bronze, M/A, 12.33 grams, 33mm nicknamed Tree City in honor of John Davey, a horticulturist who planted trees in Kent. Medal also exhibits die polishing, with the gusto, it would seem, of Norman Bates.

 

I'm not sure yet, I did buy 3 yesterday plus a Digital Caliper Micrometer LCD Gauge, I broke mine. And if I see something with a train theme , well that could temp me.

 

The Roman coins you post never cease to amaze me. You must have a wonderful collection of them.

 

My last purchase was some collectable 2 oz Bullion pieces. Dwhiz should like this one.


These Panama-Pacific replicas caught my eye.

 

That's very kind. While I have a varied collection (I've been collecting since 1993), most of my coins are of the budget type, and pretty decrepit compared to the big boys.

And may you have a very merry Christmas!

 

I’m not a big ancient collector but CT and members of the ancients forums are the ones that got me started.

 

I think I only purchased two coins this year, and this was the last. Lots of expenses to deal with. I ran into this one on GC and needed a 1949 5c anyway, and I immediately noticed the cool obverse die clash. MS62, <$20, why not.

 

My coin purchases are limited to the winter months while we reside in Florida, because our home state levies sales tax on numismatic investments. This proof Seated Liberty Half Dollar will be my last acquisition of 2025. It should arrive next week — and I am relatively certain that the scratches are limited to the slab.

 

Don't put down your "decrepit' coins...my collections are very similar. The backbone of numismatics are what I call "blue collar" collections. Simple pieces that tell the real story of numismatics through the eyes of everyday people...their struggles, their hopes and dreams, and the pieces that represent them in a very real way. I have no love for designer coins that are out of reach to most collectors. I don't give a hoot about 1804 silver dollars or 1913 Liberty nickels. They mean nothing to me.

I wish you all the best for the holidays too.

Bruce

 

Indeed. When John J. Ford Jr was a cataloger with New Netherland he was known occasionally to devote paragraphs in an auction catalog to a low a value coin that he believed had a lot of numismatic/historical value. He also gave maybe a line or two to an expensive rarity that was just an expensive yawn.

Happy Holidays All.

@Collecting Nut you've been very derelict this year with your countdown. But Merry Christmas to you.

 

Life has gotten in the way. What can I say. I’m still recovering and the antique shop has been busting the walls.