How often do you interact with your ancients?

Back in the 70s, I was lucky to get my hands on a bottle of Field Marshall Rummel's cognac. There were cases of special cognac found stored in a cave nearly 30 years after the end of WWII. Anyway, to make a long story short, I saved that bottle with care for nearly 20 years waiting on THE special occasion. When I did crack the seal, the cognac had soured. We couldn't even drink a bit of it. I'm not sure of the moral of the story except I've always wondered if the cognac had soured before I got my hands on it or in the intervening years.

 

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I look at and handle my coins every about every 2 days. I have just passed the 40 total coins mark, so it is relatively easy to look at all of my coins in a short period of time. Right now they are sitting in a red box on the table beside me. I have thought of a SDB, but I have a small safe at home and this works for the moment.

 

Operative words... the way you are going, capturing Historical Figures, you will soon run out of room. I hope you do! Happened to me several times.

 

Try interacting with all your coins when you have several hundreds and just got home after a long day at work. I'm not quite there, but i did just pass the 110 coin mark recently.

I suspect interacting with all your coins is easy when you only have a few. As for me, it depends. I will look at some of my coins 2 or 3 times a week, but when i do so it is to look at specific ones to re-weigh them, re-measure them, and research them further. If I don't have need to look at a coin again for research, it could be a couple of weeks, maybe even a month, before I decide I miss it enough to want to take another look at it.

 

As it stands today, I have adopted 755 Ancients. Doug has many more. Enough to probably make my pile seem like an ant hill. I'm not sure I remember all my children's names let alone interact with each and everyone, everyday. Thank God for computers and a good speadsheet.

 

Aethelred,

Interesting question. I interact with select pieces of my collection about 4 or 5 times a week, generally after work with a beer in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other. This interaction is driven by the fact that I’m still in awe with our ability in this day and age to acquire an ancient coin with such relative ease and to actually hold it in your hands.


As soon as a purchase arrives in the mail it tends to live on a shelf with 3 or 4 other coins during a weighing, measuring, cataloging and general learning /attribution period, eventually getting put away with brethren. Every now and then I will learn something new that will cause me to pull out a thematic group such as Constantinian bronzes for a fresh examination and evaluation, which is very gratifying.

 

That's exactly what I do with my new arrivals, whether it's ancient or a modern. Then after a week or so they go in their housings.

 

Having been robbed in the past, I have been forced to do the same. I have a shipwreck 8 reales, that I bought for a couple hundred bucks, as a pocket coin. Despite a new, top notch security system and several other precautions, I still won't keep my best valuables at home. They visit on occasion, but its the photos that keep me going.

 

Lot more lately - I brought them home from the bank where they had been for about a decade. I really really needed to visit with Artemis. They might go back to the bank next week.

 

I have a few scattered across my desk that are still waiting to be inputted. I like to fondle them whenever I can. The rest are in binders, pages, and flips. I look through them probably once every week.

I do sometimes get the urge to get a tray for them. But then I just know in the long run, space is going to be an issue.

 

Everyday. They're just as fascinating to me today as they were on the day I got them.

I don't know how often the bro looks at his, but I get to look at them about once a month.

Erin

 

As frequently as possible but, to avoid withdrawing my coins too frequently from the bank safe, I took a picture of each and every coin, with full description, date and price of acquisition, with a comparison with similar coins sold at auctions.

 

I love to handle my coins and may occasionally put one in my pocket. I prefer the coppers as they have likely been handled by more people in the past. I'm afraid I have a very fertile imagination.

 

I believe most of us Ancients collectors have this problem.

 

When I have my coins at home, I put them inside a half-empty box of legal flash cards on the shelves of my home office, and place the box beneath other boxes actually containing legal flash cards. I'm not sure a thief would be interested in stealing flash cards on Contract Law, Property Law, Torts, or Wills and Trusts, or bother browsing through them, especially as they are surrounded by some rather boring sounding legal books.

 

you're a lawyer?

 

Shhhh, he is sensitive about it.



He seems ok in other ways so it is all good.

 

Please allow me clarify my position.

I want to get away from discussing my career as much as possible when such subject is moot and irrelevant to the matter at hand, and focus exclusively on the relevant issue for which we are engaged in this forum...our hobby of ancient/medieval coin collecting.

In this particular case the subject came about as a proximate cause of the issue in question: namely the storage of coins at one's residential property. I brought up references which may or may not be connected to my profession only for the limited purpose of addressing the aforementioned issue, and should not be construed as an expressed or implied waiver of my policy of non-discussion in regards to my profession. Hence, I am not setting new precedent, and the previous limitations although non-binding, are in force and your cooperation is appreciated.

Thank you.

 

Typical lawyer and none can be trusted (but his coins are okay).