The true “pile-on” thread!

Welcome to the Ancients Forum, @Randy Abercrombie ! Awesome Chi-Rho! If you're interested in Ancient Roman/Christian Chi-Rho coins, you belong here.

 

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I'm not good at doing these group photos. Here are a few more, on an Abafil tray:

 

Is a guy being burned at the stake on that bottom coin in your last photo?

 

Yes. Jan Huss. You can google him, its an interesting story. I dont really collect medals, medieval, etc. but when I saw that one I just had to have it!

 

Sorry but you may have created a monster Here's another one then I'll be quiet for another two weeks

 

Neat piles!

Here is what I have setting on "ol' gnarly" at the moment. These are recent purchases or coins I don't want to quit fondling yet.



Here's what I have on my other desk, coins I've recently reshot and am to lazy to put back in their boxes yet.

 

Is that a Castulo Augustus/sphinx I see, Erin?

 

Nice coin's all!

 

It is Halloween season.

Now I want one.

 

Here’s my old pile for posterity:

 

You guys have some amazing coins and the photography skills are top notch too.

 

Ok, here's mine - no Photoshop, just laying them out on the table.


These are the ones I've got my hands on, the others are in the capable hands of @Severus Alexander until December 1st... Then in your hands?

 

Same here.

 

You've all seen this, but...

 

I am loving all these pile pics!

I really have to get with the program and try making some of these fancy virtual piles. Here are a few of my old pile pics.

Pile from the Collection of an Old Swiss Gentleman Whose Wife Wouldn't Let Him Keep His Coins Whey They Moved


Great Big Pile o' LRBs


Eclectic Pile from the Collection of an Australian Collector


Antoninus Pi-lus Drachm Pile

 

Indeed it is, Justin!

That belongs to my bro.

Erin

 

Awesome! I almost snagged one myself last week... Didn't bid quite enough lol

Do you have a favorite of those in your pile?

 

Ken, I noticed you have two Antioch coins that I'm super curious to see in more detail and know more about... Would you be willing to share more about them? One is the horseback one and the other Tyche...

 

Sure thing. I keep an old fashioned Word document that has all the details:



Vespasian, 69 – 79 AD
Æ Hexachalkon, Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch, 20mm, 3.77 grams
Obverse: IMP VESPA AVG P M T P, Laureate head of Vespasian left.
Reverse: ANTIOCHIA, Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right.
References:
RPC II 1988 // McAlee375, Rare
Cost:
$120
Provenance:
CNG 413, January 2018, Lot 285.


Gordian III, 238 – 244 AD
Æ35, Pisidia, Antioch Mint, 14.83 grams
Obverse: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANOVS AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian right.
Reverse: VIRT AVG COL ANTIOCH, Gordian on horseback right trampling enemy and holding aloft spear, S R in exergue.
References:
SNG vonAulock 8572 // Krzyanoska 14/69, Very Rare
Cost:
$675
Provenance:
Tom Cederlind, private sale, April 26th 2014 (previously List 161).