CoinTalk made me do it

I blame @Severus Alexander for this purchase. He posted a beautiful example of a grosso from Milan back in 2017 and I had to go out and find one for my collection. This coin came from the Stevex6 collection.

 

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CoinTalk made me do a lot. For starters, I extended my collection greatly after reading all your exciting threads about LRB, Provincials and brockages. Also I bought a few coins from the JAZ auctions. Steve x6 and DougSmit greatly influenced my opinion of coins. I never knew Tom Cederlind, but I was inspired by the way he looked at coins.
Here are a few of the coins CT made me grab. The first is from Tom Cederlind's estate. Julia Domna and her biga of oxen.



This beautiful Decentius maiorina I bought from a JAZ auction (sadly enough, there are none more) in January, 2017.



That fantastic flip-flop-CHINGGG! error coin comes from the Steve x6 collection.



CoinTalk surely induced me to buy this coin of a Roman Provincial town (and a good many others). See this immortal thread. AE23 Traianus 98-117.Phrygia, Grimenothyrae. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Loukios Tullios Per., epimeletes. 23 mm, 6.15 gr. VF. RPC III 2482.



And this is only a TINY selection.

 

If it wasn't for this forum I never even would have started collecting ancients!

@John Anthony was a great help! Here are a couple coins he was on the look out for me

 

I know I have inspired some ancient Chinese purchases.

 

Oh man, I have a bunch. Here are a couple coins were inspired by some cointalkers not mentioned yet.

This was a bought in part because I wanted to beef up my Flavians @David Atherton



Several threads by @maridvnvm inspired this hut purchase!




This was a @Bob L. inspired purchase!

 

My collection is focused on the origin of the denarius so when my wife hears I have a new coin, she says "don't tell me, Roma head on one side and two horsemen on the other."

In May of this year Doug Smith posted a thread about Roman Republicans doing things:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/republicans-doing-things.315975/

The thread reminded me of all of the very interesting (and active) scenes depicted on RR denarii so I started to look closely at later issues. In the recent amazing Alba Longa sale, I won this T. Didia denarius, Cr. 294/1, At least partly because of influence by Doug's thread.

 

That was the thread that came as close to driving me out of Coin Talk as any. There were those who take pride in complaining who took the post as politically motivated. People once were taught in school that there was a term for pre-Imperial Rome but Bevis and Butthead chuckle when you say Republican.

 

You have. I've got a 5 zhu of Wang Mang (below) as well as a 50 zhu. I want to get the cash and spades from his 3rd currency reform. The draconian imposition of a fiat currency system is such a fascinating episode in monetary/economic history.

 

Inspired by several I saw on here:


Ilkhan. Sati Beg. AD 1338-39, AR 2 dirhems, 18mm, 1.63gm. Legend within ornate border / Rev. similar, VF with some flatness, A-2231. Sati Beg was an Ilkhan princess who ruled in parts of Persia, Iraq and modern day Turkey.

 

A lot of my collection has been inspired by CT threads. Here's one I've wanted for a very long time, and just picked up at auction today. Like a lot of my coins, it's inspired by Tif: an Antioch denarius of Elagabalus, showing the transportation of the Sacred Stone of Emesa (which sounds like a Monty Python gag). Tif gives the full story on her website: http://www.tifcollection.com/elagabalus-denarius