My Top Purchases of 2018

An interesting assortment of coins! You've had a good year.

 

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Awesome coins Mat. I think The Nero tet is my favorite.

 

Man, time for the best of the year threads already! 2018 is going fast! That's a fantastic group of coins @Mat and some really awesome deals there!

Those tets are great, but I really like that cool medieval, early modern hammered run you have going there!

 

Nero/Claudius I ... It's a great achievement. That's 2 in one. Congrats..

 

I love these. I habitually buy them.

 

Beautifull, diverse selections of coins you acquired! I love the English hammered ones. But, they all have their distinctive appeal All, I can say. "keep it up" Getting more coins is great fun.

 

Mat, the variety of your acquisitions is admirable and the prices you paid are inspirationional. I really like the Charles I halfcrown. These are impressive coins, especially in-hand.

Wow this was a good year for me, but in the Aureo & Calico Alba Longa sale in early November, I totally blew nearly a year's budget for coins, so I'm done buying until next year. I don't buy many coins. Here are my (only) acquisitions this year:


RRC 53/2 - Crawford grouped a number of different styles of the earliest fully anonymous denarii into the 53/2 classification. This variety (Brinkman group 1 - rearing horses with trapezoidal frame around ROMA) was characteristic of the style.

THIS MAY NOT BE OF MUCH INTEREST FOR THOSE NOT INTERESTED IN EARLY ROMAN REPUBLICAN FULLY ANONYMOUS DENARII, BUT...Not in RRC or any other reference. This is a fully anonymous denarius with peaked visor, clearly in the style of the Sicilian issues, RRC 72-78. There are three known examples, all from the same obverse and reverse dies.

Silver Didrachm, RRC 13/1. This is the first Roman Silver issue! A rare obverse die in exceptionally fine style. Although I can rarely afford these pre-denarius silver issues, they are part of the story of the early Roman Coinage so I'm gradually acquiring the types when they meet my quality criteria and fall within my budget. This example went for a surprisingly reasonable hammer price.

Caduceus symbol. RRC 60/1a, c. 211-208 BC. The style on these are relatively crude but distinctive. They are available in low grade with some frequency. This pedigreed (Goodman collection), is among the finest available in many years.


C. VAL. C.F. FLAC, RRC 228/1, C. 140 BC. This is one of the five issues in RRC with the XVI denomination mark, signaling the retarriffing of the denarius. This issue is the only one of the five that is also known with the X mark of value.

T.DEIDI, RRC 294/1. c. 113-112 BC. Classic gladiator scene. This is one of the "had to have" coins in spite of its falling on the fringes of my collecting focus. I think this is my favorite because it is outside of my normal collecting area.

 

Mat, congrats on your awesome picks for the year!

Doug