Numismatic resolutions for 2022

This is a great thread idea, and it's been instructive to read. I'm an avid goal setter - most of my days start with making a detailed to-do list - and like others, my goals can be broken down into organization, collecting, and reading.

Some of you know that I have a large collection of Nabataean coins - it's a specialty that appealed to me early in my collecting career, and I've gradually acquired an enviable type set of all the kings (if in fact there's anything even remotely enviable about having a collection of Nabataeans). At this point, the only pieces I can add are rarities that only come on to the market occasionally, and at great expense. I'm shooting for one in Triton XXV, and I'm going to have to go deep with a Hail Mary pass on it - it may end up being my largest outlay on a single coin.

At any rate, I have a great many coins I need to organize and photograph. At one point I was maintaining an informational website about Nabataean coins, but I didn't have the resources to continue it. A few years back, Joe Sermarini at FORVM invited me to post pages about my collection, so I may take him up on it, if the offer is still open. Here is a sample spanning some 4 1/2 centuries...



I've been toying with assembling a collection of the coinage of Bostra, which is a natural progression, as Trajan began minting there after the Roman annexation of Nabataea in AD 106.

 

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My resolution is to take good photos of all the coins I don't currently have photos of, and keep a better record of them.

I also need to sell more of the coins I currently have listed on eBay, as it is slowly getting out of hand lol.

Also buy more coins

 

If you haven't already, you might want to read the article from a few years ago arguing that the Trajan camel drachms like the one below were actually minted in Rome, rather than in Arabia Bostra as traditionally stated. See Bernhard E. Woytek and Kevin Butcher, The Camel Drachms of Trajan in Context: Old Problems and a New Overstrike, The Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 175 (2015), pp. 117-136. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784).

 

Thanks Donna! That article has been on my rather long reading list for a while now - time to get to it! I would still include Trajan's coins in a Bostran collection, however, as they did circulate in the region and there are some interesting types beside the camel drachms.

 

Definitely!