Who's going to NYINC?

Gorgeous! I was very tempted myself by a couple of (much later, smaller) sestertii, but ended up refraining from buying either of them, or any other bronzes.

 

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She has found her way onto cameos.


I'm worst where members here are best, at identifying historical figures. Can the seated lady be identified? Seems to me they are always one of the Julias.

 

I'm generally happier with photos of darker silver than bright because the latter makes it harder to avoid glare spots and I prefer detail in highlights. We will be looking forward to your photos.

 

Hi Donna

Is this the second Alexandrian BI tetradrachm with Sabina on the reverse, that you referred to in your post?

The hair style is totally different compared to the Roman issues.

 

No, actually I meant that there were only two types with Sabina on the obverse -- one with Sabina seated on the reverse (the one I bought), and the other with Sabina standing on the reverse. The type with Hadrian on the obverse and Sabina on the reverse, which you're showing, depicts her with the same upswept hairstyle. Which I far prefer to the one that usually appears on Imperial coins.

 

Thanks

 

Curious: Why don't people use Zelle? It's as good (and as irreversible) as cash but much safer and more convenient.

 

Overall, NYINC was very successful! I got 11 coins on the bourse floor plus 3 I picked up at auction (1 from the New York Sale and 2 from Triton). I thoroughly enjoyed getting to browse the bourse, chat and examine many coins with @Terence Cheesman, who also introduced me to a number of dealers I was not familiar with. It was also wonderful meeting and chatting with @DonnaML! I had hoped to see more CTers, but I'm sure that more would have been in attendance had the Covid situation improved. If I can, I will definitely attend future shows!

 

Nice that you folks were able to meet up face to face and reconcile a handle to a real person. Wish I had been there. Great hauls Terrence, Donna, and Romancollector.

 

Wow, a couple nights at that hotel plus the “stupidity tax” is quite and investment to attend the show. It sounds like it paid off in purchases though.

 

Sounds like several folks bought quite a few coins! It must have been a great show and I’m disappointed it didn’t work out for me to attend. I am somewhat surprised there was a lot of good material on the bourse floor. Given the challenges of the past couple years I was expecting mostly auction retreads and stale inventory.

 

Google “Why don’t coin dealers take credit cards?” and you’ll find dozens of discussions related to the topic.

 

To the extent I was able to see*, and taking into account that I only gave an in-depth look to four tables, I saw a great deal of "good stuff" laid out in the dealers' trays. (All those big bronzes and gold coins I couldn't afford!) In addition to the fact that most of them also had boxes and boxes of longtime inventory behind their tables. Always worth looking at as well, because you never know what you might come across.

Here's a question for those who might know something about the subject, as to whether something that happened is a coincidence. I mentioned that before going to the show yesterday I stopped by my bank to withdraw some cash. No harm in saying that the amount was $1,000; I withdrew it at a teller's window because it was too much for an ATM and I don't like to use ATMs for large amounts anyway. This morning, I received a text message, purportedly from my bank, stating that "unusual activity" had been detected and that my account had therefore been locked. Complete with a link purportedly to a security page, asking for me to sign in with my password to restore the account. I'm sure it was a phishing attack of some kind, because my bank never contacts me by text for that sort of thing, and accessing my account on my desktop showed that nothing had changed, let alone that my account had been locked. So of course I didn't input my password at the texted link. But how would a phisher have known that I took money out from my account yesterday? Is it possible that this was a coincidence?

*My "new" left eye has cleared up enough, and is certainly good enough at reading distance (for which it was intended), that it was perfectly suited, with the occasional aid of a magnifying glass, to examining coins. In fact, I claimed to one dealer that the surgeon had installed a special, electronically-adjustable lens for the specific purpose of examining coins, and that if one listened carefully, one could hear it zoom in and out. So that's my "coin eye" from now on. For greater distances I was still somewhat lost, because for whatever reason I couldn't see too well with my right eye, even with my old glasses, so it was impossible for me to identify dealers by the signs on the walls behind their tables! I had to sort of guess by using the map. The new left eye is fine for reading or sitting at a desktop, but beyond two or three feet isn't much use. I'm supposed to meet with an optometrist this coming week to discuss what kind of eyeglasses I'll need going forward.

I hope my next Covid test this coming Wednesday is negative, so I can go ahead with surgery on the other eye -- which I believe will be set more to distance vision, although I'll still need glasses for driving, etc. -- on Jan. 24th. Everyone was wearing masks yesterday, and had to show proof of vaccination to get in, and it wasn't overly crowded, so I'm not too worried about having caught the virus yesterday. Fingers crossed.

 

Hello Donna

I think the email message from your bank was phishing. One way to tell for sure is to look at the address of the sender. I've been getting a ton of bogus Paypal messages, which I forward to their spoof address. All of the bogus addresses have extensions to them that could not possibly be from Paypal. You were wise to ignore the message. You can always log into your bank account to see if any hanky panky is going on.

Does your bank have a spoof address that would allow you to forward the nefarious email?

One of these years, if I'm still around, I will attend the NYINC.

 

It was actually a text message rather than an email message, and that made me even more suspicious. My bank contacts me by email sometimes. Never before by text. And I did sign in on my desktop, and saw nothing at all out of the ordinary. So it must have been phishing, but how in the world could anyone have known that I did, in fact, withdraw an "unusual" amount of cash (for me!) from my bank yesterday?

I didn't pause long enough at the texted link to make note of the address. I wanted to get away as fast as possible!

 

I think, in all probability, the phishing message was a coinicidence that occured after your withdrawl. My bogus Paypal messages come in all flavors, but one of the most popular informs me that some sort of unusual activity in my account was detected, and now the account is locked, so please select the link below so we can steal your personal information (that last bit is not in the message). I remember being contacted by my bank once, by phone, to confirm some activity. It was a long time ago, and I think it was regarding a withdrawl. Credit card companies and banks will do this if they see something out of ordinary.

As for boxes at coin shows, the mere sight of them triggers the pleasure paths in the brain. I could easily spend hours just going through them, never mind the coins in the cases. But, alas, that was several years ago now. Virtually all of my purchases, since, say, 2014 have been online.

 

I know exactly what you mean. It feels like searching for buried treasure as you go through the flips one by one. Because who knows what the next one will hold? Some gem forgotten even by the dealer themself?

 

Had a very nice time at the show on Friday afternoon. As usual, it was a bit of a sensory overload, just so many incredible coins in front of you everywhere you look. My personal favorite that I saw yesterday was a spectacular Marcus Aurelius medallion…at $25k, it was just a bit out of my price range, but definitely the most memorable one of the day for me.

While there was a lot of beautiful high-end material to look at, I found that it was a lot harder to find things to actually buy…there definitely were not as many dealers with mid-range priced coins as in previous years.

My most successful table of the day was Herakles Numismatics. I actually met @DonnaML over at that table, and we spent a good 15-20 minutes going through pretty much his whole inventory…I think we both ended up doing very well there (and always great to meet other CT members!)

I ended up buying only 4 coins, but I was very happy with the ones I got. My two favorite purchases were both provincials of Septimius Severus: a huge (35mm) provincial bronze from Pisidia, and a tetradrachm from Laodicea (a type I’ve wanted for a very long time) with a great portrait . I also picked up a pretty Salonina tetradrachm from Alexandria, and a nice ant. of Carinus, an emperor that had been missing from my collection. I didn’t get to take pictures before heading out of town for the weekend, but I’ll take some pics and share those as soon as I can.

Overall, I had a good time and ended up with a nice haul. Sorry I didn’t get to see more of you this year, but I hope everyone still there enjoys the rest of the show!

 

I think I speak for all that aren't able to attend, but are salivating reading this post; Please post more pictures!

 

I went there Friday morning, and after a swift four hours drive from Boston I arrived just past 11 am. I had pretty much whole day to explore and enjoyed it very much, despite picking only 3 coins. The inventory was quite low on my topic, provincials of Judaea and Decapolis, but I got a couple of coins from Zuzim. Here is one, ae15 from Gerasa struck under Commodus:


Overall I am very happy I came. The atmosphere was amazing, I met few dealers and collectors I knew, and I spent couple of hours exploring the lots of few upcoming auctions that include many coins I need and will probably bid on.
I also think it is great opportunity for an ordinary collector to touch some of the most famous numismatic items, like this decadrachm. You can probably see it in some museums, but you can't hold it there and feel it's weight:


Overall, does it worth driving 400 miles in one day? I think yes, and I will do it again next year!