Hello ladies and gentlemen, After a short hiccup from FedEx, the coin I was eagerly waiting arrived. A perfect example of a coin with a low...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, My package from the Saturday auction arrived today from a different country, after being sent on Tuesday - well done,...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, A friend asked me to help in identifying 2 provincials. Both have decent quality but I am stuck. [ATTACH] This...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Last month I bought a Parthian drachm in an auction. I see Parthian coins in almost every auction and adding an...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I was looking at an auction today and managed to get 4 coins, I consider all of them good additions (especially one of...
I started collecting ancient coins in October 2020. I discovered this forum, or rediscovered it, in the same time (I had an account made years ago...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I bought a Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios budget drachm as I wanted one of this type. While trying to attribute it (I...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Otho is not present in my albums, this shouldn't be a big surprise as we all know the prices for his coins .... so my...
I love the OCRE "Identify a coin" subpage - trying to search parts of the legend to identify coins. https://numismatics.org/ocre/ I used it for...
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I like to take photos for all my coins after receiving them rather than using auction pics. (someday I want to take...
I participated in an auction this weekend having 2 major targets - the Trajan Dacian related denarii. Got them both yesterday, the price was...
... in fact 2 coins. Living in a country that once was Dacia, I try to collect as many coins with Dacian themes. Last year I managed to get a...
In my last auction my main targets had unexpected and discouraging prices. This is another discussion, but for me, no matter how much I like the...
Before collecting ancients, I was not aware of the existence of Maximinus Thrax. I think I first saw his coins here on CT and I was impressed by...
Hope @Roman Collector will not get mad on me for a Faustina ... Sunday. In the last Savoca auction I had a few targets. Most of them were missed....
My most recent acquisition is a coin I fell in love at first sight with. As the particular auction's trend was quite disturbing and I lost some...
... and the name is Valerian. I am fully aware that getting a complete "one coin per emperor" collection is impossible simply because some rulers...
... the coin being one of the examples I saw on CT, posted by LRB specialist @Victor_Clark and I decided I must grab an example when I will find...
After my health suffered a serious kick in the back side and I thought I will be mentioned as Divus Ambrozius soon (not Covid), it appears I'll...
When I decide to have a go in an auction, I choose a few main targets and a few secondary targets. Probably all the collectors have similar...
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