Ancients => until tomorrow

Ancients => until tomorrow

Ummm sorry, "I" am being pulled-away, but you dudes should really get your act together and post your favourite "*****-coin"

yah, I have no idea what that means, but maybe it'll ring a bell in your noggins?!!

=> post your favourite ... *whateva*

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

View attachment 403871 IPA all Day

 

goooooooooorgeous!

 

Its hard to pick just one, but I'll try.
Doug

 

I have an idea. Since many of us don't visit the other forums, post some recent modern acquisitions, if you collect any modern. I've become interested in Hard Times and Civil War tokens. Here are three. I have two more arriving, hopefully tomorrow...

 

Nice stuff folks !

Just one ?
That's hard job !
Favorite what ? modern ? feudal ? ancient ?
I'm with JA on that one, as we mostly show off with ancients here (well, I do actually, don't know for others ) I will post something you don't see very often on these boards : a gold pistole from the principality of Dombes minted in 1579 by the prince Louis II de Montpensier (unique to date that year) :


Pistole, or - 1579 (inédite)
Atelier de Trévoux
+ LVDO . P . DOMBARVM . D . MONTISP Ecu de Bourbon couronné
+ DNS . ADIVTOR . ET . REDEM . MEVS . 1579 Croix feuillue
6.54 gr - 25-26 mm
Ref : Date inédite : Divo Dombes -, PA -, Mantellier -, Boudeau -, Sirand -

Q

 

Sorry fellas not sure why the slabbed pics came up twice since I posted them only once.....

On the pictures being orientated wrong - you gotta change their orientation and see if they line up right.

All my are proper but, her the uploads get turned sideways when posted - I counter flip em and sometimes that does the trick by compensating but, sometimes I gotta just flip em back and they go up correct....trippy code nuances...

 

Here's an English silver coin which was issued a couple of years before the French Revolution. I liked its superb clear and neat condition.

 

Hey 7C, that's exacly the kind of chunk I'd like for my english coins collection. Very nice, a shilling I guess !
My only George III coin so far is a cartwheel penny, ten years younger...

Q

 

Pick just one favorite? OK. This guy was pretty famous in his day.

Augustus; 22-30 AD
(minted under Tiberius)
AE As; Rome Mint; 29mm/11g
Obv: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER; Radiate bust Augustus left
Rev: PROVIDENT S C Facade of Ara Providentiae Augusti Double Panelled Door and Horns Above (Sear 1789, RIC I 81)

 

This morning's favorite coin will be (ta-da):

MN. FONTEIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS FONTEIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Jugate heads of the Dioscuri
REVERSE: Galley under oar
Struck at Rome 108-109 BC
3.9g, 20mm
Cr.307/1, Fonteia 7

But this afternoon's favorite will most likely be something else.

 

here's one of my favorite modern coins that i picked up recently...



big 35 mm austian 15 kreutzer.

 

It's easy to see why the posts are favorites---they are all fantastic!!

One of my newest favorites, since I decided to replace my Modern Type Collection while always adding to my replenished Ancients...

 

Hey Mikey, if you use the "upload a file" button and then click the "full image" option with your cursor in the desired location in the body of your message, the pictures will appear in your thread without having to be clicked (much preferred).

My too-often-shown favorite:

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles (317-289 BCE)
310-305 BCE
AR tetradrachm, 17.40 g, 24 mm
Obv: head of the nymph Arethusa left, wearing grain wreath, earring and necklace; around, three dolphins; under, monogram (NK?)
Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, fast chariot charioteer leads to left, holding reins and kentron; above, triskeles; in exergue, monogram
Ref: Ierardi 12 (O2-R8); SNG Copenhagen 573 var., SNG ANS 637
ArtCoinsRoma, auction 8, Feb. 2014
The story of its acquisition is here.

 

Never get tired of seeing this coin!

Or this one!

 

Every month or two, I use random.org to help me randomly select a dozen coins from my collection. I then pull them out of their flips and sit them in a tray I keep nearby so I can easily pick one up when the (random) urge to handle and admire an ancient coin strikes. This one's my favorite from the most recent batch.


ALLECTUS
Quinarius
2.9g, 19.9mm
Londinium (London) mint, 293 - 296 AD
RIC V 55; Rogiet 1017; Burnett, Coinage 111.
O: IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right.
R: VIRTVS AVG, galley with mast rowing left, waves below; QL in ex.
Ex Simon Shipp Collection

 

Does it have to be one that we own?

Keep us posted...

 

OK, it's past noon here, so I now have another favorite.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: P M TR P X COS III P P, Sol, radiate. standing left with raised hand and globe
Struck at Rome, 231 AD
3.4g, 20mm
RIC 109

 

huh? ... man, I don't know what I was thinking when I made this thread? (maybe that's why my wife is so mad at me today?)



... anyway ...

here is one of my favourite *whatevas*

 

A hundred dollar bill? I'd spend that baby on an ancient coin

Addendum: wow, only 87,500 of those puppies printed? Correction: I'd spend that bill on several ancient coins

Why don't you post the reverse? That's the pretty side.