chrsmat 71's 2015 10 favs

Nice ... wow dawg, you had a smokin' year of collecting, eh?

I love the two final RR examples ...

=> #3 Janus and the mega-cool #1 Show-ponies!!

... #6 is very cool as well ...

Bravo, brother!! (bravo)

 

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thanks everyone for the comments! it was my best year yet for coins, and I think it was for several of us. i know i've enjoyed looking at everyone's top 10 list! if you haven't made a list yet, or only can do a top 5 even...get on it. time is running out!

i hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

Would it be wrong of me if I said that Chrsmat71 has misunderstood his Justinian follis?

“Officina” means 5 years. Right?

The alphabet of “B” doesn’t stand for second officina. It is just a mark for one of the various mintplaces in the same city if my mind serves me right.

Beat me.

 

i don't know herberto, i think it means second officina...but there may well be something i don't understand. which is very possible.

 

One of my low grade Justinian has "B" mark despite it is minted in his regnal year 19:




We will see.

 

yes, mine has the "C" or recent in place of the year. i'm uncertain why this was used instead of a tradition year of reign as on most of the coins. it seems that someone has narrowed the minting of that coin down to the years 529-533.

so yours would be minted in the second officina in the 19th year of justinian's reign. mine was minted in the same place, about 15 years later.

 

Those are some pretty good coins for this year. Hard to say which ones are my favorites. lol

 

Nice i need to get a Syrian tetradrachm and a English penny

"An officīna is a shop where goods are manufactured"

Its a crescent not a C

The coins were not dated until the reform in year 12 of Justinian reign when they introduced the really big follis.

 

I have messed it up.

Now I see that “Officina” means the place it was minted and not a certain period.

Both Chrismat’s and mine follis have the same alphabet (officina) in two different cities. – Mine has 19 regnal years while Chrismat’s regnal year is unknown.

My mistake.

 

Hey Chris, nice haul! I never pick favorites out of these lists because it's so much apples and oranges, but I would be thrilled to own each and every one of those coins. You have great taste!

 

Lots of eye-appeal! Lovely coins.

 

I love the Justinian enthroned pieces. I have a 40, a 20, and a ten. They are all hard to find in acceptable condition. Good get.

 

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html
I see no reason to believe that the workshops or officinae were not located in the same building. Various mints used between one and fifteen shops at one time or another and they were marked in a number of ways with no consistency from time to time or place to place. Sometime we see one officina only striking one kind of coin or for only one ruler of the several then in power while other times every shop did everything.

I see Herberto's coin as year 18 rather than 19. The mark for six had a curved over top while the u was a five. According to Sear (#163) the mint did not use the 6 for numbers until 26 on this issue but 19 is shown as X/uI/III in three lines. I do not have one from this issue but the typical 6 mark is shown on the Justin II below from year 8 (6+II) of Cyzicus.

 

An awesome group.

 

very nice i like them