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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2647653, member: 44316&quot;]Some people have made collections of ships on coins and eventually sold them. I know of two such sale (sail <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) catalogs. These notes are taken from my site on what is in catalogs:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>CNG 73</b> (2006, Sept. 13) 1130 ancients among 1311, all in color with some enlargements, plus 460 book lots. facing heads collection of David Herman, 541 G, 45 Oriental Greek, 98 ships on coins (G, R, RP, Alexandre Barros collection), 79 RP, 53 RR, 214 RI, 40 Byz, 5 Aksum, 2 Crusader, 41 high grade Turkoman bronze, 9 English</p><p>&nbsp;facing heads (many), ships on coins (98), Turkoman bronze (41)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Malter</b> Fall/Winter 1989-1990, Collector&#039;s Journal of Ancient Art (a fixed-price list).&nbsp; A collection of 86 Greek, Roman, and provincial coins with ships or parts of ships, 61 medieval, 29 Roman Egypt, 17 Byz, 14 other ancients, 26 Byz seals and some antiquities. </p><p>Ships (86).</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone show us a Roman imperial coin with a sailing cargo ship, or are imperial ships are all presented as war galleys?&nbsp; The sailing ships I know are provincial, like this one of Commodus at Alexandria with the famous lighthouse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]585129[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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