Not sure if this has been shared here before, but it's the first I've seen. Looks like Harvard has their coin collection online. I searched my interest and will share the link: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/search-results?q=sestertius
That looks like a great resource with good documentation. I really appreciate you sharing it. Thanks.
I think it's interesting that such a venerable institution should have such a high percentage of low-grade and unattractive sestertii!
Thanks, beef1020! That's an awesome reference site. Harvard has an excellent museum. I use to live nearby and my parents use to take me there when I was a dinosaur fossil obsessed kid.
I'd like to point out a line copied from one of the images: "The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes." I am really glad to see the trend for spreading free public education in any field but especially in ancient coins. There are many really good sites with images and information; some are free and some are very expensive. I feel we all stand to benefit from more people being exposed to coins like these. Thank you Harvard. The collection is large but not huge and includes many coins of a level many of us might own. They have many most of us would pass. Perhaps we should select some coins in the collection we find interesting or educational and start threads (one coin type per thread) so our discussions here would not be limited to the few coins we own. The one below is a Julia Domna --- at least for a little while??? This is also Domna but something we might like better:
Great idea, @dougsmit , and I did just that. See: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/th...isaligned-pincer-tongs-theory-to-rest.299064/
I agree, i was surprised. The first part of the accession number is the year of the donation, so you can kind of get a sense of collections just by that. I also found it interesting because i tend to think of collectors in the 40-70 having availability to abundant, nice, inexpensive coins. I suppose in a lot of ways now is really the best time to collect in terms of access to information and material.
