How big is your collection and what is in it?

Hi all

I'm curious - how many coins to we all have, and what are they?

My collection currently stands at 141:
- 1 "republican" Roman (Julius Caesar)
- 135 imperial/provincial Roman coins (the portrait series of emperors/empresses; I don't worry if it's an imperial or a provincial for this series)
- 4 x Greek coins
- 1 x English coin

(That isn't counting a jar of a few hundred "modern" coins that my grandpa collected when he was stationed in the middle east during World War II)

 

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I downsized big time recently (and bought as well), and have gotten lazy updating my records so I'll have to get back to you on my coin stats

 

I have a whole handful of various ancient, medieval and modern world uncatalogued coins of low value but as far as coins that I have photographed and catalogued and care enough about to post on my personal gallery after my recent bit of downsizing:
13 Greek coins
4 Judaean coins
39 Roman coins:

• 22 Republican
• 14 Imperial
• 2 provincial(one Republican provincial, one imperial provincial)
• 1 Gallo-Roman empire

1 imitative coin
3 Byzantine coins
1 early modern coin

61 Total(though with all the unattributed/uncatalogued ones probably closer to 300ish)

 

I have a total of 26 ancient coins
The 12 Caesars (11 denarii + 1 quinarius)
1 RR denarius
3 Antoniani (2 unidentified)
2 fouree denarii
1 Orichalcum sestertius
3 copper asses
3 denarii
1 billon follis

 

many people will not post that here.

 

I've only been collecting ancients since the start of November...I think it was November 4 or 5 when I bought my first ancient coin. What that means is that my collection is very small and very humble.

I'm kind of ashamed to even admit this is my entire collection, but hey, you've got to start somewhere.

Greek:



Roman Republic:




ROMAN EMPIRE:

 

You have some really awesome pieces though. That's a very cool Alexander and Trajan. Quality over quantity.

 

Yeah, it's called making conversation mate. You know, when people are friendly and they say things, and then other people say things back. You don't have to contribute if you don't feel comfortable with the subject.

 

I could see if you only have like 100 coins in your collection ok, but if you have over 900+ you could be asking to get robbed.

 

I have too many and not enough

There are 220 ancient coins on my website (one of them is from Medieval times, so not truly ancient).

82 Greek (including two "Eastern")
104 Roman (10 Republican, 7 Imperatorial, 48 Roman Egypt, 20 other Provincial, 19 Imperial)
34 Byzantine

Not including uncleaned coins of various states of slug-ness, I probably have another ~100 not on the website.

 

Start cataloging them now! Otherwise you'll have a big project ahead of you! I didn't start cataloging my tokens until I had almost 200 and it was a big job.

 

17,024.56g according to the database sum feature but the boxes, envelopes and tags weigh more than that. No, it will not fit in one safe deposit box but the opening a new branch bank at the right time solved that problem.

If you have just a few coins, work on both your cataloging and photo skills now. The time may come when you don't actually see a coin 'in hand' for a long time and a good set of photos will mean more to you. I find I don't do as good a job when photographing too many coins at once so I tend to reshoot five or ten a month as I identify which of the old photos are not to my liking or might benefit from some newly learned technique. Put this off until you have 200 or 2000 and you will wish you did not. Keep multiple back-ups. You do not want to start over.

 

Nice question, I have bought and sold many in the past, some I regret still, I am at the moment bust with reviewing all I got...

So this is a estimation:

120 Roman Syrian tets
100 Armenian Greek
20 Commagne
20 Cappadocian
150 Greek/ Roman bronze/provincial
25 Iberian/Celtic
30 Phoenician, obols, straters etc
10 Parthian, tet, drachm, bronze

And more....but still bust with it..

 

oo and two cats and children that drive me sometimes crazy? does that count also?

 

This two are in the mail to me now..lost more coming
Caracalla Damascus and another Otacilla Antioch

 

You can get robbed for far fewer than 100 coins I'm afraid.

Anonymity, a good set of photos, a safe deposit box, and a day pass home for them from time to time.........really the only way to enjoy, share and protect a collection these days.

Knowing mine are behind a big vault door a mile from home does give me a level of comfort. It is either that or bury them in my back yard...........

 

It's not broken down exactly, but I have 672 coins cataloged:
61 Greek
1 Judean
67 Republican
40 Imperatorial
503 Imperial

All are kept in a safe!!!

 

My collection has reached "352" hand-picked coins ...

=> it's pretty amazing that my sweet-n-clever wife hasn't stopped this run-away train!!



Yah, I have them in a spreadsheet listed several ways, so it is pretty hard to represent them properly, but here is today's sorting and listing numbers:

352 Total ancient-coins:

- 134 coins between 545 BC and 150BC => including roughly 50 archaic animal coins (my favs)

- 57 coins between 150 BC and Augustus (27 BC?) ... yah, he's my first true Roman ruler

- 107 coins between Augustus and Constantine-I (306 AD?)

- 22 coins between Constantine-I and Justinian-I (558 AD?)

- 32 coins after Justinian-I, which include my sweet Lorraine medieval examples, etc

........ pretty humble collection, but hopefully it continues to grow and I continue to love collecting these lil' sweeties!!

 

what is your address Bing and where is the safe? can you give me the combination? )

 

I didn't realize until doing this exercise, but I seem to have crossed 1k at some point this year :

Greek - 224
Roman Republic/Imperatorial - 32
Roman Imperial - 708
Roman Provincial - 88

I'm behind on cataloging (and photographing, sigh) and have probably missed a handful in my count. Also not included, a few assorted Byzantines, Eastern and Medieval coins that found their way into my collection but otherwise don't fit neatly into my main categories.