I just purchased my first ancient coin

Uh...guys...don't look now.............................I told you not to look, but we're not in Kan...uh...not in the Ancients Forum, we're in Coin Chat. Quick @chrisild can you move this to ancients.

 

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wohooo.. oops... well.. we are omni present

 

Thanks jwt

 

That's why I love you guys, I can make an obscure reference and someone picks up on it. Don't mind us @LaCointessa just passing time till your coins come in.

 

Welcome to the old dark side, @LaCointessa. I think you're going to be a real asset to our community

 

Can't wait to see her coins either. I agree, I think @LaCointessa will be a real asset to this forum, unlike me who is just a plain...

 

Well I hope you enjoy your coins when they arrive. It's always exciting times. I've "met" many very generous and helpful people on this forum and you can learn fast LaCointessa. Sadly a lot of my learning has been in regard to a number of fake coins I stumbled across! The art of the faker knows no boundaries including feeding them to Goats to age them. I never saw that one coming..........
Anyway I didn't give up and there is so much to learn and read about and completely fascinating that we can know more about a specific day 2000 years ago than we know about years in the Dark Ages. Oh and then you can supplement your numismatic interest with any amount of excellent novels written around these times and events.
It never ends and compared to Modern coins this is a field that could never exhaust curiosity. Anyone getting hooked on this is blessed.

 

I was super lucky, my amazingly awesome Wife bought me my first ancient.

 

Strange, I responded to this post and then saw my post as a 'guest.' Anyway, I wanted to say that I recognize Faustina with braided hair on the obverse. Is she feeding a duck on the reverse? I love her coins. Your coin is lovely! Great one -(your amazingly awesome Wife, of course).

@Dafydd - Thank you. I don't enjoy fiction but historical pieces would be great. I did thoroughly enjoy I Claudius. Maybe you are too young to remember that series. It was wonderful.

@TIF - What's all this about the dark side? Although my sense of humor tends that way for some reason, actually, I prefer learning, light, loyalty and love -- things filled with light!

@Curtisimo - I recognize Philip the Arab on your first coin; but, I don't know much about him yet.

 

Faustina Jr. I believe that is a peacock

 

I remember going to a coin store around 25 years ago and seeing two little coins in a dish for $1 each. I asked the guy what they were and he said they were Roman types. I didn't really believe a word he said but bought them anyways, and then started doing research (with library books ... the internet was just starting out then). I still have them both all these years later. If you haven't heard this before I want to let you know this hobby can be very addicting, and one of the reasons is that you don't have to have deep pockets to have a very nice collection.

 

I couldn't see what she was asking until I looked very closely:
(I'm mostly good - maybe 5-7% naughty when appropriate)
And sorry about posting my coin purchase announcement in the wrong place. I meant to start my post asking whether it was in the right place.

 

Thanks. Peacock makes more sense because when have I ever seen a duck by itself?

 

Lets talk about ridicule. Is it ridicule to point out an error even if we do it in a nice manner? Some will think so and some will get mad and go away. I'm sorry but several of us date back to when it was OK to use red pencils when grading tests without fear of wounding the psyche of youth.

Nathan is right. It is a peacock. I don't care what it looks like, the gods had what we call attributes or things that made their images recognizable. Juno was usually shown with her attribute the peacock. Some of them do look a little ducky but saying so might injure the psyche of the die cutter who has been dead for 1800 years. IMHO, Nathan did it nicely and we all owe him thanks for not being even slightly nasty.

At risk of being ridiculous but not ridiculing, I show below two other Juno birds. Both are, by definition, peacocks. The Julia Maesa does have a bit of a chicken look and I'll swear that the Mamaea is a Dodo bird (not extinct back then). Nooooo! All we see here is the fact that some die cutters are better than others.


While Juno is not mentioned on the coin, this death commemorative of Faustina II calls upon Juno to aid the empress by showing her Peacock in unquestionable splendor.


Welcome to Coin Talk - Ancients. We will be happy to see your coin.

 

Philip wuz married to Otacilia and he wuz the sheik of da burnin' sandz

 

Welcome to the like to hold our coin side of coin talk. You will find fewer slabs and MS grades here. You will also find plenty of folks who have knowledge on the subject and are willing to share.

You are taking your chances posting pictures before the coin arrives. Most will arrive,

but some will not.

 

@rrdenarius

Oh! Darn it!
(But coins not showing up will immediately cure any addiction that might try to take good root; and, that is a good thing).

 

@dougsmit - Thank you for showing those examples of the birds and the explanations you took the time to write. I appreciate that.

 

haha! well, laCointessa hasn't given any info other than got two on the way so there shouldn't be too much zots on that. but yes, not that i'm superstitious(throws salt over shoulder) don't post any pics or the murphy gods will get ya.