milestone contest

Lucy, I am in the same boat as you. I went on ebay to look up the types of ancient coins and just drew a super blank and felt very dumb while reading about them :yes:

 

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we have a WINNER!!!

here it is:


western han dynasty, emperor wu of han (141-87 b.c.), ban liang (minted 136-119 b.c.)

congrats greatwalrus!! send me your address via pm and i will get your nickels sent out to you!!

thank you everyone for playing!!

 

Wow really? I have very little knowledge of ancient coins so I did some research to find what Chinese coins were made in BC.

Awesome! Thank you. Finally won a contest

 

LOL same. On the roman and greek coins, I have a hard time differentiating between what is the emperor/rulers name and what is the denomination of the coin.

 

Congratulations Wally! Good pick!

 

Swish, approximately how big is your new coin? I mean, is it big, or small? Just curious.

Nice contest.

 

One more note..I looked up Old Testament coinage, and saw a picture of a very beautiful coin, a Persian Daric (sp?).. now that was a pretty coin!

 

Congrats to GreatWalrus and thanks to Swish for sponsoring a fun and educational contest. I know I learned something.......

 

congrats walrus!!!

 

it is 23mm, or a little smaller than a quarter. and it's copper, if you were curious.

 

Only one on that list was alive in BC times.

Your contest may be very hard Swish if you want an exact answer. There are only about 100,000 types of coins struck BC. My guess would be a bronze of Alexander the Great. Nice coin, good price, and attractive if you get a nice one. If its not your first one, maybe look at getting one. Everyone knows Alexander.

 

Sorry I didn't see this had been won. The dating of these are in contention. Yours is the smaller size, so later. If you want to see an impressive specimen, take a look at the earlier specimens. I have quite a few of them between 33 to 38cm in size. Btw, Liang is the name for a unit of measure like an ounce. Ban is half, so the coin was literally "half ounce of bronze". The early specimens are half a liang, but the later ones shrank. Its an important coin, though, basically its dimensions and size would set in stone for the next 2,000 years the size of Chinese coinage.

I am very pleased you reached out past European coins for your first ancient. Cool.

Still may want to get a nice Alexander bronze if only for bragging rights, lol.

 

I know that, and that was octavian, remember that they didn't have emporers until bc 27, and octavian died in ad 14

 

my original plan, before i got hooked on cash coins, was to purchase a republic denarius or an iceni silver unit (both coins are still on my "to buy" list). had my first been an iceni coin, i never would have held a contest. i can only imagine how long it would have taken someone to guess that one!

 

Well Iceni might have been tougher, but Celtic would have been guessed eventually. Actually, Iceni would have been an AD coin wouldn't it?

 

no, there are a few examples from mid to late 1st century b.c. it would qualify, barely. the inscribed ones are a.d. while the uninscribed ones are b.c.

 

Yeah, you are right, I was thinking Queen Boudicae I think.

 

Cleopatra silver denarius coin.

 

I would like to see a Cleopatra VII denari. I am sure the Romans of the day would like to know how she would have managed to have a denari struck as well.....

 

Received the coins in the mail today. I like them a lot. Thank you very much swish!