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Johndakerftw can you take a close up of the tiny ancients?

 

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Here are two of them, Justin.



I don't have many pictures of the smallest ones. They belong to my brother. The ones I don't have an individual picture of are the 1/96th silver stater with a rosette pattern, a Kolophon silver Tetartemorion, an EL hemihekte and a sliver 1/12 stater.

When we come back from Nfld, I'll see if I can take some pictures of the smaller ones.

Erin

 

Here are some of my Constantines. I have about 50 of him; I have probably 200+ coins total. Still working to expand my Constantine reverse types as budget allows. I'm also working to expand my Roman collection in general. I'm pretty weak in a number of areas, but it's always fun to check a desired coin off the list.

 

I like tiny coins but only have one. I do have some very small though. Here's my tiny one.

 

Thanks, I like the second one depicting a lion attacking a bull most.

 

Thanks Justin!

How small is that thing, alde? I'd be terrified of losing it.

Erin

 

how can you get coins like this??

 

http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html

https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx

https://www.numisbids.com/

 

Depending on which coins you are referring to, there is one other thing that might be necessary...

 

Not all that long ago tiny coins were a well kept secret and no one wanted them. Now so many of you show interest that I can't afford many. Some years ago, in the good old days, I showed some of mine:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tiny.html

 

Here is foto of my collection. This is not actual for this moment, because some of them I have decided to sell. But this is a top of my efforts at the field of collecting.

 

I have a few small coins:


Uncert West Asia Minor Karia 5th C BC AR tetartermorion 5mm 0.15g Female - Frprt Bull r Kayhan 968 exc rght


Iona Kolophon AR Tetartemorion 530-520 BCE Archaic Apollo Incuse Punch 0.15g 4.5mm- SNG Kayhan 343


Ionia AR Tetartemorion 4mm 0.13g 530-500 BCE Rosette - Incuse sq punch 5 pellets SNG von Aulock 1807


And a few big coins:



RR AE Aes Grave Sextans 270 BCE 37mm 55.28g Dioscuri R and L



RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens 46mm 90.3g 9.3mm thick Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi 3



Carthage 201-175 BC Æ 15 Shekels 45 mm 7.5 mm thick. 102g WreathTanit Horse uraeus above. MAA 104 SNG Cop 400 RARE

 

Wow, a place to show ancients. Who would have thought it. I may have to dig something out. When I have unpacked, done the washing etc. Watch this space, fab coins everyone.

 

My coin collection is small (52 coins) so I'm able to display them all, obverse and reverse:

 

Well heck, I'll pile on my virtual pile too (which needs updating since I have many more wonderful coins to add since this composite was made)

 

What can I say? - SUPERB!!

 

Fantastic toning on all

 

n-o w-o-r-d-s...

 

Beautiful!! A very well-matched and consistently high-quality set.

 

I haven't tried that but it would be quite interesting. I'd need to take more accurate measurements of each coin and translate their relative sizes into pixels which is definitely doable and would give another dimension to the image.

It is! It's a nice reprieve from a laptop. Apple really knows how to make nice displays.