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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 8181114, member: 83175&quot;]I will work on improving things and adding the moneyer&#039;s name is a good idea - I will add that.</p><p><br /></p><p>One Tantalus shortcoming is that the field for moneyer name is too short - my own database has a longer field, so someday that will work - I should be able to populate all fields in the list view with the data from the database.</p><p><br /></p><p>As well as the RR coins, over the Christmas break, I managed to organise coins as late as Constantine I and Helena in trays.&nbsp;&nbsp; One or two more multi-day efforts will be needed to get the rest of the Roman coins done, then Greek and Byzantine - I don&#039;t have many Byzantine coins and Sear will do for organising these.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the Greeks, I&#039;ll use the Hoover books as the primary references to organise things, but TBD how it will go.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve found that there are some coins I can no longer locate and a few that have not been entered on Tantalus, so there&#039;s some tidying up to be done.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have many provincials and am not sure how to organise them.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Severan collection is limited - I did get the denarius part of it organised in 2020 during the first Covid lockdown.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a photo&#039; of it - there are one or two Caracalla ants which should be in the tray and one or two acquisitions since then, but this is most of it:</p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CkRCC6lN4QRrcBvw9Zccf-7z2_GiVKk2p-gelNLMws4QKSJGc0pZMZANaBySfYU5LADz6gbriIJ7CqOy6FpQP8FxBhveDG7jKmXYpVa4VAYb-uBfXMMdKDjhghXVwdEdFT7L_offY4sC2OFyskPGAg_W3-xzyFmgvPG17DjW5sjYmwe-Q0_GxwAdu4ZqnV35l2cgHph3leGbXbrJPks9OQdJ5KW6VmM2E2CRRHAFocOzZqihI6htOH4kP_7aaCDblCcGYIeBnumxN0Ih11Jak04UP9ZJiXE4EXst4ni4m8DnTYri2wzhxeAnZRUi1fc4YAKyMCv1Tvj4ur6Bk6H_9ZjfbwvWmys4nfacoVPk_Sb7wyCi5-iWm7Si1BnJfur4u-IqHmbaujJRY6m5kxLxFe4oxBzsFE-RXSUfD36krpfnYSslzXC6LxZYozmfRU8Lkwk0TvwToMJynpUp8dv04HKNSloo9jktiqVckiX_x58iIThBrTV1rguKLavwEb4Y1HDdBGptwcnx4WYMCe1svXzwXNJw_GbxGv0t1CA3WvYc4r3MYmt-YjlfjOm99pfzBkchvhMLiWjaaPcNyVHimpXhku_S1OfItbiojY257qzTuC_CR9glzdg5LeLdsmBCqJ9fgic0PeSq1O44I2Sw0Fr69h1-vVPz_fhNLcZ8Bz6ZxZv6lqvLFKCZ51w1pEBMwbQbt9rJaystwu7jC4xZ7CTUHg=w2053-h1723-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I need to add more web lists for the coins beyond Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree completely that Crawford is a very good reference and RR collectors are lucky to have something so comprehensive.&nbsp;&nbsp; I attended a talk a few years back by the guy who catalogued UCD Classical Museum&#039;s collection of RR coins - he said they started with the RR coins because of Crawford.&nbsp;&nbsp; So far, it&#039;s the only part of the collection online - <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdclm:10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdclm:10" rel="nofollow">http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdclm:10</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s nothing amazing there, but it&#039;s interesting enough - in the 2 years I worked on the UCD campus, I didn&#039;t manage to get to the museum <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of coins I&#039;d like to have - I drifted into RR collecting about eight or nine years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; I entered the Numismatic Society of Ireland&#039;s display competition and decided to make a display of RR coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, I gave a talk at one of the meetings.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before each of these, I decided I needed more coins to illustrate the display and the talk.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, the aim of the collection became &quot;Make a representative collection of RR coins&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Somewhere along the line it has become &quot;Get everything in Crawford&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Like collecting all the emperors, this is a hopeless pursuit, but it&#039;s interesting and I learn along the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the representative collection - I &quot;need&quot; an aes grave as and a Julius Caesar aureus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Neither of these is rare (there are rarities, but at least there are common types too), but not especially cheap - perhaps this year I&#039;ll get one or both - that would be a good year.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many rarities I&#039;d like and maybe can pick up one or two a year with the commoner coins mostly secured.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s next for your Eastern Septimius/Domna collection?&nbsp;&nbsp; Is there something you&#039;ve been seeking for ages?&nbsp;&nbsp; Are you still discovering new coins you didn&#039;t know about?</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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