Periodically, the question is asked about which storage method is preferred. Why not go full on old school and store them the Roman way? Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii. Aurei and denarii on the right, bronze on the left. New arrivals yet to be attributed in the centre pouch. Coin records below. Hassle free and cheap. Ah, if only it was that easy! Even so, I suppose I'll stick with my paper envelopes and red coin boxes. And to keep it coin legal - A denarius struck around the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in late summer/early autumn 79. Appropriately, Bonus Eventus. Titus AR Denarius, 3.31g Rome Mint, 79 - 80 AD RIC 89 (C). BMC 106. RSC 25. Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM•; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r. Rev: BONVS EVEN-TVS AVGVSTI; Bonus Eventus, a naked youth, standing l., holding patera in extended r. hand and corn-ears and poppy in l.
@ominus1, I'm not OCD at all but that desk makes me want to clean up! Is that a crumpled sheet of aluminum foil serving as a lampshade? LOL!
haha...when in Rome......this pics from 2 years ago, you'd have a fit if i showed it today..(and you can't straighten it up, i couldn't find anything then)
I don't feel so bad now with my cramped little computer table with all my coins and tools of the trade laying around. This should be a thread... "show your work area"???
haha.. yeah, but those there have been gone for a couple of years...how bout a piece of homemade wild black raspberry pie?!..(notice i have multi uses for lampshades)
Just my style... your desk, Homemade Blackberry Pie... can I come over to your house?!?!? Pert-near back home for me!
As a boy originally from Indiana later relocated to Central Virginia, I was amazed at the number of people who eat the decidedly second rate fruit blackberries and red raspberries. My daughter knows a place within an hour that has real black raspberries and was raised correctly even though she has lived in the East all her life. She is leaving at dawn tomorrow to go picking. I remember going black raspberry picking with my mother when I was a kid and not at all bothered by the blood lost to those lethal thorns. Her father had black raspberry thickets on his farm that were too tall to reach the top of and produced more than we and the critters could eat. I'd legalize this post with a coin but I know of no ancients showing black raspberries. Pity the Greeks!