The Closest Ancients to Collecting the Lincoln Cent?

Does anyone collect these to get all the mint-marks like collecting years and mints of modern coins?
Maybe someone should make special folders for them or maybe it has been done already?
This one is supposed to be very rare from Lyons, until they uncover a new hoard with a million of them I suppose.
Roma City Commemorative
Lugdunum (Lyons) Mint 330-331 AD
Obverse: VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma left wearing imperial mantle
Reverse: Romulus and Remus suckling from she-wolf, two stars above, (dot)SLG in exergue
References: RIC 247 Rare

 

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I used to collect city commemoratives, mainly the Constantinopolis coins.

I have a page about them-- http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/

for Late Roman bronze, there are many series that you can collect by mint-- campgates, FEL TEMPS, etc.

 

Thank You Victor- i will check out your page.

 

Well it looks like the Nether Compton hoard probably just knocked down the "rare" ratings of a few down to common issues since the RIC VII in 1966 anyway.

 

there have been quite a few Constantinian hoards discovered since RIC VII was first published.

 

I don't think there could ever be folders per-say because they come in all different shapes.

Thanks,
Jacob

 

Before you get a complete set of some you may figure out that there is a lot more to it than just mints. For example, the commemoratives come in a heavy series that were issued with the two soldiers, two standards coins and the light series with the one standard issues. The killer is the FEL TEMP's. The falling horsemen are available in 2200 versions by one count. There are not as many of the other types but those 15 mints can lead you to getting carried away.

I have a page on falling horsemen
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html
and another on the FTR's in general.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ftr.html
Both pages embarrass me since I have twice as many coins to choose from as I did then and really should update them.

At the very least you might want the 15 mints and a set of the four major
FH types, a coin of each ruler that issued the type, a size series and who knows what else. Then we do each of the other types in a similar way and we could have at least as many coins in the FTR book as you have in Lincoln cents.

 

My head hurts...

 

I'd enjoy an update!

I'm getting there I almost have 2 rolls now

 

yes but are they BU?

 

Yes I have a collection arranged that way, for Urbs Roma, Constantinopolis, and then the other city commems tucked in around them. For these I collect by mint and officina for every type listed, as well as barbarous. I made a check list based on LRBC and RIC arrangement and set out my net. Then there are extensions, such as the use of the wolf and twins motif on Roman silver.

This is one of my larger lrb sub-collections, alongside FTR, campgates, GE. In fact though I tend to approach every ruler and reverse type this way. Always another hill to climb.

 

Nope

 

For the record, Lincolns can be collected in bags of 5000 so stop dragging your feet.

Pick one: a bag of BU 2017 or one AG 1909SVDB. There is no coin in Randy's display that is as common as the 09. Hey Randy, where is your Gallus group? All together, I'm at 130 and holding. I wonder how may we overlap.

It has been a while since I showed the one below. I'm still not comfortable with the ID.

 

@dougsmit I'll have a bag soon at the rate I'm going. I'm kinda lacking on Gallus (I may have more Constans than Gallus soon). My count is @98 now About a dozen aren't worth showing.

 

'Pick one: a bag of BU 2017 or one AG 1909SVDB. There is no coin in Randy's display that is as common as the 09.'
Amazing statistic. Do you have ballpark figures for comparison. Just curious.