Hello everybody, I am new to coin collecting and have been researching ancients and looking at CoinTalk for awhile now and wanted to post my first coin, this beautiful Tiberius Deanrius. 14-37 AD, Lugdunum, Denarius, 3.44g. TI CAESAR DIVI - AVG F AVGVSTV Head laureate. PONTIF - MAXIM Livia seated
Nice start ! Welcome and don't be shy: you can tell us where you're from and why you began collecting ancient coins !
I started with a Trajan too xD Mostly because I wanted to start with the “5 Good Emperors” and Nerva was too expensive so I went with Trajan.
Thank you everyone. I enjoyed seeing your first coins and I am excited to learn more and contribute on this forum. I never collected US coins but I was always fascinated with ancient Roman history and when I stumbled across ancient numismatics I could not stop reading about it. I think it’s so cool that you can hold something 2000 years old in your hand and have a connection to history.
Welcome! Thanks for sharing your first coin. I find the portrait on your coin interesting. Often, the nose of Tiberius is more present, and on your coin it's quite an elegant portrait
I wish I had bought something as good as the OP to start with. Welcome to the world of ancient coins ! Q
Here is my first ancient, a denarius of Geta. I bought this piece in the spring of 1964 when I was taking Latin in the 9th grade. I bought three other coins at the same time, but I sold them. One, I now recall was a Gordian III antoninianus. One of the first Roman coins I bought after I started collecting them again, 54 years later was this Roman Republic piece.
