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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8175713, member: 118780&quot;]I thought I&#039;d start a thread on what we do when we receive new coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following is mine:</p><ol> <li>Place the coin in a new flip, since many sellers use cheaper ones. Include any auction cards or previous documentation included with the coin.</li> <li>Add the coin to be Excel spreadsheet. I keep the following information.<ol> <li>Title used by the seller</li> <li>The exact description given by the seller</li> <li>An abbreviated description I can copy whenever posting the coin here</li> <li>The seller</li> <li>Date purchased</li> <li>Amount purchased in its original currency. This makes it trickier for me to sum the total costs of my coins, which I really don&#039;t want to know.</li> <li>If won at auction, the lot number.</li> <li>The country of the seller</li> </ol></li> <li>If the coin is in my &quot;Philip II, Alexander III, and the Era of the Diadochi&quot; collection, then I do the following<ol> <li>Add it to a list of rulers/places I already have</li> <li>Research the ruler/place and add important dates involving it to my consolidated timeline</li> <li>Remove the coin from my list of ones I&#039;m seeking (it had already been marked with an asterisk)</li> </ol></li> <li>Photograph the coin and process the images.</li> <li>Create a write-up of the coin. In the past I stole the text from Wikipedia, but I now must write the entire thing myself, ideally with humor.</li> <li>Print the write-up along with a cutout for the flip.</li> <li>Cutout the spot for the flip and tape it onto the write-up. Place that in a plastic holder and add it to my album. Note that I hope to change this process soon. I have an idea for more efficient storage that I&#039;ll discuss in a later post.</li> <li>If the coin is in my &quot;Philip II, Alexander III, and the Era of the Diadochi&quot; collection, do the following.<ol> <li>Add a page containing the write-up to my website (will publicize once it&#039;s done)</li> <li>Update the index and timeline on the website with the coin</li> </ol></li> </ol><p><br /></p><p>The following is an example of a coin with write-up.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428710[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Cyprus. Citium. Pumiathon Æ Chalkous / Lion</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">16.37mm 2.70g 362-312 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Obverse: Lion walking left, ram head above</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Reverse: Horse standing left, star above, symbol before</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">BMC 69</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Marc Breitsprecher</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Of all the agent Cypriote kings, Pumiathon had in my opinion the best name. It makes me think of a Puma-like robot that vanquishes his enemies. Sadly, Pumiathon wasn’t able to utilize his puma powers, and was killed by Ptolemy I in 312 BCE, making him the last king of Kition.</p><p><br /></p><p>While we don’t have much more information about Pumiathon, there is one interesting situation. At the time of Alexander the Great, there were ten kingdoms in tiny Cyprus. This is a lot for such a small place, and they could practically yell across the street at each other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kition was one of those kingdoms, as were Amathos (Androkles), Salamis (Pnytagoras), Marion (Stasiochos II), and Paphos (Timarchos). Another was Tamassos. Its king, Pasikypros, must have had a gambling problem, because in order to fulfil his debts he sold his entire kingdom to Pumiathon.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be extremely cool to own a kingdom. Back when Greece had tremendous financial problems, I suggested to my wife that we buy it, but we didn’t. Of course, Pumiathon already had a kingdom, but it was so small that you could barely go horse-riding before having to return home. This purchase must have doubled his range.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do hope he had time to enjoy it. When he supported Antigonos, which was a fashionable thing to do back then, it royally upset Ptolemy so much that he annihilated Pumiathon and his kingdom. After then, Cyprus was treated as a single entity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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