NewStyleKing

After a couple of millenia, Ptolemy finally was imprisoned. I bought him from Herekles for modern equivalent $210 in 2009, sold him Roma e sale 89 2021 $409 and now he's popped up in CNG keystone auction 11 estimate $400 ...lets see what the plastic slab does? ATM $275! I'm always interested in the afterlife of my coins, all previous provenance wiped!

L. Julius Caesar: Governor of Macedonia by mattingly in From coins to History. He was consul in c64 BC Just another Caesar relative!

Just a few.............................. That's what I call a owl! I've got lots more!

That's what I call a owl! I've got lots more!

Loads for sale by CNG and usually Roma.

Kaleun96 is 100% correct! Both these "holy" NewStyles are absolutely genuine.

Athena has had a bad hair day!

Lots of fakes in this Spink auction......really does Spink iknow? Do tell.

Maybe something to do Mark Anthony being called "the new dionysos" when he sojourned in Athens . Probably finally caused the death of the Newstyle coinage?

Maybe would be more but for the FACT that some of the Athenian Decadrachms were identified as fakes by CLIVE STANNARD with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossart. The paper ,I believe, is on academia. A hoard of Athenian decadrachms was returned to Turkey decades ago and are in Antalya and , as far as I know, NOT been researched- probably better if sold on the market where people like Barry can do work on them! The curse of museums! Strikes again! CLIVE STANNARD AND WOLFGANG FISCHER-BOSSERT DIES, HUBS, FORGERIES AND THE ATHENIAN DECADRACHM Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 90, 2011, S. 5–32 If anyone actually interested!

What is wrong with heritage? OK they like selling slabs but they don't slab them. If you don't want a slab don't buy! If your a collector and want that coin and its slabbed, well the choice is yours! It is the slabbing companies that offer a service and offer an opinion to put on their labels and most people go with that. I bought a NewStyle from them unslabbed some years ago....nothing wrong, nothing off with that.......I bought a coin from Palm...... it was slabbed..........I didn't buy it for the slab, investment is not on my radar. It's a bit like provenance it seems people want to buy it for a premium for reselling. It's a fashion that will last sadly.......people are less and less interested in coins but focus on irrelevant side issues.

Let me speculate. An American money laundering. Somebody who knows nothing but needs to get rid of money. A Plasticophile?

Good work!

Parthicus.............. I totally agree, not just wine, but Whisky is famously collected. But any comestible is stupid, by its very name shows it's meant to be consumed! The laws of Thermodynamics means no matter how we keep them change is inevitable, for good or ill! Those collectors really are collecting a label and a bottle. When very old drinks have been found and broached the report of taste is always very negative! Utterly pointless! Collectors are strange.....but showing off pointlessly is not new,

A bit like Samurai swords. The connoisseurship and classification and almost deification is more important than a proper funcutioning tool.And this started centuries ago. Nowadays if there appears to be "battle damage" on it seems to detract from it being perfect! For gods sake it's a weapon of war and carnage. And if theirs's lacquer on it the praise goes stratospheric! I don't get it. Sure a good clear example of a coin is good for classification and all that and very useful.

Dry, Sarah. The Newton Papers (p. 147). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. By Keynes’s day the first edition had become the paragon of desirability. The lust for the perfect edition—uncut pages, clean boards, the absolute minimum of wear—meant that a history of use was anathema. Ownership rather than readership was the fetish of collectors. The history of a book’s possessors, the more refined the better, added value to a book, but reading the books that one collected, and caring who might have done so in the past, was largely an irrelevance to collectors at the time. Reading could be done, but it was not necessary and, in the case of the uncut pages, inadvisable. The modern coin collector too. The disease has spread.

The one Cistaphore that every Greco-Roman wants........ Tullius IMP. Old Cicero himself , Imp awarded for a battle he won in Cillicia during his governorship. Very rare. This example from the Hierprytena hoard found 1933. A mixed hoard with lots of post Sullan NewStyles and the last ever new NewStyle ever found: Apollo with Lyre. It is overstruck on a posthumous ATG of some type.

A little bit of an idea by me on academia.edu based on Ashton and using Mullers dating ideas. Crown of Iset-Reviewed The Impact of Jorge W. Muller’s re-dating of the Ephesian cistophori brings its Isiac symbols to a post-Rhodian epiphany date. A previously unrecorded year 42 Ephesian cistaphorus is published. The title has been changed because the original attracted the wrong sort of browser.

The chronology of Ephesos revisited : Müller, Jörg W. 1998 on JSTOR Schweizerische numismatische Rundschau = Revue suisse de numismatique = Rivista svizzera di numismatica For you fans of chronology and Cistaphores.

I must admit, the "little differences" seem to be the what would be in the range of different die cutters foibles! Different folks different strokes, but not cultural differences in style! Seems Athenian to me! Any say, Syrio-Egyptian die studies.....?

Yes , quite a mixture of rulers and family, yes a good Otho and a Verus and a AP, so why is it called an Antonine hoard...that is asinine! and insane! Any more pics anywhere?

Great stuff folks! Really interesting. OK what was the source of silver BEFORE Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492? British lead from Derbyshire was cupelled to produce silver by the Romans ........ and what do you buy silver with for your currency? ........

Sounds good to me John! But I understand they also didn't mint enough pennies, half pennies and farthings! At the major recoining, they should have altered the coin weights...maybe! A real new coinage! Yep LIMA coins in 1745 with coins made from captured Spanish silver!

Not medieval or the like, but reading Westfalls biography of Isaac Newton, after the great re-coining, the war of the Spanish Succession caused the mint to almost stop producing coins and eventually quarter Guineas of gold was produced to try and replace the missing silver. Is it because our sources of silver was from the Spanish empire? The book does not say! With what did we buy silver with during "normal" times? Gold came from the "gold coast" and Guinea! But silver? I am ignorant!

Another find from academia.edu I doubt if the professionals at the Museo Archaeolgica Chieti Italy have read it, understood or care a monkey's! Sadly interesting at the statement of bronze coins recovered from Pompeii were allowed to rot away from bronze disease whilst in the caring neglect of the Naples museum! At least the portion of the IGCH 2056 in Chieti is silver whilst it remains unstudied by Italian experts after 70 years!