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    How Do YOU Store Your Coins?

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    For my World Travel Coins:

    However the BEST STORAGE, EVER, is how I store all my loose world coins that I have collected over the years from my business travels:

    (I have a few jars of them...)

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    THIS is the BEST way to store them. When the Grandkids come over, I just POUR them out on the floor. We talk about the coins, where they were from. They get to play with them, and keep a few! There are at least 35 country's worth of coins in there that I have traveled. Big fun for me to reminisce and fun for the Grandkids to ask questions! :)

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    How Do YOU Store Your Coins?

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    I presently store them in saflips, and into albums.

    However, I have recently reconsidered, and have finally acquiesced to @dougsmit's advice over the years:  simple storage in coin envelopes, and coin boxes. 

    I had to move, and found when I removed my coins from my albums, and put them into coin boxes... it was amazing how much storage space I saved!  Moving the coins from Saflips to Coin Envelopes will be my upcoming project.  I also plan to finally use @Bing's super Excel spreadsheet filing system.  

    But, too lazy or busy now.... will do this when I finally "retire".

    OLD METHOD of Mine:

    I use 2x4 open Saflips in Albums so that I have the attributes for each side as I view the coin. 6 Saflips per page. Provenance captured in Saflip and/or customs and other provenance papers captured in a folder.

    Album: Desiccant Pages in front and back; 6 slot open Saflips as 2 x 4; Attributes on front and back in top pocket of Saflip; can flip page to see obv and rev. and attributes on both side for each coin; Each album page separated by 100 lb archival card stock.; Album slides into Archival safe Album Cover. Perfect for my Home Safes as well as my Bank Safe. Easy to view, present, store.

    Card stock gives a background, as well as "padding" between the album pages.

    Desiccant pages in books, desiccant packets in Safes.

    Easy-access active Glocks, Rugers, S&W's program in place. :)

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    Post Your Latest Coin Book

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    MY GO-TO's:

    I acquired (from Warren Esty), a Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum for North Africa Syrtica-Mauretania from 1969 PLATE BOOK that illustrates each of my coins. 

    Nice Large reference at approx 15.5" x 11.5" (39 x 29 cm) that illustrates a nice chunk of Carthage issues.

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    - SNG Copenhagen, the original "North Africa, Syrtica, and Mauretania"
    (Warren Esty helped me get this! @Valentinian) - My focus on Carthage


    - Sear / Seaby - Roman Coins I & II - Especially book I for my Roman Republic focus

    - Sear / Seaby - Greek Coins I & II - My Makedon, Diadochi, Carthage, and Sicily focus

    - Thurlow & Vecchi - Italian Cast Coinage - My focus on Aes Grave

    - David Hartill - Cast Chinese Coinage

    - Flinders Petrie - Historical Scarabs (with several other Egyptian / Scarab books) - opens a whole new world of Historical collecting beyond coinage.

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    Carthage
    Third Punic War with Rome 149-146 BCE
    Billon Serrate Double Shekel
    12.83g, 26mm.
    Obv: Wreathed head of Tanit left
    Rev: Horse standing right, pellet below raised left leg
    Ref: SNG Copenhagen 403.
    Comment: Very fine, several (cleaning?) scratches.

    Notes:
    Scarce. From the last issue of Carthage before its destruction by a vengeful Rome following the Third Punic War (149-146 BC). The serrate edge is found on both Electrum and Billon coins of the period and is similar to the flan treatments of contemporary Macedonian and Seleukid bronze coins. The reason for this added detail remains a mystery. SCARCE (only 2 listed on ACSearch.)
    Jenkins & Lewis pl. 28, 14; MAA 100b; cf. SNG Copenhagen 403 (pellet below back legs)
    NONE listed on CNG Coins
    Wildwinds: 160-149/6 BCE

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    Naville is moving to biddr

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    Dattari Collection

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    Egypt, Alexandria. Dattari. In the name of Livia, wife of Augustus Diobol circa 1-2 (year 31), Æ 23.5mm., 7.46g. Draped bust r. Rev. Athena standing l., holding Nike and leaning on shield; L-ΛA. Dattari-Savio Pl. 3, 60 (this coin). RPC pag. 692, 5 (this coin cited).
    Very rare. Nice brown-green tone. Very Fine
    From the Dattari collection.
    In our opinion is correct the interpretation of Dattari on this coin and the date shown on the Rev. is L-ΛA and not LMA as suggested from RPC.
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    Naville is moving to biddr

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    8 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

    If you're a participant in Naville's auctions, be sure to go to biddr and sign up there to be a registered bidder because they will no longer be using their old platform for future auctions.

    Here's a favorite I bought at Naville.

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    Faustina I, AD 138-140.
    Roman AR denarius, 2.74 g, 17.6 mm, 7 h.
    Rome, AD 143-145.
    Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
    Rev: Anepigraphic; Ceres, veiled and draped, standing right, holding vertical scepter in right hand and two corn-ears in left hand.
    Refs: RIC 404B; BMCRE 327; Cohen 297; RCV 4602; Strack 436; CRE 79.

    The coin is an double die-match to the specimen in the Museu Arqueològic de Llíria.

    Thank you for the update!

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    I think we need our own 'Post an Old Coin and and an Old Tune' thread

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    4 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

    To my shame, I've yet to invite Stevex6 to the forum.  Stupid me.  But it was a brilliant thread.  (Oh, Expletive of Choice, I guess he was another casualty of ...well, you're likely to smell where the smoke is coming from.)

    If you need some rules ...well, trust me (if you have to), you don't.  Just, any old coin, and any old tune, with or without the pretense of a connection between the two.

    Given which, here's what I felt like starting with.  

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    This is the first, and easily the best, of my imitations of Ayyubiid dirhams, from Frankish /Crusader Acre.  The guy who sold it to me (on ebay, back when it, like the internet in general, was actually About something) was a grad student at some very impressive school in New England.  ...Or other.  Accordingto folks like Metcalf and Malloy, the primary way you can distinguish the Frankish imitations from the Ayyubid originals is that the dates are always posthumous, relative to the sultans' names.  And Yes, the Franks had been there long enough to be that literate in Arabic.  ...Which I kind of need, for one because I'm pretty emphatically not.  (As in, more emphatically than pretty.)  The graduate student dated this one to an AH date corresponding to 1217 CE.

    Here are a couple of tunes demonstrating a comparable dynamic.  First, Jelly-Roll Morton, 'Jelly Roll Blues,' recorded by the composer himself, from what has to be the best piano roll extant.  Followed by a creditable reading of a typical French Baroque chaconne.  See if you can tell how closely they resemble eachother, just structurally, along the lines of a series of dance-based variations.  ...Morton has gotten into lots of trouble, once he died and couldn't defend himself, for allegedly overemphasizing his light-skinnededness.  But even when he said (direct quote ...I think), 'all my peoples were Frenchmens,' he just might have been saying as little as, 'all my peoples were Francophones.'

     

    Followed by this chaconne:

     

     

    I invited SteveX6 last week. He said he is no longer collecting, but may check us out. I told to come on over to just have some FUN!

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    As of right this minute, 34 members...

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    9 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

    It took a real, live, full day off, but I invited these people from the forum that dare not speak its name will remain nameless:

    AnyangMan, Deacon Ray, Darius590 (a published numismatist, and my go-to guy for Sasanian --didn't post a lot), TheRed, FitzNigel, Seth77, Bing, OnlyaPoorOldMan, and Roerbakmix.  ...Asking Roerbakmix to invite, for one, the other folk who post their amazing stuff about sceattas.

    Yep, that's top-heavy for medievalists.  But for this minute, we're thin on the ground.  

    ...A shout: Even though there's now a separate subforum for medieval, whyn't go there?  Otherwise, we're going to end up being only more ghettoized than we were in ...that other ...place.

    LOL, hmmm. Medieval = Half-Way House for Evil People... is that the correct definition?

    😄 😄 😄 

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    No Mintmark Mystery

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    I really like that Denarius @David Atherton. Has such a clean look, and I appreciate the mystery of why all of a sudden, no mint marks. Apprentice boo-boo? “Couldn’t find the tools, but let’s keep going.”?

    I enjoy Tetartemorions, and by nature these denominations have several mysteries, including WHERE they came from...

    UNCERTAIN ASIA

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    ASIA MINOR Uncertain mint AR Tetartemorion Lion - Incuse 5mm 0.13g

    However, creating these incredibly tiny, detailed pieces of history are amazing.

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    Rana Hastin drachm.

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    2 hours ago, Spaniard said:

    @JeandAcre.. .Thanks...

    My main passion and collecting theme are the bronze, I'll use the word staters, from Kashmir which use the Nagari/Sarada script....I'll be boring everyone with a long progressive thread on these quite soon...

    No, not boring.  It is fun to learn other perspectives and other histories.

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    New Video: The Siliqua Denomination

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    Another Siliqua to support your wonderful post and video...

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    ROME
    Arcadius, AD 395-408
    AR Siliqua, 16mm, 1.1g, 12h.
    Obv.: DN ARCADI-VS PF AVG; Pearl diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
    Rev.: VIRTVS RO-MANORVM; Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear

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    Unique coins in your collection

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    ORDER of The DOT

    I found this Bent Bar with TWO sets of two connected dots (one set on each side). Was told this was very rare when there was a discussion on FB about these coins. Kinda lucked into this one:

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    India Gandahara
    AR Bent Bar
    early long type
    11.3g
    650-600 BCE

    Comment: RARE two dots - however, also have the two dots on BOTH sides and is considered VERY RARE

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    Unique coins in your collection

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    4 minutes ago, AncientNumis said:

    Super fun coins! Love your fractional sigloi.
    I think mine is the same diameter and shape as a regular siglos, just that it's super porous. I'm still not completely sure how it happens to that extent, but I've been told it's probably just something to do with a lower silver purity and the production of them?

    I have heard that same thought... low silver content, porosity, etc. to make a low weight denom.

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