UkrainiiVityaz

I've bought some of my personal favourite ancients from women dealers - Dr Martina Dieterle sold me this one:

This coin is a hemi litron from ca. 405-395 BCE. Curiously this is a cast piece, and the casting spur was never removed from the coin, making for a very dramatically formed coin which probably did not circulate for long, but may have been saved as a curiousity or perhaps never circulated at all. This piece has a portrait of Arethusa on the obverse and a dolphin and clam shell on the reverse.

I also collect paper money, and purchase from Kate Gibson and Pam West in the UK.

I've tried to interest my daughters in collecting, two of them could care less, and then there is my youngest who loves money in all it's forms and has a decent collection including some early Asian stuff that blows me away!  Even when she was a baby she was hauling around bags of coins.

England Henry III(1216-1272) AR penny S~1363iiib, minted in Lincoln by Ion on Lincole - curiously the obverse of the coin stuck to the die and it got a second striking for the reverse - my oldest double struck Lincoln penny!

Y B normal, y not go full on cruciform like this Katangan cross money from the late 19th century?

Even the Yapese had round "coins" enormous stone disks that once carved were never moved.

Someone who had that 5FF obviously didn't care much for Boney boy!

I have a 20FF in gold from ca. 1811 or 1812 somewhere, but I don't think I bothered to image it.

42 minutes ago, robinjojo said:

On the other hand, the facing portraits coins, especially the late ones, really convey the king's age and decline.

But not for HVII, but rather for HVIII.

3 hours ago, DonnaML said:

Congratulations! I had several lots on my watch list but ended up not bidding on anything. I wanted to save my available funds for bidding on two Roman Republican coins in today's Roma Numismatics auction. I was fortunate to be the winning bidder on both, and will post them after they arrive. I also won several Napoleonic-era medals in yesterday's Noonans auction.

I was watching the Noonan's auction for ancients and like a bidiot I stepped away for a moment when the lot I was interested in came up for bid and I missed out.

Holding out for Ephesian coins in later auctions.

I rather liked the idea of a low key "whisky war" vs the current boring settlement.

A farthing token from Glasgow Scotland dated 1841 - notice the not oft depicted on a monetary instrument - breastfeeding.  The Dr's office offered wet nurse services.

I am not Canadian, but I know "Oh Canada" - even the new version because hockey is hands down my favourite sport.  Real sports have bad boy boxes.

An ancient hockey puck in bronze, AE46 drachm from Ptolemy III of Egypt.

OHL playoffs are just wrapping up with Windsor and Hamilton playing tonight for the championship.

Sorry to hear of your loss.  Here is my closest bird:

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This is my kitty Seryozha Aleksandrov Yuriy Gagarin Aleksandr Pushkin 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016.  My then fiance found him as a stray who had his left rear paw amputated and dumped on a roadway.  When my fiance called me from work about him I made her promise that we would take him to the animal shelter - because I didn't want a cat.  Somehow he never made it to the shelter - he ended up getting the rest of his paw amputated because of risk of infection.  For a three legged kitty he actually got around quite well.  He actually became an integral part of our lives by bossing us around, griping a lot - he had a very foul mouth!  He also outlived other pets that had come along, three of them no less and put up with all my kids.

His legacy lives on.  I will only adopt black cats now and have four of them.  My oldest, Alyosha Pushkin was trained by Seryozha in the ways of manipulating humans.

My largest monetary instruments(not coin) Sweden 1 Daler 1716 Karl XII, 2 Daler 1728 Frederick, and 4 Daler 1731 Frederick.  The 2 daler weighs over 2 kilogrammes.

AE46 Drachm of Ptolemy III of Egypt - I believe this is the largest "coin" as commonly understood to be that I own.  Weighs about 60 grammes.

The Birmingham threepence is a fine example of Matthew Boulton's mint striking large diameter and thick bronze pieces, this one hefts in at 2.5 ounces and is perhaps the largest monetary instrument struck for actual circulation in Britain.  Patterns exist of the 6d, weighing 5 ounces - but I haven't come across one yet.

Please do not laugh, this poor bugger coin very nearly was condemned for an eternity to a miserable landfill:

 I had gone to my credit union to cash out coins that were leftover from coin roll hunting.  I always check the trash can next to the coin machine because I have found older coins, even silver and tokens in the trash!  About a year ago I found this lump of metal in the trash can - along with several rotted out zinc cents.

It is from a Roman colony of "Carmo" in Spain, ca. 100 BC and has the head of a male on the obverse and the legend CARMO and two sheafs of wheat.

Very fascinating, thank you for sharing.  My earliest British Isle coins are from 9th century Northumbria, AE sceattas.

Of course @DonnaML I could figure you would post stuff that I would lust for owning.  I commend your having amazingly good tastes in coins, medals, art and artefacts.

I like the coinage of Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands, so this medal was also a must have.

Queen Wilhelmina was only a young girl when she was thrust into the monarchy, she would rule deep into the 20th century when she abdicated in favour of her daughter Queen Juliana in 1948.  Just before the Euro was introduced it was still possible to find occasional Wilhelmina coins in circulation.

I bought this in China a few years ago, this thread reminded me of being there in a park in Nanchang and watching older gentlemen with large brushes practicing calligraphy using water on the granite sidewalk.  It was fascinating to watch because of the concentration and skill involved - but I sensed it was also a source of relaxation.  I thought it interesting because I know only Greek, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets and only can do calligraphy in Cyrillic and Latin.  I write out notes to myself at work in Cyrillic/Ukrainian and people think maybe it is Arabic!

My only owl, purchased ca. 2004 or so - notice cut at owl's right eye - like a test cut.  When I purchased this then it was by a considerable sum the most expensive coin I had purchased - must have been fortunate because this purchase eclipsed in expense many times the over.

The Vikings did not stop being Vikings, but they did stop raiding monasteries churches etc - which did much to elevate their position in the eyes of those recording history - the ecclesiastical scribes formed opinion that even modern day scholars sometimes have difficulty discerning.

Sometime I am going to dig out a mini hoard of cut halfpennies and farthings that date from as late as the mid 13th century ie 1250AD - it is a broad spectrum of what was circulating in N. England at that time - mostly English of course, but an occasional Scot and even a Dane.  I think circulation patterns of coins in those times is quite fascinating and makes you appreciate the effort that went into trading when coins and goods came from and went to so far - at best at only a few kilometres per day with the primitive transport horses and teams.

Nothing wrong with being a junk bin diver.  I still coin roll hunt - I like silver mining for halves etc.

Vikings got around, their coins are still found in Ukraine and of course a lot of their DNA stayed on accounting for all the blue eyed blondes.

They would have gotten a better reputation if they were "civilised" Christians and didn't raid monasteries and churches and stuck to just sacking the regular populations like the "Christians" did.