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"Countrymen" as in people from my country? (sorry, you know English is not my native language). If this is what you meant - no idea. This hobby is not very popular here (not that I complain). I have nothing against the guy and I've had my share of questions. And I will in the future.. But I am not sure if he's trolling or serious. One of his threads made me scratch my head. Badly. He posted a classic "ID Help". He identified it himself (to be honest, I was too bored and I am sure others were too). And suddenly... "this is a rare and beautiful coin in very good condition. Thank you in advance if you send me congratulations and admiration for this excellent coin." When another member (who is here also) pointed that this is an odd statement (very true) than bang, the voice of ration emerged "this statement is quite normal, everyone here is very congratulations on good coins when people get them. such as huge congratulations. and I will be pleased as a coin collector. And that's fair and good. " ...

I knew about this (excellent) denomination table but I know it's very difficult to establish the denomination in these cases. I prefer to call it "very small coin that might be lost for good if dropped on the carpet".

@DANTE and @Alegandron - mine is smaller! (and of course I mean the lion/quail coin!) My variation (attributed by the house as Miletos but I know things are not 100% clear and it could be a Mylasa) is 5 mm (so a little larger) but ...0.08 g. I thought the auction house made a mistake. Nope, checked it on my scale. Weight is correct. Checked in on another one. This is one of my favorite coins.

I intend to keep posting there. Usually I avoid non-numismatic discussions and just ignore trolls. I learned almost everything I know from there. If not directly, when I was a total beginner I found out websites and various resources I wasn't aware of. Plus great people (I am glad most of them are here too. And I can't leave the other place just yet. The main reason is that certain member who has his great "ID help" topics. And after identification that traditional question "Rare?". One cannot live without that.

Mine is a common coin that I wanted a lot but it kept eluded me in auctions. I wanted an average condition with a decent price but prices kept going up and I was not comfortable with those levels. Not a fortune, but I just don't like paying 100 EUR for a coin that should normally be 50. This is not a fantastic example, but I liked it. Reverse shows a Dacian soldier wearing peaked cap (some theories say it is a Dacian woman) and also shows the Dacian traditional weapon - the falx. I live in the territory that was once Dacia so these coins are interesting for me.

Congratulations for the coin, Jeremy. Adding a Tranquilina imperial example is a next to impossible goal for 99.99% of the collectors, so a nice provincial (with an elegant reverse) is an excellent addition. Here is my only example of a coin with the Three Graces reverse. Corroded but not bad at all in hand, plus a gigantic 37 mm and 26 grams coin. CILICIA, Tarsus. Maximinus I. 235-238 AD. AE Hexassarion Obv: ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜƐΙΝΟϹ Π Π, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear / Rev: ΤΑΡϹΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ Α Μ Κ Γ Β, the three Graces standing facing with arms around each other, one head l., the others head r., each holding flower. RPC VI, 7113 (temporary); SNG Levante 1096, BMC 233–4

Countermarks are indeed cool. Here is my Otho from Antioch with an Athena countermark. Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Antiochia ad Orontem. Otho. A.D. 69. Æ 14.97gr IMP M OTHO CAE(S) AVG (clockwise), laureate head of Otho, r. / S C, inscription in a laurel wreath of eight leaves. Countermarked - Howgego 245 - Athena facing right with shield and spear RPC I 4318, BMC 207, 209–11, McAlee 321c

Here is a guitar shaped tetartemorion IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. AR Tetartemorion. Head of griffin left / Incuse punch. Cf. SNG Kayhan 514–6 (hemidrachms) and 1428 (diobol). It is possible that this issue may belong to Abdera or Teos, both of which also issued early silver coins with griffins on the obverse. 0,18 g, 7 mm

Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Macrinus AD 217-218. Bronze Æ 27 mm, 13,60 g IMP C M OP S-EVE MACRINO-S AVG, laureate head of Macrinus right / ROMAE above, FEL in exergue, she-wolf standing right, head turned to look back at the suckling twins, Romulus and Remus. Cf. SNG Hunterian 3218 (obv. legend); SNG Righetti 2121; SNG Copenhagen 369; BMC 98. Next - she wolf and twins but not from 4th century.

Unfortunately I don't have a "true" Greek tetradrachm in my collection - when I say true, I mean ones with artistic, complicated design. That one from Sicily under Gelon is fantastic, @Ryro. Congratulations. If you decide it's too ugly for your collection, I can help you and would accept it. But I am also amazed by others in this thread ( @Curtisimo, that Halikarnassus .......) Here are the ones with this denonimation in my collection - the one I like the most is this cistophoric - I always wanted a coin of this type. Lydia. Tralleis circa 133 BC. Cistophoric Tetradrachm AR 26 mm, 11,75 g Magistrate Time. Cista mystica with serpent, within ivy wreath. / TΡAΛ to left of bowcase between two coiled serpents, TIME above, cult image of Artemis Anaitis standing front in right field. BMC 31-32; SNG von Aulock 8287; SNG Cop 661; Paris 2700-2701; SNG Leipzig 1269; Mionnet IV, 1026; Pinder 160; Whittall sale 1325b; GRPC Lydia S470 Now some provincial tetradrachms. This is the first I acquired. Trebonianus Gallus, Antioch. One from Alexandria with a pleasant design and some surface issues that I can ignore without problems Another one from Alexandria with a beautiful toning. Egypt, Alexandria, Maximianus (286-305) Obv: A K MA OVA MAΞIMIANOC CEB; laureate draped and cuirassed bust right / Rev: Homonoia (Concordia) standing left, raising right hand and holding double cornucopiae L - Γ (= yr. 3 = A.D. 287/8). 20 mm, 7,20 g Milne 4855v; Curtis 2091; Emmett 4141. And my latest one, probably the best. Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Trajan Decius AD 249-251. Billon-Tetradrachm 26 mm, 12,18 g ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΜƐ ΚΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔƐΚΙΟϹ ϹƐΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, r., seen from rear; below bust: ••••• / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ƐΞΟΥϹΙΑϹ, S C, eagle standing on palm, l., spreading wings, holding wreath in beak Group 3, officina 5 RPC IX, 1745, Prieur 584 (15), McAlee 1126e

Here is one with black patina that will not put yours to shame, but it is an interesting coin. Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus 54 BC. Rome Denarius AR 20 mm, 2,74 g [LIBERTAS], bust of Libertas to right / Consul L. Junius Brutus, between two lictors, preceded by accensus, all walking to left; [BRVTVS] in exergue. Crawford 433/1; BMCRR Rome 3862; RSC Junia 31. @Michael Stolthad a very interesting point - if it's not the core of a fourre = caused by the low weight of the coin (indeed I couldn't find an example with a similar weight). But checking the coin in hand, it looks like silver, with dark toning and quite thin. I am a little confused.

Ladies' asses are so cool! I could keep it like this a little more, already deleted some philosophical stuff I was writing but I do not want to get banned from this forum. Both coins are excellent - I love the details (I have rarely seen this level of preservation on 3rd century coins, plus the engravers were skilled). I only have 3 asses with empresses portraits - 2 from Diva Faustina 1 and 1 from Herennia Etruscilla. DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA , bust of Faustina I, veiled, right AETERNITAS S C , Providentia, draped, standing left, holding globe on extended right hand and vertical sceptre in left RIC 1163ab Second is one I got in a lot. Quite beat but the portrait is good. RIC III Antoninus Pius 1173a (as) DIVA FAVSTINA , bust of Faustina I, draped, right, hair elaborately waved and coiled in bands across head and drawn up at back and piled in a round coil on top. AVGVSTA S C , Ceres, draped, standing, front, head left, holding short lighted torch, transverse, raised in right hand and sceptre, vertical, at side, in left My Herennia Etruscilla has surface issues, but I was happy for getting it with a price of 10 EUR. And since I am trying achieve my goal of 1 coin/emperor or empress, getting just silver coins can be boring, so it was a good addition. Herennia Etruscilla AD 249-251. Rome As Æ 26 mm, 8,79 g Date Range: AD 249 - AD 251 HERENNIA ETRVSCILLA AVG, bust of Herennia Etruscilla, diademed, draped, right / PVDICITIA AVG S C, Pudicitia, draped, veiled, seated left, drawing veil with right hand, holding sceptre in left hand RIC IV Trajan Decius 136c

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus 88 BC. Rome Quinarius AR 14 mm., 1,65 g. Laureate head of Jupiter r. Victory r. crowning trophy; in exergue, CN LENT Crawford 345/2, RSC I Cornelia 51a (ill.), BMCRR 2443-2444, Sear RCV I 255 (ill.), Sydenham 703, RBW Collection 1313 Next - Jupiter on obverse

You know this is not my area, @Ryro, but I wanted an example in the album to be representative for the type. You helped me in clarifying the attribution. Philip III Arrhidaeus Uncertain mint in Western Asia Minor. (323-317 BCE)/ Or Antigonus Gonatas (288-277 BCE) Bronze Æ Half-bronze unit, (PB, 16) No. v19-0059 16mm, 12 hours. 4.11g. No. 110 in the reference books: Cop.- - Price 2803 pl. 110 Obverse, Three-quarter-front head (Herakles?) to the right placed in the center of a Macedonian shield. Reverse, Macedonian helmet; in the field on the right, a caduceus; monogram in the left field.

Here is my first ever Domitian coin, from Sestos Similar design on a Hadrian semis/quadrans

Good, good! I only have a posthumous denarius and I am sure you have an example or more in your collection. writing down the name of the auction house.

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I guess it's time for me to add a coin to the new forum. Due to some recent bad events plus being generally busy I didn't have the time to check it properly. Not a fabulous coin - but exactly the type of coin that ticks many boxes for me. A pleasant design and with interesting symbolism, related to mythology and affordable. Would have, of course, preferred a slightly better condition, but with the prices nowadays you can never know. I have seen way too often F coins going for decent prices (and usually I get them =)) ) and the same coin, a liiiiiiitle better, F+, going for prices I stop considering a good deal. But this is another topic. M. Herennius. 108-107 BC. Rome . Denarius AR 18 mm, 3,77 g PIETAS, head of Pietas r., wearing diadem; hair twisted around lower part of diadem; single drop earring; beaded necklace; tendrils falling down the back of her neck / M·HERENNI, nude male figure bearing a man on his shoulder, r. (one of the Catanaean brothers, Amphinomus, carrying his father Nisos on his shoulder); M.HERENNI downwards l.; control mark on r.; dot border RRC 308/1b; Herennia 1a; B.M.C, 1258-85; Syd. 567a Amphinomus or Aeneas? the best interpretation of the reverse I found is this There are two possible interpretations of this reverse design, each with merit. The first is that the moneyer M. Herennius, who perhaps had a connection with Sicily, chose to illustrate a local example of Piety: the brothers Amphinomus and Anapias, who are supposed to have saved their parents from an eruption of Mt Etna by carrying them from danger on their shoulders. The second interpretation reaches back to the mythological founding of Rome; Aeneas, during the fall of Troy, carried his father Anchises from the burning ruins of the city. Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome, through their descendence from him, made Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people. Long before Virgil makes reference to ‘pious Aeneas’ in his Aeneid, the Roman concept of piety was threefold; duty to the gods, to one’s homeland and to one’s family, which neatly links the reverse type with the obverse on this coin. Overall, a coin I wanted a lot and I consider it a good addition. If you feel appropriate, please post coins with mythological scenes.

Thank you @Restitutor I will be also sticking around.

I also found out about this new forum thanks to @Ryro And seeing again this beautiful selection is not a bad way to start!