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Love looking at these great small coins.

My smallest coin is this diobol of Perdicca III, Kingdom of Macedon, 365 - 359 BC, 10mm, .93g. Purchased last year from NAC.

The silver coins of Perdicca (or Perdikkas) III are quite rare. He was the older brother of Phillip II, who became a little more famous! 

My motivation for purchasing this coin was I wanted a coin with a portrait of Herakles in my collection, and being fussy preferred a bearded portrait of good style with a lion scalp headress that looked like a lion. This fit the bill, and whilst not cheap for something so small, was within my means, and much less expensive than what it sold previously 12 or so years ago.

Love those medals, particularly the Tower Bridge one. When I was a child, my mum bought me a jigsaw puzzle of Tower Bridge, because she knew it was my favourite Bridge in the world, and London one of my favourite cities. Still have it and might get it out this weekebd and get my girls to help me put it together again! 

Thanks for sharing and reviving memories of my childhood.

I have a drachm from ancient Gaza in Palestine of all places. Struck c. 450 - 330 BC (a large date range so hard to be precise).

Persian looking fella on the obverse and Bes on the reverse. Bes will have a pretty serious headache with that test cut (which most examples of this rare coin seem to have).

Even though I live in Australia, love to support the superb owls. 

Here's my archaic Athenian tetradrachm I've showed ad nauseam on this site.

They are all beautiful coins. I really like the Octavian & Caligula, however, Tiberius is my favourite of your second five.

1 hour ago, happy_collector said:

That is a really wonderful large-sized coin, @idesofmarch01!! Thanks for sharing. The story of Minotaur and the labyrinth is my most favorite among all Greek myths. I have the following Greek coins that illustrate ancient myths.

 

I really love this coin too. Europa being ravaged by Zeus in the guise of an eagle is wonderful imagery. You should be really proud of this coin.

I remember taking note of that coin when perusing the Triton sale, and thinking........."if only". Beyond my means, but great to see it added to your fabulous collection of Roman coins. A beautiful coin with a great story to tell.

Very sad news indeed. Always enjoyed seeing his coins and learning from his excellent writing. Will be sadly missed on here, and even more so by his family & friends of course. Will be remembered by me for those beautiful coins on that distinctive blue background. 

Congratulations to anyone who had a win!

I haven't bid in CNG auctions for quite a while. There was a Greek coin I was interested in, and it was hammering a couple of increments below my max, so decided to bid. 

Now, I don't know if there's a trick to that slide to bid thingy.......but I was sliding for dear life......but nothing would happen. It could be my phone that's the problem. Anyway, it's not the end if the world and I wasn't hooked on it, but I think it was a decent price. 

On a positive note I saved some money and there's bound to be sonething else turn up I want soon enough.

I enjoyed looking at those photos. I particularly like mosaics, so those were very interesting. Thankyou.

Living in Australia, and especially away from the capital cities, museums aren't a thing unfortunately. Even in the major cities, exhibitions of ancient art are few and far between. Australia's remoteness is an unfortunate barrier for lovers of ancient history.

I voted for 1, 5 & 9. But #5, the Trajan sestertius with the bridge is my favourite. Nice design and a fun coin to research and speculate upon.

Really interesting coins. Like #1 & #3 the best I think, though they all have aspects I like. 

Just had another look, I really like #9 & #7 too. Congratulations on your collection.

On a serious note, I only purchased two coins this year, well down on normal, as more mundane family matters have taken precedence. But I've done more reading and research, and have enjoyed that aspect of the hobby almost as much as the coins. So I hope you keep posting Doug, as this thread has been interesting to me.

On 1/2/2024 at 11:32 PM, Prieure de Sion said:

... i don't like ancient coins 

I love it a...........

Lovely coins, particularly like #'s 1 & 5, but my absolute favourite is your Hannibal half shekel. A wonderful example and a coin I would love to own.

Wow, as a collector of Ancient Greek coins, I appreciate every single one of those. 

I tend to arrange my coins in the order of which I like most (be it beauty, historical significance, rarity, mint or a combination of all those). 

I can honestly say your Syracuse dekadrachm and Carthage trihemistater would comfortably sit at number one in my tray. I will never own coins to match those. The Gela didrachm would go close too, as would the Syracuse 100 litrai.

Congratulations on these incredible additions yo your collection.

I think number 1 and number 10 are my favourites. 10 for the beauty & 1 for the brawn.

Your number one coin is stunning. I also have a coin from the Prowe collection, so appreciate that pedigree, though mine is Greek.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter. I have two, hoping my youngest shares my passion for coins. My elder daughter prefers make-up, shoes & clothes!

Of your coins, they are all interesting, but I particularly like #6.

All excellent, however my favourite is undoubtedly the coin of Julius Caesar. Commodus as Hercules my second pick. 

I like the coins but really like the book too. I get a lot of enjoyment out of my rare and old coin books. 

As for the coins, I like #1. I've locked at it a few times now, it's very fascinating.

Excellent coins, I like them all. As someone who is follically challenged, I vote for Charles the Bald! Though I do love your Gratian Solidus.

"As always, comments are welcome, and, also as always, my apologies for the length of some of the footnotes. Please feel free to ignore them and just look at the coins!"

This is what  I used to do, but I've tried reading and learning more about Roman coins this year, so appreciate your efforts. My favourite of this lot is the coin with the Temple of Jupiter. Coins showing actual ancient buildings are fantastic. #2 is also a fascinating coin and write up.

I've learnt a lot about Roman coins this year from the likes of yourself and others. I'm usually focused just on Greek coins. So I thankyou for that. 

I have to say #2 is my favourite to look at, but if I could own two coins, they would be #1 & #6. If I was to collect Roman, think I'd go with an architecture themed collection. A coin with the Colloseum on it, priceless.

Magnificent coins. I don't collect Roman, but know top quality when I see it. All 10 are great, but my favourites are currently 1, 2, 3, 10 & 9; in that order. Order subject to change as they are all beautiful!

Well done on these excellent additions to your collection.