LONGINUS

Great post, @Alegandron Here’s my Alexander I Balas. I was preparing to post some coins and exonumia of my all time favorite usurper — Napoleon Bonaparte but since he’s not ancient — I’ll do that in the World Forum a little later. — LONGINUS aka Deacon Ray

@NathanB, I must confess that I am Deacon Ray. I always enjoy the historical names that members select for their avatars, so I chose “Longinus” when I signed up for ”NVMIS FORVMS.” Longinus is a Roman soldier who was present at the Crucifixion of Jesus. He’s not named in but a few translations. Also, many thanks for your kind words. At the beginning of June I was ready to resume my ancient coin collecting pursuits after a five month educational sabbatical. When I visited the old site, it was a ghost town but before too long, I started receiving emails from members inviting me to this great new site.

Thanks for posting your excellent coin @thenickelguy I have one attributed to the Indo-Greeks and a map showing the general region in relation to the Indian Subcontinent.

Great coin , @thenickelguy This type has always been one of my favorites — most likely because it was among my first Seleucid coins. Here are a few serrated and a few animals.

Great helmets and shields!

I’ll say 🤔 but you’ve done some excellent work.

That is hilarious! Thanks for the link. I’ve seen “The Celator” referenced many times. It was a bit before my time though. I’ve only been into ancient coins since 2016. It looks like a great magazine.

My Judaean collection in order of David Hendin classification numbers. Many of these have been upgraded. This is a subset of Judaean coins that were struck and circulated during the lifetime of Jesus. Feel free to post your latest upgrades, coin trays (real or virtual) or subsets of larger collections.

Fundaments are Fundamental.

Great topic. Yes, in fact that happened to me after I read this post. I was aware that I had the Five Good Emperors in AR Denarii but I was a bit surprised to discover that I have them in Seleucus & Pieria bronze also.

Thank you for a great post, JayAg47, I love reading the comments about how forum members apply various strategies acquiring coins. I collected Hendin numbers I‘d thumb through David’s Hendin’s ”Guide to Biblical Coins Fifth Edition” using it like a shopping catalog — ”I want one of those and I‘m gonna‘ get one of those, and so on.) Ya'akov Meshorer’s ”Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Part 6: Palestine-South Arabia” is excellent also. I collected exclusively Judaean coins until eventually branching out to Roman, Seleukid, Nabataean, and Indo-Skythian. A pie is worth a thousand words This chart shows a guesstimate breakdown of my collection.

Here is my most recent owl. Owls are a hoot.

Amazing and beautiful objets d’art, DonnaML !

Thank you, thenickelguy — until I read your post, I never considered that there were coins featuring cornucopias being emptied. I was even more delighted to discover that I own such a coin.

Great to see you posting on the new forum, @GregH! — LONGINUS aka Deacon Ray

Thank you for your kind words. I’ve started featuring my Roman denarii this way and it‘s fun. I‘ve got more work to do.

Great post, jfp7375

Great post featuring the notorious and complex Emperor Nero!

Thank you for an interesting post, robinjojo I’m primarily a collector of Judaean coins but I have a secondary passion which is collecting historic French military medals. I’m not French but I have become a serious Francophile after visiting the Musée de l'Armée in Paris and touring many of the French battlefields and military cemeteries. Anyway, here is one of my favorite French military medals. I think the portrait of Marianne, Goddess of Liberty is beautiful and the medal has an elegant Art Nouveau quality.

Feel free to post your lillies, flowers, grapes, amphorae or anything else related.

In 2008 I was thumbing through a Biblical Archeology magazine at Barnes and Noble. I noticed an ad in the back of the magazine for boxed collections of coins from the Holy Land, guaranteed authentic. They were being offered by the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom. I decided that I had to have one so I went ahead and ordered it. I thought about it for a while and decided that I needed more than one so I ordered two more. I began searching the internet for similar Bible related boxed coin sets. Long story short my collection was born. Then I found VCoins and I was in Heaven.

Greetings, @Troyden No, they‘re fakes. Pretty bad ones at that. 👎👎👎

Yes — but it was a soft sell. I told him about the great new forum and I gave him the link. He replied that he’s working 95 hour weeks. He’s thinking about it.

Ancient coins in a block of lucite — The Horror 🤢 (Thank the ”Almighty” they are cheap fakes.) I confess that I‘ve thought about doing this with real ancients before I came to my senses. I just noticed the really bad Herod the Great is upside down.

Great to see you here and posting. Seeing your name among the members was one of the positive features 👍 that convinced me to join this forum. I’m sorry I can’t advise you other than to say, great looking coin! ⭐⭐⭐ — LONGINUS (aka Deacon Ray)