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    Ancients from Bulgaria

    in Greek

    Posted

    Right. Everything seems to be in focus (background, brush bristles..very nice bristles by the way)...but not the coins 😄

    So...very hard to say. Taking pictures one coin at a time could help so the camera doesn't get any background to focus on. 

    Try again!! Does take practice.

    Cheers,

    Steve

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    Large world coppers...

    in World Coins

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    2 hours ago, Oldhoopster said:

    A whole herd of 5 Kopeks.  I have about twenty+ 2x2 boxes and it's always easy to find the box with the Russian coins due to the weight 

    They are beasts! I have a bunch of them in a double width red box, and I can barely lift it 😄

    The naughty coinage from Thassos

    in Greek

    Posted

    Here's one from the cover of the Spring 1988 Monetarium Fixed Price List. Looking at the coins in this thread, I notice that the nymph's raised hand is sometimes quite stylized (like this one) and sometimes far more realistic.  I don't own any examples, sadly.

     

    image.thumb.jpeg.09142607884431727a40f6ae662f6595.jpeg

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    Holy Hippo!

    in Roman Empire

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    2 hours ago, ominus1 said:

    ...one cant have too many hippos...

    Very true. 

    And then, of course, there was Hipponion in Calabria (later Vibo Valentia). However, I'm pretty sure there were no hippos there, back in the day or even now 😄. Always liked the name though.

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    The Cabinet - Ancient & World Coin Marketplace

    in Announcements

    Posted · Edited by rNumis
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    23 minutes ago, Severus Alexander said:

    Suggestion: a free stuff/giveaways category. (Anybody want my run of old Celators??)

    Good idea. I also have some auction catalogs covering antiquities and coins that I'd happily give away for the price of the postage, just to help out my sagging bookshelves 😄. If not, I can always just post them here with the word FREE in the title.

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    New RR added

    in Roman Republic

    Posted

    21 hours ago, kapphnwn said:

    As many of you know I have been hunting through the RNumis site (cannot recommend this site enough)   looking for "hidden pedigrees." I was looking at the Adolph Cahn & Adolph Hess Auction 83 which was held on July 17 1933 in Frankfurt am Main  I had already found one other hidden pedigree in this auction and then I stumbled on this image...( Ernst Justus Haeberlin)

    The only pedigree I had on my coin up to then was the auction that i had purchased it from back in 2018. Going through these on line auction cats reminds me about someone's comments on the game of Golf. You can have a perfectly frustrating day and then you get that one perfect drive and all is forgotten , I had two perfect drives this day.

    Thank you for the recommendation!

    Super happy the rnumis links to the online auction catalogs helped you locate some hidden provenances, especially a Haeberlin! That's awesome. One day if the provenance part of my website expands to Roman, I hope you'll be able to find these connections much more easily. Currently, you still have to look for Roman coins through a bunch of (online) catalogs. Better than nothing, but could be easier. One day!

    Thanks again and happy hunting!

    Steve

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    Greek coins from Magna Graecia

    in Greek

    Posted · Edited by rNumis
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    Hi @antwerpen2306 That's really very nice! I've always wanted one of these.

     

    In my ongoing sweep through the earlier 20th C auctions, I've found 22 plated examples of coins from Phistelia so far. You can see them here:

    Phistelia at rNumis

    Over half of those 22 are the much heavier didrachms, I suppose because they sell for much bigger $, and back then it would have been an easier decision to photograph them.

     

    Greek coins from Magna Graecia

    in Greek

    Posted

    This is hefty coin that I got last year from Roma. Quite a contrast to the tiny Eryx litra I showed earlier.

    APULIA | Luceria - Cast Quincunx

    217-212 BC
    Æ 42.32g
    HGC 601 (S), Vecchi 2013 345
    ex Roma Numismatics E-Sale 91 (December 2021), lot 60

    Apulia_Quincunx.thumb.jpg.8a2b0a57346f4a64a6251b96a1157fd7.jpg

     

    (sorry again for the bad image...I'll retake all these at some point)

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    Numismatic Literature: #1 Book for Beginners? (Roman Imperial)

    in Numismatic Literature

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    On 6/7/2022 at 8:56 PM, akeady said:

    The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage is also good, though larger and more expensive:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handbook-Greek-Coinage-Handbooks/dp/0199372187/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EU8L8KE4KWF&keywords=Oxford+Handbook+of+Greek+and+Roman+coinage&qid=1654649358&sprefix=oxford+handbook+of+greek+and+roman+coinage%2Caps%2C40&sr=8-1

    @akeady Thanks for the recommendation Aidan - just ordered it from Amazon. It's $50 for the new softcover...not exactly cheap, but for a 600+ page collection of diverse articles by some well known authors, it seems not exactly expensive either 😄.

    From the description: "...The subsequent thirty-two chapters, all written by an international group of distinguished scholars, cover a vast geography and chronology, beginning with the first evidence of coins in Western Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE and continuing up to the transformation of coinage at the end of the Roman Empire. "

    Looking forward to reading it!

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    Bank Leu auction catalogs are online at BnF/gallica

    in Numismatic Literature

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    BnF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) is continuing its project of scanning numismatic auction catalogs and making them available online at their gallica website.

    Recently they've turned their attention to the incredible series of Bank Leu sales. Not all are there yet, but many are, and more have appeared just recently.  I'm creating links to the gallica online catalogs over at rNumis, as I see them being added, and you can find the Leu sales here:

    https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=LEU

    In addition to providing a great online resource, they also allow the catalogs to be downloaded, which is great if you want to build your own digital numismatic library.

     

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    Preferred Media?

    in General

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    Numisforums - great start! Enjoying it here so far. Will be even better if we get a Numismatic Literature sub going (@Restitutor 🙂)

    CoinTalk -Was never able to join despite months of trying last year - always the same "server error, try again later". Admins never responded to my help requests. Gave up.

    Forvm - joined last year. Has its good and bad points, like anywhere. I was initially active but less so now. There are some very good people there and the expertise level is excellent, but for whatever reason it's quieter than perhaps it should be (or used to be?). Sometimes there's a really interesting thread, but generally I find there's too much emphasis on fake detection. They're very good at it and I know it's important, but often it seems every other conversation is about fakes. Also, the site interface is now quite old and a bit fragile. However, it is being generously and freely provided by the dealer-owner so I shouldn't really criticize it too much.

    Facebook - joined a couple of groups to test the waters but didn't really go very far with it. Inactive. 

    Reddit/Twitter/Instagram - never have, and likely never will.

    Discord - never even heard of it

     

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    Greek coins from Magna Graecia

    in Greek

    Posted

    This is my Litra from Eryx. Tiny little thing - 0.63g. Quite scarce, and how can you not like those Sicilian crabs?!

     image.thumb.jpeg.4ba605ebea86ebba7828341b2bddd40a.jpeg

     

    (sorry for the poor image...I really need to work on a better photography setup 🙂).

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    rNumis projects

    in General

    Posted

    Thank you, Joe! I'm glad you're finding it useful. Any suggestions, please let me know here, any time. 

    You're definitely not blind. The rNumis Provenance Databases do cover just Italy/Sicily at present, and I'm nowhere near done with those. While I'm up to 8000+ records (enough where a collector already uncovered some unknown provenances from ~100 years ago), there are many, many more auctions with Italy/Sicily lots still to be processed. 

    The project is mostly just me working spare time, though I'm grateful to have had some help recently with image extraction for a few old auctions. Getting even Italy/Sicily close to completion is going to take another 2-3 years if it remains just me. I'd love to extend the concept to other regions, Roman Emperors...anything really, but haven't decided yet on the best way to do that, and I'd almost certainly need help. Still thinking about it all and these conversations and feedback are very helpful.

    Steve

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