lordmarcovan

Amazing shots! Thank you! The tulips in particular are stunning.

Very cool! I always wanted to do this. If I did it here, it would really stand out, as we do not have local rocks (our coastal soil is all sand or clay).

Thank you for the detailed commentary! You have quite an impressive array there. The Claudius cistophorus... that razor-sharp Tribute penny... the big Nero tet... the Judaea Capta... wow. Thanks! I do try to go beyond the simple "someone standing there" reverses, sometimes (not that there's anything wrong with those basic personifications). You too have a sharp Tribute Penny. I also like the Nero denarius. Is that Otho a fourree? I'll bet any and all of those really made some detectorist or archaeologist's day when they popped up! Pretty remarkable that they're all British finds. (Or maybe not, on the other hand- Britain's a big place, after all- but I think it's an interesting theme, nonetheless.) Thanks. I'd consider swapping it for your avatar. 😉 I appreciate it. I'm bidding on a pretty nice JC (lifetime, portrait) denarius. If I win, it's gonna cost me four figures. But I knew I wasn't gonna get a lifetime portrait denarius of JC for under 500 bucks, like I did the first time I collected the Twelve Caesars, a decade ago. It was an ugly duckling, but had its redeeming qualities, too...

I have an orange cat who looks very much like yours! Of course we have 14 cats, so the odds of my having one similar to yours were fairly reasonable, anyway... 😆

Your sleeping cats are dreaming of ways to get up on the furniture and scatter all those coins! Bean says he’s up to the task, if they aren’t…

@CPK - urban alligator sightings here are not exactly common- but they’re not entirely unknown, either. Love the lake pic!

Dinner last night was at our favorite little hole-in-the-wall Mexican joint. Very authentic. More than half the clientele (and almost all the staff) are Latino. I had the Molcajete: chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, bell peppers, onions, and some kind of Parmesan-adjacent cheese, served in a smoking, 8,000°F stone bowl. I learned that “molcajete” is not just the name of the dish, but of the stone bowl itself. Molcajetes were the bowl part of the ancient mortars & pestles of Mayan and Aztec origin. Ladymarcovan had the Fried Ice Cream. I got the two cherries.

This guy was seen near our local Waffle House today. Big ‘un! (Not my photo- wife saw it on Facebook. I don’t get the juicy neighborhood news like she does, since I closed my FB account.) Dinner tonight was Shrimp Scampi. The green bits are asparagus.

With the recent addition of Galba, my second Twelve Caesars set is now 75% towards completion. I now need Julius Caesar, Caligula, and Vitellius. https://www.colleconline.com/en/collection-items/21345/coins-ancient-to-romans-imperial-and-republican-twelve-caesars

Another great interview, and a fitting tribute to the late Mr. Cheesman. (*Edited to correct autocorrect’s misspelling of his name as “chessman”.)

It’s here already, though I haven’t retrieved it from UPS yet. Very speedy international shipping!

The resemblance is remarkable!

Just bought this for my growing Twelve Caesars set, which is now 3/4 of the way to completion, with nine emperors down and three to go! It's actually the first time I've done business with Ritter. Boy, they sure use small pictures, huh? Still, it looks pretty nice to me. Roman Empire: ca. 68-69 AD silver denarius of Galba Galba: 68-69 AD, Denarius July 68-January 69, Rome. 3.29 g. RIC 186. Obverse: Laureate head right, IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG. Reverse: DIVA AVGVSTA, Livia holding patera and scepter. Good Very Fine (per Münzhandlung Ritter). Ex-Münzhandlung Ritter GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany (via MA-Shops store), 6 April 2024.

Wow, those in situ photos really raise my pulse rate! 😛

Final results from NGC are now in. Considering the strong money I paid for this coin, I’m rather disappointed in the outcome. Still happy with the photos, though, and I’m happy to see they put it into a prongless Air View holder. The prongs on a standard NGC slab would have swallowed this little coin. I reckon it’s a keeper. I’m so underwater on the purchase that I’d never be able to sell it without taking a really big hit anyway. Besides, it’s a nice coin. https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/6828625-001/NGCAncients/

That would be nice. Thanks!

Definitely a cool type, and irresistible for that nifty juxtaposition of fishing tackle and rare coin! (Just one coin was all they had in stock, apparently.)

Nahhh, more power to ‘em. I would have made an offer, but you snooze, you lose. Would’ve been fun to add a cheap silver cob to my giveaway stash, and that 1943 envelope was cool, but I’m not sweatin’ it.

Somebody else bought it, as it happens. Maybe I tipped them off with the discussion threads about it. The buyer got it for less than $35.

I love the colors and designs on paper notgeld. I have never collected paper money and am unlikely to ever do so, but if I did, German notgeld and US Fractional Currency might be some of the things I delved into first.

Here’s a post from Collectors Universe.

I’m thinking of buying it for my giveaway stash. It’s not terribly expensive. Thanks for the information, y’all. It pretty much echoes what I was told over on Collectors Universe. 1 real from Potosí. On CT, I was told @robinjojo knows something on this subject?

Nope, alas, I sold all the holey gold collection off my hat during leaner times.

Not a bad idea, though as always, there is so much stuff competing for my very limited budget! Finishing my Twelve Caesars set is my top numismatic priority for 2024. I have only owned one solidus, ever. It was this holed Zeno, pedigreed to the Eliasberg Collection. It was the centerpiece of my old "Holey Gold Hat" collection:

Aha. That would explain it.