lordmarcovan

At least with a US Peace dollar, nobody will be waving hammers and demanding you bust it out of the plastic! 😉 It's a nice one. (I too had difficulty photographing this one through the plastic.)

PS- welcome to the forums.

I'm not qualified to assess authenticity, though I will say that nothing looks blatantly wrong to me.

May I suggest a “Twelve Caesars” subgroup under Roman Imperial? I’d love to see everyone’s 12C collections.

The owl quadrans and Nero contorniate are what caught my eye!

I voted for H.M. #1, #3, and #2. Especially #2. Congrats on a fine year!

Your #1 and #2 are what I’d pick as #1 and #2 myself. The Antony and Octavia cistophorus is stunning, and combines both historic appeal and eye appeal. And large size, to boot. Hard to top that! #5 and #8 also caught my eye, though I admired everything.

#4 (those conjoined busts- awesome) #5 (I can see why that one is a crowd pleaser!)

I have to agree.

Does it mean I’m shallow that the Brazilian gold piece is what enchanted me the most? Like the Washington medal, too. And the rest is great, of course.

Really fascinating array of so-called “Dark Age” material. This sceat in your honorable mentions really caught my eye. All those swirling beasties and the rosettes! Love it. It really has the look I like for something from this era. PS- the Series QIII sceat you opened with is also very cool. I love the mysterious birds and beasts in the early Anglo-Saxon art. Also: I found it interesting to see some Scandinavian bracteates. I am much more familiar with the German ones.

Then again… Julius. Caesar. aureus. WOW.

Ditto! 😄

Agreed!

Oh, boy, OH BOY! The @AncientJoe list! My reaction is exactly what I expected it to be, upon clicking in. I'd cheerfully trade my Top Ten for your Top Five, any day! 😉 We definitely have the "quality versus quantity" thing, here. 'Tis good to see you around. Don't be a stranger. I hope to see one of the @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix interviews with you, someday.

Honorable mention: This 1702 "Wildman" replaces another one of the same date which I purchased raw at the 2023 FUN show in January. The raw coin later graded "UNC details/cleaned" at NGC, so I sold it and bought this one instead. I'd rather have a straight-graded AU55 than a problem-notated UNC details coin. But both were nice. (That this second coin came in a pedigree holder is a small bonus.) German States (Brunswick-Lüneberg-Calenberg-Hannover): 1702 silver 24-mariengroschen, "Wildman" type

Eyecandy all around, but the one that stood out for me was the Nero tetradrachm with the ship reverse. I've wanted one of those for some time now, and yours has the ship nicely centered and fully on the flan, with details in the sail and dolphins playing in the waves! I love it. Honorable mention: I also was very impressed by the Hadrian with the snake biga and the lovely contrasting grey tone.

That is something I will almost NEVER hear from you! Usually I'm just happy just to have one of the same types as you (doesn't happen very often). To hear you say one of mine is actually better than one of yours is something I consider high praise indeed. It's probably the only time that will happen.

The Syracusan tetradrachms are justifiably high on the list and I could not fail to be impressed by them. However, since the poll only allowed one option, I voted for the Agrippina Senior sestertius because I was mesmerized by the portrait. It's ALL good stuff.

I'm envious of the Vitellius since I still lack him in my Twelve Caesars set (that's a 2024 resolution). Like the Nero tet, the Trajans, and the Septimius Severus with Dea Caelestis.

Was I supposed to add a poll? Hm. Forgot, and don't know how anyway. Besides, I'd rather read text replies than see bare data in a poll.

Here are my favorite ten of the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern coins I purchased in 2023. (One or two might have been late-2022 purchases- I've been lax in my recordkeeping.) Greece (Sicily, Syracuse): ca. 460-450 BC silver litra of the Second Democracy (Currently at NGC: photographed, but still awaiting grading.) Greece (Attica): ca. 440-404 BC silver "Owl" tetradrachm of Athens Greece (Carian Islands, Rhodes): ca. 88-84 BC silver drachm Roman Empire: ca. 41-54 AD bronze sestertius of Claudius Roman Empire: 69 AD silver denarius of Otho (Just graded by NGC: Fine; Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5) Roman Empire: ca. 80-81 AD silver denarius of Domitian as Caesar under Titus (Just graded by NGC: Ch XF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5) Roman Empire: ca. 80 AD gold aureus of Titus, struck for the opening of the Colosseum German States (Augsburg): ca. 1184-1202 silver bracteate of Bishop Udalschalk of Eschenlohe German States (Frankfurt): 1495 goldgulden of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor German States (Saxony, Albertine): 1548 silver thaler of Maurice, Elector of Saxony