AncientJoe

That's a remarkable price for a Slavey but it is a very artistic type... I hope someone wasn't thinking they bought an original for a steal. Here's my original (same reverse but under Caracalla) which is hands-down one of my favorite coins:

Well I was going to accomplish something non-coin related today but there goes those plans! Thank you for the links/indexing!

Syracuse used coinage as a means of showing their strength, producing some of the most influential and beautiful coins in history. Here's just a pair from Syracuse to avoid over-loading the thread: Kimon dekadrachm (unsigned, but I significantly prefer this style over the signed Kimon dies): SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I, 405-367 BC. Dekadrachm (Silver, 37mm, 43.51 g 7), unsigned but by Kimon, c. 404-400. Quadriga galloping to left, driven by a female charioteer who leans forward, with a kentron in her right hand and the reins in her left; above left, Nike flying right to crown the driver; in exergue below, panoply of arms on pedestal inscribed with ΑΘΛΑ. Rev. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ Head of Arethusa to left, her hair bound in an ampyx with a net behind, and wearing a pendant earring and a pearl necklace; around her head, four dolphins: two swimming towards each other before, one swimming downwards behind, and one nestling under the neck truncation. Gulbenkian 309. Jongkees 12. Rizzo pl. LVI, 6. A tetradrachm with an impressively engraved horse (see the veins on the horse's stomach):

Here's some of my favorite electrum: Kings of Lydia. Alyattes, circa 620/610-560; Third of siglos or Trite, Sardes before 561, EL 4.69 g. Head of lion l. with open jaws; in l. field, falfel in archaic characters. Rev. Bipartite rectangular incuse punch. Artemision, White Gold, 77. SNG von Aulock –. SNG Kayhan –. Mitchner, Ancient Trade and Early Coinage, group B, 3. Weidauer 93.; Rare. Very fine; Ex Gorny & Mosch sale 195, 2011, 261. Mysia, Lampsacus. Stater circa 412 BC, EL 15.18 g. Description Forepart of Pegasus l., below, ‡. All within vine wreath. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square; Traité II 327 and pl. VIII, 4 (this coin); BMC 8; Head, NC 1876, pl. VIII, 31 (this coin); Agnes Baldwin-Brett, The Electrum Coinage of Lampsakos , pl. II, 12c (this coin); SNG von Aulock 1292 (these dies); Kraay-Hirmer 727 (these dies); Very rare and among the finest specimens known. Struck on a very broad flan and exceptionally complete for the issue. Extremely fine; Ex. Vinchon sale 24 November 1994, James & Sneja Velkov collection, 89; Sincona sale 10, 2013, 130; Found in Smyrna in 1875 MYSIA. Cyzicus. Ca. 450-350 BC. EL sixth-stater or hecte (11mm, 2.70 gm). NGC AU S 5/5 - 4/5. Ca. 410 BC. Helios, nude, kneeling right in front of foreparts of two horses prancing to left and right; tunny fish right below / Quadripartite mill-sail incuse square punch with stippled interior. Greenwell 23. Jameson 2194. SNG von Aulock 7312. Kraay-Hirmer 715. von Fritze 149. BMC 106. MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.09 g). Head of Apollo, wearing laurel wreath, facing slightly right; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 132; Greenwell 17; Boston MFA 1492 = Warren 1436; SNG BN 283–4; BMC 56; Gillet 1079; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion 93 (same rev. punch); Prospero 460; Rosen –; Weber –. Good VF. Well centered. Among the most artistic types in the series.

@jdmKY, I used to own the first denarius in your post: it's a great coin with just a small amount of flatness on the portrait. Glad it found its way to a good home! Here's my current example of the type:

I'd have been immensely frustrated! Thankfully I knew the coin as I underbid it at a Tradart auction a few years prior. Their photo was much closer to real-life (but they don't have enough sales to be included in this list). A photo makes a major difference: I paid < 50% what I was willing to bid in the earlier auction.

Hirsch appears to be missing from the list but I'd add them in the 'F' category. I agree with the rest of the rankings: HJB's photos are horrible but their videos are solid so perhaps they should be upgraded slightly. Here's Hirsch vs my photo of the same coin:

Sorry to hear of your expenses but coins can wait! Take care of your health first. Pantikapaion staters are an iconic type, represented by a few major varieties. There have been a fairly large number of unpedigreed, high-grade examples in the last ~10 years but prices have indeed remained strong. I waited for the early type with uncontrolled hair which was expensive but one of my favorite coins: Ex. Guermantes Collection (Leu 86, 5 May 2003), lot 307; Robert Jameson Collection (sold privately Dr. J. Hirsch); Grand Duke Alexander Mikailovitch Collection. Greek gold comes in a wide range of types and styles. The types you've listed are the more common ones and do indeed show up regularly so I wouldn't be in a rush to track them down. Mithradates staters vary widely in price based on their style: art matters for Greek coins. Here are a few more favorites from my collection, showing the range in art: Dionysis and Hercules at Thasos: Alexander the Great, by Philip III: Athena/Palladium from Pergamon: Nike/Zeus from Kyrene: Athena/Nike on an Alexander the Great distater:

Great video, and hope you're recovering well! I've followed your content for a while: some of the best coin content on YouTube. Glad to see you here!

RNumis is a great resource. The catalog lists and links to online copies are also incredibly helpful. Are there plans to add more regions (or am I blind for how to find Macedonia/Acanthus?) Thank you!

Alexander the Great had conventionally impressive hair: Medusa has unconventionally impressive snakes:

I underbid this coin when it sold and I truly don't know why I didn't bid more but I'm very glad it's still "in the family". It's an incredibly appealing piece in every way!

That is a remarkably clean image straight out of the camera! That would save me a tremendous amount of laborious cropping effort. Thanks for the tip!

Before and after a millennium of wear and tear: Rome, AD 80-81. Oblique overhead view of the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater); the exterior displaying four tiers of arches, the top three containing statuary, and the interior showing spectators arrayed in sectioned seating; to the left, fountain on base (Meta Sudans); on right, porticoed building (Baths of Titus?) / IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, Titus seated left on curule chair, holding branch and scroll; below, on either side, pile of arms. In field, S - C. RIC 184. Elkins 6 (A4/P6). CBN 189. Hendin 1594. Ex Collection Dr. Paul Hartwig, Auction MM P&P Santamaria, Rome 07.03.1910, Lot 1215

Great choice on the domain name and forum styling!

@idesofmarch01's coin (and avatar) take the cake but here's my related Parisii stater, a few grades lower than his but still a proud resident in my collection:

It's hard to pick a favorite but right now, on May 31st, I'll say my Athens gold diobol. It's small, a bit scraped, not perfectly centered, but irreplaceable and absolutely dripping with history: ATTICA. Athens. AV Diobol (1.43 gms), ca. 407/6 B.C. Svoronos-pl. 15#7. Head of Athena facing right wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with palmette and olive leaves; Reverse: Two owls standing confronted, olive branch between, ethnic in exergue. Minor scuffs, though commensurate with the assigned condition. Ex. John Whitney Walter CollectionAthens was a prolific producer of silver coinage, minting millions of owl tetradrachms. Gold, however, was much scarcer in the region and Athens only minted gold coinage when in severe crisis. This gold diobol comes from the final years of the Peloponnesian War and is one of the most important and rarest Greek coins.Athens faced heavy losses against Sparta. Near the end of the war, they blocked Athens from accessing its silver mines, resulting in an economic emergency. After four years of being starved out, the need for funds became so dire, the authorities ordered the melting of seven of the eight massive gold statues of Nike which were standing around the Parthenon on the Acropolis.These statues were symbols of the city’s great economic reserves making this a true moment of desperation for Athens. The gold from these statues was minted into coins and used to construct a new fleet of ships to attempt a naval retaliation. Because of their value, to protect against forgeries, the dies used to strike the coins were stored in the Parthenon treasury in an alabaster box. Further indicating the importance of their minting, the historical context of these gold coins is exceptionally well documented by the playwright Aristophanes and by the Athenian treasury records.Unfortunately, even with the influx of funds, Athens was ultimately defeated at sea and surrendered to the Spartan general Lysander.While many thousands of coins were minted with the volume of gold from the statues, only a very small number survive today. This coin is one of only two diobols in private hands with the four others residing in museums. Other denominations are also known but exist in similar numbers, with only one or two examples of each available to private collectors.

A superb purchase of an interesting type - congratulations!

Those in-game renderings are truly incredible. I've never had an affinity toward games (outside of Tetris) but that could convince me to use my GPU for non-software tasks! I waited for a number of years before finally finding my Pharos last year. Alexandrian coinage is notoriously difficult to find with smooth surfaces and while this isn't 100% perfect, it's as close as I could reasonably hope to locate. I'll always welcome an opportunity to post this again: Æ-drachm, year 18 (= 133/134), Alexandria (Aegyptus); 26.48 g. Draped bust r. with laurel wreath // Isis Pharia stands r. with a billowing sail, in front of it Pharos. Dattari 1767; Goats 1124; Kampmann / Ganschow 32,589; RPC 5895. Ex. MM 13, June 17-19, 1954, lot 946

It's a valid point. Many of us are generalists: maybe it would be better to just have a single forum and not separate content by Greece/Rome/etc. It may result in fewer eyes on each post in the way it's presently designed. Any thoughts, @Restitutor?

This aureus is a recent purchase from HJB's Buy Bid Sale. Aaron Berk was kind enough to let me know that a customer of his tracked down a pedigree to Enrico Caruso, the famous Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921) who produced hundreds of recordings in the infancy of "portable" music. As a musician myself, I've always wanted a Caruso pedigree and hadn't found the right coin, making this a very fortunate "two birds with one stone" purchase:

I'm happy to see the reforming of a community here! Are there any plans to purchase a domain name? The current numeric placeholder isn't ideal - ancientcoinchat.com is available (albeit appearing a bit non-inclusive to our less antiquated brethren) or perhaps a brainstorming session would be useful? Domains are notoriously difficult to find non-registered. I'd gladly contribute to a hosting/purchasing fund. A domain through GoDaddy or other major providers shouldn't be more than $20/year with all of the privacy bells and whistles in place.