Hughie Dwyer

Nice coin @Ryro! Here's a coin I haven't shown in a while with SPQR in the reverse legend.

Sorry, it seems it posted twice.

Great find! What a stunning coin! Congratulations!

Nice coins, everyone! Great portrait, @CPK; I've been really enjoying your posts about your new purchases! Here is my only example of Julia Domna. I am also proud to announce that it is my very own photo - progress is slow but my photos are slowly improving... 😁 HD

Nice idea for a thread! What about Geta and Caracalla? I would say that they definitely look most alike as Caesar. As Augustus, the resemblance is not so obvious:

Nice coins all! Here is my example:

Next: Same theme, please.

This is my first time over in the 'Medieval' section of NumisForums! 😄 Such a time period is not really my collecting area, but it is still an era that really interests me! This coin I've had this coin for over a year now - so it's not really 'new' - but I'll post it anyways. Thanks for looking!

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I recently went to Croatia. It's a beautiful country. Specifically, I went to Dubrovnik - a former prosperous trading hub. Inspired by other users of this Forum, I decided to take a few photos, which I planned to use in a thread about the city (but I never got round to creating the post). Here they are: I also managed to get a quick pic of this little guy! While I was there, it just happened to be Croatian Statehood Day (May 30th); this is a national holiday in Croatia, where the country celebrates it's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia. On that day, we visited the Island of Lokrum, which is the big island just beyond the Old Town as seen in the last photo. We walked around the whole island before visiting the beach, where we stayed for about 30 minutes. As we were leaving, I saw something in the water, which had been washed up. It turned out to be a coin: The coin is not in great condition but is still quite interesting! Overall, my trip to Dubrovnik was phenomenal. Thank you for reading! 😄

Next: 14th century, please

One of my favourite coins. Link: Marcus Aurelius

Interesting post! I got my first she-wolf and twins a while back:

Antioch -> Heraclea (I've left with off with another 'A' 😬😄)

It's been over 6 hours: Link - Marriage

Been a while since i posted this coin: Next: Another coin from the Gallic Empire

Thank you for your confirmation. I will certainly try to report this mistake to them. I am always grateful to those who take the time to compile such a detailed resource for my benefit. HD 😀

A coin that was in my Top 10. Link: Faustina I

Hello all and Happy New Year! I was looking through a few of my earlier LRBs this morning and noticed something quite odd. It has to do with the website Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE). I highly recommend this site and use it a lot. However, today I noticed that it says that a coin with the legend 'D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG' depicts a bust of Valentinian II. I have spent a bit of time since then trying to work out whether this is accurate or possibly a mistake. When looking on other sites, it seems that they say that the bust is of Theodosius I. This leads me to believe that it could be a harmless mistake in an otherwise brilliant resource. Please see pictures attached. (Sorry for the bad photos. I am currently trying to improve my coin photography...) I would love to hear your opinions on this topic and please correct me if I am wrong in my judgement. Many thanks, HD

Happy New Year! I'll begin by wishing everyone a very warm welcome to my top 10 and a good start to the new year. I hope that 2024 has some great things in store for all of us! I'd also like to say a massive thank you to the whole of NVMIS FORVMS for an amazing year of collecting. Early November marked my first full year in the forum and I can't stress enough how happy I am to be a part of such a kind and helpful community. Since joining, I feel I have really progressed as a collector but there is still a long way I hope to go! In no particular order, here's the list: ---------- Completing a goal: As many of you already know, I love to collect coins from the Roman Imperial Era and I am yet to branch away from this collecting area (maybe I will in the coming year). I like the fact that it is quite a long period in time, packed full with history. This makes it a very broad area to collect with many 'sub-areas' that grab my attention. Going into 2023, one of my main goals was to, not only collect new emperors, but also collect coins from empresses too. I look to do that same in 2024. Each making their forum debut, this is how the first three coins came into my collection: 1) I visited the city of Bath earlier this year and I really enjoyed my time there. I highly recommend visiting this historical city and, more specifically, the Roman Baths. As for the coin, I was given it as a free gift from the Bath Stamp and Coin Shop; I bought some other coins while I was there and the owner allowed me to take one unidentified Roman coin for free. I was extremely happy with the purchases and would also recommend this shop if anyone visits the city. This is arguably one of my favourite coins in this list. I love the look of the coin in general, although I must confess that my photo makes the coin look more vividly green than it appears in-hand. However, more than that, I love this coin because of how much time I spent trying to identify it. So much effort went into this coin and I was extremely happy with the outcome. It also introduced me to a new part of the empire. 2) This coin was fairly high on my watch list; it was another example of an empress who I wanted to add to my collection. I already had several coins of the Severan Dynasty but none depicting an empress, who played very important parts through the course of this time. I thought this coin was the perfect fit for my collection and so I bought it. 3) I'd like to thank @Roman Collector for kindly helping me with this attribution. I was having some difficulty identifying this coin as I couldn't distinguish the coin between other fairly similar examples. ---------- Completing a 'set' of mine The next few coins saw the completion of my 'set' for the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty. What began as the '5 good emperors', soon expanded into the whole of the dynasty. Needless to say, I am extremely happy with the current coins that make up this set but I am always looking for potential improvements as well as acquiring the coins of much rarer figures of this time and coins of empresses. I was able to find examples of Hadrian and Trajan in 2022 and so I was already part-way finished before 2023 began. Without further ado, here are the coins. 4) Nerva 5) Antoninus Pius 6) Marcus Aurelius 7) Lucius Verus Many people may recognise this as a former 'coin of the day' from @Prieure de Sion's store. I would like to thank @Prieure de Sion for excellent service and an amazing coin! 8 ) Commodus This was a coin high on my wish list and I made a post about it when it arrived. ---------- 9) This was one of my most recent purchases. It wasn't necessarily high on my wish list but I like this 'iconic' reverse and the story it holds. ---------- 10) Finally on my Top Ten list is a Caracalla denarius as an Augustus. To provide some context, I already had an example of a Caracalla denarius as a Caesar and I had wanted a coin depicting the emperor as an Augustus. This led me to search for potential purchases and this coin was just about perfect. To conclude, I was very happy with my collecting in 2023 and I can't wait to see what 2024 has in store! Thank you all for reading

Neapolis -> Siscia