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Just WOW! Thank you @Curtisimo!!!

Thank you, @Curtis JJ! I was lucky to purchase 3 coins from recent AMS auctions including this absolutely incredible Nero's aureus in hands (recieved already), but absolutelly unsuccesfull with confirmation of provenances of these coins from Frankfurter 1969, KPM Mannheim 1976 and this Nero's aureus from M&M. I'm browsing trought rnumis database for a months already but still unlucky with provenances also unlucky with ex-numis but still not lose a hope 😀

I'm sorry for my impudence to enter into this thread with my offtopic, but may be here I also can find a help with M&M Basel list No. 380 (August 1976), coin No. 23? I'm also looking for provenance proof which is known only from auction description without old bags / tickets or other confirmation. Thank you in advance!

There are a lot of tales about putin. This is a part of present days russian worldview - they wants to see putin everywhere and at every moment. As a result you never know if any information is a true or lie. I have never heard that putin has any kind of interests in numismatics. I also have heard that he died at 26 of October and now lies at refrigerator of his residence at Valdai. I hope it's true and we'll see soon a destruction of putinism.

Congratulations, @panzerman!!! This example has a great style! P.S. Now I know with whom I need to agree my bidding strategy before auction 😊 - I was your underbidder, it was a great fight! 🤝🤝🤝

My opinion is that an answer lies before coinage invention, when values of commodities were directly determined by the weight of ingots or hacked silver first of all (hacksilber economy). So, for valuable metals such as EL, AV, AR the weight is a crucial characteristic. These coins accepted by international trade. AE coins in most cases are tokens (i.e. signs of value) and only regionally accepted, so, theirs weight less significant.

Many thanks to all for such a great interest! Thank you! I hope my Top list of 2024 would have a bigger volume because even with Top 1 of 2023 I have a huge progress in compare with Top 0 from 2022 😀

For a long time any stater from Kyrene was at the top of my wish list. This year a dream was realised and it's my absolute favorite from 2023 year purchases, that is why only top 1 makes sence for me. KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. AV Stater. Chairios, magistrate. Nike driving quadriga right; sun above / Zeus-Ammon seated left, holding eagle; thymiaterion to left; XAIPIOΣ (retrograde) to right. Naville 81 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 1209; BMC 115 (same dies); Pozzi 3268 (same dies).

Dear Community! I need a help, this tet is a one of my favorite coins and was bought by me a year ago with a reference to KPM auktion 11, lot 86 (year 1976). Unfortunately, after a year of unsuccesful efforts to find this catalog online I am asking for help...

Price realized: 600 EUR (Approx. 778 USD / 555 GBP / 921 CHF) Lot description: RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN RÖMISCHE KAISERZEIT ANTONINUS PIUS, 138-161 FAUSTINA MATER, Gemahlin des Antoninus Pius, + 141 Sesterz, postum 147. DIVAE-FAVSTINAE. Büste mit Perlschnüren im Haar rechts // AETER-NITAS / SC. Aeternitas mit Phönix auf Globus und Zepter nach links sitzend. RIC - (vgl. 1104, Büste verschleiert). C. -. BMC 1606. 30,09 g. Sehr selten. Schöne braungrüne Patina. Besonders feines Porträt. Leichte Prägeschwäche. Vorzüglich / sehr schön Aus Aukt. Aufhäuser 6 (1989), Nr. 400. Estimate: 750 EUR

Fabulous coin! I've just started to discover this field of interest (German States gold coins) and put this type of river gold ducat to wish list. Congratulations, panzerman! My subcollection I've started this year from spring printed Roma with this 2 ducats, and found them amazing at hands:

@sand I am recommending you to read this article: https://www.academia.edu/41653289/Electrum_Coins_and_Their_Archaeological_Context_The_Case_of_the_Artemision_of_Ephesus

Here I'll quote a valuable opinion of famous egyptologist Viktor Solkin: Finally, Cleopatras' portrait of the work of the famous Spanish reenactor Juan Francisco Oliveras appeared, which can be called very accurate. Oliveras' work is based on three marble busts of Cleopatra from the British and Berlin museums, as well as collections in the Vatican and, importantly, a preserved portrait of the queen on a fresco of the 1st century BC from Herculaneum, from which we know that the queen had red hair. The attire reproduces the clothes on the statues of the deified Ptolemaic queens, the diadem was a favorite headdress of the queen, judging not only by the sculptural portraits, but also by the coins of Cleopatra. Bracelets, necklaces - everything has specific museum prototypes (for example, from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the photo) and are correlated with the life of the queen. Emeralds that appeared at that time from the mines in the Arabian Desert and the famous pearls of the queen, described in many ancient sources, are also appropriate.

Yes 🙂

Engravers from Pergamon are the greatest artists. Theirs portraits of rulers believed to be realistic and emotional. That is why I believe this portrait of Alexander The Great is highly realistic and those priceless. This portrait really looks close with Azara herm.

Yes! These are ex-mine at highest point of collecting before 2022.

Hello @John060167 Congratulations with entering into AV Alexandrines theme. I had own a few of staters for last about 10 years and now I am with this one possibly from Side (?) mint.

It is a good first step to "Lysimachi"!

Thank you! This is a case when you can get a great enjoy with much less costs. Your tet superb with good metal preservation.

Great tet, interesting variant and respectable provenance from Peus. Congratulation!

Last year I've sold with a great pain one of my favorites - good style stater of Lysimachus, but some time after I've purchase a tetradrachm to kill the pain. And I discover an interesting thing: of course it's better to own both, tet & stater, but now if I should need to choose one, I'll choose this tet. So, I am completely heeled with a multiples lower costs 😀 Yes, this is not a common tet, but one of the greatests obverse dies from Pergamon mint with emotional and realistic portrait of Alexander. And this advantage completely beats even gold. What would be your choice, and what Lysimachus coins you have, please, let me know 😀

I've collected roubles, poltinas and some coppers (especially 18 century) from my first silver rouble at 1992 until 2014. From the middle of 2000th it was a great detectorists era and a lot of super findings and respective coins on market. After russian invasion into Ukraine in 2014 I switched to ancients and totally sold out all roubles until 2017. It was a great work for me to find only this one photo of ex-mine rouble 😀 We are, Ukrainians, now has nothing to do with the russians and want to completely separate our culture. We are culturally rich and carry the heritage of Kievan Rus, Roman provinces, Greek colonies, Scythians, Trypillia...

I also thinking you have an authentic rouble.