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@QcumborWoah - that has to be one of the greatest stories behind an ancient coin! Sooooooo cool that he managed to find them while in the war - and it is indeed a super fascinating type.
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One of my favorite RRs - recent acquisition
AncientNumis replied to ambr0zie's topic in Roman Republic
Sadly I did overpay a lot for mine - it was one of my first ancients - but I still get enjoyment out of it! Yours are fun too - and I love your barbarous imitation. I quite like barbarous LRBs (because they can be so affordable) and so have a few of them, think I have the other Roma commem type but I'll check if I've got this one. -
One of my favorite RRs - recent acquisition
AncientNumis replied to ambr0zie's topic in Roman Republic
Yep - it is! Just a late roman bronze 😞, but I still like mine. It's quite amazing just how many coins feature this as the reverse - the Romans must have been really proud to commemorate their founding so much. That Macrinus looks really cool! A lot more interesting than mine 🤣. I'd like to get some other coins featuring it too - I'm thinking of getting a RR version. -
WOAH! Those look spectacular - and really great you were able to publish one 🎉
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That sure would look awesome! Really interested to see what other pieces you can find. Although I guess you're right that it might be hard to get them this cheap, $4 is an absolute steal 😄
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That's really interesting! Most of my coins are very common, but I guess I have one that is quite unusual. This is probably one of the most underweight sigloi ever, and it's not a fourree. It weighs only 3.04 grams (when it's supposed to weigh quite a bit more, of course - around 5 grams?). Sure it doesn't make it rare or desirable, rather the opposite, but I like it for how unusual it is 🙂
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One of my favorite RRs - recent acquisition
AncientNumis replied to ambr0zie's topic in Roman Republic
Sadly, I don't have this type but here are 2 mythological scenes on some rather affordable ancient coins I own: -Herakles strangling the Nemean lion -Legendary founding of Rome, Romulus And Remus
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Wow. This must be very special for you - sometimes even normal looking coins can be so much more because of what they remind us of, and this definitely seems the case here.
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Lovely piece Pertinax! -
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Wow that's soooooooo lovely. I don't have any ancient gold yet, but I've got a couple of modern coins. Would they be relevant or should I keep them out of an ancient coin thread? Just wondering if I can post pictures of them here, but no worries if not!
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Here are the other coins I got from that car boot sale - this makes up over half of all my medieval coins 😆 Posted it on CT before, but hopefully some people here haven't seen them.
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Is that Edward IV? I'm pretty bad with medieval coins but sure looks like him! Here's mine of Edward the fourth - sure a lot of it has corroded away but it still has a fun portrait so that's all I mind about! Got it at a car boot sale somehow.
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Haha! That's quite a funny panther 🤣
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Totally agree with this - it would be extremely useful and help a lot of beginners to not lose interest. This idea of a more open forum is one I really support too - there are too many that don't encourage new members and beginners which could be quite a big problem.
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Kyrene didrachm: before and after horn silver treatment
AncientNumis replied to Jeremy's topic in Greek
I actually quite like it too - and I'm sure in time it will look even more lovely as it begins to darken! To be honest, I wouldn't mind too much about having the top coin either but we all have our own opinions and if you like it, that's what matters 🙂 -
Woah - love these, really interesting.
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Wow lovely! So cute, love seeing stuff like this.
