Helvius Pertinax

Oh, interesting story! I have a really worn example of the type. Id like to post it, but i may or may not have lost my phone that has every single coin pic of mine on it 😞

Oh nice, I waited for this 😂 Awesome pics, especially the Hadrian in its natural habitat! Can't wait to go to Rome one day and do the same!

What a satisfyingly round flan!

Ah yes, I asked because I wasn't able to tell if it was Septimius or the bust of Pescennius Niger looking at me there 😂 15 years is quite a long time for an avatar! Mine is this Hadrian denarius that I got 4 months ago. This is the edit that another collector did for me:

This is by far my most expensive coin, I bought it around 5 months ago. The type is very well-known, featuring the nymph Parthenope on the obverse and Achelous, a river god portraited as a man faced bull, on the reverse. In 1718, a german numismatist published a book about recent discoveries in ancient numismatics. I was happy to find one of my coins in the plates, a didrachm: And since I do a bit of drawing myself, here is my own drawing (I'm not really good at it 😂) It might also be important to mention that the book I have is a reprint of the original. Now feel free to post your coins that have been drawn by either you, or another artist!

I like the big lettering! It's like the coin is screaming "DIVA!!" Faustina, screaming out of her grave "IM A GODESS NOW!!" 😅

Big fan of that old inventory number ngl. Being able to know that someone collected this coin a long time ago already... nice provenance!

Congrats, that looks like some nice toning! A nice motive as well, the reverse I particular. I have a similar coin: a lady and a snake, with some dark toning going on 😁

I've decided to save up for a bigger purchase a while ago, so my last coin is from 3 or 4 months ago. I'm in love with the Hadrian, it's my avatar coin! Hadrian, AR denarius Rome, 126/7 CE Obverse: laureate head of Hadrian right Reverse: Pudicitia seated left, holding Sombrero

Oh no 😂 I had the same idea for a thread! Well, here are my cats then: Can we let that one through as a rather chubby feline? 🤣

I dont think there's a delete function yet, I hope it comes I the future!

Thank you, I like them both! I know who the other emperor on my own coins is, I was referring to the Bosporian coin.

Oh, i might have phrased it a bit bad, of course I know who the emperor on my other coin is, it's hard to not recognize his face 😂 I was referring to the Bosporian coin.

Countermarks are neat! I have a siglos with two of them, but I just cant find out where they are from 😞

Thanks for the pictures. My own visit to Trier was at least 7 years ago, I was around 10 years old then, so I cant remember much of it 😂 I remember visiting the Basilica though, and during that visit I also got my first ancient coin that was dug up on an ancient site in Trier. Its a Claudius II, minted in Mediolanum. Ill post pictures of it when I get back home in a few days.

Intriguing for sure, and I would actually say that it's interesting style makes it kinda beautiful to look at. Gallienus should be one of the two emperors, so here is my coin of him: Who the other emperor could be? Can't wait for the numismatic society to make some guesses!

I don't have a "real" Tetradrachm yet, but am definately planning to get one in the future! Maybe once I go to Uni, I'll have enough money saved up. Until then, this will have to do: Probus, BI Tetradrachm Alexandria, 180/1 CE Obverse: laureate head of Probus right Reverse: eagle, head turned right, holding wreath, LS (= year 6)

Oh wow, thats amazing! So cool to hold this millenia old artifact and know that the person on it was in the same building, thousands of years ago - isn't it? Must be!

Thank you, I'm also a big fan of that background! There were many fancy documents there, but I went with a more simple handwriting, from the 1830s. Here is a more fancy document, just so, you see what I mean:

Yes, that does seem quite challenging. It would need some practice before, so you don't have to stand in front of the Collosseum for ages, fiddling around with your camera equipment while thousands of tourists try to walk by 😂

This is such a touching story! I didnt cry, trust me. No, I didnt! You don't believe me? Well... maybe. But only a tiny bit. Being away from home and my sweet little cats, this is somehow relatable. Hope they won't die of excitement when I get back! Thanks for sharing this interesting story behind this fabulous coin 😀

Yes, maybe visiting the Colloseum and taking a picture with the Titus elephant denarius struck to commemorate its opening... that would be awesome!

Oh no, accidentally posted it already! I wanted to write a bit more. Where can I delete?

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Great neckbeard, and I that full silvering? A nice coin, especially with that toning! I have a Gallienus too, but the silvering has worn off a bit. It was a gift from an American collector, I like the style of the bust.