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Nice coins and cool website, @Kaleun96. I especially like your 360 Owl photos. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

I would also like to see your 2021 pickups, @Severus Alexander. Here is a Nero AE As I picked up a few years ago. 66 A.D.

Nice man-bull portrait, @ominus1. Here is a similar one in my collection.

Same here. Haven't got an invoice from Naville yet. 🤔

Interesting coin, @Magnus Maximus. I think it is from the Western Han dynasty, considering the coin's small size, and a "confined" script (earlier Qin coins are more care-free with script). You mentioned you are interested in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms time period. There are a few coins specific to that era. Here is one of them, minted by the Kingdom of Shu (one of the big three kingdoms). Coin value at "100 Wu Zhu". Reverse is plain. I picked it up many years ago during my trip to HK.

I guess so... Let me edit my post with a Pegasus... 🙂

[edit] A Syracuse coin with Apollo and Pegasus. Next: another Pegasus.

I over-slept this morning, and missed all the Greek coins on my list. 😴 However, I was successful in adding a RR coin to my "biga fleet". Not a quality piece, but good price. 🙂

Gallienus (253-268). Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Æ . Obv: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev: Athena advancing r., holding spear and shield, about to strike a serpent-legged giant. 29mm, 8.42g, 6h SNG BnF 1066; SNGLevante 789. Next: another battle scene on a coin.

Nice Faustina II coins collection, Donna. Here is my recent Lucilla denarius, with Faustina II's grandkids on the reverse. 🙂 Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus AD 161-169, AR Denarius (18mm, 3.19 gram) Rome Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA; draped bust r. Rev: FECVNDITAS; Fecunditas seated r., holding child, young girl standing before her RIC 765

Here are my two archaic owls. One of them is my profile pic. 🙂

Here are some of my Attica Tetradrachm... 🙂 The Mass-Issued Owl: Transitional Owl: Starr Group II Owl:

Nice pickup, @John060167. I also like Syracuse coins with good designs and artistry. Silver tetradrachm is very expensive to me though. Still on a lookout for decent bronze examples. Here are two in my collection: SICILY. Syracuse. Agathocles (317-289 BC). AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.03 gm, 10h). Pre-royal coinage, ca. 310-305 BC, Fi-, magistrate. Obv: Head of Persephone left, hair wreathed with grain ears, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; three dolphins swimming around, ΦI below neck truncation, dotted border Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, reins in left hand, kentron in right; triskeles above, AN monogram in exergue, dotted border. HGC 2, 1348. SNG ANS 643. SICILY.SYRACUSE. Hiketas II 287-278 BC.AE.( 7.26g, 24mm, 9h ) Obv: Head of Kore left, grain ear behind. Rev: Charioteer in biga right, star above. Ref: SNG Cop.802, SNG ANS 760.

That's very interesting, @Roman Collector. Wonder why this happens. Maybe low coin mintage, so there is no need for additional dies.

My random coin today is a Julia Domna AE with 3 Graces reverse. I picked it up from an ROMA auction early last year. I like its green patina color, ok size (not a tiny 10mm coin in which I need to draw out my magnifier), and a comparatively clear 3 Graces reverse design. 🙂 Julia Domna Æ 25mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 193-217. Obv: IOVΛIA ΔOMNA CEB, draped bust to right Rev: MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, the Three Graces standing facing, with arms interlocked; the outer two each holding cantharus. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.17.26.10; AMNG 604; Varbanov 888 corr. (obv. legend). 7.74g, 25mm, 6h.

Sounds exciting, @Roman Collector. I was also waiting for ancient coins from different dealers/auction houses during the past 2 weeks. They eventually all came in on the same date last Friday. I was very happy to see the 4 small packages after coming home from work (yes, I have to go to office on "Faustina Fridays" 🙁). On the other hand, I doubt if my wife shared my joy, since she had to speak out pretty loud (6 feet distance, separated by glass) to the mail delivery person to sign receipt for me... 😅 Here is one of the coins in the packages. It's a Lucilla denarius that I have been looking for quite a while. Glad to eventually add it into my collection. It probably will be one of my 2022 top 10 additions. Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus AD 161-169, AR Denarius (18mm, 3.19 gram) Rome Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA; draped bust r. Rev: FECVNDITAS; Fecunditas seated r., holding child, young girl standing before her RIC 765

My favorite Elizabeth II coins. Portrait on both sides (brockage error). 🙂

Nice Faustina Junior coins, @Roman Collector. 🙂 The coins looks cool side-by-side, @Spaniard. Nice left-facing Sabina, @maridvnvm. Thanks for sharing.

Here are some that I find interesting: 🙂

As my first post in this forum, I would like to share these two recent Sabina denarii pickups for fun. They are some sort of a "mirror image" to each other. I first picked up the left-facing Sabina denarius from London Ancient Coins in March. I then came up with an idea of a right-facing portrait, so the two coins would look like "chatting to each other" in my coin tray. Well, I picked one up in the recent ROMA auction; and to my surprise, both their obverse and reverse are some sort of mirror-imaged. I find it interesting to show them side by side. 🙃 Do you have coins that look like "mirror image" when placed side-by-side in a coin tray? If yes, please share!

Great bronze weaponry collection, and very nice display, @Kamnaskires. ☺️

Great webpage layout and design. Thanks, @Restitutor! ☺️

Here is my only electrum. Hope to pickup more in the future. 😊 KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. 610-546 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (14mm, 4.69 g). Sardis mint. Obv: Head of roaring lion right; sun with multiple rays on forehead Rev: Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–8; SNG Ashmolean 749–53.

I like small-sized ancient artifacts. They are nice complements to ancient coins. Here is a Hellenistic bronze figurine of Harpocrates, which I purchased last year from Harlan Berk. The figurine now stands right in front of me at my work desk. ☺️ Hellenistic Bronze Figure of Harpocrates, ca. 2nd Century BC. Harlan Berk 217th Buy or Bid Sale. December 2021. Purchased in Paris in the early 1950's. H. 3 3/8" (8.6 cm).

Here are two of my tets. I like their large chunky feel. ☺️ PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE. PHOENICIA. Ptolemy VI Philometer, 1st sole reign 172-173 BC. AR Tetradrachm. ARADUS Mint. Obv: Diademed bust right of Ptolemy I wearing aegis. Rev: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΠΟΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, in front year ΠΗ (year 88 = 172/3BC ). 13.89g, 29mm, 12h Sv.1110, SNG Cop.546, Noeske.-. Hadrian, Alexandria. AD 125-126 (year 10). BI Tetradrachm. Obv: AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CЄB, laureate bust right. Rev: L ΔΕΚΑΤΟV. Agathodaimon facing Uraeus serpent. RPC III 5596. Dattari/Savio 7508. Geissen 894 var. 13.23g, 23mm.