How many Ancient Coins do you have? (And how long have you been collecting?)

[AncientCoinnoisseur]

Title! I’m curious to know how many coins you have lying around and how long you have been collecting. 

It would be cool to have some ballpark figure of the total value of your collection, to make a nice graph with number of coins, years you have been collecting and value of the collection (or 2 of the 3 variables) to see where we sit on the graph, but I understand if you want to keep that private (or if like me you are too scared to check 😉 )

I have a grand total of… 17 coins (19 if we count my two medievals, 20 if we count the almost unrecognisable one I got gifted and 21 if we count the Napoleonic medal that imitates a Neapolis didrachm), and I’ve started in October 2022 with a Late Roman Bronze, then got 3 more coins on February 2023, then a year-long break and then I got 17 more in the last 8 months…).

List of all the coins in my collection (in order of acquisition), with links to videos of each coin on Reddit:

(BLUE = Greek, RED = Roman, PURPLE = ‘Mixed’, YELLOW = Medieval, GREEN = Modern)

 

1. Constantius II - Fallen Horseman LRB
  
2. Alexander The Great - Lifetime Babylon Tetradrachm
  
3. Neapolis Didrachm
  
4. Titus Elephant Denarius
  
5. Julius Caesar Elephant Denarius
  
6. Rhodos Plinthophoric Drachm
  
7. Vespasian Capricorn Denarius
  
8. T. Carisius Denarius
  
9. Lucius Cassius Longinus Denarius
  
10. Septimius Severus Neptune Denarius
  
11. Euboia Histiaia Tetrobol
  
12. Quintus Cassius Longinus Vesta Denarius
  
13. Bruttium, Rhegion Æ
  
14. Philip I ‘Lvdi Saecvlares’ Antoninianus
  
15. Robert of Anjou Gigliato [Medieval]
  
16. Macedon Tetradrachm 
  
17. Charles II Denaro Regale [Medieval]
  
18. Titus Dolphin and Anchor Denarius
  
19. Carolina Bonaparte ‘Neapolis’ Medal
  
20. Antoninus Pius Pharos of Alexandria Drachm
  
21. Bonus: Aurelian with Genio Exercitii
  

• Coin 1 was bought in 2022  
• Coins 2-3-4 were bought all at once in 2023 from a dealer
• Coins 5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21 were acquired in the last 8 months 💀 (I seriously have to stop now, I think I have a problem…)

What about you?

• How long have you been collecting?
• How many coins do you have?
• Bonus (only if you feel like sharing): how much is your collection worth / what’s the average price you usually spend on a single coin?

I’d love to make a scatter plot!

Edited November 14, 2024 by AncientCoinnoisseur

[CPK]

My dad collected coins and got me and my brothers into it when we were young. It was mostly US then with a bit of world coins thrown in. The prize of my collection was a VF 1887 Indian head cent, which I bought from a dealer advertisement in Coin World.

My interest in ancient history developed later when I was in my teens and grew after listening to many hours of the Teaching Company's lecture series. Then, I saw an advertisement in Archaeology magazine for an antiquities dealer (ironically, a dealer infamous for fakes whose advertisements were subsequently removed from the magazine.) This was the first time I realized that such ancient artifacts could actually be purchased and owned by the general public.

I bought my first ancient coin in 2021, a denarius of Tiberius (the famous "tribute penny") Since then I've bought maybe about 150, give or take. It's a hobby that keeps expanding: there is so much history to learn, study, and appreciate!

[Hrefn]

As a child, I had a random assortment of foreign coins given to me by relatives and friends who perceived my interest in them.   I also had the blue Whitman folders and managed to fill the Lincoln cents folder for pennies from 1941 onwards.  In 1971, I ordered the Canadian silver dollar commemorative for British Columbia directly from the mint.  If memory serves, it cost $3.50.  The following year, I ordered two Olympic mint sets from Japan, which came in white vinyl holders and were similarly priced.  I don’t believe these were sold on the domestic Japanese market, and a tulip mania-like demand for them developed.  I sold one of them for $50 to an advertiser in the back of one of the monthly coin magazines which were common on newsstands then.  This was a huge amount of money for me at the time.

Once I reached college age, my interest in history and coins converged, and I would date my start as a serious collector to then.  One of my first mature purchases was this imitative ducat bought in 1977.   I had purchased Schlumberger’s Numismatique de l’Orient Latin by this time.  The dealer knocked $25 dollars off the $175 price tag; and he trusted me to take the coin and pay him the balance over time, which of course I did.  I later bought my first Byzantine gold coin from him.  

Some scholars believe these coins were struck by Turkish beyliks, not the Angevins.  But I do not believe that theory had been advanced then.  

Robert d’Anjou, Duchy of Achaia  1346-64 AD.  Schlumberger XII/34.  In imitation of a Venetian ducat of Andrea Dandolo.  Electrum.  Note the “K” to the left of Christ’s foot which distinguishes these coins.  There is a second “K” in the middle of the Doge’s name on the obverse.  Purchased from John Barton at Owl, Ltd in 12/1977.

As to the number of coins in my collection, I distinguish between my serious collection of Late Roman, Byzantine, Migration, Carolingian, Crusader, Anglo-Saxon and (a few) Islamic coins, and the miscellaneous accumulation of many years of impaired impulse control.  The serious collection numbers around 300 specimens.  My accrual rate has been very slow, about 20 coins per year, and even more slowly at the beginning.  

This year I have been buying at a more rapid pace.  The Hrefn Top Ten for 2024 is going to require considerable deliberation.  

TL;DR    1977, 300

[Phil Anthos]

I have thousands of coins in total, US, British, and world, which I started in England in 1961. But I only focus on ancients anymore. I have two arriving today, and they will be numbers 299 and 300. I started those in 1988 at Jack Beymer's coin shop at Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa. Every payday, which was dangerous as the shop was immediately next door to the bank!

~ Peter 

[ominus1]

..i haven't ever really counted them all.... 🙂...this marks my 20th year but i also branch out and collect other times and areas too...

Edited November 14, 2024 by ominus1

[sand]

I've been collecting coins since I was 9 years old. At age 9, I started collecting US and world coins. I sort of stopped collecting coins at age 10, when I started collecting postage stamps like a maniac. I kept my childhood coin collection (and my childhood postage stamp collection), but I didn't acquire any new coins, until I started buying bullion coins (US Silver Eagles, etc) in 2009 during the US economic "Great Recession". Buying bullion coins got me interested in collecting US coins again, therefore I started collecting US coins again. Then, I stopped collecting coins for a few years. Then, I started again. Then, I started collecting ancients and medievals in 2018. Here are my numbers. These numbers are a bit out of date. I've bought approximately 20 ancient, medieval, and modern coins since I last updated these numbers.

Number Of My Best Coins : These are my coins, which are in my 6 trays of favorite coins.
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Greek & Nonclassical    53   (53 Ancient, 25 Greek, 28 Nonclassical)
Roman                   48   (48 Ancient)
Byzantine               33   (33 Medieval)
Cast East Asia          44   (12 Ancient, 21 Medieval, 11 World, 31 China, 6 Vietnam, 3 Japan, 2 Korea, 2 Indonesia)
Medieval & Early World  31   (26 Medieval 500 AD To 1499 AD, 5 Early World 1500 AD To 1799 AD)
Late World & USA        36   (18 Late World 1800 AD To Present, 18 USA)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL ANCIENT        113
TOTAL MEDIEVAL        80
TOTAL WORLD           34
TOTAL USA             18
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TOTAL                245

In addition to the above numbers, I also have the 20 or so ancient, medieval, and modern coins which I've bought recently, which I need to add to the above totals, and a nearly complete collection of Lincoln cents from 1909 through 2009 in blue Whitman albums, and some other US and world coins in blue Whitman albums, and a small wooden chest full of less important US and world coins which I mostly acquired for very small cost (perhaps 1000 coins), and some bullion coins (US Silver Eagles, etc), and some "junk silver" old US silver coins in hard plastic coin tubes, and a few accidentally acquired fakes in a "black cabinet" coin tray within a coin case. I also have approximately 80 books about ancient, medieval, and modern coins.

How much is my coin collection worth, including the coin books? I don't really want to know. In the past 3 years, and especially in the past 2 years, I've decreased the amount that I spend on coins and coin books. This year, most of my coin purchases have been between $20 and $100, including shipping etc. This year, I've only spent more than $100 on 2 coins ($159 and $157 including shipping, auction buyer fee, etc). Here's a list of my most expensive coin purchases. One can see, that all of these were during 2018 through 2022. These costs including shipping, auction buyer fee, etc.

$462 : 2020 : Spanish New World Silver Piece Of Eight 1595 AD
$441 : 2021 : Justinian I Green 40 Nummi Follis 40 mm
$412 : 2021 : Ionia Electrum Rosette 600 BC To 550 BC
$396 : 2021 : John VIII Stavraton
$349 : 2019 : Alexander The Great Tetradrachm
$294 : 2019 : Aegina Turtle Stater 500 BC
$284 : 2022 : Ionia Electrum Blank 650 BC To 600 BC
$250 : 2020 : Justinian I Brown 40 Nummi Follis 44 mm
$227 : 2022 : Tiberius II 40 Nummi Follis
$223 : 2020 : China Zhou Dynasty Round Hole Coin
$218 : 2021 : Aes Grave Uncia Frog Northern Italy
$212 : 2018 : Alexander The Great Drachm
$210 : 2021 : Byzantine Jesus Coin
$209 : 2021 : Himyarite Silver Coin
$203 : 2021 : Greek Cast Cup Coin
$198 : 2020 : Green Caligula As
$194 : 2022 : Persia Bowman Siglos
$190 : 2021 : Mauretania Baal Coin
$190 : 2021 : Tiberius III
$190 : 2019 : US Trade Dollar Nice With No Graffito
$181 : 2021 : Manuel II Half Stavraton
$180 : 2022 : Anglo Saxon Frisia Redbad Sceatt
$179 : 2022 : Brown Janus As 211 BC
$175 : 2020 : Richard I The Lionheart Silver Penny
$173 : 2020 : Roman Republic Saturn Semis
$171 : 2022 : Athena Tetradrachm
$169 : 2021 : Parthia Coin
$160 : 2018 : US 1798 Large Cent

Edited November 14, 2024 by sand

[Kali]

A little over 1300 ancient coins. A few dozen U.S. coins, and about 300+ World coins.

I've been collecting coins since 1985.

[seth77]

 

[kirispupis]

In terms of ancients, I have 889 coins, all of them posted here.

My first coins were purchased at the end of 2020.

[Rand]

1 minute ago, kirispupis said:

n terms of ancients, I have 889 coins, all of them posted here.

My first coins were purchased at the end of 2020.

It must be nice to a be receiving a new coin on most days - the coin of the day.

[kirispupis]

1 hour ago, Rand said:

It must be nice to a be receiving a new coin on most days - the coin of the day.

Most were purchased in groups from auctions. Unfortunately now my budget is gone and I haven't added a coin in the last two months.

[ela126]

i think i have around 450-475.

i have lots and lots of junk, but i feel like if a coin isn't worth talking about for 30 seconds.. i doesnt count.

Around 125 American mostly from the 7070 registry ttypset - all slabbed

~250 Byzantine

60-70 - Roman 250-400AD

30 medieval

10 misc

[Robi]

Hi🙂 I focus on coins from the Southern Levant of the 5th century BC - 1st century AD. This includes Samaria, Judea (near 60 coins), Philistia, Idumea, Phoenicia, the Seleucid Kingdom (near 100) and Egypt too. I also have a collection of Antioch as a Roman province. Main collections now: Judea, Roman Antiochia bronze coins SC, Seleukid Kingdom bronze coins. And the rest, some provincional and rarities. Probably about 500 coins in total. I have been collecting ancient coins for about 5 years, more seriously, previously sporadically. I try not to spend more than 20-30 euros per coin. With a few exceptions in my collection.

My Seleukid collection and new acquisitions I am posting here: 

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2024 by Robi

[John Conduitt]

I have about 1,500 coins.

1,000 are modern (1500 or later). I collect a couple of coins from every place I visit, which accounts for most of those.

In terms of cost, most is in my 500 medieval, Celtic and Roman coins. Only a small proportion cost more than £100.

[ambr0zie]

I have 524 ancient coins (well, a number of medieval coins included). I also have 275 modern coins from my country and 191 banknotes. 

Plus a few albums of random foreign modern coins and banknotes. 

[DonnaML]

I've sold a few of my ancient coins recently, but I still have a total of 486 according to my personal catalog, which I believe is up to date. (When I sell a coin I keep the description but strike it through and remove the catalog number.) Of the 486, there are 21 ancient Greek, 98 Roman Republican and Imperatorial, and 367 Roman Imperial and Provincial. (I don't separate those two categories in my catalog.) I purchased all but about a dozen of them in the last 8 years. As for the amount I've spent on them, I don't know and don't wish to think about it for very long!

As for my world coins and historical/commemorative & art medals, my partial catalog includes 113 coins (95 English, 13 German, and 5 French), along with 123 medals (82 British, 34 French, and 7 German). So that's 236 in total, and 721 together with the ancient coins.

I probably have several hundred more non-ancient coins and British medals that I haven't cataloged, including some British white metal and bronze/copper medals from the 19th and early 20th centuries, a decent amount of British copper and small silver collected for several decades beginning when I was about 10 years old, and quite a few miscellaneous coins from other countries, collected beginning in childhood and/or saved from small change when traveling abroad. Plus the U.S. silver dollars and half-dollars I accumulated when I was even younger (i.e., in 1964 or earlier), or that were left with me by my older sister -- who was always more interested in U.S. coins than I was -- when she moved abroad with her husband circa 1981.

 

Edited November 15, 2024 by DonnaML

[Croatian Coin Collector]

I have 197 coins in my collection:

 

1. Ancient Chinese State of Chu Gold Ying Yuan (minted sometime between 400 BCE and 220 BCE)

 

2. Macedonian Gold Stater of Alexander the Great (minted in Sardis circa 334-332 BCE)

 

3. Roman Gold Aureus of Marcus Aurelius (minted in Rome in either 153 or 154)

 

4. Etruscan Gold 10 Asses (minted in Fufluna sometime between 300 BCE and 250 BCE)

 

5. Achaemenid Gold Daric (minted in Sardis sometime between 485 BCE and 420 BCE)

 

6. Kushan Gold Dinar of Kanishka the Great from the 2nd century

 

7. Kushan Gold Dinar of Vasudeva I (minted sometime between 191 and 225)

 

8. Kushan Gold Dinar of Kipunada (minted sometime between 335 and 350)

 

9. Gupta Gold Dinar of Kumaragupta I (minted sometime between 413 and 455)

 

10. Sassanid Gold Dinar of Shapur II (minted in Kabul in 320)

 

11. Abbasid Gold Dinar of Harun al-Rashid (minted in al-Rafiqa in either 805 or 806)

 

12. Abbasid Gold Dinar of al-Ma'mun from 814

 

13. Abbasid Gold Dinar of al-Nasir (minted at the Madinat al-Salam mint in either 1221 or 1222)

 

14. Umayyad Gold Dinar of al-Malik from 699 (minted in Damascus)

 

15. Umayyad Gold Dinar of al-Walid I from the early 8th century

 

16. Umayyad Gold Dinar of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (minted in Damascus in either 718 or 719)

 

17. Caliphate of Cordoba Gold Dinar of Abd al-Rahman III (minted at the al-Andalus (Cordoba) mint by the Mint Master Qasim ibn Khalib in either 943 or 944)

 

18. Ayyubid Gold Dinar of Saladin (minted in Cairo in 1184)

 

19. Bahri Mamluk Gold Dinar of Baybars (minted in Alexandria circa 1261)

 

20. Ziyarid Gold Dinar of Mardavij (minted in Nahavand in 934)

 

21. Buyid Gold Dinar of Adud al-Dawla (minted in Suq-al-Ahvaz in 979)

 

22. Kakwayhid Gold Dinar of Faramurz (minted in Isfahan in either 1046 or 1047)

 

23. Great Seljuk Empire Gold Dinar of Tughril I from either 1055 or 1056 (minted in Esfahan)

 

24. Great Seljuk Empire Gold Dinar of Alp Arslan (minted in Qazvin in either 1066 or 1067)

 

25. Bavandid Gold Dinar of Shahriyar IV Bavand (minted in Sari in either 1110 or 1111)

 

26. Samanid Gold Dinar of Nasr II from (minted in Nishapur in 932)

 

27. Ghaznavid Gold Dinar of Sebuktekin (minted in Herat in 997)

 

28. Ghaznavid Gold Dinar of Mahmud of Ghazni (minted in Nishapur in either 1027 or 1028)

 

29. Khwarazmian Gold Dinar of Ala al-Din Muhammad (minted sometime between 1200 and 1220)

 

30. Fatimid Gold Dinar of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (minted in Egypt in either 974 or 975)

 

31. Aghlabid Gold Dinar of Ahmad ibn Muhammad (minted in either 858 or 859)

 

32. Tulunid Gold Dinar of Ahmad ibn Tulun (minted in Egypt in either 879 or 880)

 

33. Almoravid Gold Dinar of Ali ibn Yusuf (minted in Almeria in either 1136 or 1137)

 

34. Sulayhid Gold 1/2 Dinar of Arwa al-Sulayhi (minted in Dhu Jibla in 1104)

 

35. Almohad Gold 1/2 Dinar of Abd al-Mu'min (minted sometime between 1133 and 1163)

 

36. Almohad Gold 1/2 Dinar of Abu Yaqub Yusuf (minted sometime between 1163 and 1184)

 

37. Hafsid Gold 1/2 Dinar of Muhammad I (minted sometime between 1249 and 1277)

 

38. Seljuk Gold 1/3 Dinar of Mahmud II (minted in Nahavand in 1128)

 

39. Fatimid Emirate of Sicily Gold 1/4 Dinar of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (minted sometime between 996 and 1021)

 

40. Fatimid Emirate of Sicily Gold Stellate 1/4 Dinar of al-Mustansir (minted in either 1056 or 1057)

 

41. Kingdom of Sicily Gold multiple Tari of Roger II (minted sometime between 1130 and 1154)

 

42. Mughal Gold Mohur of Aurangzeb from 1673 (minted in Kabul)

 

43. Afsharid Gold Mohur of Nader Shah (minted in Tabriz in 1746)

 

44. Afghani Gold Mohur of Ahmad Shah Durrani from 1763 (minted in Kandahar)

 

45. Zand Gold 1/2 Mohur of Karim Khan Zand (minted in Isfahan in either 1770 or 1771)

 

46. Jodhpur Gold 1/2 Mohur of Sumer Singh (minted in 1911)

 

47. Zand Gold 1/4 Mohur of Karim Khan Zand (minted in Khoy in either 1777 or 1778)

 

48. Hyderabad Gold 1/4 Mohur of Afzal ad-Dawlah (minted in Hyderabad sometime between 1857 and 1869)

 

49. Zand Gold 1/8 Mohur of Karim Khan Zand (minted in Dar al-'Ibada Yazd sometime between 1753 and 1779)

 

50. Khanate of Bukhara Gold 1/12 Mohur of Abdullah Khan II (minted in Badakhshan sometime between 1584 and 1598)

 

51. Assamese Gold Octagonal 1/16 Mohur of Rajeswar Singha (minted sometime between 1751 and 1769)

 

52. Sultanate of Delhi Gold Tanka of Alauddin Khalji (minted at the Hadrat Delhi mint sometime between 1296 and 1316)

 

53. Sultanate of Malwa Gold Square Tanka of Ghiyath Shah (minted in either 1483 or 1484)

 

54. Qajar Gold Toman of Fath-Ali Shah from 1815

 

55. Qajar Gold 1/4 Toman of Agha Mohammad Shah (minted in either 1788 or 1789)

 

56. Ottoman Gold Sultani of Mehmed II (minted in Constantinople in 1454)

 

57. Ottoman Gold Sultani of Suleiman I (minted in Aleppo in either 1520 or 1521)

 

58. Ottoman Gold Sultani of Ahmed I (minted in Egypt in either 1604 or 1605)

 

59. Ottoman Gold 1/2 Findik of Ahmed III (minted in Islambul in either 1703 or 1704)

 

60. Ottoman Gold Zeri Mahbub of Abdul Hamid I (minted in Egypt in 1774)

 

61. Ottoman Gold Cedid Mahmudiye of Mahmud II (minted in Constantinople sometime between 1808 and 1813)

 

62. Ceylonese Gold Kahavanu of Vijayabahu the Great (minted sometime between 1055 and 1110)

 

63. Western Ganga Dynasty Gold Gajapati Pagoda (minted sometime between 1100 and 1327)

 

64. Vijayanagara Gold 1/2 Pagoda of Hari Hara II (minted sometime between 1377 and 1404)

 

65. Kingdom of Mysore Gold Fanam from the 17th century

 

66. Burji Mamluk Gold Ashrafi of Qaitbay from the 15th century

 

67. Hotaki Gold Ashrafi of Mahmud Shah (minted in Isfahan in either 1724 or 1725)

 

68. Afsharid Gold Ashrafi of Shah Rukh (minted in Mashhad sometime between 1750 and 1755)

 

69. Safavid Gold 1/4 Ashrafi of Ismail I (minted sometime between 1501 and 1524)

 

70. Hyderabad Gold 1/8 Ashrafi of Osman Ali Khan (minted in Hyderabad in 1925)

 

71. Khanate of Bukhara Gold 1/4 Mithqal of Abdullah Khan II from the late 16th century

 

72. Roman Gold Solidus of Valentinian I (minted in Thessalonica in 364)

 

73. Roman Gold Solidus of Valens (minted in Antioch in 364)

 

74. Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Anastasius I (minted in Constantinople sometime between 491 and 518)

 

75. Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Leo III and Constantine V (minted in Constantinople sometime between 737 and 741)

 

76. Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Maurice Tiberius from the 6th century

 

77. Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Leo I from the 5th century

 

78. Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Zeno (minted in Constantinople sometime between 476 and 491)

 

79. Empire of the Romans Histamenom Nomisma of Constantine X Doukas (minted in Constantinople sometime between 1059 and 1067)

 

80. Empire of the Romans Gold Semissis of Heraclius (minted in Constantinople sometime between 610 and 613)

 

81. Empire of the Romans Gold Tremissis of Theodosius II (minted in Constantinople sometime between 408 and 420)

 

82. Kingdom of the Lombards Gold Tremissis (minted in the name of Justin II sometime between 582 and 602)

 

83. Ambiani Gold Stater from the first century BCE

 

84. Catuvellauni Gold 1/4 Stater of Cunobelin from the 1st century

 

85. Kingdom of France Gold Franc a pied of Charles V the Wise from 1365

 

86. Kingdom of Hungary Gold Forint of Matthias Corvinus (minted in Hermannstadt sometime between 1458 and 1490)

 

87. Republic of Florence Gold Fiorino Largo (minted in Florence in the first semester of 1464 by the Mint Master for Gold Bartolo Tebaldi, during the reign of Cosimo de' Medici)

 

88. Republic of Venice Gold 1/2 Scudo d'oro of Andrea Gritti (minted in Venice sometime between 1523 and 1538)

 

89. Kingdom of Portugal Gold 400 Reis of Joao V (minted in 1746)

 

90. Dutch Gold 7 Gulden (minted in Dordrecht in 1749)

 

91. Dutch Gold 6 Stuivers (minted in Dordrecht in 1770)

 

92. United States of America Gold 5 Dollars (minted in 1847, when James Knox Polk was the President)

 

93. British Empire Gold Sovereign of Victoria (minted in Sydney in 1871)

 

94. Grand Duchy of Finland Gold 10 Markkaa of Alexander III (minted in Helsinki in 1882)

 

95. Russian Gold 5 Roubles of Alexander III from 1889 (minted in Sankt-Peterburg)

 

96. Austro-Hungarian Gold 10 Crown from 1912

 

97. German Empire Gold 10 Marks of Wilhelm I (minted in Berlin, Prussia in 1875)

 

98. German Empire 20 Gold Marks from 1913 (Hamburg)

 

99. Duchy of Carinthia Gold Ducat of Karl II (minted in Klagenfurt in 1583)

 

100. Czechoslovakia Gold Ducat (minted in Kremnica in 1926)

 

101. Japanese Gold 2 Shu (minted sometime between 1832 and 1858)

 

102. Japanese Gold 2 Yen from 1870

 

103. Kingdom of Nepal Gold 1/4 Mohar of Prithvi Bir Bikram from 1895

 

104. Republic of Peru Gold 1/5 Libra (minted in Lima in 1923)

 

105. Republic of Turkey Gold 100 Kurush of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from 1957

 

106. Republic of Turkey Gold 1000000 Lira of Piri Reis (minted in Istanbul in 1997)

 

107. Republic of Korea Gold 2500 Won of Queen Seondeok (her name is spelt Sunduk on the coin itself) from 1970

 

108. South Africa Gold 1 Rand (minted in Pretoria in 1980)

 

109. Singapore 100 Singold Year of the Dragon coin from 1988

 

110. Slovenia Gold 5000 Tolar (minted in Celje in 1993)

 

111. Pahlavi Gold Pahlavi of Reza Shah Pahlavi (minted in Tehran in 1928)

 

112. Iranian Gold 1/2 Azadi from 2002

 

113. Iranian Gold 1/4 Azadi (minted in Tehran in 1979)

 

114. Aceh Sultanate Gold Kupang of Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah al-Kahar (minted sometime between 1537 and 1571)

 

115. Gepid Silver 1/4 Siliqua (minted in Sirmium)

 

116. Phoenician Silver 1/16 Shekel (minted in Sidon sometime between 425 BCE and 402 BCE)

 

117. Phoenician Silver 1/32 Shekel (minted in Biblos sometime between 450 BCE and 400 BCE)

 

118. Kingdom of Magadha Silver Karshapana (minted sometime between 430 and 320 BCE)

 

119. Mauryan Empire Silver Karshapana (minted sometime between the late 4th century and 175 BCE)

 

120. Seleucid Silver Obol of Seleucus I Nicator (struck at the Ai-Khanoum mint around 286 BCE)

 

121. Greco-Bactrian Silver Tetradrachm of Eucratides the Great (minted sometime between 170 and 145 BCE)

 

122. Indo-Greek Silver Tetradrachm of Menander I Soter (minted sometime between 165 and 130 BCE)

 

123. Indo-Greek Silver Tetradrachm of Hermaeus (minted sometime between 55 and 50 BCE)

 

124. Indo-Scythian Silver Tetradrachm of Azes II (minted in Taxila sometime between 30 and 20 BCE)

 

125. Indo-Greek Silver Drachm of Menander I Soter (minted sometime between 155 and 130 BCE)

 

126. Indo-Greek Silver Square Drachm of Apollodotus I from the 2nd century BCE

 

127. Parthian Silver Drachm of Mithradates II (minted in Ecbatana sometime between 109 and 95 BCE)

 

128. Sassanid Silver Drachm of Khosrow II (minted in Yazd in either 625 or 626)

 

129. Roman Silver Antoninianus of Phillip I (minted in Rome in 248 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Rome's founding)

 

130. Roman Silver Antoninianus of Trajan Decius (minted in Rome sometime between 249 and 251)

 

131. Vandal Silver 50 Denarii of Gunthamund (minted in Carthage sometime between 484 and 496)

 

132. Roman Silver Denarius of Trajan (minted in Rome in either 101 or 102)

 

133. Roman Silver Denarius of Lucius Verus (minted in Rome in 166)

 

134. Roman Silver Denarius of Geta (minted in Rome sometime between 200 and 205)

 

135. Roman Silver Denarius of Septimius Severus (minted circa 204)

 

136. Roman Silver Argenteus of Diocletian (minted in Siscia in 294)

 

137. Ilkhanate Silver 2 Dirhams of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (minted in Tiflis (Tbilisi) sometime between 1316 and 1335)

 

138. Eretnid Silver 2 Dirhams of Ala al-Din Eretna (minted in Erzincan in either 1346 or 1347)

 

139. Muzaffarid Silver 2 Dinars of Shah Shuja (minted in Abarkuh in either 1369 or 1370)

 

140. Abbasid Silver Dirham of Harun al-Rashid (minted at the Madinat al-Salam mint in either 806 or 807)

 

141. Umayyad Silver Dirham of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (minted in Basra in 719)

 

142. Emirate of Cordoba Silver Dirham of Abd al-Rahman I (minted at the al-Andalus (Cordoba) mint in either 783 or 784)

 

143. Emirate of Cordoba Silver Dirham of Al-Hakam I (minted at the al-Andalus (Cordoba) mint in either 811 or 812)

 

144. Emirate of Cordoba Silver Dirham of Abd al-Rahman II (minted at the al-Andalus (Cordoba) mint in either 833 or 834)

 

145. Tahirid Silver Dirham of Talha ibn Tahir (minted in Samarkand in either 825 or 826)

 

146. Saffarid Silver Dirham of Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (minted in Shiraz in either 893 or 894)

 

147. Ghorid Silver Dirham of Muhammad Ghori (minted in Baldat Ghazna in either September or October 1200)

 

148. Sultanate of Rum Silver Dirham of Kayqubad I (minted sometime between 1220 and 1237)

 

149. Sultanate of Rum Silver Dirham of Kaykhusraw II (minted in Konya in either 1241 or 1242)

 

150. Ilkhanate Silver Dirham of Mahmud Ghazan (minted in Tabriz in 1298)

 

151. Golden Horde Silver Dirham of Muhammad Uzbek (minted in Saray al-Mahrusa sometime between 1329 and 1339)

 

152. Ak Koyunlu Silver Tanka of Uzun Hasan (minted in Ani sometime between 1453 and 1478)

 

153. Ak Koyunlu Silver Tanka of Ya'qub Beg (minted in Rasht sometime between 1478 and 1490)

 

154. Kara Koyunlu Silver Tanka of Jahanshah (minted in Qom sometime between 1438 and 1467)

 

155. Timurid Silver Tanka of Sultan Husayn Bayqara (minted in Tabas sometime between 1469 and 1506)

 

156. Mughal Silver Shahrukhi of Babur (minted in Badakhshan in either 1509 or 1510)

 

157. Mughal Silver Shahrukhi of Humayun (minted in Kandahar in either 1543 or 1544)

 

158. Sur Empire Silver Rupee of Sher Shah Suri (minted in Shergarh in either 1541 or 1542)

 

159. Mughal Silver Rupee of Jahangir (minted in Ahmadnagar sometime between 1605 and 1627)

 

160. Mughal Silver Rupee of Shah Jahan (minted in Multan in 1642)

 

161. Mughal Silver Rupee of Muhammad Shah (minted in Lahore in either 1744 or 1745)

 

162. Afghani Silver Rupee of Mahmud Shah Durrani (minted in Peshawar in either 1815 or 1816)

 

163. Sikh Silver Rupee of Ranjit Singh (minted in Amritsar in 1826)

 

164. Kingdom of Hungary Silver Denar of Coloman (minted sometime between 1095 and 1116)

 

165. Kingdom of Hungary Silver Denar of Ladislaus IV (minted in Zagreb sometime between 1272 and 1290)

 

166. Kingdom of Hungary Silver Denar of Nikola III Zrinski (minted in Kostajnica, Croatia in 1531)

 

167. Bosnian Silver Dinar of Stjepan Tomašević Kotromanić (minted sometime between 1461 and 1463)

 

168. Serbian Silver Dinar of Stefan Uroš IV Dušan (minted sometime between 1331 and 1355)

 

169. Bulgarian Empire Silver Grosh of Ivan Alexander (minted sometime between 1331 and 1371)

 

170. Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Silver 1/2 Grosh of Sigismund II Augustus (minted in Vilnius in 1559)

 

171. Cilician Armenia Silver Tram of Levon I (minted sometime between 1198 and 1219)

 

172. Kingdom of England Silver Penny of Edward I (minted in Canterbury sometime between 1279 and 1307)

 

173. Candar Silver Akce of Celaleddin Kötürüm Bayezid (minted in Kastamonu sometime between 1361 and 1383)

 

174. Kara Koyunlu Silver Akce of Pir Budak Khan (minted sometime between 1411 and 1418)

 

175. Ottoman Silver Akce of Musa Celebi (minted in Edirne in either 1410 or 1411)

 

176. Ottoman Silver Akce of Bayezid II (minted in Novar (Novo Brdo, Kosovo) in either 1481 or 1482)

 

177. Crimean Khanate Silver Akce of Mengli Giray I

 

178. Kingdom of Sweden Silver 1 Ore of Carl XII (minted in Stockholm in 1716)

 

179. Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) Silver 2 Ducati (minted sometime between 1791 and 1795)

 

180. German Reich Silver 2 Mark of Paul von Hindenburg (minted in Berlin in 1939)

 

181. Khmer Republic (Cambodia) Silver 5000 Riels from 1974

 

182. Republic of Armenia Silver 25 Dram (commemorating the Temple of Garni) from 1994

 

183. Roman Billon Antoninianus of Aurelian, with Vabalathus (minted in Antioch sometime between November 270 and March 272)

 

184. Roman Billon Antoninianus of Probus (minted in Siscia in 279)

 

185. Ionian Bronze Homereion (minted in Smyrna in either the 2nd or 1st century BCE)

 

186. Roman Bronze As of Germanicus (minted in either 37 or 38)

 

187. Nabatean Bronze Drachm of Aretas IV and his wife Shaqilat (minted in Petra sometime between 20 and 40)

 

188. Nabataean Bronze Shekel of Rabbel II and his wife Hagru (minted sometime between 102 and 106)

 

189. Khwarazmian Bronze Jital of Mangburni from the 13th century

 

190. Tang Dynasty Bronze 1 Wen Kaiyuan Tongbao from 621

 

191. Joseon Bronze Mun of King Sejong the Great from 1423

 

192. Qing Dynasty Brass 1 Wen Kangxi Tongbao Boo-chiowan (minted sometime between 1662 and 1722)

 

193. Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) Copper Folar from the 15th century (it was minted sometime between 1440 and 1449)

 

194. Empire of the Romans Bronze 1/2 Follis of Justinian I (minted in Salona sometime between 550 and 553)

 

195. Lebanese Bronze 5 Piastres (minted in Paris in 1936)

 

196. Annamese Copper 1 Cash Hồng Đức Thông Bảo (minted sometime between 1470 and 1497)

 

197. Independent State of Croatia Zinc 2 Kune (minted in Zagreb in 1941)

Edited November 15, 2024 by Croatian Coin Collector

[-monolith-]

Uh, not exactly sure. My current files tell me about 250 Roman Imperial and just over 300 Greek + Provincial with another 30+ still to be filed. Most of these have been purchased over the past two years. So averaging about 200-250 coins per year (single purchases, no group lots). 

[Finn235]

[panzerman]

I keep a detailed list/ I am at 1410 coins/ same as the date the Battle of Tannenburg was fought between Teutonic Order and Polish-Livonian Armies.

650-600BC         7

599-500BC      17

499-400BC      21

399-300BC      26

299-200BC     24

199-100BC    30

99-1AD      17

2-99AD   30

100-199AD 37

200-299AD    46

Here are a few of them

300-399AD    51

400-499AD    55

500-599AD   65

Ancients 459 includes AR Denari to.          

[Limes]

I've been infected since 2015, but got the more serious symptoms in 2017. I've been able to contain it with hard work and perserverance. I'm at 142 coins now: 18 Roman republic; 42 '12 Caesars'; 43 'adoptive emperors'; 18 Severan dynasty; 5 'soldier emperors'; 11 'Tetrarchy and Constatine'; 5 'Greek and others'. During this period I've sold about 46 coins. 

Here's my little museum:

Edited November 17, 2024 by Limes

[Sulla80]

I have been collecting (on and off) since my childhood - my mother had a collection of Indian Head pennies and a bag of misc coins she had picked up from countries she had lived in or visited that caught my imagination.  Most of my collection is from the last 20 years.  My primary collection contains 407 Roman Republican & Imperatorial denarii. 

My favorites from this collection end up on my Gallery (https://www.sullacoins.com/roman-republic) and Notes Pages along with sub-collections of coins from other time periods.  In recent years, the coins that I am looking for, or willing to afford, in the RR collection are few and far between. 

My first ancient coin, a gift from a generous shop owner in Italy who was on my walk home from elementary school of a coin "not good enough to sell" - the wonder in hand of a coin that was almost 1800 years old fueled my interest in history: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/postumus-romano-gallic-emperor

A coin of Roman Republican general, consul and dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla's Uncle Publius (or possibly grandfather): https://www.sullacoins.com/post/sulla-s-uncle-or-grandfather

Led East by stories that intersect with the Roman Republic, coins shared by members of this forum and having traveled to Japan, China, India, and north Africa in the last 10-15 years, I have had a growing interest in Asian & Islamic coins that open a window into rulers, peoples and history that were (and are) much less known to me.
 

A denarius friendly issue from Traos under Roman control? https://www.sullacoins.com/post/artemis-abydos

A descendant (great-grand son) of Mark Antony: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/crocodiles-and-romans

Aelius Gallus visits North North Africa: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/coins-of-arbia-felix-himyarite-kingdom-starter-kit

Satavahanas (India) contemporary with the time of the Roman Republic (this coin overstruck sometime after 71 AD😞 https://www.sullacoins.com/post/ancient-india-coin-gallery

and even more remote from the Romans in time, a 13th/14th Century Common Era (CE), a tri-lingual coin (Mongolian (Uighur script), Chinese (Phags-Pa script), and Arabic (Kufic script)) an AR 2 Dirham coin of Ilkhanid ruler, Mahmud Ghazan (CE 1295-1304) :https://www.sullacoins.com/post/a-bride-from-kublai-khan

 

Edited November 17, 2024 by Sulla80

[Sulla80]

On 11/14/2024 at 10:06 AM, sand said:

I've been collecting coins since I was 9 years old. At age 9, I started collecting US and world coins. I sort of stopped collecting coins at age 10, when I started collecting postage stamps like a maniac.

[Sulla80]

On 11/14/2024 at 10:33 AM, seth77 said:

 

LOL - "it's either 136 or 142" 😉

[ewomack]

Like many others here, I started collecting in my long lost ages of youth. I don't have an exact coin count because so many have come and gone over the years and I only relatively recently started keeping records on what I buy and sell. In total, I probably have a few hundred coins spread out between US, Japanese, various Arabic, Canadian, UK, Mexican, Uruguayan, medieval, ancient, and other various types. When I began focusing on Byzantines a few years ago, I started keeping count for some reason. I know that I currently have 31 Byzantines. Any other counts, I have no idea. I've cut down on buying considerably in the past few years and have focused on buying fewer, but more expensive, coins. I've tried to shift focus to quality over quantity. So I might be buying less, but spending similar amounts, if not more. I haven't collected to "fill holes" in a long time. I know that I will never possess everything that I would ever want, so I stopped trying and I now just buy what I like when it comes into view. I am now much more relaxed about collecting. I don't care about what I don't have and enjoy what I do have far more than previously when I was a frantic, constantly rummaging, and probably hopelessly addicted, collector. This approach and pace seems to work for me.