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Members' Coin Collection GalleriesClassical Numismatic Discussion Board Members may create their own free Personal Ancient Coin Gallery. No limit to the number of coins added. More is better!

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Coin Collecting Theme Galleries Galleries for various coin collecting themes, including best of type, masterpiece portraits, unpublished coins, plate coins, historic women, architectural, animals, and many more. These galleries are free for all to post coins. No cost registration is required. Suggestions for new gallery themes are welcome.

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Best of Type!

Add your superb coins to the BOT Gallery. Only the very best example of each type (RIC number for example) with above a four star rating after 10 votes will stay in BOT. A challenge begins when two coins of the same type are listed. The highest rated coin after both have sufficient votes wins. Challenge defeats will be removed from the gallery. If your coin is posted here, you get bragging rights and perhaps even a higher price if you sell (list it as "Best of the Type in FORVM's Gallery!").

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Superb and Masterpiece Portraits Gallery

A superb portrait appears that it could come to life. Many or most coin portraits actually lack this trait. A masterpiece portrait not only appears that it could come to life, but also makes an impression of what the subject was like, what they were thinking or how they felt. It's not about the grade; it's about the art.

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Unlisted and Unpublished Coins

Post unpublished coins to identify them to collectors, scholars, authors, and publishers. Also post coins unlisted in major references but perhaps included in a scarce publication. Before uploading here, we recommend posting your coin on the discussion board for possible identification of a published example. Please identify the references checked.

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Plate Coins

Please post your coins illustrated in popular references, and scholarly books or articles here. Also, please post your coin if it is the exact coin (not the same type, the exact same coin) described by a reference, even if the coin is not illustrated. In addition to the usual attribution, description, weight, and diameter of the coin, please identify the book, its author, the page and/or plate number, and the item number.

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Monumental Coins - Campgates and Other Architecture

Campgates, city gates, temples, etc., post your monumental coins here.

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Ancient Women

Women of the ancient world portrayed on ancient coins.

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Coin Zoo - Animals

Express your wild side and help populate the greatest classical numismatic zoo on earth with every possible variety of real and mythical animals.

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The Pantheon - Gods, Goddesses and Personifications

A gallery of mythology. Please include information about the deity and their attributes.

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Historical Coins

Share your historically significant coins. Along with posting photos of the coin, please describe the historic event related to the coin.

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Ancient Counterfeits and Barbarous Imitations

Ancient but not official.

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Roman Mint Style Examples

Each Roman mint had its own style. Learning about these styles will help with attribution and authentication. Discussion board members please share your knowledge here. Along with posting photos of the coin, please explain the features that distinguish the mint.

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Countermarks

We hope this gallery will become a great reference for countermarks. Please add your countermarked coins to this gallery with as much reference information as possible.

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Viminacium and Dacia - Lion and Bull

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Lead Seals

The vast array of ancient lead seal types makes their attribution and study complex. It also means there is still tremendous opportunity for new discovery. While there are some published collections, most references are rare and expensive. Most online references for seals are not in English. This gallery is intended to be a useful resource for the attribution and better understanding of ancient seals.

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Coins from Members' Personal Ancient Coin Galleries

If you want to remove coin photos from your gallery, please don't delete them - move them here. Forum staff will move photos here from the galleries of members that unregister.

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Places and Things Depicted on Coins

Statues, temples, mountains and other things that were depicted on ancient coins.

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Ancient Sites Photo Gallery

Did you go on a vacation to an ancient site or do you live near one? Upload your pictures here to share views of ancient cities, buildings, ruins, etc. Please state where the pictures were taken and give a brief description of the site.

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Crispus 9.01.035Crispus
Obv CRISPVS NOB CAES
(R .laur, draped, cuir)
Rev VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP
(Two victories standing facing one another, shield held above altar, wreath on altar)
PLN in ex
London
RIC VII 179 (r4) LMCC 9.01.035 (S)
London
2.9g, 18.7 mm x 20.3 mm
(ex Roma Numismatics E Sale 118, lot 1865)NoviomagusApr 19, 2024

paul1888Apr 19, 2024

Japan. Tokugawa Shogunate. Bunkyu Eiho (So Bun = Cursive script).Hartill 5.17; Jones (2007) 355; KM C 6a; Zeno # 332046

4 mon (cast copper alloy; made from old 1 mon coins); cast from March 1863 (Bunkyu 3) to 1868 at the Asakusa mint (near Edo) and Kosuge mint; written by Court Councillor Itakura Katsuyoshi; 3.86 g., 26.87 mm., 0°

Obv.: 文久永寶 Bun Kyu Ei Ho (=Eternal Treasure of the Bunkyu Era); cursive script, wide rim around hole

Rev.: Eleven nami/waves

Hartill rarity VC; In total, 891,515,631 bunkyu Eiho of all varieties were cast.StkpApr 19, 2024

Severus Alexander Denarius (Sol with whip, RIC IV 120) v.1SEVERUS ALEXANDER, AD 222-235
AR Denarius (20.28mm, 3.95g, 6h)
Struck AD 233. Rome mint
Obverse: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust of Severus Alexander right
Reverse: P M TR P XII COS III P P, Sol, radiate with cloak over left shoulder, advancing left, holding whip in left hand and raising right hand
References: RIC IV 120, RCV 7915

A superb specimen, with lovely old cabinet toning, sharply struck on a broad and heavy flan.2 commentsCPKApr 18, 2024

Septimius Severus Denarius RIC IVa 267aSeptimius Severus AR denarius

19.5mm, 3.45g, 0 degrees, Rome mint, 203 CE.

Attribution: RIC IVa 267a. Cohen 217 (222var in Mouchmov). BMCRE V 333.

O: SEVERVS PIVS AVG, Laureate head right

R: INDVLGENTIA AVGG IN CARTH, Dea Caelestis, facing, riding lion leaping to the right, holding drum and sceptre, water gushing from rocks on the left.

3 examples in Reka Devnia, Mouchmov P.96.

Ex-CNG e-auction 559, lot 521, April 3, 2024. Ex-Weise Collection. Ex-Barry P. Murphy inventory 12343 (2003)2 commentsRon C2Apr 18, 2024

Septimius Severus Denarius RIC IVa 269Septimius Severus AR denarius

16.0mm, 3.14g, 180 degrees, Rome mint, 204 CE.

Attribution: RIC IVa 269. Cohen 229. BMCRE V 340.

O: SEVERVS PIVS AVG, Laureate head right

R: INVICTA VIRTVS, Septimius Severus on horseback right, cloak flying behind him, brandishing javelin at fallen foe.

1 example in Reka Devnia, Mouchmov P.96.

Ex-CNG e-auction 559, lot 522, April 3, 2024. Ex-Weise Collection, purchased from Anglo Antiquities on Ebay, 2003.1 commentsRon C2Apr 18, 2024

RIC 0641T CAES IMP PON TR P COS II CENS
Laureate head right.

VICTORIA AVGVST SC.
Victoria standing right on prow, holding wreath and palm.

Rome, 73 CE

11.03 g. 28.00 mm.

RIC 641 (R)

Ex-Artemidea eLive 32, lot 4773 commentsJay GT4Apr 18, 2024

Rèmes (Région de Reims) Potin au bucrane (Ier siècle avant J.-C.)20.3mm; 6.51g; 6h
DT.221T.MooTApr 18, 2024

N248Roman Empire Coin. AR Denarius of Vespasian. Rome Mint. AD 69/70. OBV: Laureate head of Vespasian right / IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG. REV: Judaea seated right in attitude of mourning with trophy left / IVDAEA. RIC II.1 (2nd ed) Vespasian 2; Hendin 6509.

Acquired from Hobart Dealer (2022)
Bought from Romanorum (April 2024)2 commentsSebastian H2Apr 18, 2024

BCC MA56 Roman Finger Ring Engraved with AnchorRoman Finger Ring
Caesarea Maritima
2nd-4th Century CE?
Copper alloy ring with interior traces
of gilding. Thin oval hoop with very
low, slightly hemispheroid cross-section,
widening gradually from a narrow base
to wider, rounded shoulders. The hoop's
shoulders lead directly into a flat oval
bezel of the same thickness as the hoop,
and engraved with a horizontal anchor.
AE 18.5 x 16 x 7mm. Wt. 1.62gm.
cf. Hendler Collection #406 (copper alloy
ring, different engraving); cf. BMC 1872,
0604.339 (gold); cf. BMC 1894,0413.13
(cabachon with chi-rho and anchor).
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1974
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-dromeApr 18, 2024

Great Britain Lord Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson 1758 - 1805The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society Membership Token

Tin medal; Hardy 94; Weight 8.7g; Diameter 32mm; Die axis 0o; Date 1905; Obverse: uniformed bust of Lord Vice Admiral Nelson l., in l. field: №, circular and clockwise ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY inscribed on a belt with the fastened buckle at 6 1/2h; Reverse: port-quarter view of a three-masted ship partially dismasted driving on the rocks in a heavy sea, clockwise SHIPWRECKED MARINERS SOCIETY, ・1861・at 6h between the start and end of the legend. Slot pierced for suspension. Creator: Joseph Davis.

Photo Credits: 56salesman

Per Royal Museums Greenwich this is a membership token issued annually as a receipt for a subscription. I assume that the № in the left field was for inscribing one’s membership number, but I have no evidence of that. The date at 6h is the date of issue.3 commentsTracy AielloApr 17, 2024

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PMTRP VIIII Victoria VOT DlsdObverse: IMPSEVALE_XANDERAVG
Bust laureate right, left shoulder slightly draped
Reverse: PMTRPVIIIICOSIIIPP, SC left and right very low in field
Victory draped, standing right, left foot on helmet, inscribing VOT X on shield set on trunk of palm tree.
BMC 637, RIC 506
Weight, 9.824g; die axis, 12h.
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TROAS, BirytisTROAS, Birytis 300-250 B.C. AE 1.23 g. Bearded head of Kabiros l., wearing pileus. Rev. Î’-Î™/Î¡-Î¥ Club, whole in laurel wreath. SNG Munich 170. SNG Tübingen 2574.ecoli

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