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Offline Enodia

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #875 on: October 04, 2022, 12:19:35 am »
I got this one last week, and I absolutely love it!...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=177361

I fell in love with the portrait of Demeter on sight, and I hit the buy button immediately, which I never do! The nicely detailed Poseidon reverse didn't hurt either.
The package arrived in about three days despite what must have been scarey conditions in North Carolina. Thank you Joe, and I hope all is well.

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(I haven't cracked the shell yet, but I will soon)


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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #876 on: October 04, 2022, 02:02:16 pm »
Thanks Peter. It wasn't too bad here and it is a beautiful cool fall day today.
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #877 on: October 04, 2022, 03:57:25 pm »
Bigger picture, please. This coin really deserves it!
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #879 on: October 05, 2022, 06:03:14 pm »
Just got this one today, my first coin of the Cappadocia Kingdom. I think it is lovely with a very interesting reverse and it fits right in with my interest in Turkish mints and Pontos in particular. Plus I have spent some time in the mint city, today's Kayseri.

Reign of Archelaus, c. 36 B.C. - 17 A.D.
Bronze AE 14, Sydenham Caesarea 22; Imhoof MG p. 416, 178; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -; BMC Galatia -; Lindgren -, VF, green patina, light scratches, marks, Eusebeia (Kayseri, Turkey) mint, weight 2.611g, maximum diameter 14.3mm, c. 36 B.C. - 14 A.D.; obverse winged bust of Nike right; reverse wing of Nike, EYΣE/BEIAΣ in two downward flanking lines, starting on the right, A (control) below; very rare;

The last few coins from Forum have also arrived extremely quickly, so I appreciate that, too. I know Joe sends stuff quickly, but the US Mail seems to have improved over the past few months.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #880 on: October 22, 2022, 10:55:51 am »
Greetings,

A great Forum Purchase O’ The Day, although not of today but of 110 days ago. Another wonderful coin from Joe’s great shop.

Gnaeus Pompey Junior, Imperator and oldest Son of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). Silver denarius, 3.659g; 19.8mm; Die axis: 180º; Hispania, Cordoba; 46 - 45 BC.
Obv: M POBLICI LEG PRO counterclockwise from below and PR counterclockwise behind (M. Poblicius, Gnaeus Pompey Jr.’s legatus pro praetore), helmeted head of Roma r. Bead and reel border.
Rev: CN MAGNVS IMP counterclockwise in exergue and on right, Hispania on l. standing r., round shield on her back, two transverse spears in l. hand, presenting palm frond with r. hand to a soldier (Gnaeus Pompey?) standing l. on prow, l. hand resting on pommel of sword in sheath. Border of dots.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #881 on: October 22, 2022, 03:32:19 pm »
Nice one, Tracy.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #882 on: December 31, 2022, 11:32:55 am »
bump
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #883 on: December 31, 2022, 01:07:32 pm »
bump
Ouch! That hurt!  ;D

I really should have posted this coin here when I bought it, especially since I like it a lot. But, better late than never I suppose. London issue of Severus II, ex Errett Bishop Collection too.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=162890

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #884 on: December 31, 2022, 01:11:54 pm »
Better late than never. Thanks. :)
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #885 on: December 31, 2022, 01:32:19 pm »
Another of my FORVM purchases which I failed to advertise before.  :-[

Licinius I, London Mint.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #886 on: December 31, 2022, 02:02:26 pm »
Great coin.  Congrats

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #887 on: December 31, 2022, 02:39:08 pm »
Nice coins everyone. Happy to see the bump, I thought I was posting too much, so I slowed down. But here is a relatively recent purchase for my very small Roman Republican collection. It is in my Gallery already.

Silver denarius, BMCRR I Rome 1517 (same control), Crawford 317/3a, Sydenham 578, RSC I Appuleia 1 var., SRCV I 193, VF, toned, off center, light marks, Rome mint, weight 3.821g, maximum diameter 20.5mm, die axis 270o, 104 B.C.; obverse head of Roma left, wearing winged helmet with a three-piece peaked visor and ornamented with a griffin head, earring and necklace; reverse Saturn in a quadriga right, reins in left hand, harpa in raised right hand,T above, L·SATVRN in exergue

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #888 on: December 31, 2022, 04:12:33 pm »
There is no such thing as too much posting FORVM purchases. :)

Thanks to everyone posting here for your business and for posting your FORVM coins!
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #889 on: January 01, 2023, 09:21:42 pm »
One more for now, this is what I call a fun coin. Totally out of my realm of collecting, but I have been to Landshut, so that counts for coins from places I have been. And I do like medieval coins. And I got it because it has a dog. This one is really nice in hand and quite interesting. It would appear that Henry XVI the Rich was a not a great guy.

German States, Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut, Henry XVI the Rich, 1393 - 1450 A.D.
Silver pfennig, Wittelsbach 3435, VF, Ötting (Altötting, Germany) mint, weight 0.520g, maximum diameter 15.5mm, die axis 45o, 1393 - 1450 A.D.; obverse hound left, tree on far side; reverse Gothic letter H between two annulets, struck over raised square (quadratum supercusum); ex Münzenhandlung Manfred Olding (Osnabrück, Germany)

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #890 on: January 02, 2023, 10:04:01 am »
Here are some more of the coins which I have purchased from FORVM in the past. I have also bought several books as well and I have not been disappointed with anything.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #891 on: January 03, 2023, 12:20:51 am »
My Christmas present to myself:

Thanks Joe!

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #892 on: January 03, 2023, 06:35:24 pm »
It is a spectacular portrait. Thanks for your business.
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #893 on: January 03, 2023, 10:47:33 pm »
Agreed!  An incredible coin!

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #894 on: January 05, 2023, 06:04:34 pm »
That last coin is simply amazing. Here is my latest one from Forum, it may be the last coin purchase in a while as I spent way too much last year. LOL. Anyway, I love this one for two reasons. One is the historical context of both the times and the coin itself. The other reason is the opposite of why I love the Republican coin of Diana and the dog that is full of white space. This coin is fascinating because they crammed so much on it, it is almost unattractive. This is perhaps the "busiest" coin I have. I do like it in hand, arrived today.

Roman Republic, First Triumvirate, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus & Publius Plautius Hypsaeus, 58 B.C.

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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #895 on: January 05, 2023, 07:09:38 pm »
Busy with great stuff! Thanks for your business!
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Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #896 on: January 07, 2023, 09:47:35 am »
Wanted to add this Tranquillina that I got from Forum. I just added it to the new gallery I'm constructing for the chronology of emperors. Definitely the best Tranquillina I now have.

Description: Bronze AE 24. Cappadocia, Caesarea (Kayseri, Turkey). 7.322g, 23.9mm. 243 - 244 A.D. Obv: CAB TPANKVΛΛINA AV (Sabinia Tranquillina Augusta), draped bust to right, wearing stephane. Rev: MHTP KAI B NE (Metropolis Caesarea, 2 neokoroi), six grain ears bound together, ET-Z (year 7 [of Gordian III]) across fields. RPC VII.2 3401. A FORUM coin.

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« Reply #897 on: January 07, 2023, 11:50:36 am »
Well centered, good portrait, nice patina, nice coin! Thanks!
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #898 on: January 08, 2023, 05:06:38 pm »
Here's November purchase that came with a wonderful surprise (as have many of the sale catalogs I've bought from Forum... I wonder if this was another group from Alex Malloy's old catalogs, as I've noticed for some others?)...

Note: The coin is NOT ex-Forum, only the CATALOG.

The catalogs' photography (scans, I think) is low production-value but there are over 4,000 (!) ancients cataloged, with between 1k-2k illustrated! Some important provenances noted. And cataloged by Matt Kreuzer, who is well-known and -- as far as I can tell -- respected as a competent, professional numismatist. (These aren't in Gengerke's U.S. auction biblio, but they're noted in Fitzwilliam's catalog [LINK].)

CLASSICAL CASH (Matt Kreuzer, Boston, MA). Kreuzer's first two Mail Bid Sales (5 May 1995 & 28 April 1996).

MBS 1 (13.5.95): 1,165 Lots Ancient (pp. 2-102), majority ill., plus >200 modern (103-117); large-format, soft cover, B&W.
Images apparently from a scanner, low resolution. Much worse than typical DIY dealer catalogs from 1950s-1990s, despite plenty of coins that would sell for four figures today.

MBS 2 (28.4.96): >3,150 Lots Ancient (pp. 1-111), many illustrated, plus 700 modern (111-120), hundreds of antiquities, esp. lamps & rings (121-137); large-format, soft cover, B&W.
Image quality perhaps a bit better than MBS 1, but still low for the time; smaller print (large-print editions were available) with smaller proportion illustrated (but more total ill.); some repetition of material.



I use sale catalogs for provenance research, but I didn't have very high hopes for these ones. But the price was very attractive & they'd come in handy some day. (It's a numbers game: Look through enough old catalogs, keep as many on your shelves as you can, keep checking them, and you'll find lost provenances.)

So, I was thrilled to make an immediate and completely unexpected discovery ...



My favorite part: "Apparently unpublished and probably important"!

As it happens, I had just purchased that coin from CNG (27 years later).
The only known example of an XL bronze (35mm, 21.2g) of Antoninus Pius from Hadrianopolis in Thrace (this coin = RPC IV 11165 Temp [LINK] = Varbanov II, 3145). (Not Amphipolis as Kreuzer suspected.)

COIN PHOTOS: You can see the coin's image from CNG [LINK] or here on RPC [LINK], or Varbanov vol. 2 if you have a copy. (Elsewhere I made illustrations showing how he modified CNG's 2002 photo [LINK].)

Both CNG and RPC had described it as the second known example, the first having been published in Varbanov II, 3145. Comparing the auction photos to Varbanov's, it became clear that Varbanov had modified the photo from CNG 61 (25 September 2002), lot 1021 (the photo now in RPC). (Darkening some pixels around legends, also giving it better centering, etc.) In any case, just one coin.

The Kreuzer/Classical Cash catalog doesn't given anything earth-shattering about where the coin came from, but being a bit of a mysterious coin, I was very happy to have found another link in its chain-of-custody, and to have pushed back the date of the coin's import to the USA by another 7 years or so to 1995.

ALSO: An interesting thing about dealer lists and catalogs from the 1990s (any time, really) is you can find interesting reflections of changing historical/technological circumstances. The internet was becoming important to ancient coin dealing, publishing & photography were changing, home-printing and scanning were becoming available....

It's no knock on this purchase (which I'm thrilled with) or Kreuzer personally, just a "historical observation": Looks to me like he might've used a scanner for the images. It really didn't come out well! He published two more Classical Cash catalogs (I don't yet have copies), then 5-14 were online only, and according to Fitzwilliam, "nos 15-20 published as a single pamphlet." I'm not sure how many more lists he published under his name, but he continued doing business as oldromancoins.com for quite a while.
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Re: Forum purchase o' the day
« Reply #899 on: January 08, 2023, 05:37:17 pm »
Very interesting about the photos Curtis.  Did Varbanov mention that he adjusted the photo?  Perhaps this deserves it's own post

 

 

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