Author Topic: What's new at Potator's ? (Read 51410 times)

Potator II · « **on:** April 17, 2009, 11:36:05 am »

Hi,

Quite a while since I posted here. I've added some pics to my gallery.
My Plautilla series is growing constantly. Among the 14 types of denarii minted for her in Rome, there are now 11 showing Here, 5 of them being newly added to my collection.

I also added today an Antioch tetradrachm minted for Otacilia Severa : Here

Corrections and comments are, as always, welcome
Thanks for looking

Potator

Noah · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:47:30 pm »

As always, you have impeccable taste! Very few have the resources you have to acquire such quality coins, but more telling still, even fewer have your keen eye to select the best of the best...

Best, Noah

casata137ec · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:13:39 am »

Beautiful collection. After Noah's review I can't really say more...he said it all!

Chris

mdelvalle · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2009, 12:19:34 am »

Only the best of the best...

Congratulations
Mario

Minos · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2009, 08:00:01 pm »

Beurk...

Toutes plus jolies les unes que les autres, un délice pour les yeux

Potator II · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2009, 10:40:41 am »

Thanks all,

Yet another Plautilla added. Now 12 out of 14 different types I've recensed for the Rome mint.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-42871

To complete the series, I need now to find a decent CONCORDIA AETERNAE and the very rare CONCORDIA FELIX featuring the 2nd portrait (vertical ridges and low bun)

Potator

David Atherton · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2009, 11:47:29 am »

I wish you copious luck in finding the two to complete the series. I too know what it's like to search and search (sometimes in vain) for that one elusive coin to fill a hole in my collection. At least we don't suffer alone.

Wonderful gallery BTW.

Potator II · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2009, 04:15:40 pm »

Hi,

Yesterday was Lyon (Lugdunum) annual coin fair. Not THE big big coin fair as one could expect, but quite a few nice coins, enough for my purse actually.

I came back with a few new coins. Two new characters in my gallery : ORBIANA and HOSTILIAN

and two Siliquae for emperors already represented, but not with silver : THEODOSIVS I and ARCADIVS

Coins to which I should add a recent acquisition from a bid sale : DIVA FAVSTINA II which has probably had better days, but I loved the veiled portrait

Thanks for looking
Potator

Enodia · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2009, 04:21:50 pm »

i like the veiled Faustina Jr. too.

nice additions Potator.

mdelvalle · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2009, 05:29:17 pm »

Hi Potator,
As always I don't have words. Very nice and rare pieces. Congratulations.

Mario

Potator II · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2009, 01:20:36 pm »

Hi,

My first Delmatius coin ever is here

Very difficult to photography because of a thick green patina, very pleasant in hand, but AAAARGGGH, it took ages to get a mediocre pic

Potator

Potator II · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2009, 11:48:41 am »

For a change, I show you a coin I've been searching for ten years or so.
It's a gold ecu minted in Dombes in 1641 for Gaston d'Orleans, prince of Dombes.

Not yet in hand, but I can show you the dealer's pic

Dombes - Gaston d’Orléans (1627-1650) Ecu d’or - 1641.
Av. : +•GASTO•FR VN•REG•VSVFR•PRIN•DOMB•G•
Rv. : +:DOMINVS•ADIVTOR•ET•REDEM•ME•1641:
3.31g -
Ref : Divo manque cf. 177 var. de ponctuation - Fr. 129

"La Dombes" is a region of France situated between Lyon, Villefranche sur Saone and Bourg en Bresse, which has been ruled by princes under the authority of the kings of France during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, with allowance of minting their own currency.

Their coins were merely copied from the french royal coins, just changing the names and symbols, so that people (most of them couldn't read at this time) would take them as equal to french coins. They were legal tender in the whole kingdom. My interest in that coinage comes from me living a few kilometers from the border of that region. When I started collecting them, 10 years or so ago, there was no recent reference book about them, the last one had been edited in the 19th century. Since then Mr Jean Paul DIVO, the famous swiss numismatist, has writen a very useful book about Dombes coinage, that gives a much better view of the relative rarity of these coins, some of them being very rare.

My growing collection is here

Thanks for looking
Potator

Minos · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2009, 12:46:31 pm »

Nice, but I'm sold to ancients

Au fait, pas si mal ta photo du Delmatius, peut-être un tantinet trop de luminosité mais rien de dramatique.

Potator II · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2009, 04:17:44 pm »

Not that I disregard roman coins (all the contrary I like to look at other's treasures at the moment) but I've acquired three major gold coins for the Dombes principality (sold as is, I had to buy it all or say goodbye

) that left me dry for some months.

A very rare franc a cheval for Jean II, prince de Bourbon

Another very rare franc a cheval for Pierre II, prince de Bourbon

And an unpublished and unrecorded pistole for Louis II de Montpensier

The whole collection is now visible on my blog Here

Thanks for looking
Potator

mdelvalle · « **Reply #14 on:** August 25, 2009, 06:32:01 pm »

Hi Potator, as always very beautiful pieces. Congratulations.

Saludos
Mario

slokind · « **Reply #15 on:** August 25, 2009, 06:59:03 pm »

Those francs à cheval are wonderful! Beautiful. If that is all I know about 15c French coinage, at least I have eyes to see.
Pat L.

Potator II · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2009, 02:19:46 am »

Thanks Mario and Pat.

Potator

casata137ec · « **Reply #17 on:** August 29, 2009, 10:38:19 am »

Very nice collection. I particularly like the big Theodocius I. Thanks!

Chris

Arminius · « **Reply #18 on:** August 29, 2009, 11:47:48 am »

It´s very hard to find adequate words for a collection with such excellent preserved coins and unique medieval gold!

Potator II · « **Reply #19 on:** September 30, 2009, 01:56:06 pm »

Hi all,

So lazy I didn't find time before to add pics of the few parthian coins I possess. Now it's done (Have to add some informations though)

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2708

Thanks for looking
Potator

mihali84 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:20:01 pm »

Excellent collection to say the least! Great Greek bronze collection, amazing condition throughout. Congratulations!

- Mike

mdelvalle · « **Reply #21 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:55:18 pm »

Without words

Congratulations!

Saludos
Mario

Noah · « **Reply #22 on:** September 30, 2009, 06:08:54 pm »

Mike and Mario have summed it up well. I am not very familiar with these coins, but I can say these are excellent specimens to say the least. Congrats indeed!

Best, Noah

Johnny · « **Reply #23 on:** September 30, 2009, 08:50:16 pm »

What Can I say that has not been said already, great collection

mihali84 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2009, 01:23:15 am »

I've figured it out! Potator has a time machine!

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