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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #50 on: October 17, 2014, 04:06:45 pm »
I've never seen that type before.  It's very nice and I'm so glad you got what you've wanted for so long!

As usual, love the write-up :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #51 on: October 17, 2014, 10:55:45 pm »
thanks Nick!

while not pristine, it really does look much better in hand. Persephone's portrait is quite lovely, but my imaging doesn't do Her justice.
at one time many years ago i aspired to specialize in Syracusan coinage, but this is actually my first truly Sicilian AR. and it is quite a chunk of silver!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #52 on: October 26, 2014, 12:21:09 am »
another new Persephone...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-113601  

this coin was very cheap, but it is actually quite charming. "much better in hand" as they say, especially with such a tiny little blob of bronze.
i have an issue with the traditional attribution though, but what's new?   :evil:  

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« Reply #53 on: December 12, 2014, 04:20:30 pm »
here's the latest addition to my gallery, an AE hemidrachm from right here at Forvm...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-115689

i noticed a short while back that my Syracuse collection had no representation from the 'Time of Timoleon', so that has now been corrected.   :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #54 on: February 19, 2015, 06:22:50 am »
i just added another AE3 of Julian as Augustus, this one from Siscia...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-118398

i don't really collect Late Roman coins anymore but this guy fascinates me. and since i'm right in the middle of Gore Vidal's Julian i thought i'd treat myself.   :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #55 on: February 19, 2015, 12:56:00 pm »
Hi Peter

 Yes I agree Julian was an interesting people....

I have some type of his coin may be interest you  :)

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3914

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #56 on: February 19, 2015, 04:01:49 pm »
that's an impressive Julian collection quadrans, thanks for sharing.   :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #57 on: February 19, 2015, 04:31:34 pm »
that's an impressive Julian collection quadrans, thanks for sharing.   :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #58 on: July 03, 2015, 02:39:02 am »
my latest addition is a bronze from Pella, featuring a veiled facing Demeter.
although it is not rare or historically important, it has great personal significance to me.

and even though the condition isn't great, the wear gives it a certain haunting feel i think, almost like Demeter is approaching out of the mist...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-121786

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #59 on: July 03, 2015, 02:42:56 am »
Nice addition..

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #60 on: July 23, 2015, 08:14:09 pm »
thank you quadrans.

i just added a new Julian II bronze purchased from here at Forvm, this one a Fel Temp Reparatio...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-122334

this is my first FTR of Julian, and i find the reverse scene rather funny considering the inscription. nothing says "Happy Days" quite like impaling someone to the ground with a spear.
ahhh, those really were the good old days!   :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #61 on: August 19, 2015, 01:20:53 pm »
today's addition is an MFB didrachm from Nola in Campania...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-122832

this coin has some wear but i love the style of the nymph, who is quite beautiful (despite the tattooed eyebrows   ;)  ).
i purchased this one as a didrachm from Neapolis, but the ethnic, while not complete, is clearly that of Nola which was located about 15 miles northeast. 
i think it is really cool, and hope you like it too!

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« Reply #62 on: August 21, 2015, 01:15:46 pm »
not the coin, which is a very common type, but the purchase itself. this is my third coin this week!...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-122863

i know many here add coins by the bucketful and probably don't understand my excitement, but being on a budget i pick and choose very carefully what i add to my collection, especially when it takes me outside of my beloved Magna Graecia. and after my last two didrachms the bank is pretty dry! i rarely get 3 coins in a month, let alone in one week, so even though it is a budget piece i'm pretty jazzed about this one from Forvm Auctions.

so check it out and see what you think,
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #63 on: August 28, 2015, 12:52:56 am »
and yet another!
this time a Julian II bronze from Antioch. i didn't really need another votive type, but i love the portrait on this one. and since i didn't have one from the Antioch mint i decided to get it...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-123012

i was also intrigued by the 'ANT B' mintmark.   ;D

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #64 on: September 08, 2015, 12:39:55 pm »
i picked up this bronze of Smyrna from my favorite old coin shop in California during an otherwise disastrous vacation...   :(
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-123126

the attributions are from Wildwinds but i am not entirely sure of their accuracy. i include them here hoping someone might be able to confirm or correct them.
thanks for looking.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #65 on: September 08, 2015, 02:37:35 pm »
The inscription should have Y, not  :Greek_Psi:.

Nice coin.  I've never seen this type with wreath surrounding Apollo before.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #66 on: September 08, 2015, 04:48:50 pm »
nor had i Nick, which is one reason i was interested in it.
and the Y must've changed when i used the automatic converter, but is now corrected.

thanks!
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #67 on: October 08, 2015, 04:13:49 am »
i picked up a new bronze coin from Arpi, a city i didn't previously have in my collection. it isn't in great condition, but it also wasn't very expensive so i decided to treat myself...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-123699

some of the details are faint, but the Kalydonian boar is pretty cool and the mottled green patina is much nicer than the image shows.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #68 on: October 10, 2015, 03:42:31 am »
i picked up a new bronze coin from Arpi, a city i didn't previously have in my collection. it isn't in great condition, but it also wasn't very expensive so i decided to treat myself...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-123699

some of the details are faint, but the Kalydonian boar is pretty cool and the mottled green patina is much nicer than the image shows.

~ Peter

Hi Peter, good specimen.. +++

You can find mine to compare :
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-115019

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #69 on: October 10, 2015, 05:40:48 am »
that's a nice example with a very clear thunderbolt quadrans, which seems to be a scarce feature on this series.

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« Reply #70 on: October 11, 2015, 04:26:10 am »
that's a nice example with a very clear thunderbolt quadrans, which seems to be a scarce feature on this series.

~ Peter


Thank you  :)

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« Reply #71 on: November 29, 2015, 04:21:55 pm »
my newest coin is an extremely rare silver fraction from Enna in Sicily...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-125035

all coins from this city are scarce, and the silver issues especially so, being minted for only a brief period in the 5th century BC.
Enna was the location of Persephone's abduction by Hades, and so becomes a very important place in Greek religion. the cult of Persephone and Her mother Demeter was very active here, as is reflected within the imagery of this coin.
as such this becomes a very special coin to me, and makes a nice bookend to my bronze coin from Eleusis, the location of Persephone's annual return...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102257

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #72 on: November 29, 2015, 05:54:58 pm »
Nice Addition both.. +++ :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #73 on: December 24, 2015, 09:10:00 pm »
thanks Q!

i've added two coins recently received as gifts, one from a friend and one from myself.  8) 

the first (from me to me) is a fraction from Samos, featuring a lion's scalp obverse.
when i first started collecting ancients in the late 80's, i was fascinated by this new (to me) field of numismatics! i used to lay in the bath reading SGV and dreaming of all the coins i would buy, completely ignorant of their current values. an Athenian owl, an Ephesian bee, a Boetian shield, an Aegean turtle; a facing head Larissa... and a lions's scalp from Samos.
well, my interests changed and i now look to fill those needs without breaking the war chest. i have a pretty nice bronze bee, and a smaller Boetian shield. so i got this obol from Samos as my latest virtual tetradrachm.   8)  it's a bit pitted and worn, but... 
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-125792

the next is from a friend, and is a really nice example of early Magna Graecian incuse coinage. this and the Metapontine type with an incuse bucranium are two of my favorite MG fractionals, so this is a happy addition...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-125773

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #74 on: December 28, 2015, 01:55:04 pm »
Hi Peter,

Both of them are very nice addition  :)+++

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