Author Topic: My provincial webpages (Read 6539 times)

Bacchus · « **on:** February 07, 2007, 03:17:28 pm »

Hi all,

Really just to have a go at creating a webpage - to see if I could do it - I have made these few which are being kindly hosted by Forvm. Naturally it all revolves around my own collection (some of which I really really have to re-photograph) and I am going to group the Provinces in a better way rather than alphabetically, but it all takes time. Please feel free to have a look and certainly let me know of any gaps I have missed. It took me about two weeks to get this far so if I can do it anyone certainly can - but I hope to improve it over the weeks ahead.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/bacchus/

Best regards
Malcolm

Jochen · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2007, 03:32:01 pm »

Hi Malcolm!

I have seen your site some time before and want to repeat it is wonderful performed site! Congrats!

Best regards

John the Chess Guy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2007, 10:10:13 pm »

Malcolm:

You are much too modest - it is a very nicely done web site. Congratulations!

p.s. This is coming from a guy heavily involved in web sites, and web site design,
for the past 11 years or so...

John

b70 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2007, 10:24:28 pm »

It looks very nice Malcolm.

Noah · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2007, 06:45:04 am »

Yes, it is a nicely presented and organized site. I, however, have no skill in this and rely on Forvm to display my collection!

Best, Noah

Bacchus · « **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:24:32 am »

Thank you for all your comments - It is actually quite a rewarding project to do. I don't think all the material has been drawn together like this before so it may be of use to some people. I should point out that I don't have images for some of the more 'difficult' cities - which seem to be at the start of the list - once you get down to Moesia Inferior or Thrace there are loads.

Malcolm

Bacchus · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2007, 04:08:00 pm »

Hi all,
I have been tinkering with my site and adding some other coins. I know that I need to re-take all the photos of my Imperial - which I will do, but there are so many

it is a real problem!

I think I will leave the other sections until I get that done. I hope the Diadumenian section is proving useful to anyone who needs to look up a coin. A couple more are in the post so I wil be updating regularly - I hope

Malcolm

slokind · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:28:30 pm »

It's running beautifully! Pat L.

Cleisthenes · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2007, 04:05:58 am »

Malcolm,

Very interesting site, indeed!

Cheers, Jim

Bacchus · « **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2007, 08:24:46 am »

Just to let everyone know that I decided to go the whole hog and have purchased the site name www.diadumenian.com and will be running my pages from there (though Joe has kindly let me run a mirror here as well). The new server is Linux and is more particular about capital letters so I have to check every link (still a few to fix) but I will be updating as regularly as my spending allows.

I have created a little banner if anyone wants to add it as a link from their own site (just let me know).

If anyone happens to own an example that is not covered (or that is not pictured) I would be grateful for any contributions.

All the best

MAlcolm

Bacchus · « **Reply #10 on:** March 24, 2007, 03:31:19 am »

A small update to say that Michel Prieur has kindly let me raid his personal database of Diadumenian tetradrachms and my site now contains all of these as well (about 40 varieties or so) so I think that should be the largest collection of those available online - in one place anyway. I still have some work to do on them but at least the images are there with the attributions. They are scattered among the various mints but I will probably do a separate page for them as well.

I am also considering doing a "latest addition" page - as I always seem to be adding coins but they get lost in the growing number of images.

All the best

Malcolm

featherz · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2007, 07:23:49 am »

Nice site and congrats on the new domain! I do the 'latest additions' thing -even if no one else looks at it, it helps ME remember what I last added to the site!

Bacchus · « **Reply #12 on:** August 06, 2007, 03:55:13 pm »

Quite a lot has happened since I updated this thread.

1. My site has a lot more material (my account alot less cash

).
2. All the tetradrachms are there courtesy of Michel Prieur - for which I am very grateful.
3. Alot of the references have been updated with the new publications
4. Some tidying up courtesy of Prof. Varbanov
5. Some articles including die linking sections - which I will expand as I get time.

http://www.diadumenian.com/Articles.html

I have been advised that .pdf's are not a good idea, but I like them for formatting purposes and for the fact that they seem to retain a good image when compressing - so I have bowed to pressure and provided both. Most are quite complete - one I am still working on.

Undoubtedly, in this section there will be die links that I have missed so, friends, Romans, countrymen - lend me your images.

I hope this is interesting.

Malcolm

areich · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2007, 04:14:46 pm »

You've probably searched through the member galleries?

I only have a few but Jochen has many great coins of D.
Here's my favourite and still one of my 5 dearest coins.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-24353

Andreas

Bacchus · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2007, 04:22:06 pm »

Hi Andreas,

Yes - I have already trawled all the available on-line sources (twice!) -it is those examples hidden away in the back of the coin cabinets that I'm after

many thanks - (I would like to use this one)

Malcolm

Bacchus · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2007, 01:38:18 pm »

Just a quick note to say I have added another section to my website - I know there are a couple of the links that are not perfect yet but I will have to wait 'til Monday before I can get them fixed, (you have to visit to find out what it is

)

It is not really that exciting, but it was fun to do - I hope to add to this section - as and when I get the time. What I would really like it some illustrative photos but they are hard to come by.

I must work out the html code to make 'ALT=' text bigger too.

Best regards
Malcolm

Bacchus · « **Reply #16 on:** September 18, 2007, 02:34:41 pm »

Hi,

I have been 'playing' with my webpages and created this one.

http://www.diadumenian.com/maps/Map.html

I have tried to list three different things:

1. Every mint that produced a coin with Diadumenian on the obverse - that I know about...

2. Every mint that issued for Macrinus but not for Diadumenian - why? - possibly they did, it is just I don't know about them or they are very rare and have not yet been made known...

3. The mints that appeared to close just for the Macrinus and Diadumenian interlude. That is to say they issued coins for Caracalla and Elagabalus but not in between. There is no real story to tell from these but I find it interesting anyway.

Naturally now that I have been through the learning process of doing these - I could do them much better - so I may replace them with better (neater) versions if I get the time

MAlcolm

slokind · « **Reply #17 on:** September 18, 2007, 04:28:29 pm »

I find that brown-dotted map of Asia Minor very interesting, too! I had not checked much farther than the Danubian provinces. That cannot simply be that they had enough coins. What the reason was is harder to determine. I have wondered, since minting was a good business for the mints that did it, whether it was a privilege granted (in which case, however, I'd have expected inscriptions in some places and some allusion in some text) or not. For example, why did Philippopolis stop? They minted for practically everyone else.
Pat L.

Bacchus · « **Reply #18 on:** September 19, 2007, 01:36:39 am »

Thanks - I am glad that someone got use out of it. I have added in Philippopolis too.

I do find it interesting why mints stopped just for this interlude but was shy of making very general or sweeping statements. I would have to learn about what was happening to each mint first - but it does look odd that so many in Asia stopped - perhaps the phenomena was less obvious elsewhere but there were still some.

Perhaps some smart mint officials knew that this 'upstart' wouldn't be around for long and it may be prudent to drag their heels for a year or two to see how things panned out - this is true civil service thinking ! - rather than be chastised later for jumping on the Macrinus issuing bandwagon.

I did fall nto the bad habit of looking for patterns - even looking at rivers and roads (ie communication channels) but there is nothing obvious.

I am obviously interested in those mints where Macrinus issued but Diadumenian apparently did not - though as the Macrinus issues are usually rare in these cases it is quite likely that the Diadumenian ones are even rarer and I just don't know about them.

Malcolm

Pscipio · « **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2007, 06:52:11 am »

Those maps are very interesting, thank you! To mark the cities that issued for Macrinus only, too, is an excellent idea.

Lars

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #20 on:** September 19, 2007, 03:19:27 pm »

Quote from: Bacchus on September 19, 2007, 01:36:39 am

Perhaps some smart mint officials knew that this 'upstart' wouldn't be around for long and it may be prudent to drag their heels for a year or two to see how things panned out - this is true civil service thinking ! - rather than be chastised later for jumping on the Macrinus issuing bandwagon.

But then if they did neglect to strike for the upstart, he and his creatures had plenty of time to arrange for the demise of the leading city officials. Is there any known reason why he might have chosen to withdraw mint privileges from some cities?

Bacchus · « **Reply #21 on:** September 25, 2007, 02:54:28 pm »

I don't know of any specific withdrawals - undoubtedly there were some cities which fell out of favour but equally there were some 'new starts' such as the koinon of Macedonia which apparently first issued for Diadumenian/Macrinus.

I suspect that this whole area is one for true history specialists who can trawl through alot of material, in many languages, looking for clues.

I just don't know how strong Macrinus's reach was or even how interested he was in this sort of thing - presumably he had quite a lot of other things on his mind over the year, and if my own experiances are anything to go by the years certainly seem to slip by with alarming velocity.

Malcolm

slokind · « **Reply #22 on:** September 25, 2007, 04:06:58 pm »

Bless you, Malcolm! Even better than documented knowledge is wisdom, needed for handling documents as well as navigating in full awareness of their absence!
Pat

Bacchus · « **Reply #23 on:** October 05, 2007, 03:07:31 pm »

Having your own website is a great way of keeping track of your collection - and as you are 'forced' to think about each coin it really helps fix them in the mind plus to maintains a useful catalogue for cross referencing and insurance purposes. Even though I don't really look at modern stuff now I do have some still lying about so I have put a selection on.

I have added a couple of additional sections - really for my own use as they are all modern stuff but perhaps some one could be interested...

http://www.diadumenian.com/other%20coins.html

1. a few modern (ish) silver Crowns I seem to have acquired
and 2
a couple of coins from the Czech Republic - I was a Czech national for a while

so always had an interest.

I really hope to get the medieval China period up sometime - lots and lots of coins there

Malcolm

PS - while there is an unknown section there too - I could probably work them out but just haven't got round to it yet - some of my references are stored....somewhere

...

Bacchus · « **Reply #24 on:** June 07, 2008, 04:18:27 am »

Hi,

I have updated my website - quite substantially - with quite a few changes to the listing method (actual pages showing the large picture of the coins have not changed so any links should not be affected.) I think it should be more "future proof" now.

The two big pages of Marcianopolis (5 assaria) and Nicopolis ad Istrum (4 assaria) will probably load slower as there are more images here - but I hope it is not too bad.

best regards

Malcolm

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