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recently added
« on: December 02, 2007, 11:21:19 pm »
Well, I figured I'd better get at it as the pile is getting no lower...tonight I added a Faustina Sr. den with neat headgear, a nice Hand of God postumous that turned out pretty good and a coin that made me chuckle when I first cleaned the reverse. It is a post-reform radiate of Diocletian. The thing that tickled me about it (I know, I'm wierd!) was it looked at first to be two guys playing catch WITH victory! As it turns out, it is "Jupiter presents Victory on a globe to Diocletian"...ah well...it tickled me anyway!

Enjoy,
Chris

ps I have a bucketload to get attrib and get up here, so if a few days go by and I don't post a few more, get on me! ;)

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Re: recently added
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2007, 06:15:14 pm »
Very nice start to your gallery

I love the Nero & Poppaea Billon Tetradrachm  LOL   they look like they were both having a bad day

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Re: recently added
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2007, 06:39:28 pm »
I hear you...it must have been right after she found out he was steppin out on her and right before he took her out!

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Re: recently added
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2007, 11:26:35 pm »
I just added two tonight, a good looking VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP and a giant (and I mean giant! 30mm 20.81g 4mm thick!) Philip I year 5 moesia reverse.



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Re: recently added
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2007, 11:23:10 pm »
Added three more tonight: a neat little winged caduceus Vespasian denarius, an Elagabulus fides militivm denarius, and a Herennia Etruscilla ar antoninianus that probably got the dye maker beaten over!

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Re: recently added
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2007, 11:14:27 pm »
Added a little Helena AE and a decent looking Aurelain this evening...


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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2007, 03:51:47 pm »
excellent collection.

I was looking at Herennia Etruscilla,  that is quite the  :evil:  image of her.  her eyes looks like someone posessed


 

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Re: recently added
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2007, 11:18:34 pm »
lol...yeah...she definatly has the bug-eyes on that one!

All righty...tonight I added a thin little Aelia Flaccilla, a prutah of...well...barley, but minted for Marcus Ambibulus that just goes to show why you clean them even if they are totally covered in marble and have broken flans...every now and then a pretty coin pops out...an ancient imitation of a Commodus denarius (I don't feel quite as screwed when I find out that a definate ancient is an ancient fake as I do when I find out that it's a modern fake, but it is close!) and a pretty good looking Valens "victory advancing left".

Enjoy,
Chris

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Re: recently added
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2007, 11:30:43 pm »
Evening all,

For tonights installment I will be presenting three more "victory advancing left" types of Valens, two from Siscia (one is the same type as the one I posted last evening but from a different dye) and one unknown. As a matter of fact I think that I have enough of these to open a v.a.l. wing and I think I will!

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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2007, 02:58:38 pm »
Afternoon all,

Staying with my latest "Victory Advancing Left" theme I have added three more! Two are Valens (one is again a Siscia 15b that is from the same mint and time as two others that I have identified/posted, but again, different dye, and one is from Aquileia) and one is a Valentinian I (Siscia).
It is looking like I have just a few of these left so I should be done with them in the next couple of days and then we will move on to fel temps or maybe votives...but for now...

Enjoy
Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2007, 01:08:18 pm »
I got tired of Victory Advancing Left (trust me, I have more!) so today I present to you a worn, ate up denarius of Septimius Severus with a (I know I said I'd stop! sorry!) predecessor of a V.A.L. reverse (this one is Victory Flying Left ;) ), another posthumous Constantine I (shrouded, standing) with the mintmark unknown and a VRBS ROMA that apperently is a r3...go figure.

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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2007, 08:13:45 pm »
Love the reverse on the Septimius Severus  very strong strike  with good detail 

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Re: recently added
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2007, 11:03:00 pm »
Yeah that is a good looking reverse (funky stains and creeping cracks aside!). All right, as a bonus Sunday night special I decided to do 2 more coins...both constantinopolis commemoratives, a r2 from Thessalonica and a scarce from Rome. With my recent run of finding "rare" coins it leads me to wonder as to why anyone actually puts stock in the rarity rating system? I say collect them because they are cool! Ah well..


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Re: recently added
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2007, 11:05:09 pm »
I'm just adding one coin tonight (tired...very long day), a thracian featuring the jugate heads of a diademed Rhoemetalkes and his queen Pythodoris on one side and Augustus and his favorite wine jar on the other! You know you have some power when you can be featured on the coinage of a foriegn country and all you have is a jug, not a fist or spear or somthing, but just a jug. You think he was sitting around with Agrippa and leaned over and whispered, "Watch this, I am going to really mess with them..."? ;) (that's the kind of stuff I would do, anyway!)

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Re: recently added
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2007, 11:08:27 pm »
I'm still taking a slow ride on the lazy train so I only have one offering tonight: the second of two alexandrian billon tet's that I got in my second ever batch of uncleaneds...I should have bought more! The first is the Nero that I have had posted for a while that was mostly just covered in flaky black crust, this one is Claudius and Messalina and it was covered in every frikken thing under the sun! Slick black crust, minor deposits of red clay, and this wierd green crud that was a monster trying to reduce! After I was able to get rid of the predominance of crust all it took was my trusty magic eraser to cap it off. All in all about a year and a half of off and on work, but I think it was worth it...

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Re: recently added
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2007, 12:08:50 am »
All right, I took a couple of days off posting and went to work attempting to id a couple that have been plaguing me. One of those I am posting this evening: a small ae of Eudocia! Now before you get excited, it is pitted and ate up, so no great shakes, but you've got to post a r4! Along with that little one, I have a big As of faustina Sr., a new Princ Prep of Constantine I and a good strike but overcleaned Arcadius VIRTVS.

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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2007, 10:48:47 pm »
Eveing. It's been a couple of days since my last installment, so I decided to go all out and add a few new wings on to the old gallery. I added a fel temp, votive, gloria exercitvs, and a no clue wing. Just for the heck of it I added a few coins to begin the population of each of these wings as well.

*note The "No Clue" gallery will feature coins that have made it through the ID forum with no success, any id help is always appreciated, but no big deal if no ID help comes...they still look neat!

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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2008, 02:48:29 pm »
The holiday's have delayed me, but I have been busy building a new Severan wing for all to enjoy. In addition to the addition of a wing, I have added 3 new (old) denarii to start the population, a Severus Alexander that I got luck enough to find totally uncleaned (check out the uncleaned forum to see the cleaning progression!) a nicly toned young Geta as pontif and a Victory Advancing Left Septimius Severus.

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Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2008, 11:06:49 pm »
I will actually go against my usual practice and occasionally buy a pre-cleaned bronze...if it strikes my eye...and this is one of those cases. I have just posted a single coin today, but it is a nifty Constantine I...it has two victories on the back...just kidding, but it is a Constantine I and it is nifty: eyes towards heaven Dafne issue, and not in too bad of shape!

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Re: recently added
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2008, 10:33:44 pm »
I decided to get off of my lazy backside and start digitally recording my coins...again...this time I have made a decent dent on my Severan denarii. Tonight, my friends, I present for your viewing pleasure...nine, count em, NINE Septimius Severus of various types and mints...well, only three different mints...but you get the picture.  ;D

Anyway, in the next few days, I am looking to knock out my Severan silver and start on the billon and bronze. Here's to high hopes!

Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2008, 10:20:44 pm »
All right, for tonights offering of silver, I have added three Julia Domna's, one Geta, and one Plautilla. They can all be found in the Severan Wing of my gallery. Tomorrow night, if all goes as planned, Caracalla should be the headliner. Enjoy.

Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2008, 11:14:58 pm »
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      Chris,

      Lovely additions
  Interesting with the – I assume – clogged die on the Plautilla rev.  Looks like an ‘absurd’ legend break! :)
 
  If you’re an admirer of Plautilla’s denarii and have opportunity, visit Potator II’s Gallery and see his recently acquired Plautilla.
 
   I Look forward to seeing the Caracalla’s.
 
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Re: recently added
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2008, 11:37:35 pm »
Yeah, that reverse die was on it's last leg...if you look at the bottom of the reverse you can see a die break as well. (and thanks!  :) )

Chris
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Re: recently added
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2008, 07:57:21 am »
Wow Chris,   :o

I have to start looking through your collection more often,  you keep sneaking  coins in there without announcing them..  :)

you have some fantastic coins there  :)

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Re: recently added
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2008, 08:23:12 am »
Thanks Johnny, I'm to the point that if I don't start attibuting them now, I never will. The silver is the easy side, after I finish that I have a bucketload of Severan provincials to attrib and post...and then I will start on my non-Severan...my actual goal is the Severan stuff though...for now. (actually, I am looking forward to the bronze...the provincial stuff is really interesting!)

Chris

edit - I found another that fit this catagory and added, a nifty little autonomous from Lydia.

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