SSP & giveaway: the Lord Marcovan Roman Imperial collection sale list is up on BST, now

lordmarcovan

My sale list is finally up.

We're still at the "make me an offer" stage as of this post, but I have included my cost information in the sale thread to help folks make offers and/or swap suggestions.

The coins are offered individually, not as a collection, which should be good news to most folks.

Now, since I am spamming up the board, every good SSP thread deserves a giveaway, right?

So I will give away an inexpensive Roman coin of some kind. It might be one from the collection, and might not be. No purchase is necessary for the giveaway.

UPDATE: Musky1011 wins!

dan8402

I'm in

FilthyBroke

Someone say giveaway?

Best of luck with the sales, I'll be checking them over soon. I'd love to own a part of this set!

Aethelred

Why do the photos of the coins look washed-out?

lordmarcovan

Hey Dead King, if I kill you, will you be the "Extra-Dead King"?

BillyKingsley

I would like to enter please!

coinkat

twice dead king?

deadmunny

will be my first roman -- thanks for the chance!

rah1959

took a look and saw some neat things...learned a few things too.

Please toss my name in the hat for your fine giveaway!

Thanks,

RAH1959

Rickc300

<< <i>twice dead king? >>

"Extra-Dead King"?

LOL! I almost choked on my Pepsi just now! I wish I could afford the entire collection outright but alas I can't. I wish I could even afford the 3 I really want but no such luck. So please do not reserve them, not anytime soon anyway. We are both in the same boat as far as employment and all the bills still need to be paid each month regardless of the amount of income actually coming in.

I would like to enter your give-a-way and if I should win I will ask you to send it to a YN up in Illinois.

Best of luck on the sale of your collection and job situation...

Rick

Aethelred

Extra-Dead King

Sounds like a brand name!

lordmarcovan

Well, now that Ye Dead King has posted TWICE, he is ineligible for the giveaway.

Not that he has any terrible need for ANOTHER cheap Roman coin that in all likelihood came from him in the first place, anyway.

guitarwes

good gosh that's alot of Romans. Awesome coins RWS!

IstilllikeZARcoins

Please enter me but if I win I'd like to nominate someone else that I have in mind to receive the coin.

holapikachu7

I'm in and good luck with the sale!

Bailathacl

Thank you for entering me in your kind Pupienus giveaway

tightbudget

Thanks. Good luck with the sale!

lordmarcovan

Bill, if I gave away Pupienus, I would have an angry customer at this point!

I am thinking of also throwing in an old book or two on Roman coins that I rec'd from Ye Twice-Dead King.

Musky1011

pick me, pick me

thnx
Jim

sbeverly

Count me in...

Major thanks.

TheKidCollector1991

Really NICE coins your selling..
Just curious...
How do collectors collect ancients..Do they collect it by province..era..emperor..etc.. a question that's got me stumped
Thanks

TheKid!

lordmarcovan

They can be collected by dynasty, by reverse themes (like animals or architecture, for just a few examples), or by emperor, like I did.

Pretty much anything goes in setting the parameters for one's collection. NOBODY will ever own a "complete" collection of these, even the great museums, so they can be collected along whatever lines one likes.

I chose all the emperors and empresses I could get my hands on that were within my pricerange (i.e., up to about R-7 on the Dirty Old Coins rarity scale, skipping the R-8s and R-9s).

Were I to do it again, I would probably just focus on the first couple of centuries, as I found them more pleasing than the later 4th and 5th century coins (though the 4th and 5th century bronze from the more common emperors is the most affordable ancient material around). Others find the history of the decline and fall of the Empire interesting, however, and specialize in the late coins. For me, the later stuff was quite interesting historically but not very appealing numismatically, as it tends to be small and crude. If one doesn't mind small, lumpy crude coins, the late Empire has some fascinating stuff.

It was a blast.

I might find myself going back to the Roman Republic or the Greek period next, who knows? I have always loved the high Hellenistic fine art on ancient Greek coins (who doesn't?) but my problem with the Greek coins is a classic case of "champagne taste on a beer budget".

I want one of these Akragas pieces with the crab and crayfish on one side and the eagle on the other, preferably in silver. That "crayfish" ain't what we call a crayfish in these parts- it looks like a shrimp to me.

I could see myself trying to assemble a bestiary of critters (both realistic and mythological) on Greek (and Roman) coins. That would be neat. A numismatic zoo.

illini420

I'm in!

Thanks for the chance!!!

STLNATS

I could see myself trying to assemble a bestiary of critters

Actually Rob, John Twente did just that and wrote at least one or two articles in Celator (I think). John was a frined who died a couple of years ago and when I was more active was an occassional attendee of the Ancient Coin Study Group in St Louis. John was a prof (in zoology or biology) at University of MO-Columbia and focussed on getting all kinds of beasties on ancient coins - whether a main design or privy mark. A very interesting collecting approach. Earlier this year I was offered and bought a coin that I'd been offered many years ago that had ended up in John's collection (a small bronze of Constantine with a tiny little owl).

The nice thing about ancients is that you can collect whatever appeals to you and there are really no rules beyond what you set for yourself.

holeinone1972

Please enter me.

thanks Rob

coffeyce

thank you for the chance.

chris

Coinguy19

Thanks for the giveaway.

fruitloops

Please enter me in your giveaway

Thanks!

CoinsAreNeat

pick me..

zeebob

oh oh... Count me in please. I would like to own an ancient coin. Thanks Rob. (now I'm off to the BST to see your thread).

lordmarcovan

Giveaway selection impending... opening random number generator now...

lordmarcovan

Musky1011 wins!