A Small Collection of Romans

covers · January 19, 2009 1:27AM

My small collection of Romans has grown faster than expected. Always looking to add high quality coins and welcome offers.

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SpaceMonkey · January 19, 2009 8:48AM

that's quite an impressive set you have going there... you call that "small"?

beautiful stuff.

I think this is my favorite:

-sm

FilthyBroke · January 19, 2009 8:58AM

The republicans are my favorites, too.

That's a really nice and high quality collection you have there, sweet!

Swampboy · January 20, 2009 9:13AM

Great collection. Terrific presentation.

I'd never seen that Septimius Severus denarius before.

They really knew how to party in ancient Rome......

" When Severus and Caracalla celebrated the 10th anniversary of their joint reign in AD 206, they marked the occasion with a highly unusual public spectacle: A giant ship with collapsible sides was built in the Colosseum arena. At a given signal, the sides fell away releasing an array of exotic wild animals for the crowds entertainment. The event in commemorated on the reverse of this coin, which depicts the ship and several beasts. For added measure, four racing chariots are also shown."

500Bay · January 20, 2009 7:47PM

I like the web page! It is a great presentation and description of your set.

Someday I would love to do the same.

ajaan · January 20, 2009 9:27PM

I want one of these. I love the Marc Antony coins.

SYRACUSIAN · January 20, 2009 9:51PM

Excellent taste Richard, both in coins and presentation. Do you image them yourself?

covers · January 20, 2009 9:58PM

Thanks all for the kind comments. I have become increasing fond of the obverse imagery found on the Republic era coins. The late Imperial were mostly earlier purchases - my favorites being the festival coin of Sept. Severus which is maybe not as nice quality as I would desire.

I do consider the collection "small" by all standards. I read somewhere that a minimum group of Romans to call a collection was 400 coins. I'll never get to that number I'm positive. And, realizing that fact early on, I decided I would rather have a few nice / interesting coins than anything in the study collection category.

I WISH I could image my coins - almost all are images from the seller except a few scanned (which show overly bright). I was thinking about sending the group to NGC for grading / slabbing just for the imaging. However, they only seem to do hard copy photos and I would still have to scan those images. I do the presentation myself - I'm used to HTML from doing my postal history site. The "Roman" site was done because it is actualy easier for me to keep track of things with a webpage than with a database program.

STONE · January 21, 2009 1:25AM

Now that is a superb collection of Roman coins.
I love the presentation and look of almost each coin in the group.

Keep it up and share additions whenever possible.

lonroy · February 19, 2009 1:04PM

Good stuff. You should get them all NGC slabbed. I love NGC Romans......

adamlaneus · February 19, 2009 1:06PM

WOW! Amazing!

A Small Collection of Romans

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