I Think I'm Becoming Addicted To Coins

@january1may Incidentally I do know a bit more about the numbers on the 4 Skilling Banco.

The numbers on Numista are wrong. for 1849, about 450.000 were minted, for 1850, 170.000 and from there it's all downhill for 1851 and beyond (well under 100.000, according to my information). Which still makes the coin a rare one, but not as rare as Numista indicates.

I just started the group. Anyone else want to join?

Nice purchases.

If you have a copy of the Red Book by Whitman Publishing, look at pages 442 to 445 for the top 250 coins auctioned. Even the 250th coin sold for over half a million dollars.

Addiction part, um, I've lost count long ago (March 4, 2017).

Went to get some nice exotic foreign coins. Found a dealer with a bargain tray of worn 18th and 19th century Russian copper - plus a bit of other stuff. Found an obvious ancient, asked the seller if it counts. He answered by putting out a big box of random ancients...

I ended up spending a total of $35, and buying a total of 12 assorted ancient and medieval coins, some of them in rather awful condition (nothing after 1600; might post some on the Ancients forum later).


Approximate inventory of what I darn bought (as far as I can tell):

- Argaeus AE29, a bit overcleaned, a lot of letters in the exergue, not really sure what exactly it is yet; will probably be posted for identification
- Basileus Antiochus Dionysos Epiphanes Philopatros Kallinikos... um, Antiochus XII, AE22, probably this type or something very very similar
- Bosporos, Kotys (not sure which one), 48 units, AE24
- Indo-Scythian? Soter Megas? tetradrachm? AE19, with the helmeted bust and horseman
- another Antiochus Epiphanes, haven't yet figured out which one (but probably VIII), AE17
- unknown provincial? AE19, with a weird crude-looking SC I can't recall having ever seen anywhere, will definitely be posted for identification - it looks very interesting
- Arados AE16, probably 3rd century BC, yes I know I have one of those already but it's a slightly different type
- Arcadius Concordia cross AE4 (12mm), Antioch mint (not sure of officina, mostly because I'm not sure which ones exist)
- Alexander Jagiellonczyk polgrosz litewski (I probably misspelled this), late 15th - early 16th century, undated; worn and slightly bent
- Solms-Lich 2 kreuzer (half batzen), 1592, MB#18 (not in Saurma, apparently, but close enough that their site helped in identification), a bit chipped
- Bukhar Khudat, according to the seller, whatever the triangular heck that is [EDIT: 8th century Sogd, apparently], AR25, looks worn, will be posted for identification [but from a look at Zeno, I highly suspect that the crucial identifying parts are the worst off]
- and a random "nice portrait but not much of anything else" 5th century Roman AE4 (10mm) that I bought because I thought it might have been Johannes (spoiler alert: it probably wasn't, which basically made it worthless).


TL/DR: lots of cool coins, some neat variety.
(Still darn looking for a dated 16th century polgrosz though... or a Hungarian denar. But at least I did get one dated coin from the 16th century.)

Sorry for such a silly question - but which particular ones you're looking forward to first?

Incidentally, checked out all the Argaeus coins at Wildwinds, and there's nothing with a remotely similar exergue. So maybe the Argaeus is a misidentification from the overcleaning (which of course will make it much harder to identify).
The seller described this coin as "Thracian". I should have realized that Argaeus is not in Thrace. It's probably provincial either way.

I think that means Solms-Lich in the 16th century dated coins thread (probably going to post it there anyway) and Bukhar Khudat for identification, then probably the Antiochuses (Antiochi?) and Soter Megas, then Bosporus (and Arados, if I can make a half-decent pic), then "Argaeus" and the crude SC, then everything else.

To the camera I go...