Smackdown Xxx -- First & Last

Unfortunately, yes, Steve is banned..

Thanks Anoob.

I've seen Denarius, Drachm and Karshapana as the name of this type of coinage...

Jan - it ends 12 midnight on friday EST which is the forum standard time.

Converted, it means that, in terms of GMT, it would correspond to 5am Saturday morning. If you need extra time, I'm sure no one would object - I doubt anyone would vote between midnight and 8am EST so it would be easy to extend until then (making it 1pm GMT).

I looked over my records and can't remotely say which coin was my first. It was a long time ago and I was abroad and picked groups from unattributed-coin boxes. At the time I knew next to nothing about ancient coins. Many I picked were Byzantine bronze (they were cheap for the size), some late Roman bronze (they were simply cheap), and a few Parthian, Roman Egypt, etc. I bought quite a number of coins, most of which have long since been upgraded and passed along. A few turned out to be really good deals, but most were not good deals and not good coins either.
When I got back home I started keeping good records. I have really enjoyed being able to note when, from whom, and for how much, I bought each coin. In addition to my written records, on the coin flips I put a coin number that incorporates the year and the coin within the year: 12.2 would be the second coin bought in year 2012. I have the dealer's name on the flip and a price code so (if I don't recall it) I can tell what I paid.

This is one of the coins I bought long ago during my first months of collecting. It was bought with a group of coins of Roman Alexandria. (The great majority of my early purchases were of far lower quality.) It is a large drachm of Trajan:



Late in December I bought this Severus II follis on vcoins.

I hear Steve's is back......back,we missed you and can't wait till you post again.........

I bought a group of 200 Roman coins,last Jan.2012(extra points). I think the first coin I posted was Nerva..and the last was Galba..

Nerva..96-98 AD..
AE..AS.
Ob.laureate head right..
Rev.Fortvna S-C
27mm x 11.35g..






Picked this up right before Christmas..2012

Galba...AE..68AD.
Ob. laureated draped bust right..
Rev. Libertas..S-C..
26mm x 11.06g..
Rome mint..

My very first ancient coin:
Greek Tetradrachm, Mint: Kingdom of Macedon, 336-323 B.C.E.
O: Head of Alexander /Herakles facing rt.wearing a lion skin
Rx: Zeus enthroned facing left, holding an eagle & scepter




My last:
Volusian / Felicitas

Okay. I had to rewrite all of this from start, so hopefully it'll be short
Basically, my gamble of today didn't pay off... the market was not open (well the part I was interested in wasn't - I did buy a bunch of coins from the two dealers that did arrive today, but none of them were more than 200 years old, so they're of no relation to this subforum). I've received fairly certain word, however, that it will be open tomorrow (i.e. Saturday), and I will go and buy some coins (either way).
At this point, this is entirely at your good will. My time zone is 4 hours ahead of GMT, or 9 hours ahead of forum time, so by midnight forum time it'll be 9am in here... and given that I'm still online now at (our) 1am, I'll probably be happily sleeping in my bed My current plans basically go like that: I wake up at 10am, leave home at 11am, arrive at the market (and buy the coin if applicable) around noon (or slightly earlier), leave the market (after buying some other coins, presumably) around 2pm (hopefully earlier), arrive at some place with an Internet connection around 3:30pm (or earlier), and if nothing serious intervenes post the photos sometime before 4:30pm... which would've been 7:30am forum time, so I'm just managing to push it before 8am as mentioned by BenByfield (post of Jan 2, 5:36pm, about half a page above).
Unrelatedly: I've found my last bought non-modern of 2012, and noticed it's much smaller than I expected... so I carefully weighed it (after dusting off my 1960s two-cup scale because it was the only one around anywhere near that precise... and that's precise, not accurate - that other part took quite some ingenuity) and came up with a number about half of what it would've been if it was what I thought I was buying. Never mind; I now know what it is, it's still old (well older than 1550 - which puts it among top five oldest in my collection), and a cool thing to have either way.