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.)