Christopher II Of Denmark (1319-1332), Lund

Well, let me say that I'm unaware of any other coin that has been posted twice on CCF by two non-contiguous owners. It is also a little bit weird that I was almost as fast as @bobL in realizing this and responding!

To add to the weirdness: I happened to email Mika just this morning in response to an email he sent me overnight, and in my email I mentioned Archeo's posts and all the interesting coins he's been treating us to.

Bear in mind this was the first correspondence Mika and I had had for a long time, probably a few months.


Cue the Twilight Zone music...

Wow. Just wow. What are the odds?

Turns out it is still a small world. Tim (if you don't mind me calling you that online), I had a hunch Archeo1982 was you! There aren't that many early-medieval-numismatics experts here in Holland, and only one that has sold me this coin. You may or may not remember me, but I certainly remember you! This marks the third time we've met, both on- an offline. The first time was four years ago I believe, in a ('the') coin-shop in Utrecht. I just started to move on to collecting ancients, and you just dropped in to give Van der Bijl some stuff I believe. I already had archaeological plans, and you helped me a little in that aspect. The second time was slightly more recent, when I bought the coin in question here from you! Alexander_III, right? Again, what are the odds. And this marks the third time we've met, without initially knowing each other. You'll be happy to know that I've continued these archaeological plans, and I am now a first year student in Leiden (yeah, sorry I didn't go to Groningen. ;)). But nice 'meeting' you again! Who knows, in a few years, maybe there will be an archaeological dig for the two of us?

It sure is an amazing coin, with an equally amazing history (Further in the topic Spence and Bob linked to it is further expanded upon). I still have it in my collection of course, ever since I bought it in December of 2015.

Kind regards,

Mika

We are a small circle of collectors so it's stands to reason that coins will go from one collector to another in our circle. They do will me very often.

So, Archeo, your name is Tim and not Alexander?

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

Only a 'few' days later, I've come back to answer (sorry for the slight delay guys...).

I am currently in my first year of Archaeology, just having completed the first semester in fact. So far, so good ;). One of the reasons I choose Leiden was indeed the larger, independent faculty, but a major selling point for me was the slightly more diverse curriculum. When visiting Groningen and Amsterdam, I got the impression that they mostly focussed on specific areas (e.g. Classical- and medieval Archaeology) a little bit too much for my liking. Chinese archaeology is an area I am particularly interested in and, while it in itself is not taught in Leiden, I feel the curriculum would prepare me somewhat better for this possible specialisation.

So, unfortunately I did not join in any of the field schools last year (I was busy taking my last High-school exams back then), although we did have a case-study on Veldhoven this past semester. Man, that would have been an awesome excavation to join! I'll have my first field-school in May, and to be honest I'm hoping for either something Roman or Early medieval. I already had the privilege of joining a Neolithic excavation for a couple of days this past semester, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I get the feeling that I am slightly more drawn to historical archaeology. Plus, the possibility of excavating coins is a nice addition ;).

As for a specialisation; I simply have too many interests. For a long time I had my heart set purely on Chinese archaeology (nummismatically, this is also one of my larger areas of focus), but throughout the past semesters we've had module on both the Americas and the Near-East that I've thoroughly enjoyed and I could see myself doing in the future. But the urge to focus on the numismatic side of archaeology is also definitely there, or just metal finds in general (like yourself). And we haven't even touched on classical and medieval archaeology! I'll first complete this year, we'll see where I end up afterwards. One thing is sure however; it's most likely not going to be prehistory ;)

Mika