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Poll Question
I thought this would be a fun poll...
What do you guys find to be the most interesting Ancient/ Medieval coins?
Edited by Ancientnoob
12/15/2013 09:17 am
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They are all interesting to me, but at the moment I am concentrating on Indo-Greek coinage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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can I click all of them? no...
well, i'll click what I'm into now...it willwould be different in a couple months.
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You forgot European medieval. 1000 years of coinage right there  Am and will be for the forseeable future, into late Romans after 360 AD (focusing more on 400-500 AD), early Byzantine coins, and the early Germanic kingdoms (those are my main focuses). I'm also trying to get into other European Dark Ages but its been slow going (I'm hoping to get a Carolingian and another Crusader states coin soon). Tried to get into ancient Greek coins but that just didn't happen, and I'm hoping to pick up soon one or two more early Islamic issues (especially one from Umayyad Spain). Edited by VisigothKing
12/15/2013 1:28 pm
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The early medieval period (also called the dark ages) is very interesting. Because a lot is written about ancient coins. A lot less about the early medieval periods.
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Roman provincials which I don't see on the list.
In particular, I like the reverse iconography and how it was chosen to appease the local population as they lived under the strong arm of Roman authority.
Edited by Biancasdad
10/26/2017 10:10 pm
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Another vote for European Greek here (though I can't vote for some reason)
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Actually, the category I would have liked to vote for is
PATTERNS, in any of the above categories.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to know which ancient rare coins are patterns or not.
My collection has representatives in all of the above categories, but I voted ancient European Greek.
They most probably invented coinage, and the period High Classical Greek Art is still at the basis of all art which followed.
That is why the die cutters' efforts of this period have been so much appreciated through all subsequent ages.
Not surprisingly, the majority of my collection is outside these categories, because non classical coins are far more available. There ain't nothing wrong with ancient Greek inspired American NEO classic coins.
Only about a third of my collection is in classical coins.
That is why I would have liked to have voted for pattern coins.
Edited by sel_69l
10/27/2017 03:55 am
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The category "Roman Imperatorial" is not equivalent to "Roman Imperial." The closing decades of the Roman Republic constitute the Roman Imperatorial Period, which ends with Augustus. At the other end, since all antoniniani are considered silver coinage irrespective of actual metallic content, the category of Late Roman Bronze picks up around the time of the first Tetrarchy. So approximately 300 years of Roman Imperial are left off the list. They can't even be included in the "unlisted" category, since that specifies "non-classical." As already noted, the allied interest area, Roman Provincial, which used to be called "Greek Imperial," is also absent from the list. It seems that the coinage of the Roman empire did not come to mind. FWIW
(Please don't take my drollery TOO seriously.)
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10/27/2017 10:04 am
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Quote:
Please don't take my drollery TOO seriously My first yawn was when I read your first sentence.  I voted "other" as I am (mostly) focused on the dark ages. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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Mine ancient Indian coins
Paul
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