Continuing List To Show Everyones Latest Acquisitions

I buy at least twice a year (two local coins shows).

Thank you. They are way better in hand. I tried more than a few times to get the Moto to bring them out better, especially the contrast on the IHC (it looks a lot woodier in hand). It also took me a while to get the camera to see the dates on the 1913-D and 1914-D nickels.

I question the authenticity of that one.

At least it is more of a fantasy than a same dated Peace dollar.

Might as well post it here, too:

Kidarites Huns (yes, like in Mulan) in Kashmir, India
Vinayaditya c. 450-500 AD
Debased AV dinar (usually rose gold or electrum of 30-50% fineness)

Obv: "Formalized" portrait of king (the big thick shape in the middle, note the large nose, thick lips, eye, and dots representing hair) sacrificing at fire altar (cluster of dots left), Brahmi legend (and tamgha?) at right: KiDaRa Jaya

Rev: Ardoxsho/Lakshmi standing, legend Sri Vinaya Ditya





At 21mm and almost 8g, this is is one of my larger gold coins (my Meiji 2 bu kin may be slightly larger), and at half the average going rate, it was too good to pass up!

Very nice, Finn!

Beautiful pattern!

This Trajan denarius satisfied all my criteria, and upon arrival will be the newest addition to my tiny collection of ancients:

Lovely recent additions, fellow collectors.

Caracalla 213-217
AR Denarius
Laureate head right, having an especially bad day
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM
Liberalitas standing, holding abacus and cornucopiae.
LIBERAL AVG VIIII
RIC 302




Caracalla (Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus) was one of the most cruel, ruthless individuals to rule over the Roman Empire. On ascending to the throne with his younger brother Geta upon the death of their father Septimius Severus in 211 AD, Caracalla had his brother stabbed to death in their mother's arms after less than a year of joint rule. He then decreed perhaps the most famous damnatio memoriae against his brother, melting coins and statues, erasing portraits, and ordering the death of over 20,000 suspected synpathizers. He kept the citizens of Rome in check by buying the loyalty of the Army; he paid the Army by increasing the taxes on those unable to stand up to the most feared armed force on the planet at the time. He ordered his army to massacre, loot, and pillage the city of Alexandria for producing a satirical play about him.

Caracalla is said to have favored a permanent scowl to assert himself over the army as an all-powerful, unforgiving, and relentlessly vengeful emperor. This is commonly seen in his statues, but not as much in his coins.

He was assasinated in 217 by a disgruntled soldier in a coup orchestrated by his praetorian guard Macrinus.