AncientCoinnoisseur

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much, I appreciate it!! 🙂

Thanks @Deinomenid and @robinjojo Another user just helped me locate a version on Archive, I guess it’s the same. In case the plates are not visible enough I might ask for help 🙂 Now I’m reading the whole book to see if I missed anything! And yes, I plan on adding dates, at least ranges 🙂

Thank you for the links, @Valentinian, very useful! My personal theme is: Coins that tell a story One could argue that each coin has its own story, and that is true, but I mainly focus on coins that have an interesting backstory and when you show them to someone you can go off for a tangent and talk about the whole circumstances that are connected to that coin. Examples: Minted in Babylon (or by a moving mint going there with Alexander) around the time Alexander The Great was there and about to die. Think of the stories this coin could tell! Minted by a travelling mint moving with Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon to march towards Rome! Coined for the inauguration of the Colosseum one year after the Vesuvius eruption! Shows the minting tools on the reverse and the goddess Juno Moneta on the obverse, where the term for money comes from! Probably shows the head of the Colossus on the obverse, and it was minted some years after it fell but when it was still visible. Minted for the 1.000th anniversary of Rome! Coins minted to commemorate the Trial of the Vestal virgins. I made several infographics, but the point is: I want a story to accompany my coins. There are also coins I have just because they look cool, but it’s not the same! If you have any coins to suggest that meet my criteria, please let me know 🙂

Link: Prow Continental Greece. Euboia, Histiaia. AR Tetrobol, c. 338-304 BC. Obverse: Head of nymph Histiaia right, wearing wreath, pendant earring and necklace. Reverse: IΣTI-AIEΩN. Nymph Histiaia seated right on the stern of a galley, adorned with a wing, holding a stylis. Monogram below. HGC 4 1523. AR. 2.21 g. 15.00 mm.

Oh, hey, I made this meme 🙂

Link: Herakles club Denomination: Tetradrachm Material: Silver Mint: Macedonia, First Meris, Amphipolis Diameter: 32mm Weight: 16.95g Axis: 9h Year: 167-149 BC. Obverse: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver on shoulder; all in a Macedonian shield adorned with stars/flowers within crescents. Reverse: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠΡΩTHΣ (Of the first (region) of the Macedonians), club of Herakles right, monogram ΑΥΡ above. All surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves. On the left, thunderbolt. Notes: After the defeat of Perseus at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, the Romans divided Macedonia into four autonomous administrative regions (merides). The first region (ΠPΩTEΣ) was located east of Strymon with its capital at Amphipolis, the second (ΔEYTEPAΣ) between Strymon and Axios with its capital at Thessalonica, the third between Axios and Peneos with its capital at Pella, and the fourth (TETAPTHΣ) comprised most of Upper Macedonia with its capital at Heraclea Lynci. These four regions lasted only until 148 BC, when the country was finally united to form a Roman province and proceeded to issue coins under the authority of its legatus pro praetore. Livy informs us that initially all trade between regions, the exploitation of gold and silver mines and the import of salt were prohibited. Almost all the coinage of this period is minted in the name of the first region and parallels the mass mintings of Thasos and Maroneia from around 158 BC. The first region was the most prolific in coinage, with huge issues of tetradrachms and bronze. The second region had only two tetradrachm issues and the fourth had only two bronze issues. Coins from these two regions are very rare today. No coins are known from the third region. Bibliography: - HGC 3.1 1103 - Prokopov Group III (or IIB)

@Spargrodan Thanks! I’ll think about it, maybe create a personal blog or something where I can post all my infographics and so on, or make a YouTube channel, who knows?

Since you have added some info: I also noticed the increasing decorations on the helmet / crest, although I didn’t include it since I don’t know if it’s a characteristic with a definite cut-off point. i.e. the H group is either solid or with some dots / lines; the L seems to have small dots and lines, but starting with M we can already see that distinctive pattern emerge and getting bigger. I wouldn’t know how to classify that though, I’ll think about it. Let me know if you find out about a specific group that Seltman associates with that pattern 🙂

@robinjojo thanks for the link! I know it’s just a preview, but it’s better than nothing! Still, I am firmly convinced that any classification work should be available for free for research purposes. If not the book, at least a simplified guide like mine. What’s the point of classifying coins if only 10 people on the planet (and maybe auction houses) know how to use it? It’s unfair.

Thanks! Yes, I will cover the Starr groups next and the pi-styles. I’m not sure I will do something similar for the new style tets, since I only know the different countermarks for dating, but I am not aware of any subgroups nor about distinctive features. I might have to resort to @NewStyleKing and his help if I decide to make a part 3 dedicated to the new style 🙂 I also plan to do a flowchart where an inexperienced person can be guided step-by step to the exact coin type they have! Thank you for your additional info! No, unfortunately I don’t have the reference, hence why I’m asking for help, I got all my info either online or from Kraay, so I might have made some mistakes that only someone with the reference could spot! Plates would also be great, just to use Seltman’s original coins (so they cannot be mistyped, haha). Nice coin you have there! As for the group, there is always some kind of overlap, and the groups are not set in stone, so I’d say that yours has an obverse that is closely related to Group F, but the owl features are more ‘barbaric’. The fact that the owl is left-facing is puzzling to say the least! Very interesting coin!

Wow, nicely formatted! I know it’s distracting, but this is still a provisional version which I posted just for feedback (which I still haven’t received, probably because there aren’t many experts on Seltman groups here 🙂 ), so I will post the complete, ‘unwatermarked’ version once I am satisfied with the result and I will have put my name in different, non-invasive places, but it was 1:00 a.m. yesterday when I posted this, so I just went with the easier ‘cover everything with my name and make it transparent’ 😄

Surprised that nobody has posted this one yet 🙂 Roman Imperial Titus. AD 79-81. AR Denarius, Rome mint. Struck 1 January-30 June AD 80. Obv. IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M. Laureate head right. Rev. TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P. Dolphin coiled around anchor. RIC II-p. 1 (2nd ed.) 112. AR. 3.13 g. 18.00 mm. I still have to properly photograph this coin, but I recently got it because it was the coin that was shown by Pietro Bembo to Aldus Manutius, who adopted it as his ‘Logo’, and who in turn showed it to Erasmus of Rotterdam, who then wrote about it and the motto ‘Festina Lente’ (“make haste slowly”) first adopted by Augustus. I will make a proper infographic about it, since there is a ton more to uncover 🙂

@Lelouch yes, I did everything from scratch, drawings included (to highlight in red the main features of each group). Btw, nice username 😉 @Romismatist thanks, I will! I’m just waiting for feedback on this before moving on to the Starr groups etc…

Ok, my mega-project of making a huge visual guide of Athenian owls from the Wappenmünzen to the New Style has begun! This is the first, provisional part. Sorry for the watermarks, but I had my stuff stolen before! I thank all of you for your help in my last thread, especially @Brennos with his study that helped me immensely for Seltman Groups I had no news about except for their name! Now I need your help: PLEASE HELP ME FIND MISTAKES OR ADD SOMETHING! I feel like this first part could use a lot of improvements: let me know if you spot any misattributed coins, if some info about the groups are missing or plain wrong, if you have some design improvements, anything would be great, please! Knowledge should be shared, and the fact that coin classifications are behind a paywall hurts the hobby and the research immensely, so I'm trying to make knowledge free for everyone, but mostly clear and easily accessible for people like us by doing these infographics. (We should launch a hashtag , ha! #freeancientcoinknowledge or something 🙂 ) By the way, this picture is relatively small, the original file size I'm working with is 6,000 x 10,000 pixels! Let me know what you think, and please, please, please, add your feedback! A.C.