Coin Identification Game

[Kasperus]

Well, as i said I`m not sure, either Constantine or Licinius. Anyway, it is quite surely that period (early 4th century) anyway, as most found roman coins are from that period.

Btw, it is indeed very possible to get Roman coins. Actually, Roman coins aren`t rare at all (just as greek post alexander btw) - there are more roman coins than medieval coins from before 1500... As you know the Romans needed a lot of cash to pays for all those soldiers alongside all their long borders - since the hughe amount of coins. The period of unrest and internal wars of the 4th century provided the most coins.
You can get copper/bronze coins from that time for a few euro I guess, though most copper isn`t very good qualitatively (silver coins seem to stay fine longer but those are a bit more expensive, ~15 euro for a mediocre one)
Gold of course is rare and expensive
If you live in England or balkans you can also just try to dig a bit around. You have a fair chance to find something roman

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Im swedish so i doubt i can get that type of coins

I myself collect everything Imperial German at the moment, has over 15 medals as of now, a few coins, and three bills that is my latest aquirements, then i have a collection of swedish coins, basicly all coins from 1900:s and bills.

But i realy collect Imperial German stuff, and everything of characters i like, so a sort of dream would be to have an Imperial Austrian Coin or medal But would also love to have a coin from the Polish age of Greatness.

 

[Kasperus]

hmm, how you define polish age of greatness? I have examples of polish coins starting from ~1300. Though the most coins were actually struck in the years of big wars of Sigismund and Jan Casimir (the same reason as the romans had to struck all those coins I guess...). Anyway, that weren`t really the times of Polish greatness anymore.

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Well, i define the era of greatness when you had that funny cavalry Winged Husars i think they call them in english
but basicly my interest for Poland , great interests, ends with August of Saxony.
begins around the battle where you crushed the Teutonic Order.

 

[Napoleon XIV]

Mikael, What german medals do you have?

I collect American and some Italian coins and 2 medals.

Medal 1: WWI Medal for service in the war

Medal 2: German Luftwaffe Insignia medal thing...

Wheer could i get some more medals? the only place i know is up in Vermont and their stock is Extremely limited (its an odd store full of old stuff and they have a VERY small spot for medals)

 

[Kasperus]

so 1410 to 1696 or 1733 I guess...well, there are a lot of coins to get from that period. As I said - mostly Sigismund and Jan Casimir, less from the Jagiellonian era, just one kind from reign of the turkkiller Jan Sobieski, and hardly any from the period of August II and Vladislav Wasa. I have exactly 20 covering that period, of it 4 Sigismund I (jagiellon), 6 Sigismund III Wasa and 3 Jan Casimir Wasa.

 

[unmerged(1463)]

No real famous ones yet, buys whatever i can get my hands on for the moment
But i can name some of the medals i have, get most from internet auctions:

Kaiser Friedrich -´Lerne Leiden Ohne zu Klagen
Wilhelm I birthday

Currently bidding on ww Hindenburg cross
and
Iron Cross second class

also have soviet medals in extremly good quality:
Celebration of the Great War 40 years
1918-1888
some weird medal
and Marshall Zhukov medal

and concernign your choices of medals, i say try Yahoo auctions, if you trust the web, i dont

 

[Kasperus]

I can say that I had pretty good experienced with ebay though....

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Kasperus, know anyplace i can get coins from that era.

About medals, here are three medals i bought whom still has images of them online:

LINKS
http://images.tradera.com/5/850035_1.gif
http://images.tradera.com/8/838128_1.gif

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Originally posted by Kasperus
I can say that I had pretty good experienced with ebay though....

pretty good, what was bad ?

 

[Napoleon XIV]

i got Win NT 4.0 Server Edition off ebay and it was fine... Ebay is quite good, they insure your stuff up to a certain amount and theyre user comment/user rating system is quite useful for picking a seller to buy from...

 

[Kasperus]

well, from 20 transactions I made 18 were concluded satisfactionary (iow I got what I expected). Once I didn`t got the coin and another time the coin was damaged. Still better than expected.

And well, most of my polish coins I buy at my "dealer" in the netherlands, who looks specially for me for polish coins (the more modern usually), others I buy on vacations in poland. And some I got through ebay thus For a coin there you should count on at least $20 fee for a mediocre coin from that period though, not adding the postal costs. About 2-3 times the catalogue price often is my experience.
One my aunt found in her garden btw - A Jan Casimir solidus from 166x

 

[Napoleon XIV]

Aunt's backyard eh? get a metal detector

howd you get that Roman coin? The oldest coin i have is a rather worn 186x Buffalo nickel that my dad got at one of his carwashes many years ago...

 

[Kasperus]

Well, got that one with a whole bunch of other from ebay thus - these are the such called "uncleaned coins" - offers. they promise you to find gold (well, none till date) and "great pieces of history". What you get is a bunch of rotten pieces of metal of what at most 20% will turn out into a manageable coin (like that one in my quiz ). At that moment it is cheaper to just buy a "cleaned" one ($5-10.for a bronze, $15-20 for silver, a few 1000`s for gold)
Well, I did that 2-3- times and thereafter decided that I could use my money in a much better way

Btw, my oldest is one of the other still unidentified coins from my quiz

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Let me guess, you are trying to impress us, so naturally your oldest coin is the very first coin Buddha earned in India am i right ? LOL

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by Mikael XII
Let me guess, you are trying to impress us, so naturally your oldest coin is the very first coin Buddha earned in India am i right ? LOL

heh, I don`t think there were already coins used in his days. Oldest coins are from ~1000BC but that`s a little bit too old for my eh... purse

 

[Napoleon XIV]

im going to take a stab at the remaining 3...

7. Rather old Turkish perhaps?

8. Indian?

9. Arakan? Looks similiar to something in EU but i haven't played in a while so i dont remember...

/me bets im 0/3

 

[Apollon]

ARGH
i knew 17 was roman when i saw the larger picture, where mars is holding goddes fortuna victrix in (or rather on) his hand! damn you for giving so many hints, lol. i wanted to find it first
but the writing is illegible. i can't even tell whether it's latin or greek.

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by Napoleon XIV
im going to take a stab at the remaining 3...

7. Rather old Turkish perhaps?

8. Indian?

9. Arakan? Looks similiar to something in EU but i haven't played in a while so i dont remember...

/me bets im 0/3

well, not bad... not bad at all

About 7, actually, I have no idea . The coin is islamitic, and I have a coin which looks very similar of which I`m almost sure it is struck in an afghan/indian possibly turkish-ruled state. So anyway, it is very probable that the coin is old turkish, although not struck by the european/anatolian turks (that according to the picture on the other side which I only saw on "indian" coins)

8 is correct more or less. That kind of coin is known as indian jital-coin (by collectors at least) and was used, well, in the vicinity of current india. I wouldn`t dare to guess at the year of it being struck though - somewhere between 800 and 1800...

13 (9 was the german one, i`m sure you didn`t mean that ) is wrong AND it is the only till date unrecognized coin...

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by Apollon
ARGH
i knew 17 was roman when i saw the larger picture, where mars is holding goddes fortuna victrix in (or rather on) his hand! damn you for giving so many hints, lol. i wanted to find it first
but the writing is illegible. i can't even tell whether it's latin or greek.

well, now you say so, indeed, the right part of the text could even look like greek. But the other side the letters are latin (at least the 1st 3: IMP - the only good legible, which usually are the 1st 3 on Roman IMPerial coins ). That and the fact that after ~270 there were no more coins with Greek inscriptions, and the style of written letters is clearly 4th century.

Well, people were asking for hints and I didn`t want them to name first all the italian and french post 1300 states (not to mention that someone guessed canada...)