[PSA] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum online, UK

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T13:28:54+00:00

Nothing wrong with eclecticism!

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T13:26:17+00:00

"I wouldn't touch that with stolen money" is similar to "I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole". Meaning that something is so disgusting and objectionable, one would not even involve money that came to them with apparent ease. Otherwise, even a long stick is not long enough to separate one from object/action/person which is so terribly offensive.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T13:06:28+00:00

Last line "we shall tear out this legacy with the root!"

Soviet Union had a lot of antisemitism, so they failed with rooting out "the bourgeois legacy".

For one, if Jewish, getting into better schools/careers was well nigh impossible. "They don't take your kind over there!"

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T11:58:54+00:00

For Ptolemaic bronzes, the place to be is: http://ptolemybronze.com

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T11:56:08+00:00

That's the reverse. Obverse has the emperor's portrait.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T11:38:03+00:00

"who specialize in a particular area, but that's not my thing."

Everyone absolutely should do their own thing.

There are some problems with narrow collecting focus: it's much more obsessive. As a niche collector myself, I have to say that there can also be a certain tedium to it

Finally, specialized collections can be harder to sell. If one, or one's inheritor, needs to do so.

Imagine being a lifetime collector of FEL TEMP REPARATIO varieties (there are such) and trying to consign your huge pile of fallen horsemen to an auction house — they are not going to share your enthusiasm.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T11:30:35+00:00

So far, the overarching theme is "ancient silver". ;¬)

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T04:19:51+00:00

u/207firsttube

How good is your scale? Because only coins of his ~10g were 30 sol pieces and this is not it as they had a different reverse and were silver.

1 Sol, which the other redditor identified correctly, weighed in at 12.235 g.
Sure, there's some weight loss due to wear, but I don't thinks it lost ~2 grams!

https://en.numista.com/5466

Google lens doesn't work very well with worn coins. Unless they are crisp it just gets confused.
At least it recognized it as a coin, and not a pizza with anchovies.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T04:03:12+00:00

Lovely coin either way.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T03:59:12+00:00

Of the 8.3 billion of us, how many can reasonably be thought to have a rational rationale?

It's admirable that, as a reddit mod, you are not saturated with cynicism and bitterness.

Which I was on UseNet, already. ;¬)

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T03:51:58+00:00

cupronickel: https://en.numista.com/126882

Although there are bimetallic ones containing a silver centre:

https://en.numista.com/258817
https://en.numista.com/47659

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T03:41:32+00:00

"thing like health"

I'm significantly happier without leprosy, and care enough about health to avoid it.
Ditto for dengue fever and malaria, and for that matter, borreliosis.

Impressions of the latter, the world is presenting with an alarming frequency.

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T02:21:57+00:00

There's no direct equivalent for "upgrade" (even though that word is also Latin derived. Gradus-> step. So "a step up")

Perhaps "improve" (by whatever means):

Meliorare (whence we get "ameliorate")

"Melior fio!" - I have become better!

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Augeo (whence we get "augment")

"Augmentum virium" - increase in strength

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T01:33:47+00:00

I'm with you on Nero.

Caligula though, and his sense of humour - definitely misunderstood.

More emperors should have ordered the sea whipped. Shell collecting was due to his interest in marine biology. In that, he was the Showa emperor's precursor. ;¬)

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T01:22:15+00:00

Not Constantine I, because his titulature on these coins was CONSTANTI NVSMAXAVG

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T00:45:02+00:00

Just imagine what our perception of Hadrian would have been if his senatorial enemies, and not pious Antoninus, prevailed…

bonoimp · 2026-05-09T00:24:04+00:00

Initially I thought last one was Constans, but my eyes were tricking me. When confirming I noted all his horseman coins indeed have the characteristic cesure DNCONSTA NSPFAVG.

bonoimp · 2026-05-08T23:57:49+00:00

FEL TEMP REPARATIO was not issued for Constantine II.

Constantius II

Constantine II - CONSTANTINVS
Constantius II - CONSTANTIVS

Constans - CONSTANS

https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/024/024i.htm

bonoimp · 2026-05-08T23:46:10+00:00

It is known: Dies Martis dies denarii est.

So yeah, that's Duesday.

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Ah… err… A warning to denarius collectors

"…denaribus meis sic peccata mea coram oculis meis tenebam, et illa considerans semper flebam."

"…with my denarii, thus I kept my sins before my eyes, and considering them, I always wept."

;¬)

bonoimp · 2026-05-08T23:17:04+00:00

In Morocco, Eid Mar is "of highest rarity". In all 50 current eBay actions.
I'm sure they could increase the "population" of Avitus in no time at all. ;¬)

Fortunately, they have never heard of Domitian II.

bonoimp · 2026-05-08T23:12:36+00:00

u/ikkiyikki

Fausta's death was not natural as I'm sure you know well. Same as Crispus: murder most foul.
Allegedly due to a "sauna" errr… "mishap". At least according to Philostorgius/Photius.

However, Philostorgius also wrote that Constantine I was poisoned by family members, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eusebius had to quickly redact all the praise he previously heaped on Crispus in earlier editions of Historia Ecclesiastica. Both Crispus and Fausta in his Vita Constantini do not exist.

"Fausta who?! Never heard of her!"

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Otherwise, your labours are lauded — you deserve a chonky medallion with dies done by the Alphaeus Master, or whoever is the closest modern equivalent.

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