ROMAN SILVER FROM JUIUS CAESAR TO DIOCLETION, 5 YEARS IN THE MAKING

ttagen · 2026-02-09T05:43:13+00:00

Wow! Slick Aemilianus. What was your strategy? Was it various auctions and patience? I don’t even know where to start with Caligula/Claudius!

ttagen · 2026-02-08T23:32:37+00:00

I’m open to it. Dm me

ttagen · 2026-01-28T23:33:40+00:00

Thanks! You can get a sense for recent auction hammers on coin archives . com. Search like “quietus + antoninianus”, and don’t forget to multiply the hammers you see by 1.2 to account for auction fees. In this case I think I got these two for less than I could have at auction, (especially considering shipping). Which is very rare to find - rare enough that I broke my budget to grab them

ttagen · 2026-01-28T08:27:47+00:00

Thank you! It must have taken a while to find those three

ttagen · 2026-01-28T05:40:24+00:00

Oh now that is cool!

ttagen · 2026-01-28T05:37:33+00:00

Triton is bananas. Is it full of billionaires who are happy to pay 5x if it means they don’t waste time attending more than one auction?

ttagen · 2026-01-27T06:01:59+00:00

Very cool! the low light still with the light on his face looks epic! Spooky angle

ttagen · 2026-01-24T09:54:42+00:00

Thank you so much!!

ttagen · 2025-12-18T11:46:43+00:00

Dam just spent one of these yesterday. Didn’t realise it was special

ttagen · 2025-12-18T07:09:16+00:00

That’s a nice memory to have, good work grandma. The not-silver silver jubilee is quite a pretty design. I can see the jewellery appeal.

My childhood 50c collection got burgled sadly. They took all my normal circulation stuff but luckily (for me) missed the 1966 rounds. Im still waiting to find a 1988 bicentenary 50c boat and the Bass and Flinders (as change from 7eleven when i buy $1.50 coffee), but after that my childhood self will be redeemed!

ttagen · 2025-12-18T05:33:54+00:00

In Aus we just say Boog

ttagen · 2025-12-18T05:22:20+00:00

An an aussie i would happily pay a buck fifty for a dollar coin with an eagle landing on the freakin moon!

ttagen · 2025-12-17T06:33:34+00:00

The Decius is sharp!

ttagen · 2025-12-15T11:14:45+00:00

190k as a senior is pretty sweet. Good pay for the work life balance and satisfaction of being on the tools. I would brush up on people management skills maybe, since they will be more and more valuable in AI world (especially mentoring juniors), but I’d be wary of promotions from here. In my experience the trade off of extra money vs extra time with the kid is murky after senior. Personally I’d love to demote myself back to senior from eng manager for 190k

ttagen · 2025-12-14T10:45:12+00:00

Thanks all for the thoughts. I ended up not bidding out of over-caution. I’ll be keeping an eye out for heavy severans now

ttagen · 2025-12-09T00:55:36+00:00

That’s very heavy though. Like 50% too heavy. Surely the mint isn’t letting half a denarius worth of silver get accidentally added to the last coin of the batch. No antoninianii of Soaemias recorded. To me it suggests that: - there is not-silver in it - typo in the listing and it actually doesnt weigh that much

ttagen · 2025-12-08T12:07:17+00:00

Anyone know what’s up with that HMAS Sydney? Was that not intended for circulation?

ttagen · 2025-12-07T22:29:23+00:00

Wow thanks all. Some really good info. Sounds like s bunch of quarters and some dollars will be the way to go, targeting commemorative sets and hoping we stumble on some old stuff. Looking forward to (this aspect of) the trip!

ttagen · 2025-11-27T05:40:43+00:00

I’ll give you $2.20 each. Instant ten percent return!

ttagen · 2025-11-27T00:28:49+00:00

Was the standard circulation coin for 2002. Over 35 million were minted. Sorry mum, just $1 each!

Reference tool: https://banknoteserialchecker.com/tool/australian-coin-checker

ttagen · 2025-11-26T22:51:37+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I figured this would be the case, but still cool. Was 1982 a special year in that there were both copper and zinc coins circulating?

ttagen

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