For starters, I should write that all the coins I show are in my possession. I don't know if this is a rule at Silvergoldstackers, but I will continue to abide by it.
Since I am the owner of the coins, I am also their photographer. I'm not a good photographer. I wear different glasses for distance and close-up. I'm impatient. I get bad results quite often. But I've noticed that copper and bronze coins look best in green, silver coins in blue, gold coins don't care. But now to the coins themselves.
These are ancient coins, mostly Roman. They date from the 1st to the 4th century AD. I don't think anyone's ever shown them on #Silvegoldstackers. Are they rare and expensive?
These coins are not completely worthless. But you wouldn't buy a Lambo with them. Even though they're up to 2,000 years old. It is not what is old that is rare, but what is few. Ancient Rome minted coins by the millions.
Gold and silver coins were constantly melted down and restruck. For base metal coins, this would be pointless. So there are far more base metal coins surviving. And base metal coins are more easily corroded.
By the way, I don't collect these coins. But when you collect something for 40 years, you get your hands on some incredible things. You bought something that matched something that was cheap. You thought you were gonna sell something to somebody, but you didn't. You brokered something for somebody and you got paid in these coins. Someone gave you something. And then you have coins, bills everywhere. And you've got something to look at and something to write about.
I promised myself that I would write at least 24 articles by January 25th. So this is the first one.