The Ancient Coin Podcast with Aaron Berk - Episode 24

Our 24th episode discussing ancient coin auctions, rules and regulations and a game identifying ancient coins. Join us and please subscribe to our YouTube channel!

[Radslom]

Great podcast. I am glad that this podcast spend a lot of time about regulations. Is is a rather overlooked aspect of numismatics. I had learned a lot from your show. Keep it up!

[Numischannel]

Thanks for addressing the all-important matter of regulations (or rather, I should say persecution) currenlty affecting our hobby. Subscribed!

[oliet]

Great episode! Regarding Elagabalus, the Severans adopted names from the previous Antonine Dynasty to legitimise themselves. Septimius Severus had himself declared the adopted son of Marcus Aurelius almost 15 years after Marcus had died! Elagabalus likewise took the name Antoninus Pius to link himself to the former Emperor Antoninus Pius. The name ‘Elagabalus’ wasn’t used by the Emperor himself.

[thearmourer]

Hail the truth! Greetings from Bulgaria!

[markp]

If you're pissed at Aaron's take on antiquities, take a deep breath and consider where you are wrong. He's spot on.

[Numischannel]

Hello, the man on the first denarius (great coin, by the way) was called Faustus (praenomen) Cornelius (nomen) Sulla (cognomen) Felix (cognomen). Faustus is a praenomen (given name), there were ony 34 cognomina, therefore they were usually abreviated with an initial (C. = Gaius, L. = Lucius, M. = Marcus, etc.) and Faustus was one of the least employed, that's why it's featured in full. Cornelius was his nomen (family name, the name of the gens: thus in this case gens Cornelia). Cognomina were nicknames, but often of an official character, and some cognomina were especially used in some families (as in this case, Sulla; in the case of the gens Julia, the cognomen Caesar was given to many members at least from the 2nd. century BC, if not even before). Most people in ancient Rome were known publicly by their cognomina; at home, they would call you by your praenomen.

[Numischannel]

Collectors of antiquities do not write papers nor catalogues - we numistatists do. Since the new (2004) Italian Heritage Law was passed, not a single important book on Ancient Greek or Roman coins from Italian mints has been written in Italy. Public servants (who now have the monopoly of ancient coins in Italy) do not write catalogues on ancient coins. Italians succeeded in destroying numismatics in their own country.

[Minilopo]

I think there are certain coinages in Syria, Turkey etc that probably only circulated extremely locally. Reporting and having the find locations would go a long way to empirically verify this so i think a UK style PAS thing is the way to go.

[brictator]

10:20 Felix means lucky in Latin and that nickname comes from his dad sulla who earned it

[kdi]

It's all political and about money with the laws of ownership.

[nathanielscreativecollecti]

Government: "We found a problem to solve!"
Problem: "I'm about to ruin this man's whole career."

[ib]

Wasn't the Judaea Capta coin Titus, abbreviated from Imperator Titus caesar Vespasian (imptcaesvespasian)?

[malek]

Hello, what is the news? I own a 1913 Liberty coin. How can I make sure it is original?

[rafaelmartinezmartinez]

En verdad que son piezas excepcionales. Es una lástima que no hayan subtítulos en español, pero aun así la vista disfruta con tanta belleza. Un saludo.