Ancient Coins: Silver Coins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 เม.ย. 2021
- Silver! The metal that allowed global trade to flourish and societies to develop coinage as a convenient way of transferring value between people. Today we´re going on a historic tour of silver coinage, from the earliest coin made out of silver to the mythical pieces of 8, that kickstarted the modern world.
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My dream silver coin is a Constantine XI Palaeologus silver Stavraton, one of the last coins minted to pay for the defence of Constantinople before its fall to the Ottomans in 1453. Only a few are known from a hoard found in that city.
The last Roman! Good choice! :)
Cool toning on the 8 Reales. I like silver coins, but the vast majority of my collection is bronze.
Aurelian is one of my all time favourite Emperors. So I'd love to get myself a good quality Restitutor Orbis Antoninian eventually.
I collect mostly English hammered coins, but my first ancient silver coin was a roman lulia Augusta denarious. I do enjoy some of the ancients coins!
I’m with you there mate, i do enjoy these videos because of the freshness in coinage!
Your videos are always excellently written!
And silver is certainly what collecting ancient coins is about, mostly.
Yet, as a suggestion for a future video (among many other ones), I would love to see a video about the birth of bronze coinage around 430-400 BC, between Sicily, Thrace, Ionia and Thessaly, since it shows first evidence of fiat currency, with the very first indications of the values marked on the coins (with dots or even LI for litra on small silver coins, of a smaller weight than they shoud be).
that 8 reales is very nice
I would like to have ancient Athenia with owl silver coin some day.
Thank you for compiling this information into a beautiful presentation.
I enjoy these videos so much that I endured a 7-minute get-rich-quick scheme ad (as opposed to skipping it) just to help monetizing this video :)
Now THAT is a show of support. I couldn't say I could endure this for myself! Thanks :)
Thanks, I will definitely head over to Savoca Coins on your recommendation & they will receive some bidding due to your video.
And this directly supports me as a content creator. Thanks! :)
Beautiful!!!
Great video as always my friend
We need to get you a roman coin, mate! Preferable one minted in Londinium :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics maybe in that collaboration I mentioned 😊
I have the same Tiberius coin with Pax/Livia Reverse!
The coin from pergamon or lot 6 is my favorite. If I had no budget I'd probably buy the punic tetradrachm from Sicily 320-300BC. The Ocho Reales is pretty interesting.
4:06 It represented the ancient stock market probably. I guess there aren't as many bears in Lydia as elsewhere on Earth... :D
When the market is so heated up it isnt even Bull, it went full-on LION! :)
Back in ancient Rome silver coins were sometimes melted to sell the metal? Or the value were more due the rarity (caused by the use of silver) than the Silver itself?
Normally not. The purchasing power of a silver coin was always slightly higher than what that same weight of silver would be worth, this made people spend the coin instead of melting it down.
What happened, however, and what actually caused so many silver coins to have reached our days was that people, noticing the purity of new silver coins was dropping, would stash the older, richer silver coins away.
I like the spanish coin :)
These are very massive chunks of silver, really impressive coins! :)
Your Umayyad dirham at 2:15: al-Rayy mint (now Teheran), dated "sanat seb' wa tis'in" (AH 97 = AD 716 or something about that date).
sorry, you're right its sitt wa tis'in (AH 96).
Es por eso que subscribo a tu canal. Hombre, eres una biblioteca de conocimiento numismatico que alucino!
@@ClassicalNumismatics Sorry for the wrong initial reading of the date, I didn't pay attention to the final 'ain.
@@ClassicalNumismatics Espléndida tetradracma pergamena de Eumenes!
Love your videos, but I do have to point out a mistake. At 11:30 you say that Livia was Tiberius' wife. That's incorrect. She was his mother as well as Augustus' wife.
Absolutely right! Thanks for catching this mistake!
I'll try pinning this comment so people can see the correction straight away :)
Silver has some of the most interesting designs and colorful history over the many millennia. However, as you said, it tarnishes. Even when just stored in a wooden drawer. Whereas gold keeps its shine no matter what. If you wanted to display your silver coins exposed to indoor atmosphere, how would you do it?
Controlling humidity is pretty much all you need to do. Basically keeping it on a dry area is fine, really. If you live in a particularly humid climate and want to be extra careful, a couple of silica packs close to your coins are more than enough to keep them pristine, its not that complicated!
@@ClassicalNumismatics always concerned about sulfur contact. whether in the air or materials it touches (i.e. leather and wood). thinking about putting mine in glass jars in a living room but didn't want to overdo. thanks for the advice. learning a lot with your channel.
Go for coin trays! There are some coin displays with individual slots for each coin and a glass lid so you can see them
Modern mining rates are around 1:7 or 1:8 depending on sources. Most silver (70%) now produced is a biproduct of other mining activities - mostly copper and gold mines.
Thanks for the info. For my sources, since this is a historical channels, I've used estimated historical sources :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics Yeah, it's been 1: 15-18 historically. But in recent years, it's been dropping. And it's used in industry and it is often used up/not recovered.
Hi sir, how about islamic coint silver weight?
Islamic coins were struck during many centuries in many different places, with wildly different weights and silver purities.
You need to look deeper into a certain area and time period and study its particular coinage in this case.
Can you do a video on silver tarnishing? Im very upset about it and it is the only thing that distract me from silver. Im afraid that it will corrode and lose its value and weight and it will fall apart. It would be nice from you to make a video about it.
Sure, this would probably go well with a video about bronze patinas.
But while I dont get to it, and to make you a bit less anxious, here's a personalized answer:
Silver tarnish is just a very minor layer on top of untouched silver. It does not "penetrate" into the silver or destroy it, it just turns every single silver object out there black with time, but its not physically damaging like bronze disease is with base-metal coins. No, your silver coin will not lose weight nor fall apart
The best way to store it? I go over it on my storage and handling video. Keep it in a chemically inert place, preferably with low humidity.
@@ClassicalNumismatics aha i got it, so tarnish doesnt negativelly affect silver properties in any way?
@@ClassicalNumismatics and bronze or copper patina is bad for metal? I dont understand why silver patina is not bad but other metals oxidation is bad and destroy the metal 😄
Because the chemical nature of the reactions is entirely different, since the metals involved are different.
A Bronze/Copper patina is different from "Bronze disease", they involve different chemicals. A patina is a mineral layer made out of the original copper from the coin and certain chemicals, which results on a stable layer that protects the metal below.
Bronze disease is an active process which involves chlorine, and it damages the coin.
Seriously, watch my video, its all well explained there.
My faves = silver Sela yr 1 and Israel shekel yr 1
If I could buy = EID MAR denarius
Ohh yes, EID MAR!
I have many ancient currency and many other things
Are your many ancient currency and many other things for sale? If they are in good condition, I can buy them. You will need to send me pictures ancient coins and artifacts. Thanks
Where can value my coins
I have an entire video dedicated on How to Sell your coins, you should head over to my channel page and look at it.
Just to correct you on the Umayyad dirham, the mint and date are in the obverse margin not the reverse which you showed. The reverse carries part of the Chapter of al-Ikhlas from the Qur'an and another verse from the Qur'an proclaiming the foundational understanding of the nature of God.