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I'm not sure how effective it is at present - just gave it a very quick test on searching for info on roman coins - but the concept is great. This is something

I'm not sure how effective it is at present - just gave it a very quick test on searching for info on roman coins - but the concept is great. This is something that I've often wished existed. If I'm searching for roman coins I certainly don't want to find commercial sites selling them (I know what those are), or even the well-known online national collections or auction archives... I'd like to be able to find the specialist sites built by collectors (and maybe academics) that are non-commercial and way more interesting. In the early days of the internet some specialist content/pages were organized into "web rings" each linking to each other, but nowadays we're mostly relying on search to discover new pages, and it seems a lot of the hobbyist content is way harder to find, assuming it's even out there.

marginalia_nu 4y ago
What did you search? Try just 'roman coins' #1: http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html #2-4: were not very good #5: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc1.html https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc1.html #6: https://www.cngcoins.com/Greek+and+Roman+Coins.aspx https://www.cngcoins.com/Greek+and+Roman+Coins.aspx #7: https://www.crystalinks.com/romecoins.html https://www.crystalinks.com/romecoins.html If you search for specifically the 'as' it may be eaten as a stop word :-/
- HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
  I was searching "imp constantinvs" which is part of the legend on many coins of constantine the great. Would expect to see these details listed on any hobbyist sites, as well as the commercial ones I'm not interested it. BTW #1, 5, 6 are all good sites, but those are very mainstream - those will be top links in Google as well. #6 is purely commercial - an auction house. #5 is a coin dealer's commercial site, but has good collector resources (discussion board, Wiki, collectors galleries) as well.
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    Do you know of any hobbyist sites within this space? I want to check a thing, could be this corner of the internet isn't well indexed. I should be able to tell with explore2.
    - HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
      constantinethegreatcoins.com is one - the owner is also a dealer, but this is his private hobbyist site. Some examples of other non-commercial roman coin hobbyist sites (that will also rank fairly highly with Google) are: augustuscoins.com wildwinds.com beastcoins.com www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info https://www.nummus-bibleii.com/ https://www.nummus-bibleii.com/ I'm at work right now, so these are just some examples off the top of my head. I can give more examples later if it's useful. Some of these site will include links to other collector/hobbyist sites.
      - marginalia_nu 4y ago
        Hmm, several of those weren't indexed, I added them to the crawl queue. Seems like the numismatics corner of the web isn't well indexed by marginalia. constantinethegreatcoins does show up for 'imp constantinvs' though.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

What did you search? Try just 'roman coins' #1: http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html #2-4: were not very good #5: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc1.html https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc1.html #6: https://www.cngcoins.com/Greek+and+Roman+Coins.aspx https://www.cngcoins.com/Greek+and+Roman+Coins.aspx #7: https://www.crystalinks.com/romecoins.html https://www.crystalinks.com/romecoins.html If you search for specifically the 'as' it may be eaten as a stop word :-/

HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
I was searching "imp constantinvs" which is part of the legend on many coins of constantine the great. Would expect to see these details listed on any hobbyist sites, as well as the commercial ones I'm not interested it. BTW #1, 5, 6 are all good sites, but those are very mainstream - those will be top links in Google as well. #6 is purely commercial - an auction house. #5 is a coin dealer's commercial site, but has good collector resources (discussion board, Wiki, collectors galleries) as well.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Do you know of any hobbyist sites within this space? I want to check a thing, could be this corner of the internet isn't well indexed. I should be able to tell with explore2.
  - HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
    constantinethegreatcoins.com is one - the owner is also a dealer, but this is his private hobbyist site. Some examples of other non-commercial roman coin hobbyist sites (that will also rank fairly highly with Google) are: augustuscoins.com wildwinds.com beastcoins.com www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info https://www.nummus-bibleii.com/ https://www.nummus-bibleii.com/ I'm at work right now, so these are just some examples off the top of my head. I can give more examples later if it's useful. Some of these site will include links to other collector/hobbyist sites.
    - marginalia_nu 4y ago
      Hmm, several of those weren't indexed, I added them to the crawl queue. Seems like the numismatics corner of the web isn't well indexed by marginalia. constantinethegreatcoins does show up for 'imp constantinvs' though.