Welcome. I started this website in early 2002. I had discovered I could purchase “uncleaned” Roman coins a year or two prior to that. This was in the period after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the supply of coins was huge and the quality was surprisingly good. I would often receive groups of coins that need nothing more than light brushing. I found a denarius in one of my first lots. That was the final “hook” that addicted me to this hobby. I still clean coins on occasion. Instead of uncleaned coins, I buy coins that look like they would improve from a cleaning. They cost more, but they are more fun to clean and generally the results are good everytime.

This hobby is amazing in so many ways. As my knowledge grows, I realize how little I know, and that fact requires more learning. I wanted a way to share my coins online, so I am learning what I need to learn to do that. I need decent pictures of my coins, so I’m learning that. To attribute coins, I need to learn how to read Latin, and Greek. To enjoy my coins in their historical context, I need to learn some history. This hobby hooked me in so many interesting ways.

These coins are the constant. My sons were learning to walk and talk when I started this website, now they are grown men building their futures. I uploaded the first pages of this website on dialup internet. Since then, I have experience 24 years of life, with all the changes, gains, losses, comings and goings that entails.

These coins have been around for all of that. Since they were made, kingdoms and countries have come and gone. My time with these coin is tiny in comparison. They will be here when I have gone. Maybe that’s the thing I enjoy the most about them, the perspective. As I typed this, I have a Ptolemy coin on my desk. How did a coin from 163 B.C. Egypt make it here? That journey is amazing to me. I have come to learn that the coins here are not Kevin’s Coins, they just stopped off here with me for a bit on their journey. I’m all the better for it.(Updated March 2026)

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