This is not quite an Ancient Numismatics Page, nor a "My Summer Vacation" Travel Page. It aspires to have an element of the first and shamelessly concedes an aspect of the latter. I collect ancient coins and want to present a view of a few, as they are otherwise confined to a safety deposit box. I do love to travel and take pictures and share a shot or two. For this page, I'd like to do both -- but only in combination.

• The photos, all my own, will be of places of the great ancient mints (not always of the mint sites themselves).
• Along with the site photos will be images of associated coins from my collection.

This attempt at my own Web Pages Site begins with only a few coin sites, but will expand gradually. I start with the two great cities of the Ancient Western World: Athens and Rome. (These two pages are recently revised with the additions of my photographic digital creations.) They are followed by sites of Magna Graecia (because I returned from Southern Italy in the spring of 1999 greatly impressed by the art wonders I found in a land of my family heritage), and Etruria (my land of mythic, archetypal heritage). I slipped in China (along with Egypt) ahead of schedule because of my and my wife's recent trip to China (and to Egypt earlier with our daughter), excited by the exotic wonders we all photographed. This site's final section on Italy (Republican, Imperatorial and Imperial Rome) now has tentative closure -- expanded by the coinage of Marcus Aurelius and the Golden Age Emperors. This site will continue also to develop coin pages for other ancient regions around the world: Greece (opened with Corinth), Asia Minor (opened with Paphos/ Knidos), the Bible Lands (opened with Masada, Israel) and Byzantium (opened with Constantinople). No, I don't have a lot of time on my hands. Construction will proceed slowly -- please be patient.

My Name is Tom. If you'd like to find out more about the specific sites or coins (or provide some constructive criticism about my Web Page), please e-mail me:

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MENU of Sites of the Celators!

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ATHENS AND ROME

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First stop? Athens and the ancient agora!

Click Athena to go to the Athenian Mint!

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Next stop? Rome and the Capitoline Mint, on the site that gave money its name!

Click Caesar to go to THE Capitol!

Next stop? The mysterious Campanian Cave of Magna Graecia's oldest Greek colony!

Click the Nymph Kyme (or is she the Sibyl?) to go to Cumae!