ANCIENT - Ancientnoob is Making a Video on Ancient Coins.

Thanks Dawg => yup, that Bat-link came through loud-n-clear .... you rock!!



Oh and hey, I never knew A-Noob was a fella?

 

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Just jokes Noober => the video was a winner!! (cool idea)

 

Maybe but I always knew X6 was an obol...

 

Cool video, makes me regret not getting a slightly lower grade example but as usual I fell to some nagging wome...I mean empresses.

 

So that's how you sound like lol. Thanks for sharing the vids!

 

Glad you like the video. I will make more and try to refine the info I include.

 

Yah "if" I ever decide to make one of those coin-vids, then I'm definitely gonna hire a stunt-voice!! (maybe James Earl Jones => Darth Vader?)

... because my "Squiggy" voice ain't gonna cut it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8fQh04tjo

 

Cool beans

Excellent video presentation of your First Meris Tet. I would suggest that you carefully title all your videos with a uniform system of titles. When you have hundreds of fistfullofdeners videos, everyone will appreciate it if they are easy to navigate by title. Perhaps this one should be titled “Macedonian First Meris Tetradrachm” or something like that.

You definitely have the hand-eye-video coordination and gift-of-gab to put together a really good video product.

 

Please let me know guys if there is a particular coin you all would like me to make a video. It would be my pleasure.. Can't wait to hear what ya'll have to say.

 

Master Noob, maybe you could do a series on cleaning coins, start to finish, the coins that i'm sending out aren't very good, i'm looking for some very good coin's that i can send out to you guy's, anyone know of any let me know.. keep up the great work..:thumb:...

John..

 

The First Meris is even more beautiful in video.

 

Thank I am glad you like it Ski.

 

Alexander lifetime issue Tetradrachm

Athens Athena/Owl Tetradrachm & Coins with test marks from antiquity

 

Great that will tonights video!!

I will start making them with uniform titles. I would also like to expand a little on the back ground and manufacturing technique of the coins in question.

I also got to throw down some videos of some of the eastern coins too. Don't see many vids of those eh?

 

Alexander the Great is on YouTube now!!! Check it out!

 

Sorry A-dawg ... yah, I tried but I couldn't find it (that's probably not too surprising to the folks that know me)

=> oh, but I did find a lot of other interesting youtube stuff regarding Alexander the Great, so it wasn't a total waste of my time!!

 

Haha. Try and use the bat-Link and go from there. They are all under my YouTube user ID 'Fistfullofdenars'

 

Thanks => yup, the bat-link got me to the promised land ...

I watched all 3 of your vids ... good job!!

:high5:

 

You mentioned that the Menander the Great Tetradrachm weighs 9.63 grams. Is there a different weight standard used for this Tetradrachm and the Alexander Tetradrachm in your other video?

 

Ah good question collect89!

The answer is yes. Originally coins of Bactria and the Indo-Greek kingdoms were on the Attic Standard with a 17.2 gram fine silver tetradrachm and a 4.3g drachm.

As the Indo-Greek Kingdoms became increasingly separated from the affairs in Europe. They adopted their own way of doing things. They created a 9.8 g tetradrachm on a 2.45 drachm standard (also known as the Indian Standard.) All of these coins feature the a Greek obverse and a Kharosthi reverse.

Starting in the top half of the 1st century BC Hermaios (the last great Bactrian King) lost control of the Silver minds to the Yue-chi tribal confederacy. The remaining Greek cities and the subsequent nomad conquers continued to issue Hermaios drachms and tetradrachms in increasingly lower and lower silver content. The Hermaios tetradrachms would become increasingly more crude over the 100 or so years.

The Bactrian coinage is one of my favorite and in my opinion one of the most fascinating and unique series of coinages ever minted. I am truly happy you liked the Menander video.:yes: I also hope I was able to sufficiently answer your question.