Post your Egyptian coins

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thanks. every now and then you can see these 2 silver proof coins on Ebay for $50-70. most want $100.00. there is a proof coin set called" the treasures of Eygpt" or something with the word title "treasures of" with the pyramids silver proof coin in the same size coins a my proof king Tuts. there's 1 silver proof I have been wanting on my want list is of the "falcon" silver proof. I have been wanting but other coins came first. I will add proof Eygpt coins as I am able to.

 

DIOCLETIAN Potin Tetradrachm
OBV: A K GOYA L DIOKLHTIANOC CEB, laureate draped bust right
REV: LA, Elpis standing left, holding flower, a long sash (?) hanging from her arm, & clutching hem of robe
Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, 284-85 AD
Milne 4750

 

When thinking about Roman-era Egypt, it's good to remember that the Romans were as chronologically distant from the pharoahs as we today are from the Caesars.

EGYPT, Arsinoe (Krokodilopolis). 1st-3rd century AD.
PB Tessera (25mm, 5.65 g, 12 h)
Head of pharoah right, wearing nemes crown; papyrus branch before
ΠΟΛЄωC ΑΡCЄΝΟЄΙΤωΝ (retrograde)
Sobek (crocodile) right on a pedestal, solar disk above; all within laurel wreath tied at the bottom
Milne -; Dattari (Savio) 6423; Köln 3495


Ex Elsen 58 (12 June 1999), lot 1634
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Great Tessera Ard. Impressive.

 

just imagine some of these ancients could have been stolen from a tomb

 

I interpret this as an insult towards ancient coin collectors...


The chance of an ancient coin outside of a museum being from a tomb is small...

More likely is they were a hoards or just lost...



Why else do they need to make so many coins every year in the states...

Coins are lost...

 

that was not ment as an insult and its quit possiable that some one stole them and then "LOST" them its the history and mystery of what the coins have done that i refer to

 

I detected no malice in your previous post. But this scenario is highly unlikely. The vast majority of coins are found in hoards or individual finds well away from major archaeological sites, including tombs. In fact, it's your very assumption that gives ancient coin collectors a bad name and puts us at odds with the State Department.

 

and why is that

 

The State Department issues, or the fact of where coins are found?

 

state department theres no way you can say you know what these coins have done seen or what they have been used for

 

You can't tell with American coins too...

Or World coins...

Or any coin for that matter...


Your argument is invalidated by that....

 

how can you invalidate what we are talking about with something we arent even talking a bout
did i say i can tell what any coin has seen. im done with this conversation and i dont want it in this nice thread.

 

Glad that's done.

I will say, however, there is a move on to limit the sale of antiquities including Ancient coins because of the perception that many of these coins have been illegally removed from their country of origin or finding. I hope that never happens.

Now, back to Egyptian coins.

 

1939 Egypt

 

Egyptian coins? Oh! Glad to share!

 

The Arab Republic of Egypt.
5 milliemes 1973, brass, mintage unknown. The single release only.