Yesterday's coin show provided me with 17 new items of which half will be of interest to no one (so why will I show them???). I hope some will enjoy these in part one: Gordian III Alexandria tetradrachm: This coin is very unusual and I bought it because of that. The color in this image is pretty accurate or perhaps a bit dark. This is the best silver I have seen in a late 4dr. Who has a billon after Elagabalus this silver? I bought the Diocletian partly because it is a high grade and pretty coin and partly because of the nice thunderbolt in the mintmark from Rome. RIC lists the same series with another mark that I do not know what to call. Who has a coin of this series (near RIC 100a) with something other than a thunderbolt? Grade and strike wise, the black Maxentius makes the Diocletian look like a dog. I feel shallow buying a coin just for grade so I'll point out that this is the series where each of the three Aquilea officinae used a different mark in the pediment. + is shop gamma. Anyone have am AQP or AQS to show? To me it is odd that they used gamma rather than T but that is what RIC says. These three coins were higher grade than most of my purchases but overall I saw and bought better grade items with good surfaces at this show. I saw a lot of very nice coins. Others will follow later in separate posts (when I get them photographed).
Superb choices! Did you buy the Diocletian from Fred Shore? It looks vaguely familiar - I may have seen it in Gettysburg.
Not me, but I wish I did. Very nice coin, Doug! Angry bird with Hula Hoop wreath, good quality metal. What's not to love?
Atta-boy, Doug ... the first three of your seventeen coins are all total winners!! ... I don't have an Alexandrian Elagabalus, but I do have a pretty cool Maxentius example to toss into your thread (by the way, I think that your dark baby is absolutely gorgoeus => great eye-appeal and a super rugged lookin' coin!!) ... sadly, my cool example has an inny rather than an outtie like your sweet new dark beauty!! (yah, I'm talkin' about the sprue)
Nothing to add, but nice newps! The Maxentius looks great with the perfect centering and all that beading.
Doug - very nice choices and none that I have seen prior. The 3rd is really choice for eye appeal. Steve - that one rocks!
awesome...i'll vote for the gordian iii tet as my fav, great color...cool eagle, sweet details in general. fredricksburg and gettysburg coin shows? is there some type of civil war thing going on?
