these Related Biblical Coins make me sigh. because its biblical it is some how intesting? Phoenicia, Ake-Ptolemaïs. Hadrian on sale at Agora 6,000$
6000 usd, did they make a zero extra mistake? did I not have one? long ago..hummmm need to think and start a search.
WOW!!!! I would have never guessed it would be so expensive... Another coin that won't be in my collection during my lifetime... LOL
It would seem the $6000 is a typo as beneath it reads 537 EUR. That's still strong, considering the $150 estimate, but slightly less illogical.
Phoenicia, Ake-Ptolemais. Hadrian. 117-138 C.E. AE 22 mm (6.32 g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Hadrian, as founder, plowing right with bull and cow; four standards behind. Kadman 103; Rosenberger I p. 26, 48. Near Fine, dark brown patina. Estimate: 100-125 USD. 2004 September (HWCA) Signature Sale 12086 (« | ») 10. September 2004 - 50 USD not completed with the letters P.T.I.O.L Almost the same hehe
one here for 170 usd.....so Mikey go for it http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/shi...117138_ad_founder_plowing/448249/Default.aspx Then I will open a new loan, I see so many nice coins at Shick, it makes me sick !!
The question remains: Is this one of the million available types that you must have for your collection even if it is $6000? Same question but $100. I know there are many who pay extra for any coin in any was associated with any place mentioned in the Bible. Does that make a $10 coin into a $100 coin? Maybe. A $6000 coin? Someone thinks so and they only have to convince one person with $6000 they are right. Maybe they will be glad to sell it for 90% off. Not to me. That is why we have those million varieties so we all don't have to go after this one.
I for one like to collect Judaean city coins. Here are two of Ako-Ptolemais, an issue during the Seleucid era, and a bronze of Hadrian. They're nowhere near as nice as the OP coin, but they cost a few less zeros.
