A few Alexander tetradrachms

It’s been awhile since I posted a nice group of coins. Thought I’d share what I was working on today. 315 Alexander tets and a few Philips. About 1/2 are lifetime, the rest early posthumous.

Barry

 

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Wow, I always love your posts with pictures like this!

John

 

Wow! Very cool hoard

 

That's awesome.... man your job must be fun.

 

That's sweet, would love to enjoy a sit down with them.

 

Drooling...

 

That's an amazing amount of tets, and is about 12 lbs! I would love to be able to sort through them. Thanks for sharing Barry.

 

Cool!

 

WOW. I am in awe

 

Just another day at the office! Curious @Barry Murphy , in what format are these shipped to NGC before being found in a pile on your desk - bag, jar, tin can, box, flips?

 

Wow Barry that's amazing. Your job sounds like a lot of fun. Thank you for sharing these with us.

 

These arrived from a US dealer in a few heavy duty ziploc bags.

Barry

 

That image is mouth watering.

Is it at all strange that I am now feeling hungry?

Peter

 

It would be interesting to know how many different types/mints/Price numbers are represented in the group. Did these circulate widely in all areas where the Alexander coinage was known (almost everywhere?) or did each one pretty much stay close to home? The varied tones suggests this was not a hoard but an accumulation in the trade. Correct?

 

Working? You call this work?

 

For me, this is a wealth of Tets.

 

There is enough for everyone not so uncommon guess I'll put mine in a ring.

 

It's a wonderful image, but take it from someone who has sorted through bags of hundreds of coins, it's work: tedious, mind-numbing, eye-glazing work to measure and properly attribute each coin.

 

This is a hoard, or part of a hoard, most of the differences in color are the result of lighting. I took the photo w/my cell phone.

As we don't put Price numbers on holders unless requested, I didn't keep track of how many Price numbers there were in the group, but I did check them all against Price to make sure they were properly sorted between lifetime and early posthumous issues . I would say there were probably 100 Price numbers or so total. The mints were mostly eastern mints and about 15% Amphipolis.