My first Ancient coin for 2018!

Just won this 5 minutes ago from Heritage Auctions live....
AV Daric ND struck during times of Xerxes II -Darius II(420-375BC)

 

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Just won this 5 minutes ago from Heritage Auctions live....
AV Daric ND struck during times of Xerxes II -Darius II(420-375BC) View attachment 723715 View attachment 723716

 

Congratulations, fantastic coin beautiful detail best of that type I have ever seen.

 

A winner!

 

Wow @panzerman that is a great piece. This type is my favorite ancient gold coin and you managed to capture a beautiful one. A good portion of these were probably struck to fund the Spartan war effort at the end of the Peloponnesian War against Athens.

Here is my example of your coin's silver little brother.

 

Wish you a golden year 2018. Congrats..

 

Holy cow!

Bro wants to know if you wanna trade?



Erin

 

AWESOME John! What a wonderful AV beauty! Befitting the fantastic AV collection you have amassed.

I have to toss in my Daric. I captured it because, historically, it appears to be the first series of full-gold coins minted. Prior "gold" coins were Electrum.


PERSIA Achaemenid
Daris I-Xerxes II 485-420 BCE
AV Daric 14mm 8.3g
LydoMilesian Sardes
Obv: King running, wearing kidaris kandys quiver spear bow
Rev: Incuse
Ref: Carr Type IIIb Group A-B pl XIII 27

one daric equals 150 obols
one drachma equals six obols
twenty-five drachmas equals one daric

 

Why yes... yes I would like to trade (jk I know you were talking to pman )

Beautiful example from you and your brother, Erin. Well done.

 

Wow- that's a beautiful example.

 

Great buy @panzerman.....But I'm sorry coz we might have been bidding against each other....

 

Cool, my grandpa had quite a few ancient coins of his own.

 

You maybe right. I had lot #29223 on my radar/ but it went really high, 29225 again, I bid, then was outbid by 4 bidders/ next one was 29227/ which I got for $3200. Yours are very pristine and beautifull /congratulations
I never knew you collected ancients, but now glad you do.
John

 

Your Daric is a type I / struck under Darius I to Xerxes I/ listed in reference book as very rare. One sold in Triton for auction for14K

 

Thanks to all for really nice comments, beautifull hobby/ great fellow collectors!

 

Oh, wow, thank you for the update!

I checked ACSearch again (from my original purchase), it appears to my inexperienced eyes as similar to Type IIIb.

What does your Reference show that mine is Type I rare? Thanks for the help!

 

Some did go for crazy money but generally I feel the market for ancients is softening. I'm not a serious ancients collector and don't know enough about them....generally stick to my sovereigns and moderns but occasionally I get tempted by ancients

 

https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=300419

Kroisos issued gold Staters before the Daric.

 

Yes about 600BC. Is that your coin??? If so, WOOOOW......I’m envious, its one I’d like to own someday even if I have to wear a mask while visiting the bank

 

I've always thought these were one of the coolest ancient non-Roman gold coins, and yours has excellent definition on both the obverse and reverse. It appears you found quite a bargain!