I do!! I like my coins like I like my salsa! Hot, thick & chunky!!! This hot and hunky chunky monkey came from none other than @John Anthony! I decided to make it my first purchase of 2022! Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 12.56 g, 22.2 mm, 11 h. Egypt, Alexandria, AD 240/41. Obv: Α Κ Μ ΑΝ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ЄΥCЄ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust, right, seen from front. Rev: L Δ; Zeus seated l., holding patera and scepter; at left, eagle. Refs: RPC VII.2 (unassigned; ID 2816); BMC 1857; Dattari 4794; Milne 3371–3; Emmett 3434; Geissen 2653; RCV --. Notes: Ex- @Sulla80; Ex- Naville Numismatics 38, 11 Mar. 2018, lot 338, ex- E.E. Clain-Stefanelli. You can't appreciate how thick and chunky it is unless you view it obliquely! Look at that thick thing!!! Let's see your chunky monkeys!!!
Nice one. My heaviest tetradrachm is this Caracalla. Caracalla (198 - 217 A.D.) AR Tetradrachm Mesopotamia, Carrhae O: AVT·K·M·A ANTONЄINOC ·C-EB · ·, laureate head of Caracalla right; two pellets beneath rear truncation. R: ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟ Δ, eagle standing facing on bucranium, dot to each side, wings spread, head right, wreath in beak. 28mm 17.10g Prieur 820, Bellinger 160, SGI 2701 Ex. Agora Auctions, lot 184, Sale 81
Nice one. I thought about bidding on that one and see that it went to a good home! Here's a couple of Maximian pieces, the top one is my most recent acquisition of the type. EGYPT. Alexandria. Maximianus, first reign, 286-305. Tetradrachm (Potin, 19 mm, 7.26 g, 12 h), RY 8 = 292/3. ΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Maximianus to right. Rev. Є/ΤΟΥC / H within laurel wreath. Dattari (Savio) 5999. Emmett 4161.8. K&G 120.67. Extremely rare. Light deposits, otherwise, very fine. From the Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s (with collector’s ticket). -- 20mm, 8.0 grams Obverse: AK M OVA MAEIMIANOC CEB Laureate, draped bust right Reverse: Eagle standing left, head right with wreath in its beak; star in left field, L-Delta Date: Year 4 = A.D. 289-290 Reference: Milne 4921, Emmet 4108 I hope you like it and feel free to post any Alexandrian tets!
My thickest at 9.3mm RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens 46mm 90.3g 9.3mm thick Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi 3
Nice chunk, with a doubly nice pedigree! I'll have to get a better sideview shot of this weirdly UFO-ish chonkster one day... PICENUM, Hatria AE Aes Grave Teruncius. 113.9g, 48.1mm. PICENUM, Hatria, circa 275-225 BC. HN Italy 14; Sydenham 188; HGC 1, 8 (R2). O: HAT, fish (or dolphin) swimming right. R: Stingray or skate swimming right; ••• (mark of value) below. Ex D.L.F. Sealy Collection
Danubian Celts - Imitative Alexander Tetradrachm 300-200 BCE Obv: traces of greatly degraded stylised head of Herakles right. Rev: garbled legend to right, stylised Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and sceptre; IML monogram in left field. 16.8 grams. Fine. De La Tour 9640; Cf. Lanz 911-914 Purchased from Timeline auctions May 2021
The chunkier the merrier Here is one of my latest purchases - a Maximianus Alexandrian tetradrachm. Really love the coloring and I am glad I won it, although the funny thing is it was listed in a previous auction from the same house, won it with 1/3 of the price I won it for and unpaid.
Glad you posted that Gordian III tet, @Roman Collector. My last purchase for 2021 was an eBay lot of seven unattributed AEs, the best of which was a Gordian III tet featuring the head of Serapis: Egypt Potin Tetradrachm Gordian III Year 4 (240/241 A.D.) Alexandria Mint Α Κ Μ ΑΝ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ƐΥϹ(Ɛ), laureate draped and cuirassed bust right / Draped bust of Serapis wearing kalantos right, L Δ across fields. (11.32 grams / 21 x 20 mm) eBay Dec. 2021 Lot @ $2.79 Attribution Notes: Apparently quite scarce; except for the three examples in RPC Online, I could find no others. Not in Wildwinds or acsearch (Jan. '22). Note: this specimen lacks the final Ɛ in obverse legend, as found on RPC examples: RPC VII.2 (unassigned; ID 2919) RPC notes secondary reference: D 4770 (Dattari?) Chunky!
I believe that specific term is for coins from the Byzantine era, but, yes its incredibly concave.I could eat my morning captain crunch out of this thing. Here they are together:
I have not seen one like yours but a couple years ago there was a bunch of the kind below dribbled onto the market by a large US dealer in a series of sales. Perhaps there was a group found that changed very rare to less so. Yours is Emmett 3422 with year four being R5. Mine is Emmett 3421 with year 6 at R4. Chunky: I have always been fond of the fabric of these late tetradrachms. It seems that Probus had an especially chunky bunch of flans.
This one is 18mm and nearly 9 grams. Attica, Athens. 87/86 BC. AE18. Obv: Head of Athena, wearing Corinthian helmet. Rev: Zeus standing, hurling thunderbolt; star between crescents to right. 18mm., 8.7 gm. Mithradatic war issue w/ King Mithradates & Aristion as magistrates. Kroll 97
I watched a video recently talking about whether pennies dropped from sky scrapers could actually kill people. Still not sure about the pennies, but if you dropped that thing from a sky scraper it'd not only kill somebody, it'd leave a crater!
