New Greek AE

A new greek I recently picked up.

Ive always liked this type.


SELEUCID KINGS, ANTIOCHOS VII 138-129BC
AE18
O: Winged bust of Eros right.
R: BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Headdress of Isis with legend on either side and date in ex.
Antioch
Size: 18mm
Weight: 6.4gms
SNG cop 326

 

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Great eye-appeal on that coin, and a nice thick flan at 6.4g and only 18mm. I'm so used to my skinny Romans.

 

It has some heft for a little thing.

Small but mighty!!:hail:

 

It's Greek to me!:smile

 

Greek coins are cool that way. I do like their thickness. I think the ultra thinness of most medieval coins is one of the things that really turns me off about them. To me, LRB is about as thin as a coin should get.

 

I agree, just like this coin I posted last week:

http://www.cointalk.com/t222511/

Its like tin foil. Still its neat for what it is.

 

I once owned a wafer-thin silver medieval coin, a Sigismund grosch or something (I forget), and I had exactly the same reaction: this isn't a coin, it's tinfoil.

 

You guys would NOT like 12th century bracteates. They make regular medieval deniers look like cartwheels:


GERMANY, Mühlhausen (kaiserliche Münzstätte). Philip von Schwaben. 1198-1208. AR Bracteate (47mm, 0.77 g). Struck under Hermann von Thüringen, 1199-1204. Philip riding left, holding banner and shield; globus cruciger to left, pellets around. Bonhoff 1213; Löbbecke 704-5; Kestner -.

 

Interesting ANTIOCHOS VII Mat. I haven't gotten into the Seleucid coins, but I find them interesting. Good catch.

 

That's pretty cool though. You could wrap your lunch in it.

 

Wow, wider then a silver dollar and as thin as my french...it must be thin

 

Mat => awesome lookin' coin, my new coin comrade!! (well done)

:high5:

 

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings
Antiochos VI Dionysos
145-142 BC
Antioch mint
Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 8.12 grams
Obverse: Diademed and radiate head right
Reverse: BASILEWS ANTIOCOU [E]PIFANOUS [DION]US[OU], Elephant standing left; STA above control mark (star) in left field
Reference: Houghton 249; SNG Spaer 1774ff
Other: VF, dark green patina, earthen highlights

 

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA
Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII
125-121 BC - Dated SE 190 (123/2 BC)
Antioch mint
diameter: 19 mm
weight: 7.21 grams
obverse: Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right
reverse: Owl standing right, head facing, on fallen amphora; IE to inner right, P(retrograde)P (date) and piloi in exergue
reference: SC 2263.2g; HGC 9, 1189; DCA 264
other: 1h, VF, black patina with some earthen highlights

 

dig them seleukids!

 

Lovely ones steve, especially the owl.

 

Nice Mat! Yeah, my Seleucid coin feels allot heavier than it looks too. Same with a few other AE greeks i have.

 

Nice coin, I like Greek coins.

 

I'm interested... What do these go for, if you don't mind me asking?

 

Mat and Steve, very nice looking coins, i need to get some of these....:yes: