Bought another bunny at NYINC - Messana Tetradrachm depicts hare & apene

This new coin has MEΣΣA.ИIOИ spelled with a couple retrograde Ns.



SICILY, Messana
AR Tetradrachm
480-461 BC

17.21 grams, 25 mm.
Obv: Biga of mules (an apene) driven right by seated charioteer. Nike above crowning mules.
Rev: Hare bounding to right with spray of olive beneath. MEΣΣA.ИIOИ. (retrograde Ns)
Grade: a nicely toned Good Fine coin with claims to aVF.
Other: Similar to Sear 843 & 847. SNGANS.314. From Pegasi Jan 2014.

 

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Gorgeous => I love animal coins, yet I haven't scored a bunny/rabbit yet (I'm very jealous) ... super addition (ya gotta love dem Syracuse coins, eh?)

 

First thing that came to mind...

 

Fantastic purchase, congratulations! I'd love to get one of those tets.

I bought a far far lesser rabbit recently and it should be here in a week or so. Just a tiny silver bunny, pretty worn, but the price was right.

 

You did very well at NYINC. I'm jealous as well.

 

Great lookin' jackrabbit, one of those sucking wolfs was probably hot on his tail. Very cool..

 

This is my other Messana Tet which will be sold this weekend at the Westchester coin show. There is a dealer at Westchester that has offered to buy it from me in the past. I suspect he will be pleasantly surprised when I offer it to him this weekend. Of course, if any of you folks want a Messana Tet, please let me know before the weekend.

 

Nice! We did very well buying and getting consignments for our auctions but I was only able to find a group of rare late Roman for myself and some world coins for my young daughters (6 and 4)

I was actually looking for one of these and a segmented shell turtle for myself and struck out...

Alfred

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Welcome DelLaFe

 

Thanks. I have been on cointalk for a while, but lurked occasionally and did not come back because life got busy.

Found Tapatalk which makes it easy to quickly scan threads and reply. So you should be seeing more from me! Especially now that I have closed my store on vcoins and I am focusing on our auction. While I was a "dealer" I avoided collecting, now I can collect again!

Best,

Alfred

 

Well, Alfred, you may not be new, but you're new to me. It will be nice to have another "expert" on the forum. On another note, I could never be a dealer. I want to keep all the coins I get and would have a hard time parting with them.

 

Welcome DeLaFe (Alfred) => I'm looking forward to seeing some of your stuff!!

 

It is hard... that is ehy I could not collect and deal at the same time. I picked a field that was not very popular (coins are not valuable YET) but which I found interesting. Thus I have a large collection of barbarous coins!

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Great coin Collect89; it is an excellent example! Thunbs-up!

Welcome DeLaFo

 

=> your barb-coins sound interesting!! (start a thread and let 'em rip!!)

 

Until this week I doubted that barbarous was 'not very popular' since I have known several people that collected them but the Triton sale closed with very few unsold lots and made me wonder. One was the ridiculous lot of 2007 low grade barbarous radiates for which no one bid. I see the lot has disappeared from the sale records but the fact that there was a lot that size suggests we will not run short of these 'not very popular' coins. Until we get a grasp on patterns within barbarous or can sort them at least to large issuing groups, I suspect the demand will continue to be limited to super oddball or in some way special coins. There remain a number of us who like the really odd ones. I'm less clear on what we might do with a thousand raggedy Tetricus Spes copies.

 

Here is a better photo depicting the Messana Tet that I am keeping:

 

sweet

 

If the seller of that coin had paid you to take his photos, he would have got more for the coin.

 

Yes. The few coins I've sold on eBay for a profit were originally sold to me with sub-par photographs. It's amazing how much difference the pic makes in the sale.