Valentines Day we buy diamond pendants, chocolate, flowers, dinner out for the wife, so i thought it would be a good idea to get myself a coin! Today my new coin showed up. post any Philip, headless or Alexandrian coin.. Happy Valentines Day to you all !!!! Philip l 246-247..AD. AE Tetradrachm. Obv. laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right,seen from behind. Rev. Alexander standing facing, towered head left, head of Serapis in right hand, vertical scepter in left. L - A across fields. 23 mm x 13.41g. Egypt, Alexandria. Ex. Keith Emmett collection Ex. Decus, May 1986 Nice thick chocolate brown. sellers picture.
Eng-- it's a beauty! A chocolate brown tetradrachm... sounds like a reasonable substitute for chocolate truffles. Happy Valentine's Day
Great coin but I'm having trouble with the attribution details. The figure is the personification of the city Alexandria, not Alexander. I read the year as delta (4). Emmett lists this reverse as issued in years 4, 5 and 7. Year one portraits tend to be a bit more harsh like the one below (different reverse) and use a longer legend. Unfortunately Emmett has an error repeated at the top of pages 174 and 175 listing the year 4 legend as ending EV while your coin and mine below (again different reverse) show EVC. To make matters worse, he shows at the top of page 173 a photo of an obverse labeled as year 4 but clearly having a legend he lists as year one. His legends listed do not include any attributed to years 2 or 3. If your coin was in the Emmett collection, it can't be an unlisted so we only have the text being in error as an explanation. I see this as a place illustrating the need to have someone else who knows the series read your book before publication. I do not know enough about these not to be confused. It would be nice to hear a report of how these are reported by other catalogs of the series but I only own Emmett. Overall, I consider Emmett a great book but we have to expect a few hundred errors to creep in to any compilation that size. I know several of you have some interest in Alexandrian coins so PLEASE help me understand what I have missed here. I see this as one of the best Valentine's gifts on record. Congratulations!
Hmm. Good pickups, Doug. At the top of pages 174 and 175 Emmett shows the same legends for years 1, 2, and 3-- all written separately. Clearly a mistake; he would have lumped those three years together otherwise. Maybe I'll browse Vcoins for Philip I Alexandrian tetradrachms of years 2 and 3 to see what the legends should be. As for the omission of C at the end of Emmett's stated years 4-6 legends, have you seen any year 4-6 coins which do not have the terminal C?
Past sale records of CNG include a huge number of Philip tets even including one of your type with EVC legend end. Looking over all their coins is is obvious that the Emmett listing of Philip obverses is woefully lacking. It really points out what I great resource CNG has given us with these past sales online. We should thank them. https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.asp...1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0
Excellent! CNG's Philip I tets are, on average, of higher quality than the Vcoins offerings so reading the legends will be much easier.
This review of Emmett's book mentions an errata sheet "available from author". So far I haven't found it reproduced online. Have you seen it? If not, perhaps I'll write Emmett.
Indeed, i am using there sold items more and more for reference. Altough it lacted legend with hadrian coin i see them with this emperors tet. All the best, Eric
This Roman Republic coin with biga of Cupids is appropriate for Valentine's day Roman Republic moneyer L. Julius L. f. Caesar, 103 BC AR denarius, 17mm, 3.9 gm Obv: Helmeted head of Mars left; CAESAR; ・J above Rev: Venus Genetrix in chariot left, drawn by two Cupids; lyre to left; ・J above Ref: Crawford 320/1 Jencek E-auction 26, lot 58, 14 October 2014. Ex CNG XXXI lot 699, September 1994; ex RBW Collection Transportation design fail.
Talk about sweeping her off her feet! THASOS AR Drachm OBVERSE: Naked satyr running right carrying struggling nymph REVERSE: Quadripartite incluse Square Struck at Thasos, 463-411 BC 3.40g, 15.9mm Sear 1748
