Entire collection - one photo

Wonderful!! Are you considering taking another shot with each coin flipped over to see the reverses?

 

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Beautiful set of coins ancientnut! I do not collect Ancient Greek, but your set is very inspiring! Well done.

 

An impressive collection! Indeed size does not matter.

 

Thank you one and all for the pleasing comments.

4to2: The Gela is a recent acquisition. See this thread for a little more detail:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-magna-graecia-one-not.279151/

AncientJoe: I'll try to get another photo uploaded with the flip sides

 

Nico:
I will send you a PM with information on the Tarentums. I will be interested to see what additional information you can give me.

 

I was so distracted by the staters that I overlooked the Gela. Massive flan for the type.

 

It is indeed! At the end of that thread, I mentioned that it is 30 mm at its greatest width. I don't think I've ever seen a larger Gela tetradrachm.

 

Wow! That is an awesome collection! Congrats on putting together such an beautiful set!

 

WOW... it is a fantastic collection! Or when quality prevails over quantity...

 

Beautiful ! Would also love to see the reverse side.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/entire-collection-in-one-abafil-tray-flip-side.279873/

 

Wow, ancientnut => that's an awesome collection (congrats)

Ummm well, we certainly aren't related, for I have zero discipline (I'm kinda like the ancient coin collector that runs with scissors!!)

 

Come on, come and see what the dark side has to offer...... you won't look back!

 

I'd like to see the metapontum and larissa staters in more detail.... I love both coins, by far my favourites. Great taste you have there.

 

Here they are, YOC:


Metapontum, Lucania, AR stater, c 340-330 BC, 21mm, 7.89 g, 10h. OBVERSE: AMI, Bearded, helmeted head of Leukippos / REVERSE: META, Barley ear; thunderbolt in field to right. Johnston B.4.4; HN Italy 1577.



Metapontum, Lucania, AR Stater, c 330-290 BC, 21 mm, 7.93 g, 4h. OBV: Head of Demeter facing slightly right, wearing grain ear wreath, triple-pendant earrings, and necklace; tiny AΠ to lower right / REV: Barley ear with leaf to right; META upward to left, bucranium above leaf, AΘA below. Johnston Class C, 2.2; HN Italy 1584; SNG ANS 463-4; SNG Fitzwilliam 503; SNG München 992; Dewing 388 (all from the same dies).
Ex: Tkalec AG (Zurich) sale, October 28, 1994, Lot 24.



Larissa, Thessaly,AR stater, c 356-342 BC, 22 mm, 12.24 g, 1h. OBV: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, hair in ampyx, wearing plain necklace and triple drop pendant earring; border of dots / REV: Bridled horse prancing right, tail upright and looped; ΛAPI-[Σ]AIΩN above and below. L-S Type 2, Series B, dies O11’/R4, a = BCD Thessaly II 305 = Bement 918 (this coin); McClean 4611 (same obverse die); Nanteuil 843 = Weber 2848 (same obverse die); HGC 4 409 (Scarce); Dewing 1397.
Ex: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Triton XVII, January 7, 2014, Lot 196.
Ex: Fritz Rudolf Kunker GmbH Auction 216, October 8, 2012, Lot 308.
Ex: BCD Thessaly Collection, Part II, Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Triton XV, January 3, 2012, lot 305 - “Acquired in May 1981 for CHF 15000 from a very charming lady and a good friend who lives in Paris and whose name is legend in the ancient coin circles.”
Ex: Naville - Ars Classica XIV, July 2, 1929, lot 236.
Ex: Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923) Collection, Naville - Ars Classica VI, January 28, 1924, lot 918.

 

@ancientnut you make me sick!! You and your beautiful coins (but hey, I'll take one of each)

 

Thanks so much...... absolutely beautiful. I don't often get coin envy, but they are something else. I don't know whether coins like this are out of my budget..... I'm checking. If they aren't, then I may be saving up for one ..... or 2. Thanks again.

 

I have checked prices. ......
I like LRB's too thankfully! !!!

 

No kidding!

 

Awesome!