What Your Budget Buys - $600-$1000 edition

All purchased in the last 5 years. Chronologically:

Akragas, Sicily. Circa 465/4-446 BC. Tetradrachm ΑΚRΑC - ΑΝΤΟΣ, Eagle standing left with closed wings / Crab within a shallow circular incuse. 28mm 17.15g
Cost: $810


ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.87 g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; AθE in right field; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597.
Cost: $725


CILICIA. Soloi. Circa 440-410 BC. Stater. Amazon, nude to the waist, kneeling left and stringing her bow; wearing bonnet and with her gorytos at her hip; to right, facing head of satyr. Rev. ΣΟΛΕΩΝ Bunch of grapes; to right, fly; all within incuse square. Casabonne Type 2. SNG Levante 40. SNG Paris 12810.71g 22.1mm
Cost: $845


CILICIA. Nagidus. Ca. 400-350 BC. AR stater (10.66 gm). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5. Aphrodite, wearing turreted crown, seated left, holding phiale in right hand over garlanded altar, Cupid standing behind her holding wreath / Dionysus standing left, holding grape bunch, vine sprig and thyrsus, Z before feet, NAΓIΔEΩ. BMC Cilicia 12.
Cost: $870


SELEUCID KINGDOM. Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 17.12 gm, 9h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Seleuceia on the Tigris, ca. 300-281 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress / ΣEΛEYKOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; monograms in left field and below throne. SC 117.1c. HGC 9, 12i.
Cost: $720


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.91 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horses rearing right, holding palm fronds and lances; monogram to lower right. Bopearachchi 6T; SNG ANS 468; HGC 12, 131. Good VF, toned, traces of deposits and small die break on reverse at right edge of coin, a few light hairlines.
From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection.
Cost: $900

I Think that's all of them. I have found myself venturing into this price range more over the last year. It's been quality over quantity, lately.

-Michael

 

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ABSOLUTELY LOVE the posts!!!!

Here's another of mine that hit $714.00 shipped:

Neapolis, Campania, Italy, 326 - 290 B.C
Silver didrachm, SNG ANS 340; Sambon 460b; BMC Italy p. 99, 57 var. (N normal); HN Italy 579, gVF, fine style, beautifully toned, reverse slightly off-center, Neapolis (Naples, Italy) mint, weight 7.354g, maximum diameter 22.0mm, die axis 45o, 326/317 - 290 B.C.; obverse diademed head of nymph Parthenope right, wearing pendant earring and pearl necklace; Artemis standing facing holding two torches (control symbol) behind neck; APTEMI below truncation; reverse man-faced bull standing right, head turned facing, Nike above flying right and placing wreath on bull's head, retrograde N below, NEOΠOΛITΩN in exergue; ex Obolos (Nomos) auction 3 (15 Nov 2015), lot 35; ex Swiss collection formed prior to 2005.

 

Doug, it is interesting to see how much variety there is in this price range. Wonderful coins all!
This RS bar was about $750.




I am holding three RS bar pieces here.


Bar 1, top - 128 grams; 45 x 49 x 28 mm
Bar 2, right - 893 grams; 88 x 67 x 32 mm
Bar 3, bottom left - 826 grams; 61 x 77 x 36 mm

 

Unsurprisingly there are a lot of absolute beauties in this thread.
As I tend to focus on the Dombes coinage now, my buying of roman has known a "slowdown" in the past few years. Here's a selection of what I bought in this price range the last ten years


Lepidus and Octavian, Denarius minted in Italy, 42 BC
LEPIDVS PONT MAX III V R P C, bare head of Lepidus right (NT and MA in monograms)
C CAESAR IMPIII VIR R P C, bare head of Octavian right (MP in monogram)
3.78 gr
Ref : HCRI # 140, RCV # 1523, Cohen # 2



Pupienus, Denarius Rome mint, AD 238
IMP C M CLOD PVPIENVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
PM TRP COS II PP, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and sceptre
3.08 gr
Ref : RCV # 8527, Cohen # 26



Julius Caesar, Denarius minted in North Africa in 46 BC
COS TERT / DICT ITER, head of Ceres right
AVGVR / PONT MAX, simpulum, sprinkler, capis and lituum, D in right field
3,81 gr
Ref : HCRI # 57, RCV # 1403/1, RSC # 4a, Cohen # 4



Octavian & Agrippa, AE Dupondius Arausio mint (Orange), 30-29 BC (Colonia Firma Julia Secundanorum Arausio)
IMP DIVI F (IMPerator DIVI Filii), bare heads of Augustus (right) and Agrippa (left), back to back
Prow of galley right, ram's head (?) enclosed in a medaillion above
17.61 gr - 28 mm.
Ref : RPC # 533

Q

 

Oh !!

And of course I forgot my wonderful owl, which was in the 600-1000 price range, but I didn't pay for it as it was a gift from my beloved wife (wanna see it...again ?)


ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm
Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye
Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent behind, all within incuse square. ΑΘΕ in the right field
24mm, 17.08 g, 8h
Ref : Kroll # 8; HGC # 4,1597

Q

 

A few in this range


$575


$800

$950 fees included

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