My lucky day!! An awesome gift arrived :)

Pretty neat!

 

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Glad you like the BP set TIF, your wellcome.
The pics you made are awsome , the tokens look like the real McCoy.

presentation map BP (rare)

 

Great set !

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@Curtisimo, that is such a great owl tet. Both sides are well centered and well struck. Hard to ask for more for one of those! I hope when I finally buy one it is as nice.

@AncientJoe, thanks for showing us just how good these can be .

@Andres2, thanks again. I'm having great fun with this set and that's what the hobby is all about

 

@TIF I'm glad you got the second set that @Andres2 sent you! Both the fact like minded CT folks appreciate the set for what it is and the generosity of @Andres2 exemplifies why this forum is such an asset to the ancient coin community.

 

That was nice of him!

 

I've been working so much I just barely saw this funderful thread!
As the mighty @TIF has requested us to...


I will give my po boy/cheapie attempt. (How could I not want to tag onto a TIF thread with so many of my favorite characteristics of CT, friendship, selfless giving, jaw dropping ancients and Gorgons!?!?)
Anywhoob, I don't have the exact denominations, but I've got the imagery. Even if these don't match the magnificence of @AncientJoe 's literal masterpieces (thank you so much for sharing those btw) I'm very proud of these lil bad boys and girls. Remember, booty is in the hand of the buttholder...

 

@TIF I won't have the exact coins, but I can drop a few from the same time period and place...

King Cyrus the Great of Persia defeated King Croesos, and united his lands into their Empire. They began emulating the Greeks coinage into their commerce. Although this is obviously not the FIRST GOLD Coin, this was the first Gold Coin used in long distance commerce and tribute over an empire or within political states:

PERSIA Achaemenid Daris I-Xerxes II 485-420 BC AV Daric 14mm 8.3g LydoMilesian Sardes king wearing kidaris kandys quiver spear bow Incuse Carr Type IIIb Group A-B pl XIII 27

NEAPOLIS (not Makedonwn, rather from Campania ):


Campania Neapolis 320-300 BC AR Didrachm Nomos Nymph Achelous

ATHENS TET:

Athens Owl AR Tet 17.3g 22.9mm x 6.8mm thick crud

SYRACUSE-Dolphin TET:

Syracuse Tyrant Gelon 458-478 BCE AR Tet 24mm 16.7g Slow Biga Victory Artemus-Arethusa 4 dolphins Sear-Greek 914

 

Great replicas @TIF !

 

The only DEKADRACHM that I have is not AR, rather EL:

Carthage Zeugitana 310-270 BCE EL Dekadrachm-Stater 18.5mm 7.27g Tanit Horse 3 pellets in ex MAA 12 SNG COP 136

I do not have a Philip II AV Stater (on my top target list!), but I do have his AR TET:

Makedon Philip II Tet Pella LIFETIME 353-349 Zeus Horse star spearhd Le Rider 102

Ptolemy I Soter TET:

Egypt Ptolemy I Soter Tet Delta bankers marks

Hmmm, Carthage, got BUNCHES, but not a DekaDRACHM (They used SHEKELS! Roughly TWICE a Drachm!) Here is their LAST Shekel that they minted before going extinct:

Carthage Third Punic War Serrate Double Shekel 149-146 BCE 12.8g 26mm Wreathd Tanit-Horse pellet raised leg SNG COP 404

Hannibal? LOL, pretty hard to get his face and Elephant...Here is an AR HALF-SHEKEL produced in Bruttium when Hannibal Occupied them during the Second Punic War:

Bruttium Carthage occup 2nd Punic War AR Half-Shekel 216-211 Tanit Horse SOLAR-O HN Italy 2016 SNG Cop 361-3

ROMAN AS:

RR Anon AE As after 211 BC Janus I Prow Cr 56-2 Sear 627

 

Wow is all I have to say.....Could get hooked looking
at coins like this.

 

MKman 123 is interested in getting a real elephant. I hope it isn't for the tusks. Hunting elephants means they could be an endangered species. Anyway, other than Julius Caesar, MKman 123, Hannibal etc.others are also linked with elephants. Such as Carthagan goddess Thanit, and someone you've probably heard of - Alexander the Great !

 

And Ptolemy I was a general of Alexander !

 

Every time I see that Carthage Dekadrachm I want one.

 

Very cool set of replicas, TIF! I feel for both of you @TIF and @Andres2 when the overseas package went missing. It has happened to me twice. The tracking numbers trace the packages to the point of entering the the United States and then nothing. They disappear into the Twilight Zone. I encourage my overseas dealers not to write coins on any of the labels. Write hobby supplies instead.

 

Ooo, it's a heavy weight! I got to handle a couple (and learn a lot about Ptolemaic/A-t-G coins) at the last local coin club meeting!

 

Mine hardly qualify as counterparts but they are what they are.

Low grade, smaller fraction and silver but as close as I get to #1:


My #2 is worn and fourree but it is stater size and not an easy to find item.


#3 owls are common as tetradrachms so I'll show a considerably more rare form of obol.


#4 is a tetradrachm of Syracuse and one of my better coins.


I have nothing like the others.

 

I have a few...bargan basement

 

You were right. Five months later, it arrived. It detoured for a vacation in the British Virgin Islands despite being correctly addressed . It will be on its way to another CT member shortly