Thank you for the link. The Arabian imitations of Alexander III's tetradrachms are very rare, so this a significant find.
This Northern Arabia imitation tetradrachm would have been a significant addition to the collection, but: 1) the lot was part of a live floor...
I've wondered if the walls and battlements might be a reference to Sidon, one of the major port cities in that region, and the trireme symbolizing...
That's a very intriguing reverse, a nice obverse as well. Architectural references on a coin this early must be very rare. I don't know of...
Given the ocean of owls out there, I imagine that there many more than the 3,000 graded MS by the certification firms. Think any attempt to...
That's a very nice owl. Unless you need to raise cash, I'd hold on to it. I think a lot of the drive behind escalating prices for ancients,...
You should scratch the coin from Petra from the list. I thought there was a river god next to the seated Tyche, on the reverse, but after looking...
I guess I am more of a universalist collector. Over the years my focus, or lack of focus, has gone from US, to world and ancients, to world only,...
This coin came in today from Forum Ancients. It is an AE 28, minted in Petra for Emperor Geta (older, later portrait), depicting Tyche, seated on...
This coin is kind of related. It is an earlier sestertius that I recently acquired. It is not a FECVNDITAS type, but instead one with the VENVS...
Yes, the owl has been relisted at the original price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/324708522173?hash=item4b9a22d8bd:g:zzQAAOSwvM9ggzGN
I've seen other owls listed in the $7,000 range, such as on Vcoins. Given the demand for these coins, and the cash floating around, that $7,200...
That's a possibility. Apparently the original price was $15K. The "sold" price displayed is $7K. The actual price could have been lower, but...
I assume this information is credible. I just saw a classical owl on eBay that sold for over $7,000. Here's a link:...
Very nice! The eyes are perfectly oriented. Quite often they are not well oriented in relationship to the angle of the head, which in the case...
I have a template of sorts, in Word, using 2"x2" text boxes. I can fit 20 of these on one page. In the text boxes, using the Franklin Gothic...
Very similar. The Leu auction Bactrian owl has the "MA" to the left of the portrait. Apparently most of these coins came out of a large hoard...
Thank you for the link. I've noticed, especially in the Roma auctions that very similar imitative owls are listed as Bactrian, or from Parthia,...
Thanks I think if I looked around in my old piles of catalogs, I might find the relevant Berk "Buy or Bid" sale. I don't mind that it is very...
I am not sure if I posted this coin in another thread. I don't have an earlier jpg file of it, so I took a photo of it today. If this coin did...
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