Man-faced bull on each side! Laos, Lucania, AR stater, c 490-470 BC: [IMG]
vespasion70 said "I don't know how the ancient Greeks weren't losing them all the time." Doug didn't mention it, but this is from his site:...
[IMG] Larissa, Thessaly AR stater: From the BCD collection and with a pedigree back to the Clarence S. Bement collection, January 28, 1924, Lot 918.
Here's a flan crack that might bother me: https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=2522&category=52827&lot=2140295
Very perceptive: my coin opened at 150% of low estimate and I raised one increment and won it. I agree with you. I don't mind irregular flans at...
From the Goldberg catalog: The significance of the types on Kyzikos' electrum coinage of the 5th and 4th centuries BC often elude us. Unlike the...
4to2: I agree there is something very appealing about "phat fat gold." This is my first purchase of an electrum stater and I was surprised at the...
Thank you, John for the great article from Coins Weekly. I study the Greek tragedies and since the article does not mention the stunning depiction...
Thank you all for the kind comments. Yes, the first link is the coin I purchased yesterday from Goldberg Auction 90 and I haven't received the...
Although I have tried to limit my collection to Magna Graecia, I couldn't resist this electrum stater of Kyzikos. It has a special appeal to me. I...
Hoover, Handbook of Greek Coinage, Volume 2 lists it as number 474 under "Hemilitra or hexonkia (18-21 mm, 5.78-6.22 g)".
Yes, Ken, I am JG and my table partner was DS. It's a real shame that John Jencek moved to Europe. When I returned to the hobby, I bought my first...
I set up at coin shows from the late 1980's until about 2005 when I sold off all my stock. We knew each other well back then, Ken, and perhaps my...
I saw the OP coin in CNG e-367, Steve, and was attracted to it. I used to own several C/M Akragas bronzes. I don't collect them anymore, but I...
A buyer in 2009 paid about $23,500 for the coin: http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=584217
From the OP: "Bronze 9mm x 7mm, 0.3 gm."
10/10, but probably only because I look at so many coins on this forum!
I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to limit my collection to stater-size silver of Magna Graecia, so posting coins of that area would include...
Cyrrhus said "I saw it nice coin....go for it..." I sold all my Roman sestertii years ago...only Greek silver now...
If I were still collecting Roman portraits in bronze, I might bid on this Galba: provincial, but with Latin legend, nearly sestertius size, and...
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