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Congrats, Mat. The Mithradates V drachm may have been part of the side collection - just a secondary purchase for you, but it’s special because of...
Wonderful news, at a time when we can use some. Congrats, Nick. Well done.
Possibly Kassander. Similar: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5146325
No coins here - but some Western Asian spearheads, c. 1200-800 BC: [ATTACH]
Congrats on the pickup, Mat. Nice one.
Wow, some really brutalized coins in this thread. Here's one sold by a major auction house (in 2018, so it doesn't make the, um, cut), listed as...
A few years back, Thomas/Typecoin wrote an intro to these: https://www.coincommunity.com/pdf/Ant-Nose-essay.pdf
Welcome, KVcoins. Impressive collection of Ant Nose coins. Fyi, CT member TypeCoin971793 is an authority on these. Hopefully he'll be by to offer...
Welcome back! Looking forward to your coming posts.
My nomination for least convincing fake, from a seller who Ken Dorney referred to in an old CT post as "the most notorious purveyor of fakes in...
Maybe Smyrna, Apollo/hand in caestus.
AE Hilt Northwestern Iran 1200-800 BC 11.1cm (4.4”) Cf. Moorey (Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum), plate 7, #58,...
An awesome pickup, Mat, with a nice, sharp obverse and a super rendition of a crested Parthian tiara. Well done.
The funniest lot descriptions (funny by design, that is) tend to be some of Frank Robinson's, imo. Here are some from his current auction: "97...
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Always nice to see Parthian tets added to the board. Good score, Mat.
Informative write-up, and interesting double (or more) struck coin, Parthicus. Thanks for sharing. The brothers, who obviously went to the same...
Indeed, another coin eclector who spent 2019 coin eclecting - a la TypeCoin971793, who posted his "eclectic top 10" earlier. Impressive group, VK.
They look great. Congrats, Mat.
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