Hey Bing, just some momentary inconveniences :shifty: Don't worry, I'll be back :) [IMG]
Coin of the op seems to be a fourrée (plated ?).
In the BMC catalog, it is said that "the numerals probably indicate mint-issues". Come to think again, I did not see any of these without a...
Yes. If you align the coin with the wreath rather than the "SC", the "A" is horizontal... An altered die cutter ? :wacky: [IMG]
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/British%20Museum%20Books/Catalog%20of%20Greek%20Coins%20in%20the%20British%20Museum%20-%20Galatia,%20Ca...
I see an "A" too :bag: BMC 289 ? [IMG]
Didrachms usually have a diameter of about 20mm, 23-25mm is more in the range of a tetradrachm. As for the attribution, it's Price 682......
At 10.3 g it can't be genuine...
Happy birthday Bing :) You're only as old as how you feel, and you do not sound that old ;)
Just in case someone noticed, Lydian should read Lycian in my earlier post... Noticed the error when reading the follow-up this morning and,...
Have more than a few of those... One of the latest that I still have a pic of, a pretty rare Lydian stater with Sphinx on both sides, overstruck...
41, if my memory serves me right :oldman:
Second one looks like a Syracuse hemilitron... http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=13645
The reverse is VERY nice imo (and your obverse pic could be better...) :woot:
The best I can do... Yes, there's a serpent somewhere in there... :cyclops: GREEK, Attica, Athens AR "New Style" Tetradrachm (135-134 BC)....
My latest Rhodian, again... :bored: (Have to reshoot my tetra :snaphappy:) Islands of Caria, Rhodes AR Didrachm (250-229 BC). Agesidamos,...
Gives the impression that some of these Babylonian issues, with sculptural reliefs, were made to be looked at from every sides, not just obv. / rev..
Another "larger than life" coin, beautiful :woot: Here's my "Alexander's"... Alexander III the Great AR Tetradrachm Babylon mint (331-325 BC)....
Interesting token / history ! I thought it was an elephant head :wacky:
A Constantine I follis minted in London imo... http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1739823
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