Pretty fabulous for the price! Based on the gaping mouth seen on almost every depiction of a griffin, they must be very loud and annoying...
It's a bronze of Alexander III or a successor. The reverse shows B A (for BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEXANΔΡOY-- King Alexander) with bow case above and club...
I like that theory! It makes a lot of sense. Very practical.
Of course! Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in and say whether I'm on the right track. I'm pretty sure it happened in that order...
Hmm. Inventory management can be difficult! Online coin stores seem particularly prone to this, especially when the shop owner also does shows.
Well, I think you already identified what happened. The reverse is double struck. Perhaps it happened like this: (obverse is the anvil die;...
:wideyed: Impressive! The in-hand pictures are fabulous :)
Good job, everyone! Just three more posting groups to go after this. We're on P now. I haven't updated the master list in a couple of weeks but...
Looks fine to me, typical portrait for a later Ptolemy. Edited: oops, the experts have already chimed in with that information :oops:
Cool!!
What a nightmare! They're all lovely but the sestertius is one I want to reach out and touch :) My first MA was a sestertius. It's a "problem"...
Poseidon [IMG] KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson, 229-221 BCE struck 227-225 BCE, Amphipolis mint? AR tetradrachm, 32 mm, 17.1 gm Obv:...
A pretty Pudicitia on a charming denarius of Lucilla: [IMG] Lucilla Empress CE 163-169, wife of Lucius Verus AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.25 gm Obv:...
Pronoia From theoi.com: In Greek mythology Hesione-Pronoea was the Oceanid-nymph wife of the Titan Prometheus. She was a minor goddess of...
P day? PAN DAY!! Pan [IMG] THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III AE 22 mm, 5.18 gm Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC; radiate head right Rev:...
What a sweet reverse! Seriously... it looks like Hercules is comforting a distraught lion. I like that idea better than him killing it :D....
Beautiful! I love these anepigraphic and nearly-anepigraphic types and have one like yours. Oddly, I have no memory of bidding on it! At first...
The reverses are usually what I find most interesting and you got two on one coin! Very cool. Adding it to The List :)
Anyone have an O city?
Thanks, Bing. I didn't see that link. Authenticity aside, it appears to have been set in a pronged bezel at some point in its life-- rather...
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