I'll just be a copycat and post my version of your coin. Phrygia, Apameia AE23, 6.77g; c. 133-148 BC. Obv.: Bust of Athena right, wearing...
Absolutely great coin, Randy - I would not have left it in the shop either. This is the Imperial version of a type minted in Bostra with Greek...
I've got EIC for three kids, a fourth in college, and my wife is also in school, so I get credits galore. As well I should - kids are...
That reminds me, I've got to sit down and do my rendering unto Caesar pretty soon.
I would recommend David Hendin's "Guide to Biblical Coins" as a good starting place.
Not Mars, Victory.
Chris is correct. RIC VII Antioch 87, p. 693. What you think is a dot is an anomaly on the flan, or perhaps a break in the patina. The dots you...
Nice addition, ice, easily worth 63 bucks. That's pocket change anyway, so even if you had to learn a lesson from it, you got a great coin at a...
There's a good thread at FORVM discussing this reverse type, but I can't seem to find it. If anyone can locate it, it's a great read.
This type is rare in better grades, but I think you mean Constantinian Dynasty - Byzantine came later. As we all know, however, rarity does not...
It's a nice coin with a distinctive style. Here's mine from Antioch... [ATTACH]
No, at this point I think it's an issue of Alexander III. I don't know about the device below the rider, and there appears to be something above...
I'm not biting, lol.
my-hot-wife-jpg :eek: Are you looking for a trip back to the doghouse?
Hey man, good eye! That's the closest match I've seen so far. So not Celtic, Alexander III. Well, I thought I might have cherrypicked a Celtic...
Maybe, yes, but the rider isn't what counts in my opinion. The bust just doesn't seem Macedonian at all to me.
The head on the OP coin is laterally elongated with a nose that forms a basically straight line with the forehead. And there's no neck to speak...
Dang it, you're right! Well now I've got to go look through a thousand Iberian coins.
It seems the Celts preferred to mint silver coins - there is no end of imitative staters, but the bronze seems very scarce, if not rare.
I think the bust is clearly Celtic - a type imitating Phillip II or Alexander? What do y'all think? AE16 but I don't know the weight. I see...
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