Cool coin!! The most relevant I currently have is a sextans, anonymous circa 211-208 BC, with the Mercury obverse and sans crescent prow...
That's a very cool example of 'alternate modes of transportation' as TIF refers to it!!
Gorgeous coin!!!! I can actually see the griffith on your example!!! Your coin appears silver and perhaps a nomos or a drachm or is it bronze?...
The VAST majority of those collecting ancients revel in and insist upon that aged patina and 'uncleaned' appearance...and Welcome @New Windsor...
My Philip is also bareheaded, but Serapis seems to have some head-gear:D[ATTACH] All I can offer about the 'assarion' is this link;...
I couldn't resist going after this particular bronze with it's Greek deities combined with that ancient toned and worn appearance. This 'double...
WOW!! Great work @zumbly and @Ken Dorney !!! I never would have guessed the 'cat' was a boar.... Now that 'glorious mess' should be something...
Obviously I can't say for sure but if it's drapery it seems to be misaligned compared to others I've seen.....so I'm still leaning towards a...
I'm with all of you!! Looks like a totally different coin, even 'cleaned' and especially the reverses---the spacings are completely different,...
Ditto!!!
It definitely suggests a modern reproduction to me, although that may just have to do with 'stylistic' variations.....and I've been fooled more...
Wonderful topic and coin posts!!!!:woot: Unfortunately, that moneyer has somehow perfected a way to elude me:rolleyes::(
So cool guys!!! LOL
Stylistically speaking, it certainly is the 'oddest' looking example I've encountered to date, although I only own two earlier Seleucid...
I'll post a Tet that I purchased from Master Noob a while ago---the best I've been able to grab to this point---Ptolemy II 285-246 BC: [ATTACH]
I'm with Bing, I barely can keep up with my 'coin jones', let alone artefacts LOL...much as I would LOVE to.
Awesome coins Martin!!!! Incredible eye-appeal!!!
Utterly fantastic posts guys...I'm still drooling!!!
I'd pass too ...but if you truly decide to let it go and the auction shortly ends, I'm super curious just precisely what coin it is.
Like Mat, that's the first type of Commodus I can recall running across----it's super!!! I have a few 'common' issues of Commodus without Juno...
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