As usual, Martin, you have two very terrific examples!!! Great details and patina!!
Beautiful coin 'ro', I'd love to buy it myself---but I think that one usually exceeds my MAXIMUM monthly budget, even when I streeeetch it a bit...
JEEZ!!!! Now I have no appetite for lunch!!! Thanks, Bing and CHRS!!!
Very cool and 'bold' coin 'ro'---especially the reverse...I'd love to own it !!!
Ah, Bing saved me the trouble of looking it up.... At this point in my life, that's about all I can do LOL
Great coins guys!! Frankly I don't see the 'tooling' in 'Orfew's' OP photo either---unless it was a light touch on the portrait---the patina is...
Gee, That almost looks like my High School Prom Photo:rolleyes:
Twenty-two ladies and not one will talk to me LOL Great posts guys!!! I wasn't aware there were so many different portrait styles, as Doug...
Although I haven't been consciously trying to acquire the 'ladies', it seems I now have accumulated 22 examples with this last purchase.... LOL...
My two best examples are not from the Cyzicus mint and have been among the first coins I obtained decades ago---modest examples, but easily...
VERY nice AS of Agrippa, 'Orfew' !! I purchased the same type a number of years ago (a decade??) from a now retired Wayne Philips...same...
You're right---but I get the impression more people prefer #3 then #4 of all the photos you posted... The overall effect seems superior on all...
# 3 and then # 4
Hard for me to tell---as usual....Without inscriptions, I'm just guessing and my memory isn't what it once was... But I have a Diadumenian with...
I love the posts guys!! And I love that 'mountain'---I am still trying to get a modest example that I can 'squeeze' into my tiny remaining budget...
I think Bing and the others have probably pinned it down----Greek/Seleucid, Antiochus....
Impossible for me to say with any certainty----but it appears to be a very late LRB...Can you help with any size and weight or scale comparisons??...
Me too!!!!
Terrific photos guys---I'm still working on correcting my stability and lighting issues...and then many others to follow, I'm sure.... LOL You...
First, uniqueness suggests rarity and one of the very few (only?) example that survived to the present date...and that usually enhances the...
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