I knew that there were some PVC residue deposits on the obverse of this coin when I bought it. The reverse was PVC deposit free. [ATTACH] I was...
Nice examples! Quite a number of Tyrian tetradrachms have been listed on eBay over the past year or so, comprised of Antiochus VII Sidetes and...
Here's one more pairing. This actually might have been done before. [ATTACH] The Pines of Rome, Respighi, final movement, The Appian Way. This...
How about some quadriga music, courtesy of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the third movement of his sixth symphony, and a coin? [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
Yes, judging from the photo in the article, whatever chemical is being used, it is completely stripping the surfaces, which is not necessarily a...
Another good fictional work on that period is Funeral Games by Mary Renault. This is the third book in her trilogy on Alexander III and the...
While on the subject of transitional owls, I went back to reexamine one intermediate owl that I assumed was an imitation. Having obtained...
Your coin is one of the best examples of a rare very early variety of transitional intermediate owl that I have seen. Here's a link for more...
Like fine wine and art by the masters, they don't come cheap!
Nice examples! Here's my lone Akragas hemilitron, circa 409-406 BCE. Sicily, circa 409-406 BC Akragas Æ Hemilitron Eagle standing right with...
Thank you for the link. The Arabian imitations of Alexander III's tetradrachms are very rare, so this a significant find.
This Northern Arabia imitation tetradrachm would have been a significant addition to the collection, but: 1) the lot was part of a live floor...
I've wondered if the walls and battlements might be a reference to Sidon, one of the major port cities in that region, and the trireme symbolizing...
That's a very intriguing reverse, a nice obverse as well. Architectural references on a coin this early must be very rare. I don't know of...
Given the ocean of owls out there, I imagine that there many more than the 3,000 graded MS by the certification firms. Think any attempt to...
That's a very nice owl. Unless you need to raise cash, I'd hold on to it. I think a lot of the drive behind escalating prices for ancients,...
You should scratch the coin from Petra from the list. I thought there was a river god next to the seated Tyche, on the reverse, but after looking...
I guess I am more of a universalist collector. Over the years my focus, or lack of focus, has gone from US, to world and ancients, to world only,...
This coin came in today from Forum Ancients. It is an AE 28, minted in Petra for Emperor Geta (older, later portrait), depicting Tyche, seated on...
This coin is kind of related. It is an earlier sestertius that I recently acquired. It is not a FECVNDITAS type, but instead one with the VENVS...
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