The wear is even, the color nice and I don't see any signs of tooling - a very nice example!
It is a nice coin with some merits, and it will re-tone darker over time, just let nature do her work. Storing the coin in a paper envelope would...
Athens, AR tetradrachm, after 449 BC [ATTACH] Kings of Macedon, Alexander III, AR tetradrachm, Cilicia, early posthumous issue, possibly Side,...
Late Roman bronze is something I don't generally collect, but speaking from experience with ancient bronze coins, I think your coin is okay in...
That's a beautiful coin and great acquisition. Congratulations!
Related to this thread, I came across this book in Google Books, on Women in Antiquity:...
Photos can be misleading, and the "coin in hand" can be quite different. Thanks
Donna, that's a really nice coin, but I wonder if the green accumulations might be PVC residue. I cannot really tell from the photos. They could...
I'm afraid that I really do not have any denarii of Nerva and the Antonine Dynasty. Over the years I have concentrated on other denominations...
Here's an Æ Trichalkon from the Thessalian League, that depicts Athena Itonia, advancing right with a raised shield on its side. This coin came...
That's a beautiful late Renaissance gold coin. Here's another "Roman" look of a scudo from the same period: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies,...
Here's a coin that arrived today. It has a decent portrait of the old boy, and pretty well centered as well for this type. Syria: Seleukia,...
I've posted this coin before, but I thought it's worth another go. Arabia, Northwest, Lihyan AE "tetradrachm" 2nd-1st centuries BC 7.4 grams Rare...
I just finished photographing another tetradrachm. This is an Eastern imitation of a 5th century BC tetradrachm of Athens. I purchased this coin...
Here's a plated tetradrachm of Athens that I purchased from CNG back in the early 90s, as I recall (pretty sure in the 1990's and not the 1890s)....
Thank you for the very interesting presentation. I knew very little about Cleopatra Selene until this posting. I guess this is a good time to...
The Thracian tetradrachms of Alexander III are very distinctive. Nice coin!
That is true, and at least one other city, Kamarina, in Sicily, produced the Herakles wearing the lion headdress motif nearly a century before...
Yes, that is a possibility. Based on my reading of Renault's The Persian Boy, Alexander's India campaign nearly cost him his life when he...
Thank you all for posting some really nice coins. Here's one more addition, from a Roma auction. Kingdom of Macedon circa 325-323/2 BC...
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