It sounds to me like you “get it”. That’s a huge reason so many of us are enraptured by ancient coins. And this one is very ancient indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_coinage# That article says a gold Daric was roughly the monthly wage for a soldier. So your silver...
So based on that info (thanks), it looks like @MaryContrary ’s coin dates between 424-338 BC. That’s pretty old, as coins go!
Good point. I guess quite a lot of them did.
It is indeed a bit “baggy”, but it’s also a silver dollar sized coin that’s pretty tough in higher grades.
Wow, that is indeed the most silvery looking Constantine I've seen.
Old? You bet it is. As the others have mentioned, you have a a silver siglos from the Achaemenid_Empire there. It would be nice if someone...
Just won this in a recent Stacks-Bowers auction. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Very intriguing! Alas, I haven't a clue. Neat piece, though.
@Evan Saltis - the coin is in my outgoing mail, to move tomorrow (Monday, 5/22).
I've not seen any fake ANACS slabs and nothing on that one waves immediate red flags at me, but you're right to be hypervigilant, considering what...
Yep, fun find. Not something you see very often in the context of US pocket change.
Bumping this to the top, over the closed contests.
This was in a private message sent by @Evan Saltis, so I can lock this thread down for the archives.
And now, the random drawing. Our lucky number was... 35! [ATTACH] And Post #35 was by... @Bradley Trotter ... on behalf of @Evan Saltis! Good...
Whaddya know, I slept through the whole night. Not something that usually happens. Being a hotel night auditor and thus accustomed to a...
If I wake up in the middle of the night (as is so often the case on the nights when I’m off work), I might do the drawing in the wee hours. Time...
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That arrowhead is fantastic!
Hey, maybe they'll find some coins and send them to me, but send me the wrong ones by mistake... ;) [ATTACH]
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