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...
Hot off the presses, here's a photo of a tetradrachm of Phillip III, purchased from CNG many years ago. Macedonian Kings Circa 323-317 BC AR...
My mistake. I guess I need new glasses.
That's a beautiful coin. Yes, I see a distinct difference in portrait style, lifetime versus posthumous. What mint is this coin from? Thanks
No, just an old fogey who, over the past several decades has been drifting through the numismatic either, sort of attracting coins the way planets...
Thank you. I will make a note on the label.
They do look like sandals (Birkenstock?), or part of the footrest?
That's a very nice coin. I've been looking around for one, but it is tough locating one in decent condition. Your coin is very well centered...
While going through a box of ancients last night, I came across an old purchase. This is a tetradrachm of Alexander III that I believe is from...
While we're on the subject of the most expensive coin ever sold, here's list, outdated no doubt and in need of updating, from Wikipedia:...
Thank you, Carl. Those are very interesting and nice examples. This is an area that I am developing an interest in, and hope to be able to...
That's a nice coin, Mat. I read online that the variety without the star behind Titus' portrait is rarer than the one with the star. I've also...
I guess the aphorism, or cliché, if you prefer, that every cloud has a silver lining, does apply to some situations, and this is one of them....
Yes, I find the Sophytes hoard coins fascinating. It is interesting that this design, with Athena and the owl on the obverse and reverse,...
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