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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 5400362, member: 97383"]Q, Nice score & excellent write-up to go with it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! After seeing your collection of Syro-Phoenician Tets, the Herennius Etruscus upgrade was really necessary <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Your 1st example didn't fit with all your other <u>high grade</u> Tets. I managed to score a nice example of a H.E. Tet last year too, pictured below. Examples of his brother's Tets, Hostilian, are very rare & expensive. Heritage auctioned a nice Hostilian Tet a couple of days ago for over $1,000.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I did manage to score an acceptable Hostilian Tet last year, pictured below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233059[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antioch-Syria, Officina 5, Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251. Billon Tetradrachm: 24 mm, 10.88 gm, 5 h. McAlee 1153e, Prieur 636.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1233071[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Antioch-Syria, Officina 7, Hostilian as Caesar, AD 250-251 (struck AD 251). Billon Tetradrachm: 27 mm, 11.74 gm, 8 h. McAlee 1160e, Prieur 652 (only 2 examples cited). </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 5400362, member: 97383"]Q, Nice score & excellent write-up to go with it :D! After seeing your collection of Syro-Phoenician Tets, the Herennius Etruscus upgrade was really necessary ;). Your 1st example didn't fit with all your other [U]high grade[/U] Tets. I managed to score a nice example of a H.E. Tet last year too, pictured below. Examples of his brother's Tets, Hostilian, are very rare & expensive. Heritage auctioned a nice Hostilian Tet a couple of days ago for over $1,000.00 :rolleyes:. I did manage to score an acceptable Hostilian Tet last year, pictured below. [ATTACH=full]1233059[/ATTACH] [B]Antioch-Syria, Officina 5, Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251. Billon Tetradrachm: 24 mm, 10.88 gm, 5 h. McAlee 1153e, Prieur 636. [ATTACH=full]1233071[/ATTACH] Antioch-Syria, Officina 7, Hostilian as Caesar, AD 250-251 (struck AD 251). Billon Tetradrachm: 27 mm, 11.74 gm, 8 h. McAlee 1160e, Prieur 652 (only 2 examples cited). [/B][/QUOTE]
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