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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7500030, member: 110350&quot;]Two magnificent coins, [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]! Here are a couple of common Tetradrachms of Philip I and Philip II:</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I Billon Tetradrachm, 247 AD [Year 3], Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Eagle standing right, wings spread with left wing behind leg, head right and holding wreath in beak, ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ƐΞΟΥϹΙΑϹ ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Γ [= Year 3]; in exergue in two lines: ΑΝΤΙΟΧΙΑ/ S C. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. VIII Online 29005 [temporary ID number] (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29005" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29005" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29005</a> ); Prieur 368, McAlee 908 (Series 4, Group (b), Type 2). 26.5 mm., 10.40 g., 7 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296225[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip II, billon Tetradrachm, 248-249 AD, Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, AYTOK K M IOΥΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB / Rev. Eagle standing facing, head right, wings spread, holding wreath in its beak, ΔHMAΡX EΞ OYCIAC YΠATO Δ [<i>4th consulship</i>]; ANTIOXIA / S C in two lines below eagle.&nbsp; Prieur 474 [Michel and Karin Prieur, <i>Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms</i> (London, 2000)]; BMC 20 Syria 560 [Warwick Wroth, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 20, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria</i> (London, 1899) at p. 218]; McAlee 1042 [Richard McAlee, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (2007)]; RPC VIII No. 29020 (<i><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29</a></i>020).&nbsp; 27.15 mm., 14.00 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex. CNG Electronic Auction 466, April 22, 2020, part of Lot 728.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296226[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here are my two earliest silver thalers, both purchased back in the 1980s, and both milled rather than hammered:</p><p><br /></p><p>Saxe-Altenburg, AR Broad Thaler 1624, Four Dukes (the sons of Friedrich Wilhelm I). Obv. Johann Philipp /Rev. his three brothers, Friedrich, Johann Wilhelm, &amp; Friedrich Wilhelm II. Davenport 7371.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296252[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296253[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Saxony (Albertine Line), AR Broad Thaler 1626, Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony. Davenport 7601.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296254[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296255[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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