Alegandron Recent Ancient Acquisitions

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=> oh great!! (more competition!!)



=> yup, animals "ROCK"

 

Careful. Steve has this thing for beasts......

 

LOL, grew up on farming, had my crispy-critters for breakfast, fed them to the dogs when mom was not looking, had to feed horses, cattle, and sheep... Used to catch everything I could find from turtles, crow, and owl, rabbits (my dogs hunted by chasing them down better than me with a 410 or .22!) Lotsa animals around me!

 

Hello Alegandron,

Nice coins. It would be nice to see a larger/detailed image of the lifetime tet reverse. Did NGC happen to provide a mint location on their label?

Here is one of mine. It is posthumous from Babalon.

 

No mint listed, I assumed Makedonia... It is listed as a lifetime issue. I have several Drachmae and some Tets that are posthumous, but I HAD to get a "Lifetime". This is the only slabbed version that I have, and will probably "free" it sometime in the near future... I kinda like Alexandros 'o Megas' legacy!

 

Also, NICE rev! Lots of great detail...crisper than mine! Did you photo the obv?

 

It would be nice to see more detail on the reverse of your coin. If you ever take a better photo please post it in this thread.

Here is my lifetime tet (reverse). This one is from an unknown mint. The snake-in-a-bowl monogram was used on coins from a few different mints.

 

I will take another photo. Learning photography now, so bear with me as I am a novice to photography, especially macro coins.
Nice Lifetime of yours!

 

Yes I photographed the coins that I post. Sorry that I only posted the reverses. It is the reverse of your coin that I was focusing my attention.

Here are the obverse & reverse of the two tetradrachms I just posted.

 

Collect89: I tried using my digital microscope, however the LED lights interfered with the slab. Dougsmit suggested I use books to prop my mobile camera. See my crude photos from that... I just received a photo copy stand today, and have not set it up. If you cannot determine what you are looking for from these terrible photos, I will later try with a Nikon D40 and the stand. However, I have not set up adequate lighting quite yet. I am horrible at photos (my wife is a semi-pro, but she is travelling for the rest of the week). Please let me know! Thank you VERY much for your kind help and assessment.
Slab states VF with Strike at 5/5 and Surface at 3/5

 

LOL looking at these photos...I am getting more and more likely to ravage the slab and FREE this Tet!!!

 

OMG, SteveX, I am getting CARSICK from all your Avatar changes!!!

 

I don't like wearing the same outfit day after day ... know what I mean?

 

LOL, I just don't like wearing anything at all! Then there is NOTHING to change! Even my Avatar is nekked! Just like many of the Greek Coins (Republican Rome were too prudish!)

 

That could get rough on the bum.

 

LOL, yeah! 'Specially since my desk chair is faux-leather / non-breathable plastic!

 

Besides rough on the bum, I can see Blue with his cold nose where you don't particularly want.

 

ROFL! Well, she is under my desk now, sound asleep! So she just doesn't care!

 

This place just gets weirder and weirder.