Book Score, Prieur, Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms

It's been on my library list for a while, got a great price on this one. Can't wait to memorize all the tets.

 

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Great. This valuable book fits for a nice gift on Christmas. Cheers JA.

 

Yes. I need to sound like less of an idiot on these coins.

 

John, it is a very good book. I especially like the way it has some history and discussion, illustrations of almost all of the over 1700 varieties, and the numbers of examples of each type. Anyone with books can be a better-informed buyer than someone without the right references. I'm a big fan of books.

 

Its on my want list too. Got Emmett earlier this year but this is the next one I would like to get.

 

Looks like you might have a few coins that could be found in there!! Good score I too just scored a book.

Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum

 

1,700 varieties? That's a lot to memorize. If I tried to do that I'd have to start dumping some of the more useless legal knowledge from my brain like the "rule against perpetuity," "fee tail" and "adverse possession." But then where would that leave me? Without useless obsolete legal terms and laws, and with a brain full of ancient tets, that's what! Not sure which one is better.

 

Thanks for the reminder! Wanted this book for a while, forgot its name...

 

Great find JA

I'm old school.....as big a fan of books as 'Val'

Can't wait to bend your ear and try your patience with endless questions

 

nice,

i got me
Strack Vol. II Hadrian
Strack, Paul L. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR RÖMISCHEN REICHSPRÄGUNG DES ZWEITEN JAHRHUNDERTS. TEIL II

1933

 

hahhahaah I just got the book today, from the UK me very happy, on page 2-3, there is the Hierapolis coin with Atagartis, that coin I have....what a day....

 

this one..John will also be hooked soon for Syrian Tets !! onces you got a few you are lost......
I will make soon my top 10 of these !!! I got a lot of them....now.............

 

just bought it too. turned out a guy 30 miles from here had a copy listed on ebay, bought it off him almost immediately

 

what you all paid for the book, me 80 eur with shipping, new book.

 

eBay

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331726021242?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

Well, this book arrived yesterday, and tonight my budget has already fallen victim to its influence. Here's a tetradrachm of Caracalla from Tyre. Although the bottom of the reverse is weakly-struck, the murex shell mint mark of Tyre is quite clear...



Prieur catalogs 8 eagle types for Caracalla from Tyre, two in a transitional style which do not resemble this coin at all, 3 with busts seen from the front, and 3 from the back. I'm not certain whether he's cataloging all known dies, or representative examples of particular styles. At any rate, my new coin appears to be a die match to 1551, p. 171. I wonder if any of you that also have the reference could weigh in and let me know what you think of my attribution.

 

Hello John,

I am impressed about the head, it is very good strike, indeed a little bit weak on the bottom probably the coins striker had a crazy day.
The atribution is I think okay, the coin looks quite thin, normally they are heavy thick chunks.
I was looking for more example in my own stuff, for the moment I could only find one ( got more).

 

Yours looks like 1549, laureate, cuirassed, seen from front. Prieur lists two engravers for this type, looks like yours is the second. So perhaps he is in fact cataloging all known dies.

 

I will check later, I got another stranger....give me a few moments...