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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8390516, member: 86498"]I cannot say that I really have a favorite coin. However there are some that I feel that are very special. </p><p>Antiochos II Theos Ar Tetradrachm Sardies 261-246 AD Obv Head of Antiochos I diademed Rv Apollo seated upon the omphalos right holding two arrows. SC 518b HGC 236f WSM 1386 17.05 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1488849[/ATTACH]Back in 1991 I was definitely living a rather basic existence. There was NO internet and I did not have a telephone. So when an auction came up I would go through the auction cat and try to figure out if there was something I liked get a bunch of 25 cent coins and phone the company using a pay phone. A Gorny &Mosch Auction literally showed up about 21 hours before so I literally only had a few hours to assess the auction lots and organize a bid. I saw this coin I did not have a coin of Antiochos II and made a bid. Later I discovered I won the coin and it was only then did I decide it was time to "find out what I had just bid on." So I went to my copy of Newell's "Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints." Initially I was very disappointed. This coin features a portrait of Antiochos I (Rats of the very big and hairy kind). I already had a portrait of Antiochos I and I did not think I needed another. Infuriated with myself I continued to read. What Newell said of this issue makes this coin one of my favorites. He said "... a new artist, one of outstanding ability commences to work at Sardies. His portraits of the aged Antiochus I are extraordinary productions of the engravers art, surpassing (if that were possible ) even the justly renowned portraits of the Greco-Bactrian coinages." Pretty cool I thought. Though I am still a little miffed at myself. I have yet to acquire a portrait of Antiochos II.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8390516, member: 86498"]I cannot say that I really have a favorite coin. However there are some that I feel that are very special. Antiochos II Theos Ar Tetradrachm Sardies 261-246 AD Obv Head of Antiochos I diademed Rv Apollo seated upon the omphalos right holding two arrows. SC 518b HGC 236f WSM 1386 17.05 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1488849[/ATTACH]Back in 1991 I was definitely living a rather basic existence. There was NO internet and I did not have a telephone. So when an auction came up I would go through the auction cat and try to figure out if there was something I liked get a bunch of 25 cent coins and phone the company using a pay phone. A Gorny &Mosch Auction literally showed up about 21 hours before so I literally only had a few hours to assess the auction lots and organize a bid. I saw this coin I did not have a coin of Antiochos II and made a bid. Later I discovered I won the coin and it was only then did I decide it was time to "find out what I had just bid on." So I went to my copy of Newell's "Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints." Initially I was very disappointed. This coin features a portrait of Antiochos I (Rats of the very big and hairy kind). I already had a portrait of Antiochos I and I did not think I needed another. Infuriated with myself I continued to read. What Newell said of this issue makes this coin one of my favorites. He said "... a new artist, one of outstanding ability commences to work at Sardies. His portraits of the aged Antiochus I are extraordinary productions of the engravers art, surpassing (if that were possible ) even the justly renowned portraits of the Greco-Bactrian coinages." Pretty cool I thought. Though I am still a little miffed at myself. I have yet to acquire a portrait of Antiochos II.[/QUOTE]
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