Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7768566, member: 86498&quot;]I do not normally discuss coins that I did not get and out of the total of some 17 coins that I was interested in offered in the June Auctions I was the underbidder in only 4. Three of these were denarii of Vespasian from the Viggo Collection offered by NAC. I do not know but perhaps one of the Flavian collectors on CT won one or more of these hence my reluctance to steal their thunder. One coin I did sleep through but I would have been nowhere near bidding on what that coin actually hammered for. However I did get this coin</p><p>Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm Amphipolis 332-326 BC. Obv Beardless head of Herakles right in lion skin headdress. Rv. Zeus Aetophoros seated left. In left field prow. Price 4 Troxell Group A1[ATTACH=full]1332110[/ATTACH]This coin is one of the first coins minted in the name of Alexander from the mint of Amphipolis. Alexander did not initiate the coinage with his name and types until after the Battle of Issus November 333. The coinage was initiated in Tarsus and remained localized to this region as Alexander besieged Tyre and Gaza and conquered Egypt. In Macedon Antipater continued minting coins with the name and types of Philip II. However Spartan efforts to reestablish their hegemony in the Peloponnese prompted Antipater to ask for help from Alexander which he duly gave in the form of gold and silver. Antipater used this to hire a vast army of mercenaries which was paid with this new coinage. This coin actually has the same symbol&nbsp; A prow found on the last issues of coins minted in the name of Philip II[ATTACH=full]1332113[/ATTACH]Courtesy of CNG <span style="color: #ff0000">THIS IS NOT MY COIN</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in