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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8282266, member: 91461&quot;][MEDIA=youtube]eFTLKWw542g[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>So glad that rare beauty made it to you in the end. Thing survives two millennia no problem. Surviving USPS not so easy.</p><p>How about my Fed UP...I mean Fedex story.</p><p>First, this is not Savoca&#039;s fault and they were awesome about it and refunded me for the coin.</p><p>Two things I love about Savoca: they have the fastest shipping in the game. I don&#039;t know why Fedex is so efficient for them and not everyone else. And the other thing, I am frugal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462887[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;and if I don&#039;t buy too much in an auction of theirs they will hang on to my winnings for me so that I can combine shipping with my winnings from the following auction.</p><p>So, I have 2 auctions worth of winnings coming to me from them...and the winnings don&#039;t come. I wait and wait. Nearly two weeks! (which for any other auction house that would be excellent delivery time)</p><p>Finally, this lunk of turd lands on my doorstop:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462881[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I could still see the safety cardboard and am a pretty lucky guy...maybe just maybe all would be well and the super sweet RRs I had coming to me would be ok...and maybe I&#039;ll start growing hundos out my nose!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462883[/ATTACH]</p><p>Fortunately, the coins from my first order that I had them hold for me were all still in the cardboard. Unfortunately, those were the not so expensive coins. The big daddy RR didn&#039;t make it.</p><p>Just from the destruction of the envelope and the cardboard, I think maybe the coin got turned sideways or something in one of the scanning mechanisms and ripped right out of the packaging, but your guess is as good as mine.</p><p>I sent these photos to Savoca and they immediately refunded me and used the photos to file a claim with Fedex. Best in the biz baby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the coins that did make it:</p><p>A coin that shows the ancient tools used to mint us our coins!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462884[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>T. Carisius. </u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Circa 46 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.34 gm). Head of Juno right / T. CARISIVS above minting implements, all within wreath: wreathed cap of Vulcan, resembling reverse die, above moneyer’s anvil between tongs and hammer. Crawford 464/2; Sear, CRI 70; Carisia 1a. NVF, Purchased from Savoca Jan 2022</p><p>The identification of the obverse bust as Juno is questionable since she is not wearing the usual stephane of the Queen of the Olympians and wife of Jupiter. Although accompanied by one of her ancient titles moneta, from moneo (‘warn, advise or council’), it is eminently probable that by this time Moneta was a minor personification in her own right. The same personification can be seen on the reverse of Domitian’s Moneta August aes issue of AD 84, which celebrates the reopening of the mint after the fire of AD 81.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A gnarly Macedonian helmet in silver!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462885[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.21 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated issue, struck circa 143-142 BC. Radiate and diademed head right / <b>AΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY, spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat’s horn above visor; TPY above helmet, monogram to lower right. SC 2003a; SMA –; HGC 9, 1037; Sunrise 209. VF, toned. Very rare. Purchased from Savoca Jan 2022</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>And this guy. Who is he. We don&#039;t know for sure.&nbsp; But there are lots of guesses.</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1462886[/ATTACH]</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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