At last week's local ancient coin group meeting, after the night's presentation, I was talking and checking out the coins of a fellow member and he pulled out a bag of tets from his recent win at Naville, saying "I got these cuz last time we talked you were interested in these types, right...?" (he is interested in small Greek silver, esp Corinth), "...so take a look and if you like any, we can figure out a trade." I went through the dozen of them and pulled out these 4 as the ones I was interested in. I found an adequate trade coin in my collection, we both felt comfortable with it, and did the deal. Here they are... nothing too rare or fancy, but when someone does something very nice on your behalf based on what they know about you, it makes the coins that much more invaluable and precious: Aurelian, Ruled 270-275 AD AE Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria Struck 272/273 AD Obverse: A K Λ ΔOM AVPHΛIANOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on shoulder. Reverse: Eagle standing right, holding wreath in beak; star to upper left, date LΔ in right field (year 4=272/273 AD). References: Emmett 3928, Dattari 5481, Köln 3074 Ex: Naville Numismatics, Auction 49, Lot #203 (5-12-2019) Carinus (as Caesar), Ruled 282-283 AD AE Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria Struck 282/283 AD Obverse: A K MA KAPINOC K, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Reverse: Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, date LA in upper left field (year 1=282/283 AD). References: Emmett 4012, Dattari 5576, Köln 3172 Ex: Naville Numismatics, Auction 49, Lot #203 (5-12-2019) Diocletian, Ruled 284-305 AD AE Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria Struck 285/286 AD Obverse: A K Γ OYAΛ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, Laureate and cuirassed bust of Diocletian to right. Reverse: Alexandria, mural crown, standing left, holding bust of Serapis and sceptre, date L-B across field (year 2=285/286 AD). References: Emmett 4025, Dattari 5622, Köln 3210 Ex: Naville Numismatics, Auction 49, Lot #203 (5-12-2019) Diocletian, Ruled 284-305 AD AE Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria Struck 289/290 AD Obverse: A K Γ OYA ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, Laureate and cuirassed bust of Diocletian to right. Reverse: Eirene standing left, holding grain ears and sceptre, date S-L (is that reversal common? I found 1 other on ACSearch.) across field (year 6=289/290 AD). References: Emmett 4045, Dattari 5660, Köln 3248 Ex: Naville Numismatics, Auction 49, Lot #203 (5-12-2019) I'd love to see any other pseudo-gifted coins you got for trade, or your fave SS coin, or anything else you feel is relevant.
They may not be rare, but they sure are beautiful. Here are my Alexandrian tets Probus Galienus Maximian.
Very nice...I was outbid on this lot at the Naville auction, but happy to see these ended up in a good home. I especially like the Carinus.
We can also call Diocletian "Diocles" since that was his name during the time of the reigns of Carinus and Numerian. He changed it after Numerian's death when he became emperor.
These are neat. Seeing them posted so often here made me buy (a somewhat earlier) one this year. It has since gone on to live with @Aethelred. (Which seems to be the destination of a lot of my ancient and medieval bygones- he gets to cherrypick me at least once a year, because I usually owe him money. LOL.) That won't be my last, I'm sure. I want one of those Neros with the galley reverse. I also want one of those Commodus ones with the Pharos lighthouse on it, but that isn't likely to happen.
If by regularly you mean "normally" or "routinely", I would not agree with that statement. I see a mixture, perhaps half and half, although I haven't done a thorough search.
I couldn't agree more! Very nice of him and they were interesting coins. Here's one John Anthony picked out for me based on my interests: I don't have images of my last SS exchange handy. I need to rectify this situation.
