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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3122702, member: 51347&quot;][USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] , I love that coin, and have been toying with getting them due to the Histories and the Fresco that you posted.&nbsp; Let me destroy your CONS:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Cons: <span style="color: #b30000">(NO WAY!)</span></b></p><ul> <li>There are some faint old scratches in the unstruck metal along one portion of the obverse edge. These are noticeable but not necessarily distracting.&nbsp; <span style="color: #b30000"><b>So?&nbsp; Beauty marks, and proves circulation.&nbsp; When I show folks Ancients, they freak out that folks from THAT era held, bartered, and SPENT this coin! PRO</b></span></li> <li>The grade is relatively modest as the coin did receive some noticeable wear in ancient times, but everything&#039;s &quot;all there&quot;, and while not a high grade piece, it&#039;s not especially low-end, either. It&#039;s a middle-of-the-road example, gradewise. <b><span style="color: #b30000"> I collect Historically.&nbsp; So &quot;grades&quot; mean nothing to me.&nbsp; Yes, I want a coin that you can identify, and have defined features so that you KNOW it is the coin.&nbsp; Wear?&nbsp; see above! PRO</span></b></li> <li>There is some doubling in the reverse strike, giving the horse&#039;s face a somewhat strange appearance. Doubling seems to be less appealing to collectors of ancient coins than it is to enthusiasts of modern error coins, but it&#039;s really more of a neutral consideration than a negative one. Some might even like it.&nbsp; THAT is just cool and a PRO to me.&nbsp; Many Ancients have doubling, etc.&nbsp; You can actually imagine the actual minting process.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #b30000">&quot;Rats, Alfred, you did not strike it hard enough, ya can&#039;t see the horsey!&nbsp; Hit it again, you idiot!&quot; (Oh, and yeah, Alfred was a real guy in Pharkadon.) True story [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] </span></b></li> <li>This is a <i>hemidrachm</i> (half-drachm), so a somewhat smaller denomination, though at 15 mm in diameter (just barely smaller than a United States dime) it could better be described as &quot;small&quot; rather than &quot;tiny&quot;. People tend to prefer the bigger denominations like <i>tetradrachms</i>, but that&#039;s why those are so expensive. These smaller coins offer a much more affordable opportunity to collect ancient Greek silver, and the artistry on some of the small denominations can still be breathtaking (though it&#039;s more average in this particular case).&nbsp; FRACTIONALS are more difficult to find as they were used in &quot;everyday life&quot;.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #b30000">The larger Tets, etc. were probably too expensive and/or too much concentration of wealth, that were traded more in larger commerce deals and/or with other states.</span></b></li> </ul><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b><i>These comments are all in a GOOD WAY!&nbsp; I am basically saying that I LOVE your coin!</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>THESSALY:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794905[/ATTACH]</p><p>Thessaly AR Stater Double Victoriatus 21mm 5.7g 50 BCE Zeus - Athena Itonia spear shield RR Prov. SNG Cop 299var</p><p>Ex: [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794906[/ATTACH] </p><p>Thessaly Larissa 344-337 BCE AR Obol 0.68g Nymph Larissa Horse Grazing SNG Cop 1</p><p>GIVEN to me by the Coin Goddess herself: [USER=75563]@ancientcoinguru[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>HALF-HORSE:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794907[/ATTACH]</p><p>Persia Spithridates Achaemenid satrap of Sparda-Lydia and Ionia- 334 BCE AE10 1.20g wearing Persian headdress - Forepart galloping horse r Klein 367, Cop 1538</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>TAUROKATHAPSIA:</b></p><p>None.&nbsp; That is why I want to get a similar coin as yours![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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