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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4965885, member: 98035"]I have a handful of Greek portrait coins, mostly incidental lot accumulation rather than a deliberare purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first living kings to appear on coinage were actually the satraps of the Achaemenid Empire, as the Greeks considered it to be taboo and/or in poor taste until after the Wars of the Diadochi.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hecatomnos, satrap of Caria (Father of Maussolus)[ATTACH=full]1193588[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Datames, or Tarkamuwa as he called himself, one of the most renowned pre-Alexander generals and satrap of Cilicia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193590[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Cilician obol may depict Artaxerxes III</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193591[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then come the Hellenes!</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy I, I believe the first to put his ugly mug on coinage</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193586[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Seleukos, perhaps Herakles stylized to look a bit like himself?[ATTACH=full]1193587[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antiochus is always a favorite</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193581[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Demetrius I Soter</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193582[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Antiochus VIII Epiphanes</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193583[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy V (?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193584[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Cappadocia, Ariarathes V[ATTACH=full]1193585[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4965885, member: 98035"]I have a handful of Greek portrait coins, mostly incidental lot accumulation rather than a deliberare purchase. The first living kings to appear on coinage were actually the satraps of the Achaemenid Empire, as the Greeks considered it to be taboo and/or in poor taste until after the Wars of the Diadochi. Hecatomnos, satrap of Caria (Father of Maussolus)[ATTACH=full]1193588[/ATTACH] Datames, or Tarkamuwa as he called himself, one of the most renowned pre-Alexander generals and satrap of Cilicia [ATTACH=full]1193590[/ATTACH] This Cilician obol may depict Artaxerxes III [ATTACH=full]1193591[/ATTACH] Then come the Hellenes! Ptolemy I, I believe the first to put his ugly mug on coinage [ATTACH=full]1193586[/ATTACH] Seleukos, perhaps Herakles stylized to look a bit like himself?[ATTACH=full]1193587[/ATTACH] Antiochus is always a favorite [ATTACH=full]1193581[/ATTACH] Demetrius I Soter [ATTACH=full]1193582[/ATTACH] Antiochus VIII Epiphanes [ATTACH=full]1193583[/ATTACH] Ptolemy V (?) [ATTACH=full]1193584[/ATTACH] Cappadocia, Ariarathes V[ATTACH=full]1193585[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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