Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7853827, member: 86498&quot;]It is sort of difficult to, in a few words, try to discuss the changes in my collection a process that has continued for almost fifty years and counting. Like many I started collecting Roman imperial antoninianii, denarii, as well as late Roman aes. Over time I amassed a reasonable number. In 1984 I began to purchase coins from the Roman Republic and in 1986 started collecting Greek coins. I remained a generalist, however over time I started a series of sub collections. The first was the Colonial mint of Carrhae in Mesopotamia. This ended in 2005. However I began to study a rather diverse range of subjects which included</p><p>1. Roman Denarii and Antoninianii minted in the east</p><p>2. Roman Colonial mints of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Marcianopolis, Petra, Tarsus, Amphipolis, and Aelia Capitolina.</p><p>3. Roman Colonial silver issues minted at Rome for circulation in the east</p><p>4. The coinage of Constantine I (at one time I had over 200 coins) Generally speaking I was not all that interested in scarce Roman emperors but was a lot more interested in the coins whose reverses celebrated important political or military events. In 2015 my collection peaked at something like 3500 coins.&nbsp; At that point I had a major change of focus. A number of factors more or less came together at the same time that forced me to reevaluate what I was doing. So I decided that I would dispose of most of my coins and create a smaller collection. The best coins I kept and the rest I let go using the money raised to buy more iconic coins. This group I refer to as my &quot;teaching collection&quot; and I use them when I give educational seminars. Currently the collection is now about 600 coins divided more or less evenly between Greek and Roman coins. However I have no t given up on all my</p><p>specialist enquiries. Those of you who follow the &quot;Saturday Night Free for All&quot; will note that I have been posting a rather large number of posts on the coinage of the Macedonian Kings. Currently I am attempting to fathom the massive issue of drachms minted in the name of Alexander from the mints of Asia Minor. I am also looking at the Mass coinage Athenian Owls from the period covered by Flament III. However I still buy books on any and all areas of research on ancient numismatics. I feel that perhaps in the future it might be possible that I might wish to delve into another area of ancient coins in more detail.</p><p>Tetradrachm of Alexander III Babylon 325-323 BC Obv Beardless head of Herakles in lionskin headdress. Rv. Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 3629 17.14 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1352999[/ATTACH]This is not a tetradrachm the first issue which is covered in detail by Lloyd Taylor in the AJN 2018. However in his article he does indicate that the first issue may have taken a very short period of time to strike. If this is the case then this issue may not have commenced until 324 BC. The monogram below the throne as well as the M are also seen on the issue of Dekadrachms minted at Babylon as well.[/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