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Message:: [QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 7853863, member: 110226"]Thank you, Terence.  That's an impressive background and scholarly as well.  I well understand the issue of being over-diversified in your holdings, and I admire your discipline and focus.  The whole study of eastern coinage is one that I find fascinating, due to the diversity of coinage, kingdoms and rulers, along with the relationships the eastern Mediterranean had with the west, notably Rome.  Sometimes I pick up an interesting Roman provincial coin, but with no overall "game plan".  I guess someone down the line with scratch his or her head and try to figure out the panoply of coins constituting my collection.  Good luck! Trying to collect the complex and extensive coinage of Alexander III and his successors is a very challenging undertaking. I really like the tetradrachm.  It is quite similar to one that came recently from Israel, which I think is from Babylon, that's the coin on the left. This coin is porous from burial and it weighs 15.3 grams. It is a later issue, with Zeus's right foot bent back behind the left.  The other coin is an owl, of course, possibly imitative, acquired from a German dealer. [ATTACH=full]1353021[/ATTACH] Where do you conduct the seminars?[/QUOTE]