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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2249835, member: 56859"]Night-time Greg has great taste in coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I too love the shape and heft of these convex-obverse tetradrachms, and I love Pan <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_b157dcebb49041089628f4c19e4e5f65.jpg_srb_p_850_428_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>KINGS OF MACEDON, Antigonos II Gonatas </b></p><p>277/6-239 BCE, struck after 270 BCE, Amphipolis mint</p><p>AR tetradrachm, 31mm, 17.06 g </p><p>Obv: head of Pan left, in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with stars within crescents</p><p>Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOΥ, Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield; helmet left, EMP monogram right </p><p>Ref: SNGCop 1200v, EMP (maybe); R. Martin, "A Third-Century B.C. Hoard from Thessaly at the ANS," ANSMN 26, 536 (same obv. die).</p><p><i>ex Demetrios Armounta Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2249835, member: 56859"]Night-time Greg has great taste in coins :D I too love the shape and heft of these convex-obverse tetradrachms, and I love Pan :) [IMG]http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_b157dcebb49041089628f4c19e4e5f65.jpg_srb_p_850_428_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb[/IMG] [B]KINGS OF MACEDON, Antigonos II Gonatas [/B] 277/6-239 BCE, struck after 270 BCE, Amphipolis mint AR tetradrachm, 31mm, 17.06 g Obv: head of Pan left, in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with stars within crescents Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOΥ, Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield; helmet left, EMP monogram right Ref: SNGCop 1200v, EMP (maybe); R. Martin, "A Third-Century B.C. Hoard from Thessaly at the ANS," ANSMN 26, 536 (same obv. die). [I]ex Demetrios Armounta Collection[/I][/QUOTE]
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