Jumping on the Tetradrachm band wagon

You guy's have been posting a lot of these great lookin' Tet's lately, so my next quest is to get a very good example of each emperor or try..

Roman Provincial
Egypt Alexandria
Probus 276-277 AD.
Tetradrachm Billion
Year 2
Ob. Laureate and cuirassed bust
of Probus right.
Rev. Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales
in her right hand and cornucopia in her left.
LB- Yr. 2
19mm x 7.69 g.
( dealers photo will reshoot when the coin show's up.)

 

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Looks like a nice coin. Some will fault it doesnt have all the legends on the front. I tend to stay away from this era since many get bronze disease easily.

 

Eng, I was just thinking the same thing. I like these potin tets, perhaps I'll slowly try for one of each emperor/empress.

 

Can you elaborate on this, or does anyone else have experience with Potin Tets and bronze disease? I have my eye on a few as well, but I don't want to get saddled with expensive, rotting coins.

 

Do a search on tetradrachm on vcoins and sort to cheapest & you will see how many potins are listed and many have BD.

I had 2 potins from different dealers get BD & neither had it in their photos but as soon as I opened the packages the green powder was already forming. Sent back, got refunds.

Early Tets seem OK but once nearly the silver is gone BD tends to be a bit common.

 

I have several and none has BD. In fact, I just did a check to be sure.

 

BTW John, nice coin.

Here is a Probus Tet of mine:

PROBUS Tetradrachm
OBVERSE: A K M AVP PPO-BOC CEB, laureate cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: L to left, Γ to right, eagle standing left, head right with wreath in its beak
Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, 277-278 AD
6.78g, 19mm
Milne 4566, Emmett 3985

 

I never said all get it, I said many

 

Very nice jw,

Mat, you say the early coins tend to have less BD, would that be like years 1-5. i understand all bronze coins can come up with BD. i might post a picture of a cleaned Roman coin that became fully engulfed in BD in just 2 mts. We should check these coins every month.

 

Oh these Roman Tetradrachms of Egypt are really growing on me...I made some trades recently and was able to procure two of these coins. Carus and Carinus

 

huh? I am talking about early empire ones like Nero, Augustus, and even severan period doesnt get it much. I would say from the time of gallienus & forward do they tend to get more susceptible to BD.

There is empresses I want in Potin form but I tend to just stay away for personal preference.

 

Sheesh people, everyone seems to be jumping on the tet wagon recently.

Ah well, the more the merrier...or maybe not.

 

ENG => yahhooo => another super-cool new purchase!! (well played)

Are all of these new babies from your ol' Local Coin Club (The Water-Buffalo Lodge)?

I also have a handful of these TETs from Alexandria:

Gallienus


Julia Mamaea


Carinus



Diocletian (Under Probus)



Tacitus




=> like Bing, I also went and checked all of these TETs for Bronze Disease (happily, although a couple of 'em have some green patches, all of the green patches are hard crusties, rather than flaky active green-goblins!!)

 

Oh are we posting all our tets? Alright then...

Carus:


Diocletian:


Hopefully I'll have another to post soon...

 

Great lookin' coins Vlaha, Steve, Anoob,
No Steve i got these two last coins off Vcoins, but we have our Boeing coin show next weekend. there will be several Ancient tables.
I'd rather be on the band wagon, then being on that dumb no coin wagon..sorry jw, i feel your pain..

 

Still on it, but I'm beginning to look around for a way off.

 

I like the Roman Egyptian Tetradrachms because one can buy a really nice piece of Ancient history relatively cheaply.

I frequently used this site as a reference:

http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/collection.htm


guy

 

The Carus is the posthumous issue. I believe it is the only one available in this series. The other unusual Alexandria tet is the Vahabalathus/Aurelian coin.


Diocletian (Under Probus) What means?

 

Ummm, I think I got lead astray a bit by a slightly inaccurate coin-description (after tracking-down Milne 4632, it must be Probus on the obverse)

=> hey, I'm an engineer (I'm a numbers guy ... readin' n thinkin' ain't exactly my strong suits!!)

 

very nice new tet ENG! i got to admit, they are pretty awesome. nice and chunky, feel nice in hand also. here one i picked up just a couple weeks ago. ..i'm still playing with it.






welcome aboard the tet wagon!