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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24818721, member: 26430&quot;]Lovely little coin! Noble Numismatics is one of my favorite secret weapons -- but now you&#039;ve let the cat out of the bag... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gotten some nice Greek &amp; Roman Provincials from them in recent years, they tend to have just what I&#039;m looking for, but often without the crowd who usually outbid me for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having already spent a lot at other recent auctions, though, I skipped the present sale, though there were several I wanted (including yours!).</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my all-time favorite coins came from Noble Numismatics (for a long time before these became common, due to a recent hoard, this was one of the only known specimens, and certainly the best-known; now it is special mainly for its place in 19th-20th cent. numismatic history):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Satraps of Caria, Hidrieus AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.74g, 12h). Halikarnassos, c. 351-344 BCE. </b>Apollo / Zeus holding labrys &amp; spear.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1588784[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><i>[<a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=178448" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=178448" rel="nofollow">Photo by CNG, 2011</a>]</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">This coin = Whittall Collection (Sotheby&#039;s, 1884, Lot 1113) = Sir Hermann Weber 6604 = Clarence S. Bement (Naville VII, 1924, Lot 1520) = SNG Lockett 2909 (Glendining part XII, 1961, 2384) = SNG von Aulock 8046, and some others.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One nice thing: the coins from Noble almost always look better than their photos! That&#039;s not their photo above. Theirs below (I was nicely surprised):</p><p>[ATTACH]1588785[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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