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<p>[QUOTE="guaranaguru, post: 4032503, member: 110298"]Hello forum,</p><p>first post here and a coin collector greenhorn as well, so please be gentle ;-)</p><p>After looking through some thousand coin photographs and descriptions over the last weeks, I decided to go for ancient greeks. Made a modest start with two affordable bronze coins, since I was adviced not to start with decadrachms. Well, the third coin was a step into loftier heights, my first AR and although even smaller a bit more costly. When I stumbled upon it, freshly uploaded in the shop of a renowned dealer, I was (after some research) nearly sure that it wasn´t proper described, because it was labeled Numidia. I could find only a few similar coins of the type, the best one here at a <a href="https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/de/single/l26713826" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/de/single/l26713826" rel="nofollow">Triton Auction</a>, three other <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5958674" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5958674" rel="nofollow">here</a>. And one or two with far weaker conditon.</p><p>My coin hasn´t such a nice and nearly full legend as the one from Triton, but has a slightly different portrait, which I couldn´t find at all online. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1059468[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="1">(by the way: a big thank to Doug Smith for giving great photography advice on his website)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>According to Müller (Numismatique de l’ancienne Afrique) and with some imagination regarding the incomplete legend, it could be Müller 172, since the last half visible letter on the reverse doesn´t look like X or V, more like a single I, without another one next to it. In that case the legend could have been RAVI (maybe too far stretched?)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1059469[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately - as a beginner - I do not yet own Mazard nor Alexandropoulos, to have a closer look on these. Not to mention SNG Copenhagen.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be very happy about some more information about this coin, which seems quite rare. Any Mauretanian kings around? Photos of your coins highly appreciated...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="guaranaguru, post: 4032503, member: 110298"]Hello forum, first post here and a coin collector greenhorn as well, so please be gentle ;-) After looking through some thousand coin photographs and descriptions over the last weeks, I decided to go for ancient greeks. Made a modest start with two affordable bronze coins, since I was adviced not to start with decadrachms. Well, the third coin was a step into loftier heights, my first AR and although even smaller a bit more costly. When I stumbled upon it, freshly uploaded in the shop of a renowned dealer, I was (after some research) nearly sure that it wasn´t proper described, because it was labeled Numidia. I could find only a few similar coins of the type, the best one here at a [URL='https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/de/single/l26713826']Triton Auction[/URL], three other [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312']here[/URL], [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1751312']here[/URL] and [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5958674']here[/URL]. And one or two with far weaker conditon. My coin hasn´t such a nice and nearly full legend as the one from Triton, but has a slightly different portrait, which I couldn´t find at all online. [ATTACH=full]1059468[/ATTACH] [SIZE=1](by the way: a big thank to Doug Smith for giving great photography advice on his website)[/SIZE] According to Müller (Numismatique de l’ancienne Afrique) and with some imagination regarding the incomplete legend, it could be Müller 172, since the last half visible letter on the reverse doesn´t look like X or V, more like a single I, without another one next to it. In that case the legend could have been RAVI (maybe too far stretched?) [ATTACH]1059469[/ATTACH] Unfortunately - as a beginner - I do not yet own Mazard nor Alexandropoulos, to have a closer look on these. Not to mention SNG Copenhagen. I would be very happy about some more information about this coin, which seems quite rare. Any Mauretanian kings around? Photos of your coins highly appreciated...[/QUOTE]
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