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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3101875, member: 56859&quot;]Big <b>big</b> thanks to [USER=79017]@Andres2[/USER] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785106[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pick your jaws up off the floor... they&#039;re replicas <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; <b>Wonderful</b> replicas with a story.</p><p><br /></p><p>A <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-did-you-become-a-collector-of-ancient-coins.283277/#post-2508236" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-did-you-become-a-collector-of-ancient-coins.283277/#post-2508236">couple of years ago Andres told us</a> how a gasoline company fueled his interest in ancient coins.&nbsp; In 1969, when he was a young teen, British Petroleum was giving away tokens (with fill ups, I suspect?) and that year the theme was ancient Greek and Roman coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Over the years he accumulated more of these marvelous tokens and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fun-surprise-package-from-the-netherlands-today-thanks-andres.312240/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fun-surprise-package-from-the-netherlands-today-thanks-andres.312240/">last year he generously gave a set to Lord Marcovan</a>.&nbsp; I admired the display and Andres very generously offered to send one!&nbsp; <i>Yes please</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, no good deed goes unpunished and the set he mailed in early March never arrived <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; We were both sad about that.&nbsp; Incredibly, he mailed another!&nbsp; We both watched it tracking across Europe, the US, Puerto Rico, and finally finally to me today.&nbsp; I&#039;ve only rarely had any packages go missing and still hold out hope that the first one will someday show up.&nbsp; If so, I&#039;ll pass it on to another CoinTalk member.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the set in its display, which I will frame and give a place of honor:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785110[/ATTACH]</p><p>The coins these tokens represent, top to bottom and left to right:&nbsp; Croesus AV stater; Neapolis AR stater; Athens owl tetradrachm; Syracuse Demareteion tetradrachm; Syracuse decadrachm (they didn&#039;t get the relative size right on this one); Philip II of Macedon AV stater; Ptolemy I Soter tetradrachm; Carthaginian 5-shekel; Carthaginian di- or tri-shekel (reverse says tetradrachm; not the correct lingo); Roman Republic As.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad to see they chose the reverses of several of these coins instead of the obverses.&nbsp; More often than not I find the reverses more interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the tokens are actually fairly realistic.&nbsp; I wonder if any of them were cast from real coins?&nbsp; Obviously some definitely weren&#039;t.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t a chance of owning many of the coins shown here but I do have one and a few others are not unrealistic future targets.&nbsp; The Athens tet, for example.&nbsp; I just haven&#039;t gotten around to picking one out.&nbsp; The Syracuse dekadrachm, the Carthage 5 shekel... well, I&#039;ll just have to depend on other members for vicarious thrills.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tokens are uniface, with a brief description and company name on the reverse.&nbsp; Here are both sides of the Croesus AV stater:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785111[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Big</b> thanks once again to Andres.&nbsp; This gift really made my day/week/month and I&#039;ve really needed something happy and positive lately <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Some of you have the authentic counterparts of coins in this display.&nbsp; Please show them to us <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><br /></p><p>...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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