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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8350221, member: 118780"]Beautiful coins! I agree with you that Republican coins are more interesting than Imperial. That being said, I have ~60 Imperial coins and 0 Republican. It's a combination of not knowing much about the coinage and being daunted by another collection focus. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my two pickups from the same auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've wanted a coin from the time of Batis of Gaza for some time. This one is off center with the Gaza "m" mostly worn off, but I picked it up for a far lower price.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1481401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This was a bit of an impulse buy. It's a 5th-4th century Egyptian imitation. I picked it up because it's the closest thing I'll ever get to a Nektanebo II attribution. There are a number of iffy points, but IMHO it's close enough for me.</p><p>- Nektanebo reigned from 358-340 BCE, while these were issued ~415-340 BCE.</p><p>- In a <a href="https://www.academia.edu/8847316/Athenian_Imitations_from_Arabia_in_M_Huth_and_P_van_Alfen_Coinage_of_the_Caravan_Kingdoms_Studies_in_the_Monetization_of_Ancient_Arabia_ANS_Numismatic_Studies_25_New_York_2010_pp_227_256?sm=b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/8847316/Athenian_Imitations_from_Arabia_in_M_Huth_and_P_van_Alfen_Coinage_of_the_Caravan_Kingdoms_Studies_in_the_Monetization_of_Ancient_Arabia_ANS_Numismatic_Studies_25_New_York_2010_pp_227_256?sm=b" rel="nofollow">paper </a>I was reading, the author was of the belief that these were issued by warlords along the Nile, on the basis that Nektanebo signed all of this coinage. I'm doubtful of that claim, since the mintage was so vast and skilled that it seems more likely to have been directed by a state.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1481400[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8350221, member: 118780"]Beautiful coins! I agree with you that Republican coins are more interesting than Imperial. That being said, I have ~60 Imperial coins and 0 Republican. It's a combination of not knowing much about the coinage and being daunted by another collection focus. :) Here are my two pickups from the same auction. I've wanted a coin from the time of Batis of Gaza for some time. This one is off center with the Gaza "m" mostly worn off, but I picked it up for a far lower price. [ATTACH=full]1481401[/ATTACH] This was a bit of an impulse buy. It's a 5th-4th century Egyptian imitation. I picked it up because it's the closest thing I'll ever get to a Nektanebo II attribution. There are a number of iffy points, but IMHO it's close enough for me. - Nektanebo reigned from 358-340 BCE, while these were issued ~415-340 BCE. - In a [URL='https://www.academia.edu/8847316/Athenian_Imitations_from_Arabia_in_M_Huth_and_P_van_Alfen_Coinage_of_the_Caravan_Kingdoms_Studies_in_the_Monetization_of_Ancient_Arabia_ANS_Numismatic_Studies_25_New_York_2010_pp_227_256?sm=b']paper [/URL]I was reading, the author was of the belief that these were issued by warlords along the Nile, on the basis that Nektanebo signed all of this coinage. I'm doubtful of that claim, since the mintage was so vast and skilled that it seems more likely to have been directed by a state. [ATTACH=full]1481400[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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