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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8070068, member: 118780"]Hello everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>It's been a great first year of collecting! I cannot thank everyone enough for all the help in answering my questions. In following with UN 0323 1.4G, which requires all members of CoinTalk to post their top 10 list, here's mine in no particular order. I'll probably post a separate one for the bronzes in a few weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>#1 Seleukos tet</p><p>This one had been on my list for some time. I call it my "time machine" because, unlike most other coins, it depicts a scene that could have actually been witnessed back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399662[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Seleukos I Nikator</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.08 g, 8 h)</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Susa, circa 296/5-281.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEΥKOΥ Athena, brandishing spear overhead in her right hand and holding shield in her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above to right, spearhead; before elephants, monogram of MΩ. SC 177.2.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Leu Numismatik</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#2 Mazaios stater</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a "three for the price of one" coin. You get the image of Baal, which influenced Alexander's later famous coinage. You get the lion taking down the bull(?), or in other words "our G-d is better than your G-d" (didn't work out too well for them, though), and you get what may be the earliest image of the city of Jerusalem.[ATTACH=full]1399663[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Tarsos. Mazaios, Satrap. Circa 361-334 BC. AR Stater.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Baaltars seated left, holding sceptre surmounted by an eagle in right hand,</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">left arm at side; grain ear, bunch of grapes to left, monogram under throne</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">/ Lion attacking bull above double row of turreted walls.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">10.11g</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">SNG Levante 113; SNG France 360</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Fenzl</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#3 Lysimachos tet</p><p><br /></p><p>An extremely common but also sought after coin, with Alexander's deified portrait, this one comes from a less common mint in Perinthos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399664[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Lysimachos 287/281 Perinthos. 17.08g </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Kopf des vergöttlichten Alexander / Athena mit Nike-Statuette auf Cippus und Schild, Beiz. Monogramm und 2 gegenläufige Pferdeprotomen. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Thompson in Festschr. Robinson (1968), -, vgl. 256 HGC 1750q; Thompson, Armenak-Hoard (=ANS MN 31, 198 - Müller, Lysimachus - Arnold-Biucchi in Festschr. Price (1998) Unpublished variant(?)</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Dr Busso Peus Nachf</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#4 Demetrios Poliorketes tet</p><p><br /></p><p>I went after this one before I started by "Philip II, Alexander III, and the Era of the Diadochi" collection, since I loved the Poseidon reverse and perhaps the first lifetime portrait on a Greek coin.[ATTACH=full]1399665[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Kings of Macedon. Pella. Demetrios I Poliorketes 306-283 BC.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Tetradrachm AR 30 mm, 17,12 g</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Diademed and horned head of young Demetrios right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, poseidon standing left resting foot on rock, monograms at either side.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Newell 90</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Savoca</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#5 Julius Caesar denarius</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I know...This isn't Greek, but I picked this one up before I focused. You can't beat the history on this classic. Sure, it's a bit rough, but the history is the same. It's still one of the first coins I show off to visitors.[ATTACH=full]1399666[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Julius Caesar AR Denarius. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Military mint travelling with Caesar, 49-48 BC. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Elephant advancing to right, trampling on serpent; CAESAR in exergue / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis (surmounted by wolf's head), and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; BMCRR Gaul 27-30; RSC 49. 3.26g, 20mm, 2h. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#6 Mytilene Hekte</p><p>I wasn't even looking for an electrum, but when I found a coin that referenced <i>both</i> Philip II and Alexander III, I couldn't order it fast enough.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399667[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Mytilene EL Hekte c. 332 BCE</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">10.5mm 2.57g 12h</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Avers : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus à droite (Philippe II de Macédoine).</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Revers : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite coiffée de la léonté dans un carré linéaire (Alexandre III le Grand).</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Bod.103 - B. traité- - Aulock1711 - P.- - BMC.- - Cop.- - HGCS. 5/1029 (R2)</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CGB</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#7 Ptolemy I Soter tet</p><p>I had my eyes on this one for well over a month and would nervously check the site to make sure it wasn't sold while I saved. Of course I couldn't beat the combination of the portrait of Alexander in the elephant headdress, combined with it being minted by his friend Ptolemy I.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399668[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ptolemy I 311-305 BCE</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">27.5 mm 14.6g 1h</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Sv.162 (37 ex) - Cop.29 - GC.7750 var. - BMC.- - MP.6</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Avers : Buste cornu et diadémé d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits de Zeus-Ammon à droite, coiffé de la dépouille d'éléphant avec l'égide.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Revers : Athéna Promachos ou Alkidemos marchant à droite, brandissant une javeline de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un casque corinthien, un monogramme et un aigle sur un foudre tourné à droite.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CBG</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#8 Sabakes tet</p><p>I couldn't believe I won this one, as I'd imagined that when I finally picked up a Sabakes, it would be rough due to their rarity. I'm very proud to have it in my collection.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399669[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">16.61g, 25mm, 9h. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same).</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#9 Philip II tet</p><p>It was this coin that taught me what "crystallized" meant, but even though that may shy some away from coins, I find it makes this one a stunner to look at. For obvious reasons, this was one of my first big targets.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399670[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II AR Tetradrachm. </font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Pella mint, ca 354-349 BC.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">22-24 mm., 13.68g.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Laureate head of Zeus right / ΦIΛΛIΠOY, Philip II, diademed & in kausia, on horseback left, raising right hand</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex N&N Collection</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>#10 Balakros stater</p><p>This is my newest pick up, and I've long considered it the "quintessential Persian coin." I just love the portrait, and I'm glad to find an affordable copy that has a well-preserved one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399671[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Cilicia, Tarsos AR Stater.</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">Balakros, satrap of Cilicia under Alexander III.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Circa 333-323 BC.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Facing bust of Athena, draped, wearing triple-crested helmet and necklace / Baaltars seated to left, holding lotus-tipped sceptre; grain ear and grape bunch to left, B above ivy leaf to right, T below throne.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">SNG Levante Suppl. 21; SNG BnF 368; SNG von Aulock 5964.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">10.79g, 26mm, 6h.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8070068, member: 118780"]Hello everyone! It's been a great first year of collecting! I cannot thank everyone enough for all the help in answering my questions. In following with UN 0323 1.4G, which requires all members of CoinTalk to post their top 10 list, here's mine in no particular order. I'll probably post a separate one for the bronzes in a few weeks. #1 Seleukos tet This one had been on my list for some time. I call it my "time machine" because, unlike most other coins, it depicts a scene that could have actually been witnessed back then. [ATTACH=full]1399662[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Seleukos I Nikator[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.08 g, 8 h) Susa, circa 296/5-281. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEΥKOΥ Athena, brandishing spear overhead in her right hand and holding shield in her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above to right, spearhead; before elephants, monogram of MΩ. SC 177.2. Ex Leu Numismatik[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT] #2 Mazaios stater This is a "three for the price of one" coin. You get the image of Baal, which influenced Alexander's later famous coinage. You get the lion taking down the bull(?), or in other words "our G-d is better than your G-d" (didn't work out too well for them, though), and you get what may be the earliest image of the city of Jerusalem.[ATTACH=full]1399663[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Tarsos. Mazaios, Satrap. Circa 361-334 BC. AR Stater. Baaltars seated left, holding sceptre surmounted by an eagle in right hand, left arm at side; grain ear, bunch of grapes to left, monogram under throne / Lion attacking bull above double row of turreted walls. 10.11g SNG Levante 113; SNG France 360 Ex Fenzl[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #3 Lysimachos tet An extremely common but also sought after coin, with Alexander's deified portrait, this one comes from a less common mint in Perinthos. [ATTACH=full]1399664[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Lysimachos 287/281 Perinthos. 17.08g Kopf des vergöttlichten Alexander / Athena mit Nike-Statuette auf Cippus und Schild, Beiz. Monogramm und 2 gegenläufige Pferdeprotomen. Thompson in Festschr. Robinson (1968), -, vgl. 256 HGC 1750q; Thompson, Armenak-Hoard (=ANS MN 31, 198 - Müller, Lysimachus - Arnold-Biucchi in Festschr. Price (1998) Unpublished variant(?) Ex Dr Busso Peus Nachf[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #4 Demetrios Poliorketes tet I went after this one before I started by "Philip II, Alexander III, and the Era of the Diadochi" collection, since I loved the Poseidon reverse and perhaps the first lifetime portrait on a Greek coin.[ATTACH=full]1399665[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Kings of Macedon. Pella. Demetrios I Poliorketes 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm AR 30 mm, 17,12 g Diademed and horned head of young Demetrios right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, poseidon standing left resting foot on rock, monograms at either side. Newell 90 Ex Savoca[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #5 Julius Caesar denarius Yeah, I know...This isn't Greek, but I picked this one up before I focused. You can't beat the history on this classic. Sure, it's a bit rough, but the history is the same. It's still one of the first coins I show off to visitors.[ATTACH=full]1399666[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Julius Caesar AR Denarius. Military mint travelling with Caesar, 49-48 BC. Elephant advancing to right, trampling on serpent; CAESAR in exergue / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis (surmounted by wolf's head), and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; BMCRR Gaul 27-30; RSC 49. 3.26g, 20mm, 2h. Ex Roma[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #6 Mytilene Hekte I wasn't even looking for an electrum, but when I found a coin that referenced [I]both[/I] Philip II and Alexander III, I couldn't order it fast enough. [ATTACH=full]1399667[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Mytilene EL Hekte c. 332 BCE 10.5mm 2.57g 12h Avers : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus à droite (Philippe II de Macédoine). Revers : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite coiffée de la léonté dans un carré linéaire (Alexandre III le Grand). Bod.103 - B. traité- - Aulock1711 - P.- - BMC.- - Cop.- - HGCS. 5/1029 (R2) Ex CGB[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #7 Ptolemy I Soter tet I had my eyes on this one for well over a month and would nervously check the site to make sure it wasn't sold while I saved. Of course I couldn't beat the combination of the portrait of Alexander in the elephant headdress, combined with it being minted by his friend Ptolemy I. [ATTACH=full]1399668[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Ptolemy I 311-305 BCE 27.5 mm 14.6g 1h Sv.162 (37 ex) - Cop.29 - GC.7750 var. - BMC.- - MP.6 Avers : Buste cornu et diadémé d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits de Zeus-Ammon à droite, coiffé de la dépouille d'éléphant avec l'égide. Revers : Athéna Promachos ou Alkidemos marchant à droite, brandissant une javeline de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un casque corinthien, un monogramme et un aigle sur un foudre tourné à droite. Ex CBG[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #8 Sabakes tet I couldn't believe I won this one, as I'd imagined that when I finally picked up a Sabakes, it would be rough due to their rarity. I'm very proud to have it in my collection. [ATTACH=full]1399669[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC. 16.61g, 25mm, 9h. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right. Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same). Ex Roma[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #9 Philip II tet It was this coin that taught me what "crystallized" meant, but even though that may shy some away from coins, I find it makes this one a stunner to look at. For obvious reasons, this was one of my first big targets. [ATTACH=full]1399670[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II AR Tetradrachm. Pella mint, ca 354-349 BC. 22-24 mm., 13.68g. Laureate head of Zeus right / ΦIΛΛIΠOY, Philip II, diademed & in kausia, on horseback left, raising right hand Ex N&N Collection[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] #10 Balakros stater This is my newest pick up, and I've long considered it the "quintessential Persian coin." I just love the portrait, and I'm glad to find an affordable copy that has a well-preserved one. [ATTACH=full]1399671[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Cilicia, Tarsos AR Stater.[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]Balakros, satrap of Cilicia under Alexander III. Circa 333-323 BC. Facing bust of Athena, draped, wearing triple-crested helmet and necklace / Baaltars seated to left, holding lotus-tipped sceptre; grain ear and grape bunch to left, B above ivy leaf to right, T below throne. SNG Levante Suppl. 21; SNG BnF 368; SNG von Aulock 5964. 10.79g, 26mm, 6h. Ex Roma[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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