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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4809513, member: 110350&quot;]I find it fascinating how many people have said that their first ancient coin was a drachm or tetradrachm in the name of Alexander III, with the Hercules in lionskin obverse.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s pure coincidence. After all, everyone&#039;s heard of Alexander the Great, and they&#039;re very attractive coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, guess what? As I&#039;ve mentioned a couple of times before, my own very first ancient coin that I bought as an adult was this one, from Harmer Rooke in New York City (which was primarily an antiquities dealer) on Feb. 21, 1986:</p><p><br /></p><p>Macedon, Alexander III (under Philip III Arrhidaeus), AR Drachm, Miletos mint, 323-319 BCE. Obv. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress/ Rev. Zeus seated left on throne, holding long scepter in left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right hand; KH monogram (Price Monogram 476) in left field; in right field, AΛEXANΔPOY. Price 2121, Mueller 847. 16 mm., 4.21 g. <i>Purchased from Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., New York, NY, Feb. 21, 1986.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1167053[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1167054[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I was there to look at antiquities -- which I had already been collecting for five years or so -- but this coin caught my eye, and wasn&#039;t particularly expensive, so I bought it. (I bought other ancient coins on occasion over the years, but 30 years later, I still had a total of less than 10 of them; I didn&#039;t really start focusing on collecting them until about three years ago.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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