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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 827968, member: 13719&quot;]wanted to share a few additions to my collection, I got from forvm, with you all <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> All were pretty cheep but still great coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1.</p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Greek Unattributed Silver coin Elaea?</font></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font size="2">coin, unattributed, Fair, 0.249g, <b>6.7mm</b></font></span></p><p>Its a tiny lil thing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2">2.</font></p><p><font size="2"><b>England</b><b>, James I, 1603 – 1625</b></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"> Silver halfgroat, Seaby 2659 or 2660, Fair, 0.728g, 17.0mm, 225o, obverse I D G ROSA SINE SPINA, crowned rose; reverse TVEATVR VNITA DEVS, crowned thistle</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">&quot;James was King of Scots as James VI from 1567 and in succeeded Elizabeth I as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1603. He often used the title King of Great Britain. The English colonization of North America began during his reign. In 1607, Jamestown was founded in Virginia, and in 1620 Plymouth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.&quot;</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">3. </font></p><p><font size="2"><b><font face="Verdana">Roman</font></b><b><font face="Verdana">Republic</font></b><b><font face="Verdana"> Silver Denarius</font></b></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Silver denarius, unattributed, Fair, 3.227g, 19.3mm,</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">4. had this for a little bit just havent shared it yet.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemy VI Philometor and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, 170 - 163 B.C.11 views</font><font size="2">Bronze diobol, Svoronos 1426, SNG Cop 311 - 318, Weiser 143, VF, </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Alexandria mint, </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">7.899g, 20.5mm, 0o, </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">170 - 163 B.C.; </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">obverse diademed and horned head of Zeus-Ammon right; </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">reverse PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS, two eagles standing left, side-by-side, on thunderbolt, single cornucopia left</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">&quot;The two eagles may symbolize the joint rule of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII.&quot;</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2">additional info on Ptolemy VI : </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" rel="nofollow"><font size="2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor</font></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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