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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 8115167, member: 96898&quot;]Thank you a lot for the compliments, everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal top three would have been (in this order) #1, #3, and #10, with #6 following closely. It&#039;s interesting to see that this almost matches your votes, with the bracteate taking a good fourth place.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please be careful - bracteates can be quite addictive! (Speaking from experience... ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That was my thinking, too. I honestly don&#039;t understand why the auction house decided to put this coin as well as the Corinth and Croton staters in my list in a mixed lot. My guess is that someone wanted to sell an estate collection quickly and didn&#039;t have the patience to let the auction house do proper listings and pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate the point, here is the whole lot. The Persian siglos on the left has found a new home with [USER=41219]@furryfrog02[/USER]:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412223[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I very much like the mythologically fascinating coins from Kaulonia. Nice!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks a lot. Yes, that definitely was a good and important step, though renovating it also is a lot of work. (I spent most of my weekend replacing a rotten ceiling beam...)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a great example. At some point, I might start a subcollection of Welf coinage. There are many interesting types.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I grew up in Schleswig-Holstein but have some family in Wolfenbüttel, so I know the area a little bit. It&#039;s a nice place!</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the dating of the bracteates, I have asked myself the same question. Berger&#039;s catalogue of bracteates in the Kestner museum lists different hoard finds for most Welf types from Brunswick, which I assume have allowed to date them with relative precision.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lovely coins!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a very nice stater. My only coin from Korkyra is much less spectacular:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412246[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Korkyra, Korkyra, AR hemidrachm, ca. 450–400 BC. Obv: amphora; above, crescent. Rev: eight-rayed star; crescent in field. 14mm, 2.46g. Ref: BMC 76; SNG Evelpidis 1876. </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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