Your sextans is a superb paperweight and those coin weights are a very interesting piece of history: imagine the merchants they were used by and the transactions with which they came in contact. Very cool!
I must say that I was not aware of these. I learned a lot from your beautifull examples. Thanks so much for showing them John Some of these could have been used as weapons
It graded 5 Strike, 4 Surface, Ch AU. Shown here on TIF's shirt. How would you like to grade this hoard? Do you think there was an internal rating that pulled our the best of the best? I can imagine folks fighting for the MS70+ equivalent of the owl.
Some collectors are willing to pay exorbitant prices for high grade Athenian Tets. The coin pictured below sold at a Heritage auction yesterday for $3,360.00 !. The coin is indeed an attractive example, however, I've seen other Tets that were far more attractive that were struck on a full flan (like your coin) that sold for half that amount . People do crazy things !
@rrdenarius I've always enjoyed your posts of the Cast AE and scale weights. You've obviously had a great year. It was good to meet you at the NYI RR Luncheon.
Cool list RRD! The dig those little recut LRB coins, I want one of those! That half ton bull semis is killer also!