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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8138281, member: 91461&quot;]My mania really knows no bounds.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418442[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>OK. Not that crazy. But close. I actually forgot that this package was coming today<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418446[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1418445[/ATTACH]</p><p>LYCIA,TERMESSOS.</p><p>Æs, 1st century BC Chr .; 22mm, 4.22 g. Zeus head right, behind it scepter // winged lightning, round counterstamp: bee. SNG v. Aulock 4455; SNG France 2091; Kosmetikatou, Elizabeth, The Coinage of Lycian Termessos pros Oinoandois, in: Quaderni Ticinesi XXVII (1998), Series I, No. 39. SNG v. Aulock 4455. Brown patina,</p><p>Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p>The place Termessos in Lycia is the colony of the mother city of the same name in Pisidia. Interestingly, the counterstamps was apparently also applied at the minting location of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain (Stagira?). 5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.46 g). Head of boar left / Incuse square. Cf. Tzamalis 45 (slightly later style).</p><p>Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p>A boar forepart is a common type on early silver coinage not only at Stagira, but also at various other cities, such as Kyzikos, and various Lycian dynastic issues. However, the style of the boar here is quite different from all of these, and the fabric of the coin suggests a mint in the Thraco-Macedonian region.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander III ‘the Great’</p><p>336-323 BC. Æ Unit (17 mm, 5.22 g). Uncertain Macedonian mint. Struck circa 334-310 BC. Macedonian shield with thunderbolt on boss / Macedonian helmet; ivy leaf below. Price 407; Liampi, Chronologie, series II, group 1, 55-65; SNG München 894; SNG Alpha Bank 836. NVF. Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>IONIA. Phokaia. Ae (Circa 300 BC).</p><p>Obv: Female head left (Aphrodite?).</p><p>Rev: Head of griffin left.</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 1031; SNG von Aulock 2135.</p><p>NVF, 1.58 g. 11 mm.</p><p>Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander III</p><p>(336-323 BC) - AE17 (Salamis mint, struck under Nikokreon (c. 323-315 BC, 16mm, 3.67 g) - Gorgoneion in center of Macedonian shield ornamented with five double crescents / Crested Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, axe to lower left and K(?) to lower right (cf. Price 3162). VF. Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>Nikokreon</p><p>CYPRUS, Salamis. Circa 331-310 BC. Æ Half Unit (16mm, 4.40 g, 6h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 323-317 BC. Macedonian shield decorated with gorngoneion on the boss / Macedonian helmet; kerykeion to lower left. Zapiti &amp; Michaelidou (Wars of the Successors) 5–7 var. (monogram on rev.); Price 3158. VF, Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]EPLZL4s_jtI[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>I partially blame Savoca&#039;s simply INSANE shipping at a reasonable price!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418486[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Actual picture of Savoca&#039;s FedEx driver)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though, I am so cheap that this is actually two orders. When I don&#039;t have enough to justify the twenty buck expense they accommodate and hold my winnings for me so that I get a sweet batch like this here today display. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else given themselves a surprise treat by forgetting something or things you bought yourself? Anyone recieved any last minute end of year coins? Have any similar coins?? Or anything that brings joy to the hoi polloi!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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