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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4567068, member: 57495&quot;]This weekend, I was able to photography some more old coins that had been previously languishing in my collection without images. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Philip II of Macedonia AE below has a very pretty viridian patina.&nbsp; The head left/horseman left combination is the rarest for this type.&nbsp; There&#039;s currently no consensus as to which mint/s they were struck at, and which were struck during Philip&#039;s lifetime and which posthumously.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130888[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MACEDONIAN KINGDOM, Philip II</b></p><p>AE Unit. 5.0g, 18mm. Uncertain Macedonian mint, circa 359-294 BC. SNG Cop -; HGC 3.1, 885 (R1); SNG ANS 874. O: Male head left, hair bound in tainia. R: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, nude young male rider on horse prancing left; below, lion&#039;s head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two more Greek AEs, with their old tags.&nbsp; No acquisition date is recorded on the Max Kiehn tag, but he seems to have been a German dealer active in Köln between the 1920s and 1930s.&nbsp; Unusually for the BCD tag, there&#039;s also no date of purchase recorded, and I haven&#039;t been able to track down the Munzen und Medaillen sale or auction it came from. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130889[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130890[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>PONTOS, Amisos</b></p><p>AE21. 7.73g, 20mm. PONTOS, Amisos. Struck under Mithradates VI, circa 100-95 BC, or 90-80 BC. HGC 7, 243; SNG Cop 146. O: Head of Dionysos right, wearing mitra and wreathed with ivy. R: AMIΣOY, Thyrsos leaning against cista mystica draped with panther skin; monogram to left and right.</p><p><i>Ex Cardinal Joachim Meisner Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130891[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130892[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>THESSALY, Herakleia Trachinia</b></p><p>AE Chalkous. 2.43g, 14.3mm. THESSALY, Herakleia Trachinia, circa 370-350 BC. HGC 4, 116; Rogers 250-1 var.; Cf. BCD Thessaly II 90.4. O: Lion&#039;s head right, with mouth slightly open and tongue protruding. R: Club to right; HPA above; all within olive wreath with ties to left.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection (with handwritten tag); ex Munzen und Medaillen AG (uncertain auction/sale, lot 0257)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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