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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zadie, post: 8211111, member: 114699&quot;]I started collecting ancient coins in 2019. I had just finished reading Arrian&#039;s history of Alexander after a coworker recommended it to me. I was hooked instantly. Learning about his successors, I came to read about the Indo-Greeks and their coins. Absolutely flabergasted that greek kingdoms thrived that far east, I started looking at the coin they issued and was equally flabergasted that anyone could buy and own them. I started furiously looking for one to buy and after scouring eBay and MA-Shops I settled on this drachm of Menander I and haven&#039;t looked back since.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440602[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">Indo-Greek Kingdom. Menander I (155-130 BC). Diademed head of Menander right, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗPΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ / Athena advanding left, thunderbolt in hand, Maharajasa tratasara Menamdrasa in Kharosthi.</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">19 mm, 2.46 g. Bopearachchi-Series 13, 85Q.</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>My collecting habits have evolved tremendously since being thrust into this wonderful hobby. As I&#039;m currently writing this, my main focus lies with Roman coins, particularly provincial issues of the republican era. My latest purchase was heavily inspired by [USER=114961]@FrizzyAntoine[/USER]&#039;s write-up on the issue of P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus of 50 BC (See: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/marcus-claudius-marcellus-a-legend-in-his-own-time-and-a-man-of-mythical-stature-in-ours.386916/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/marcus-claudius-marcellus-a-legend-in-his-own-time-and-a-man-of-mythical-stature-in-ours.386916/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/marcus-claudius-marcellus-a-legend-in-his-own-time-and-a-man-of-mythical-stature-in-ours.386916/</a>). </p><p>Depicting his noble ancestor M. Claudius Marcellus on the obverse, this type celebrates the only historically attested spolia opima of a roman military leader, an honor even more coveted than a triumph.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440610[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="3"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus. 50 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g, 5h). Rome mint. Bare head of M. Claudius Marcellus right; triskeles to left / M. Claudius Marcellus advancing right, carrying trophy into tetrastyle temple. Crawford 439/1; Sydenham 1147; Campana, Denario 86 (O8/R11 – this coin); Claudia 11; RBW 1554. Toned, three punch marks behind head, some light scratches under tone. VF.</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="3">From the Charles Chamberlain Collection. Ex Harry Strickhausen Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 1312; Dr. John A. Sawhill Collection/James Madison University Foundation (Stack’s, 15 March 1979), lot 539.</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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