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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8215511, member: 110350&quot;]I dug through some old papers and have to apologize: the Ti. Veturius and Trajan Decius denarii I posted above were, in fact, the first Roman coins I bought; the date was April 12, 1986, at a Manhattan coin show, from an obscure Florida dealer named the Sarr Coin Co.,* together with a George I guinea. But I remembered wrong; they weren&#039;t my first ancient coin purchase overall. That was actually the following, a couple of months earlier, at the store of a then well-known New York City dealer in antiquities, with a lesser concentration in ancient coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>Macedon, Alexander III (under&nbsp; Philip III Arrhidaeus), AR Drachm, Miletos mint, 323-319 BCE. Obv. Head of beardless Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Rev. Zeus seated left on stool-throne, holding long scepter in left hand, with eagle standing right with closed wings on his right hand; KH monogram (Price Monogram 476) in left field; in right field, AΛEXANΔPOY. Price 2121 [Price, M., <i>The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus</i> (London, 1991)]; Pella database at <a href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2121?lang=en;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2121?lang=en;" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2121?lang=en;</a> Müller 847 [Müller, L., <i>Numismatique d&#039;Alexandre le Grand; Appendice les monnaies de Philippe II et III, et Lysimaque</i> (Copenhagen, 1855-58)]. 16 mm., 4.21 g. <i>Purchased from Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., New York City, 21 Feb. 1986.&nbsp; </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441995[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a bit embarrassed to admit that after all these years, I still don&#039;t have an Alexander III tetradrachm. Perhaps because they&#039;re so common, and always available, that I&#039;ve never felt any urgency to buy one.</p><p><br /></p><p>*See the text of their ad in The Numismatist published that month, at <a href="https://archive.org/stream/Numismatist1986April/Numismatist1986April_djvu.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/Numismatist1986April/Numismatist1986April_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/Numismatist1986April/Numismatist1986April_djvu.txt</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>SARR Coin Co.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buying all Ancient European coinage. Send for our</p><p>generic listings of quality coins at dealer prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anha Nebb, ANA R 106981</p><p>P.O. Box 50444</p><p>Lighthouse Pt., FL 33074</p><p>(305) 428-9616[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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