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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2461981, member: 42634&quot;]or are they both greek?&nbsp; see below.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i finally picked up an alexander iii coin, took me 5 years!&nbsp; now that&#039;s just embarrassing. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>not a bad looking little bronze, feels nice in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0497_zpsfljs7r0m.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0497_zpsfljs7r0m.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0497_zpsfljs7r0m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"> Macedonian Kings, Alexander III, 336-323 BC </font></p><p>O: Heracles in lion’s skin r. R: AΛEΞΑΝΔΡOY, club; below, bow in case; above, monogram. Byblos mint. 19 mm, 5.9 g. Price 3425. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>byblos is in modern day lebanon, if anyone else didn&#039;t know where that was.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i posted this in the &quot;cuddly snake&quot; thread a bit back, but am going to post it again with my own pictures.&nbsp; it&#039;s a cool type i hadn&#039;t seen before.&nbsp; coins from the area frequently show the nymph and serpent with an amphora, even later roman provincials.&nbsp; not sure whats up with that knife, but it&#039;s cool hu?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0537_zpsky19edtb.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0537_zpsky19edtb.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/100_0537_zpsky19edtb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"> Pisidia, Etenna. 1st century AD. </font></p><p>Obv.: Nymph grappling with snake, amphora in left field. Rev.: E-T, sickle-shaped knife. 19 mm, 3.5 g. Hans von Aulock, Pisidiens, 522</p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;m not sure how to classify this coin.&nbsp; this area was under roman control in the first century right?&nbsp; southwestern turkey?&nbsp; &nbsp; or at least there must have been some client king or something?&nbsp; so anyway, is this a greek coin?&nbsp; an autonomous city coin?&nbsp; or a roman provincial? </p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;m readying sayles book on roman provincial coins, and one way he defines what a provincial coin is is the same way the supreme court defined pornography back in the day...we know it when we see it.&nbsp; this coin just doesn&#039;t look like a roman provincial coin to me.&nbsp; looks pretty greek.&nbsp; any thoughts?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>post any cool greek AE coins you want![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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