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Message:: [QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3178671, member: 74834"]Tell me if I'm wrong, but both OP coins are of the early Mithradates II type, Sellwood 24. I must say both are very attractive and way above what I would be able to acquire, compliments! (Maybe if I weren't buying dozens of Roman Provincials).The obverses are just about as likeable, but the reverse of the tetradrachm has more realistic detail. I know what I would want... I'm not going to show my own pitiful Miths here in this fine thread. Or maybe just to show what's hanging at the low end. [ATTACH=full]818634[/ATTACH] This is a later type of Mithradates II, Sellwood 29.2. 18 mm, 4.04 gr. It's dear to me because it's one of the few coins left from my boyhood collection, I bought it in 1972. And here are two bronzes. These are not nearly as beautiful as the silver coins. Why do I want them? They were nowhere in 1972, no archer on the reverse, always a little different from others. The larger one, light brown, with the horsehead reverse: 17 mm, 3.44 gr, is Sellwood 27.10. The darker and smaller one, 15 mm, 2.35 gr., could be Sellwood 27.11, with Nike walking right on the reverse, surrounded by five lines of Greekish text. On the obverse, no marks or monograms around the bust of Mithradates II. [ATTACH=full]818656[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]818658[/ATTACH] Mistake in the Sellwood numbers of the bronzes corrected: they are not 29 (with the tiara), but 27. [/QUOTE]