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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2948195, member: 82549&quot;]I received the coins from my surprising auction win (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/surprising-vauction-win.307472/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/surprising-vauction-win.307472/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/surprising-vauction-win.307472/</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mostly what I&#039;d expected: mostly low-to-medium grade LRBs, but with some nice coins, too. Certainly not worth what I ended up bidding, but that&#039;s my own fault for trying to increase my original bid and work and being careless.</p><p><br /></p><p>One kinda neat surprise, though, is a bronze AE19 (5.2g) of Philip II, I think:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719573[/ATTACH]</p><p>It looks like a bust of Herakles surrounded by a (just barely visible) border of dots on the obverse. The reverse is the typical horse and rider with Philip-poy above. I&#039;ve never seen this combination before. A lot of Philip III bronzes have Herakles on the obverse, but they don&#039;t have the reverse inscription. Instead, they usually have something like PI - BA. I&#039;ve been scouring the internet and found two other examples, both much smaller than mine:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3482610" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3482610" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3482610</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1905310" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1905310" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1905310</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone ever seen one of these before? Any idea where they were minted?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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