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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 3091524, member: 76965&quot;]At the risk of sounding like a little boy who&#039;s just had his first taste of ice cream, today I received the first lot of some Kingdom of Macedonia Tets I had purchased and posted here a while ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are they stunning coins or is it just me??!!! The portraits jump out of the coins with a visual impact I&#039;d not experienced before. Each ruler seems to want to outdo the other in style and quality. Even the tiny EL Hecte has so much detail and such a lot of effort put into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The denarii pale into insignificance in comparison. But what surprised and shocked me is how and why did the quality of coins decline so rapidly when the Romans were the conquerors!!! And not to mention the coins of the Byzantine era.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mainly collect moderns and was not too impressed with the ancients I had held in hand until now.....All I can say is WOW what phenomenal craftsmanship.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is just one example...Ionia Miletus (Miletos) Alexander III</p><p>Fine Style (The photo doesn&#039;t do the actual item justice)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780194[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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