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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 4654580, member: 75525&quot;]How often do you buy two coins because they make a good pair in your collection. I bid on these, in different auctions, because they had similar heads. I think they look interesting side by side. Do you have two coins that are not the same issue, but go together?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1149107[/ATTACH] </p><p>The coin - Aspendos In Name and types of Alexander III the Great of Macedon</p><p>Dated Civic Year 19; circa 193-192 BC</p><p>Obv - Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress</p><p>Rev - Zeus seated left on low throne, right leg drawn back, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, to right - ΑΛΕΞΑ[ΝΔΡΟΥ]; AΣ IΘ in left field; c/m: radiate bust of facing Helios.</p><p>15.77 grams</p><p>29 mm</p><p>Coin - nearly very fine</p><p>Countermark - VF</p><p>Price 2898.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1149108[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1149109[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1149110[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The weight -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1149111[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One ounce bronze commercial barrel weight. </p><p>There are several features on this weight. All are incuse: male head in rectangular frame, A T, star, cross and two dots. </p><p>Produced in Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Greece.... ? I do not know and the seller did not offer a guess.</p><p>Date - I guess 300 - 600 AD. </p><p>27.27 grams</p><p>I have not seen similar features on a weight. The head could be Apollo. The goddess Athena / Minerva was used on weights about that time. I could not see the head without a loop. The best picture was taken with a Celestron microscope. The light had to be just right to see all of the features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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