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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2873395, member: 44357&quot;]There&#039;s a lot of &quot;bang for your buck&quot; at this price range, with a wide range of coins falling into it. Here are a few of mine:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687248[/ATTACH] </p><p>~$9K, <i>Aureus 64-65, AV 7.27 g. NERO CAESAR – AVGVSTVS Laureate head r. Rev. IVPPITER – CVSTOS Jupiter seated l. on throne, holding thunderbolt and long sceptre. C 118. BMC 67. RIC 52. CBN 218. Calicó 412. Attractive blue-red toning, from the Boscoreale hoard. Extremely Fine. Ex. Golden Horn Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687243[/ATTACH] </p><p>$6K - Stater circa 350, AR 11.43 g. Horse with loose bridle prancing l.; below, dog l. Rev. EPI K - ALL - IKRA - TEOS around square in which vine with four clusters of grapes; the whole within incuse square. SNG Copenhagen 603</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687239[/ATTACH] </p><p>$5K - Augustus (27 BC-AD 14), with Marcus Agrippa (died 12 BC). Æ dupondius (26mm, 13.56 gm, 12h). NGC MS★ 5/5 - 4/5, adjusted flan. Gaul, Nemausus, AD 10-14. IMP DIVI F P - P, adduced heads of Augustus (right) and Agrippa (left), Augustus laureate, Agrippa wearing rostral crown / COL - NEM, crocodile chained to palm tree, wreath with long ties in left field, two further palm branches below crocodile. RPC 525. RIC 159</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687237[/ATTACH] </p><p>$10K, SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. AV Hemidrachm – 30 Litrai (2.15 g, 9h). Struck circa 344-339/8 BC. Head of Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath; [ZEY]Σ EΛEY[ΘEPIOΣ] around / Pegasos flying left; ΣYP-A-K-OΣIΩN around, AP monogram before, three pellets below. Garraffo pl. 1, 8 (same rev. die); SNG ANS 493 corr. (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1440 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 58, 1 (same dies); Jameson 851 (same dies). EF.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex James Stack, Ex. James A. Ferrendelli Collection (Triton VII, 13 January 2004), lot 96; Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 233.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687253[/ATTACH] </p><p>$6K - <i>Obol (Silver, 0.79 g), c. 410-406 BC. Two eagles standing right on dead hare, the one in front with closed wings and its head thrown back screaming in triumph, the one behind with wings open and head turned down, tearing at its prey with its beak. Rev. Crab with between its claws; below, grouper (polyprium cernium) swimming to right. Basel 263 = SNG Lockett 519 (same dies). Rizzo pl. III, 6 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 829 (same dies).</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]687254[/ATTACH] </i></p><p>~$10K - Kyrenaika, Kyrene AV Stater. Time of Ophellas, Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. Polianthes, magistrate. Nike, driving fast quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; KυρANAIωN above / Zeus Ammon standing left, holding patera and lotus-tipped sceptre; thymiaterion to left, πOλIANθEYσ to right. Naville 84; Mørkholm, Cyrene, p. 151, no. 23; SNG Copenhagen 1210. 8.60g. </p><p><i>Ex Lanz 102 (2001), 346. Ex Lanz 80 (May 1997), 217</i></p><p><i>Ex. Adolph Hess AG &amp; Bank Leu AG (04.07.1960) Lot 271</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]687252[/ATTACH]</i></p><p><i>$6K - <i>Hekte (2,63g). 550 - 500 v. Gr. Nl sitting on a tuna. Rs .: Windmill-shaped divided incusum. H. v. Fritze, Nomisma 58; Boston 1453 (Stater); Stanislawski 92</i></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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