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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2859165, member: 74712&quot;]Just a couple for me - I had been looking for a coin of this type after visiting Somerset the previous year:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]680386[/ATTACH] </p><p>Celtic Britannia</p><p>The Durotriges (58 B.C.-43 A.D.)</p><p>Cranborne Chase Type AR Stater, 19mm x 5.95 grams</p><p>Obv.: Wreath, cloak and crescents</p><p>Rev.: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, twelve pellets above</p><p>Ref.: SCBC 366, SGCV 172</p><p>Ex. Estate of an English Numismatists</p><p><br /></p><p>This one just came in to this bracket.&nbsp; I not only wanted, but needed an example of this coin to use in my class:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]680388[/ATTACH] </p><p>Kingdom of Macedon</p><p>Alexander III (the Great), r. 336-323 B.C. (c. 325-315 B.C.)</p><p>Pella Mint, AR Tetradrachm, 27.72mm x 17.2 grams</p><p>Obv.: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin</p><p>Rev.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre, ΣΙ in left field</p><p>Ref.: SGCV 6718 var.</p><p>Ex. red_spork</p><p><br /></p><p>Surprisingly, this is the only medieval coin I have in this bracket.&nbsp; The flan is terribly ugly, but it is hard to find coins of King Stephen with such a sharp portrait</p><p>[ATTACH=full]680389[/ATTACH] </p><p>England</p><p>Stephen, r. 1135-1154 (c. 1136-45)</p><p>London Mint, AR Watford Type Penny, 19.17mm x 1.1 grams</p><p>Obv.: S[TIEFNE RE]X.&nbsp; Bust right, crowned and diademed, holding sceptre in right hand</p><p>Rev.: ADEL[ARD : ON : LVN].&nbsp; Cross moline with fleur in each angle</p><p>Ref. North 873, SCBC 1278, CC99 ST1D-005, De Wit 3189[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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