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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2862206, member: 72818&quot;]Fabulous posts everyone!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two more of mine in that price range; $407 and $405 respectively:</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver tetradrachm, Prokopov Thasos, group XVIII, 1635 (O FF3 / R 1304); SNG Cop 1040 ff., VF, centered on a tight flan, light toning, light marks, Roman provincial or military mint, weight 16.769g, maximum diameter 30.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 148 - 80 B.C.; obversehead of Dionysos right, wearing taenia and wreathed in flowering ivy; reverse HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ ΘAΣIΩN, Herakles standing half left, nude but for Nemean lion&#039;s skin on left arm, resting right hand on grounded club before him, left hand on hip, MH monogram inner left.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rr-tet-macedonia-jpg.506838/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silver denarius of Elagabulus, RSC III 27, BMCRE V 277 var. (noted), RIC IV 188 (S), Hunter III 113 var. (draped and cuirassed), SRCV II 7510 var. (same), EF, nice Greek style, toned, tight flan, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 3.561g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 0o, 218 - 219 A.D.; obverseANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassedbust right, from behind; reverseFELICITAS TEMP, galley with sail right, containing eight rowers and pilot holding rudder, acrostolium and standard at stern, sail or standard at prow; <b>scarce</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>This galley type was likely issued to announce Elagabalus&#039; travel to Rome from Syria, and the happy times his rule would bring.</b></p><p><b><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/77371q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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