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<p>[QUOTE="akeady, post: 2864856, member: 83175"]OK - here are some.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was, maybe still is, my favourite coin - £500 from Spink in 2007 - Syracuse tetradrachm, Tudeer 82/SNG ANS 290:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SyracuseTet.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I went through a Celtic phases - this is a Gallic War stater that was £510 in 2013 from Chris Rudd:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_GallicWarStater.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A Balbinus from 2014 from CGB to fill a slot in the impossible "All the emperors" collection:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_BalbinusAntRIC12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mostly, I collect Roman Republican - this is a Sulla's Dream fourrée denarius which turned out to have a provenance back to 1913 (Roma, 2015):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SullasDreamDenari.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a Pompey denarius from Naumann in 2016:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SextusPompeyDenar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, back to Syracuse - tetradrachm from 2016 (SNG ANS 664). A really nice one would be well outside my means, but this isn't too bad:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SyracuseTetradrac_3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="akeady, post: 2864856, member: 83175"]OK - here are some. This was, maybe still is, my favourite coin - £500 from Spink in 2007 - Syracuse tetradrachm, Tudeer 82/SNG ANS 290: [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SyracuseTet.jpg[/IMG] I went through a Celtic phases - this is a Gallic War stater that was £510 in 2013 from Chris Rudd: [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_GallicWarStater.jpg[/IMG] A Balbinus from 2014 from CGB to fill a slot in the impossible "All the emperors" collection: [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_BalbinusAntRIC12.jpg[/IMG] Mostly, I collect Roman Republican - this is a Sulla's Dream fourrée denarius which turned out to have a provenance back to 1913 (Roma, 2015): [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SullasDreamDenari.jpg[/IMG] And a Pompey denarius from Naumann in 2016: [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SextusPompeyDenar.jpg[/IMG] And finally, back to Syracuse - tetradrachm from 2016 (SNG ANS 664). A really nice one would be well outside my means, but this isn't too bad: [IMG]http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SyracuseTetradrac_3.jpg[/IMG] ATB, Aidan.[/QUOTE]
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