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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iamtiberius, post: 2871692, member: 37707&quot;]All purchased in the last 5 years. Chronologically:</p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/akragas-tetradrachm-jpg.550977/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b>Akragas, Sicily. </b>Circa 465/4-446 BC. Tetradrachm ΑΚRΑC - ΑΝΤΟΣ, Eagle standing left with closed wings / Crab within a shallow circular incuse. 28mm 17.15g</p><p><b>Cost: $810</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686455[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ATTICA, Athens. </b>Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.87 g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; AθE in right field; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597.</p><p><b>Cost: $725</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cilicia-soloi-stater-80-jpg.649975/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><b>CILICIA. Soloi. Circa 440-410 BC. Stater. </b></b>Amazon, nude to the waist, kneeling left and stringing her bow; wearing bonnet and with her gorytos at her hip; to right, facing head of satyr. <i>Rev.</i> ΣΟΛΕΩΝ Bunch of grapes; to right, fly; all within incuse square. Casabonne Type 2. SNG Levante 40. SNG Paris 12810.71g 22.1mm</p><p><b>Cost: $845</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nagidos-stater-png.686130/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></b></p><p><b><b>CILICIA. Nagidus. Ca. 400-350 BC. AR stater (10.66 gm). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5</b></b>. Aphrodite, wearing turreted crown, seated left, holding phiale in right hand over garlanded altar, Cupid standing behind her holding wreath / Dionysus standing left, holding grape bunch, vine sprig and thyrsus, Z before feet, NAΓIΔEΩ. BMC Cilicia 12.</p><p><b>Cost: $870</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/seleucus-tet-png.685675/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><b>SELEUCID KINGDOM. Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 17.12 gm, 9h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5.</b> </b>Seleuceia on the Tigris, ca. 300-281 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress / ΣEΛEYKOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; monograms in left field and below throne. SC 117.1c. HGC 9, 12i.</p><p><b>Cost: $720</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686456[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. <i>Eukratides I Megas. </i></b>Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.91 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull&#039;s horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horses rearing right, holding palm fronds and lances; monogram to lower right. Bopearachchi 6T; SNG ANS 468; HGC 12, 131. Good VF, toned, traces of deposits and small die break on reverse at right edge of coin, a few light hairlines.</p><p><i>From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection.</i></p><p><b>Cost: $900</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>I Think that&#039;s all of them. I have found myself venturing into this price range more over the last year. It&#039;s been quality over quantity, lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>-Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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