Lesbos/ Mytilene EL Hekte ND (377-326BC) Mytilene Mint Apollo Karneios/ Eagle standing/ Head reverted 10.5 mm. 2.57g. .500 3h Bodenstedt Em. 104/ HGC 6-1030 ex: Triton IV 5/12.2000 North River Coll. Byzantine Empire Basil II "Bulgar Slayer & Constantine VIII 976-1015AD AV Histamenon ND (991-1001AD) Constantinople Mint 25mm. 4.44g. .950 6h Please post your CNG pickups last event.
That is a really splendid Mytilene Hekte. Beautifully struck with great dies, but also a very distinctive design. I love all the variety and unique designs in the electrum coinage of Asia Minor. They look best in groups, so it's unfortunate that I have only the one EL Hekte at present: A year or two after I bought this one I discovered it had been published in Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert's new die study, reattributing these from Erythrai to Herakleia-Pontika: I restrained myself in the most recent CNG Auction, and I think I've posted most of my coin winnings from recent e-Auctions. But here are a few books from CNG e-Auctions over the past month or so: The Thurlow & Vecchi book on Aes Grave is signed/inscribed by Vecchi. (Who is Amy / Avery ?) The original of the 3-vol. Weber (originally in 6 parts, 1922-1929) is available online, but I use it often, and find the digital versions a bit cumbersome, and the plates can be poorly reproduced. Also, I like being able to look at the photo of my Hidrieus Tetradrachm (Weber 6604) in a hard copy volume -- and no doubt will feel the same about any others I manage to acquire:
Both are extraordinary coins! Congrats! I won multiple lots that I'll indulge myself attributing. Will post when I receive the package, so I don't jinx the sending
@panzerman "won two coins CNG Auction" Sorry, I can't post anything from recent Auction, but I can congratulate you on winning 2 outstanding coins! Very Good. Thanks for posting
Thanks everyone for nice comments/ my work schelude is down to working only 84 hrs a week/ so I will have more time in the late evening to post more. I have been really busy since starting work April 11th/ only had one day off due to rainout. I still added 72 AV coins since then to my coll. now at 1200+ AV coins + counting John
Glad to see you "taking it easy" for a change, lol. Looking forward to your posts. Glad you've been able to add to an already awesome collection (just from the little that I've seen).
Today the package from CNG finally arrived. It should have arrived last Friday, but was delayed at Hillside, IL for whatever reason, so I was starting to wonder. The first coin, an Agrippina Sestertius I wanted to attribute, was a big surprise, because it was previously owned by @gsimonel who shared it in this thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/agrippina-sestertius-help.371030/ It seems that he has not been around CT since May. Hope he is doing well and just very busy. This is the coin: Æ Sestertius, Rome, 42 – 43 AD posthumous issue struck under Claudius 34 mm, 26.1 g RIC 2 (Claudius) 102; BMC 219; Cohen 3; Sear 5 , 1906 Ob.: (AGRIPPI)NA M F GERMANICI (CAES)ARIS Bust of Agrippina the Elder, bare-headed, draped, right; hair in long plait. Rev.: (TI CLA)VDIVS CAESAR (AVG) GERM P M (TR P IMP), legend surrounding large SC Perhaps there is a countermark at about 3 o’clock or it is just a damage. The coin has certainly damage and is worn, but it is my first Agrippina coin and I'm happy to have it in my collection. Looking at her profile on the obverse I can see the resemblance with Augustus, her grandfather, but I might be hallucinating
