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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1854206, member: 19463&quot;]2nd century already - how time does fly!&nbsp; I&#039;m sure you have seen these before but I am relatively weak in 2nd century so the best ones were more obvious than earlier centuries.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Long after his death, cities copied the issues of Alexander the Great.&nbsp; This one is from Arados and was supposed to be year dated in exergue using a two digit number starting from the 259&nbsp; BC independence of the city.&nbsp; Sear Greek lists two dates of which the last was xi A = 61.&nbsp; My coin&#039;s date is off flan but I was extremely fortunate years ago to see a coin offered for sale that was a die duplicate and clearly dated OE or year 75 = 185 AD.&nbsp; My coin is not the finest specimen of its die but I still like it.&nbsp; It gets better when you notice that my coin is a fourree.&nbsp; The coin that provided the date was being sold as solid but only weighed 11g (less than my fourree) and only had one tiny spot of core exposure.&nbsp; I wrote the auction house and they withdrew the lot.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fair warning:&nbsp; There is a very deceptive fourree out there with OE in exergue and the fine die crack across the reverse.&nbsp; It is a pretty coin but you should not buy it for full, solid silver price.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have never seen a solid OE coin and would love to know if they exist. </p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=12599" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=12599" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=12599</a></p><p>The above is a coin from one year later showing what I consider the same style reverse.&nbsp; It weighs a full 16+ gram solid value.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sincerely believe my coin is a product of the official mint despite the fact that the experts claim all fourrees are fakes.&nbsp; I so wish that I had a photo of that coin that had the OE but I have lost the reference.&nbsp; It is a favorite because of its appearance and also because of the backstory.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have seen a number of this series coins which lack the date, as does mine, due to the centering.&nbsp; It is relatively rare for a dealer to mention this fact in the description. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]310379[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one took so long, I&#039;ll post the other 2nd century choices later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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