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i cant say for sure but i think savoca ones are pvc free. i've stored coins in them for months (moved them to tray afterwards) and they were fine. plastic flips from auction houses are generally not safe for long term storage. for silver coins, storing them in pvc free flips should be fine. if you buy a coin tray make sure it is mahogany, a lot of other woods give off gasses that will tone silver coins

I handle my coins after washing hands and drying, nothing too special. Im a bit more careful with gold b/c its a bit softer, but its not a big deal. Storage I mainly use velvet trays because it looks nice and it's easy to access the coins. I don't have a huge collection so I'm able to store most of my nicer coins in trays. I really like zecchi's trays, good quality and made of mahogany and velvet. i wouldnt recommend felt trays for nicer coins, theyre a little bit more abrasive than velvet

i think that might have been an issue with vcoins emails not sending, i've been able to make offers to him and he's replied in a reasonable time frame

I get really sad when I see another bactrian tetradrachm get bought by a coin dealer at an auction and see it end up on vcoins marked up over 2x the hammer price instead of going to an actual collector. These resellers often just copy paste the auction description and auction picture. There are definitely some fairly priced retail dealers, but I fail to see the benefit some of these dealers provide to collectors, especially when they don't even write their own descriptions. I've posted this one before, but this is a pretty egregious markup. hammer price at heritage was ~1k including fees a couple months ago, and this ends up marked up over 2x. I feel bad for the buyer, 2.5k can get a much nicer demetrius tetradrachm than this.

That's pretty weird, i'd have assumed it would be cheaper to ship to germany from netherlands. My invoice came and shipping to the US is the same rate you have

exactly my thought too, was hoping for some nice bactrians since leu didnt have much either. was a bit disappointed, hoped for similar selection as the last roma auction

Antiochos III Megas and Euthydemos I Tetradrachms make a nice pair. Antiochos III tried to retake the wayward province of Baktria from Euthydemos after the Diodotids declared independence from the Seleukids. Euthydemos's justification for holding onto the Greco-Baktrian kingdom was that he killed the rebel Diodotos II, so he was not actually a rebel of the Seleukid Empire. Euthydemos lost the Battle of the Arius, retreating to the city of Baktra. Antiochos III besieged Baktra for 3 years, but eventually signed a peace treaty with Euthydemos. In exchange for war elephants, Antiochos betrothed his daughter to Euthydemos's son, Demetrios I Aniketos, known for his cool elephant hat and his campaigns in India. Antiochos III Megas. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28 mm, 17.06 g, 12h). Soli mint. Struck circa 197 BC. Diademed head right (Type Cii) / Apollo, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to outer left, ΣA monogram above head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; ΣE monogram to outer right. SC 1019.2a; Houghton, Royal, Group C, 17–8 (A3/P5); HGC 9, 20; SNG Spaer 654 (same dies) Euthydemos I, circa 225-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26 mm, 16.55 g, 12 h), mint B (Baktra?). Diademed head of Euthydemos I to right. Rev. BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ - EYΘYΔHMOY Herakles seated left on rock, placing his right hand on club set his right leg and leaning left on rocky seat; behind, monogram of PK. Bopearachchi 9A. HGC 12, 42.

That's a shame, been wanting to get pedigree issues of Agathokles, but I'll definitely exercise much more caution. I think I can detect bad fakes, but not super confident in detecting all of them. is the best way to get better to look at more coins and check out forgerynetwork?

Update: roma got back to me and withdrew the lot while they research it further Saw Roma just posted their new sale and they have this odd Agathokles tetradrachm, listed as a contemporary imitation. Seems like there's a forumancientcoins thread about it being fake. Euthydemos and Basileuontos are spelled wrong on the coin lol. This is the previous unsold listing https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=4319&lot=1001. I can't say I'm an expert on detecting fakes, but the coin looks off to me. Wondering if others could give their opinions https://www.romanumismatics.com/271-lot-464-greco-baktrian-kingdom-agathokles-dikaios-ar-imitation-tetradrachm?arr=0&auction_id=172&box_filter=0&cat_id=&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=7500&image_filter=0&keyword=baktria&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=5&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year=

Athens owl tetradrachms are kinda meh to me. I don't think they look particularly nice, and for how common they are they are damn expensive. I prefer new style owl tetradrachms over the old style. I'd be happy if i suddenly owned one, but I wouldn't pay for one. The only cool thing to me is the history behind them, but it's not enough for me to justify buying one. I'd rather buy a hellenistic tetradrachm for the same price. Not my coin but I prefer the more realistic portrait of Athena

My only obol: Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Antimachos I Theos AR Obol. Circa 180-170 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right, wearing kausia / Poseidon standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; BAΣIΛEΩΣ Θ[EOY] to outer right, ANTIMAXOY to outer left, monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi 4B; Mitchiner 127c; SNG ANS 283-8; HGC 12, 111. 0.55g, 12mm, 1h. From the Professor Shir Mohammad Collection.

just curious, where did u find that study? would like to read more about it

Thanks for searching, makes a ton of sense. Turns out the 2nd coin in that list is one of my tetradrachms too! Not sure how they measured it to be 33 mm, it's slightly smaller than the 31 mm antimachos tetradrachm i have

Recently my Leu wins finally shipped and after looking at my tetradrachms in hand, I think I have two Antimachos Tetradrachms with obverse die matches. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it, so I added a gif of the two coins overlaid on top of each other, and a side by side comparison. I've noticed the clumps of hair have the same shape and number. I compared them to different tetradrachms of Antimachos, and the hair clumps are different. The tip of the kausia touches the dotted border in both coins. I also think the ear, brow shape, forehead wrinkles, nose, and mouth look the same. I did not plan on winning both of these coins, since they both have the same monogram, but it would be pretty neat if they were indeed a die match. Are die matches rare to find? I've compared about 10 other tetradrachms with these and they all have slightly different dies. Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Antimachos I Theos. 174-165 BCE. AR Tetradrachm, 31 mm, 16.68 g. Diademed and draped bust of Antimachos I to right, wearing flat topped kausia / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΜΑΧΟΥ Poseidon, nude to the waist, standing facing, holding long trident in his right hand and filleted palm branch in his left; to lower right, monogram Bopearachchi 1D

I got images in my excel spreadsheet but it was a pain in the ass. You have to right click the cell, Insert comment, then right click the comment box and click Format comment. Then go to Color and lines, select the dropdown box under colors, and click fill effects. Then select the picture tab and upload the picture you want. After that you'd need to resize the comment box to fit the picture. After that, you can hover over the cell to show the picture. there really should be an easier way to do this

I acquired this Artuqid bronze in December and it came in the mail recently. The head on the Artuqid dirham was copied from tetradrachms of Antiochos VII, who ruled almost 1300 years prior to Husam al-Din Timurtash. I thought this was a pretty neat coin to accompany my Antiochos VII tetradrachm. The Artuqids captured the portrait pretty well in my opinion, especially his hair. Found it pretty interesting that the Artuqids seemingly found some tetradrachms of Antiochos VII and decided to use the same portrait on their coins. Note that the white dot under his nose rubbed off. The auction photos had the dot in its photos and I originally thought it was something stuck on the coin. Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BCE. AR Tetradrachm, 31 mm, 16.31 g. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EVEPΓETOY, Athena Nikephoros standing to left, resting hand on shield, and with spear under arm; monogram over Π above A in left field; all within wreath. SC 2061.1j Ex Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 99, From the Terner Collection - Artuqids of Mardin, Husam al-Din Timurtash. AH 547-572 / 1152-1176 CE. AE Dirham, 28 mm, 14.15 g. Large diademed male head to right / Legend in Arabic in three lines, 'Malik al-umara / Abu al-Muzaffar / Alpi bin; Legend around in Arabic, 'Il-Ghazi / Timurtash bin / bin Artuq' (all in Kufic). Spengler & Sayles 26 Ex Solidus Numismatik, Auction 110, From the collection of Prof. Dr. Peter Robert Franke Feel free to share other Artuqid or Seleucid coins you have!

I was pretty interested in a bactrian coin Nomos had, but I don't really want to buy it because I know it came from a Roma auction in July lol. Their prices are way better than leus tho

1. Roma Numismatics 17 (They had a lot of nice bactrian coins) 2. Aureo & Calico 8 (Coins from al-Andalus) 3. Savoca 6 (random cheap coins) 4. Stephen Album 4 5. Leu 3 I really like Roma and Leu, since they usually have coins I'm looking for. Roma has top notch shipping, though can't say the same for Leu since they waited a month to ship. The coins I got from leus december auction also came sticky, so I had to dip in acetone. surprisingly though leu has had the best deals for me.

Did it say when the Nomos fixed price list will be live?

great list! i really like the trajan camel denarius

looks like there isn't the link here it is:

The Julian II with the bull reverse is my fav! congrats

How did you realize the fake ones were fake? I have 0 idea of how to detect forgeries for antiquities

Thanks! yea, the cool hats were a big draw for me for the greco-baktrian tets. next up on my list is demetrios's elephant hat. luckily eukratides tets are pretty common, so there's a lot of options to pick from.

I got my first artifact as well, I was always leery of buying antiquities because I don't know how to tell real from fake, but Ken Dorney's sale seemed like a good opportunity to get an artifact with good provenance GREEK. Levant & the Near East. Syro-Palestine, Roman Era, Pottery Juglet. Circa 1st Century CE. Single-handled juglet, 6.5” / 16.5 cm tall, with incised linear decoration. Hayes 312. Broken and repaired; surface wear, with some brownish glaze remaining.From the Kenneth W. Dorney Collection.