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Alexander III Tetradrachm, Side, Turkey

325 BC - 320 BC

Price; 2949

New Alexander III Docu Drama on Netflix Jan 31st.. hope its good, but I doubt it.. 

https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/trailers/1480034-alexander-the-making-of-a-god-trailer-unveils-netflixs-historical-docudrama

Very good upgrade

Lugdunum -> Macedon

Alexander III AE

6.33g, 17mm

Head of Herakles right, wearing a lion skin

Club, bow in case “A?E?AN?POY”, "A" above

Price 292(?)

Unstable and useless at the moment with a  high risk. Right now we are just selling an idea, its greatest asset, anonymity, is not so anonymous any more.  It's still snake oil to me at this time, maybe in another hundred years. 

Apameia -> Amphipolis

Alexander III tetradrachm 

Amphipolis, 320 BCE - 317 BCE Price.123

Ex B.Max Mehl

I am so sorry to hear this bad news

I took a shot at a Alexander III drachm from ebay because I found it interesting and won. I found the test cuts and portrait style interesting in particular. 

The coin is proving to be hard to identify however, to me it looks like the monograms and mintmarks are all but erased from reverse wear. 

I can only make out Zeus's legs, which I'm certain are uncrossed, but that's about it.

Anyone familiar with this particular style and the mint it may most likely resemble ? 

I recall seeing other coins with the same lion headdress curl in the far back of the head. The last layer curls opposite to the second layer.. but I cannot find similar ones at this time.

Any ideas appreciated, thanks.

Nice examples and good area of interest, I have been curious about these as of late.

I have used acetone of bronze and copper to clean fake patina or any other residue, while sometimes the residue did not come off, I didn't notice any damage on the coin at all.

Even Nero looks angry at the wax tomb he was placed it! 

I would suggest acetone as ela did.

Gaul -> Lugdunum

Nero (54-68). Æ Dupondius (31mm, 11.76g, 6h). Lugdunum, c. AD 66

10 minutes ago, Prieure de Sion said:

.. but not Germany - and not Italy 😄 

Travel is short is Europe 🙂 I will manage

20 hours ago, Ryro said:

Dang it! They are faking fourées now!?

I'd heard of this, but this is the first point blank clear cut modern fourée forgery that I recall. 

Save on silver! More bang for the fake!

*(&^%#@ this, im moving to Europe 

Awesome job, however, I see you have some mistakes.. there are silvers in there! 😛

I like your selections.  I will go with the Augustus, because I seen what you did with it and how it looked, what a find. 

5 hours ago, Ocatarinetabellatchitchix said:

If you want to study fake sand patina, just check the inventory of this seller on Vcoins. At least he's not hiding the facts…

 

Zuriqieh has a fantastic inventory, and if u are looking for "as found" coins, he has tons. 

5 hours ago, CPK said:

find it interesting that the reverse die was so much smaller in diameter than the obverse - almost as if they are meant for different denominations. Is there a reason for this?

Looking at other examples this seems to be the case for all examples I seen, JC's portrait is always larger, I have wondered in the past if this is some sort of homage payed by Octavian 

Congrats, great coin, I was looking at these, but as my first purchase of the year I settled on a non portrait because price was right and I jumped on the opportunity..

JULIUS CAESAR AR silver denarius. North Africa, 47-46 BC. No legend, diademed head of Venus right. Reverse - Aeneas carrying Palladium, and his father Anchises on his shoulder. RCV 1402. 17mm, 3.5g.

Very interesting and very appealing mystery hunt, for this reason, the coin is worth it. And you can always upgrade down the line if u need centering and a date, but this is much more fun and I'm sure you are learning from it.

I had a Vespasian and Titus dupondius, so I figured I'd complete a set of the same denomination... I'm really liking dupondius coins as of late..

DOMITIAN AE dupondius. Rome, 92-93 AD. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P, radiate head right. Reverse - FORTVNAE AVGVSTI, Fortuna standing left with rudder and cornucopia. RIC 417. 28mm, 11.6g

Im voting Hadrian!

20 minutes ago, ambr0zie said:

Next - your first example of a denarius from an emperor (and you bought other denarii in the future) 

My first imperial denarius was funny enough a Commodus.. and I bought a different example last month for a friend as well..

Commodus

A.D. 181- 182

AR denarius

17mm     3.4g

M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG; laureate head right.

LIB AVG V TR P VII IMP IIII COS III P P; Liberalitas stg. l., holding counting board and cornucopiae.

RIC III Rome 36

Next; Same theme

My latest, yet to arrive..

JULIUS CAESAR AR silver denarius. North Africa, 47-46 BC. No legend, diademed head of Venus right. Reverse - Aeneas carrying Palladium, and his father Anchises on his shoulder. RCV 1402. 17mm, 3.5g.