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  1. Have you ever seen a mass issue Athenian tetradrachm that has a full head (so full crest, nose isn't cut off, and Athena's hair bun/ braids and neckline are fully visible) AND a full incuse square on the reverse? (so the entire square is visible, when usually the corners or one of the square sides are cut off)? There's an Athenian drachm in the British Museum that's full head & full incuse square but I don't think i've ever seen a tetradrachm that looks like it
  2. Yay! I wanna get one now. I was thinking of saving up for Peter Nichols cabinet to store my crummy coins but this one is much cheaper & looks nice too. Omfg the Royal Mint is ripping everyone off by reselling his cabinets for 130 lbs more than on his website & you can't even customize hole sizes. How deep are the holes? Do they fit all your chunky greek coins? You have a lot of Aspendos staters. I like the one on the second to bottom row in the middle since it's in an incuse square 😃 Also that phoenician dishekel looks nice, I've always wanted one
  3. Awesome owls everyone!! I learned new stuff about owls too thanks to you wonderful people. My coin friend Abian made this for me since I don't have an owl yet 😛
  4. Sadly for some of the coin friends, I've recently caught the owl bug even though i don't have one yet. Do you have an owl? if so, show them off here! Any owl will do, from mass issue tetradrachms to hemiobols to even transitional dekadrachms! More unusual ones like Philistine and Ptolemaic and Mytilene owls are welcome too! Here's a picture I drew of a rare owl didrachm that's in the British Museum 😃
  5. I adore the Croesus coins! It's so weird to me that a semi-mythical figure is actually a real historical person The Kebren obol is my favorite. I can't get enough of those Archaic portraits with almond eyes & elongated heads Nice pentobol! The gorgon head is great.
  6. Hi TheTrachyEnjoyer 👋😔
  7. Archaic coins are until ~480 BC. I know their designs aren't natural looking but I just _adore_ their rigid & stiff looking designs.
  8. feel free to show your Greek electrum too! I don't discriminate 🙂
  9. It's really sad that Greek gold are few & far between <<not counting electrum hektes>>. There's like maybe five types that aren't stupidly rare and only like two that are even kinda affordable relatively [not for me tho -- yet] I had some major dental work done & more left (six cavities + 4x wisdom teeth) that'll end up costing me like $800 after "insurance" so basically I have no coin money. And my cat also had more deworming to do so that cost another chunk of money. I'm thinking if I didn't have to spend the $900 on dental & my cat's deworming, I could've maybe afforded a worn Scythian stater (the one with the three magistrates). Although I heard it's arguably a Roman Republican coins, but idk if that's true. But I don't really like the design because it's flat, like a Roman coin. And it doesn't have a dramatic portrait, which is what I like about Greek coins. These days I've been really enamored by Mithradates VI Eupator staters (the cheaper Lysimachos types, not the pricey ones with actual diademed Mithradates portraits) but 95% of them are terribly unattractive because of bad die work and rusted dies. I drew a picture of one of the nicer ones I found online (in the Coinweek article about coins of Mithradates). Also, it's kinda weird just how consistently bad the die-work was on the Lysiamchos type stater of Mithradates when the die work was consistently good for his famous tetradrachm and his expensive portrait staters. And I wonder why the Mithradates portrait types weren't minted a whole lot compared to the common Lysimachos types. But I don't think I'll buy a cheap crappy one for like $1'500 because I'll inevitable be unhappy with it. If I had only $1'500 to blow on a gold coin, I'd rather buy a really nice Byzantine solidus with a portrait of Jesus or a VF common aureus with decent die-work than a rusted Lysimachos-Mithradates stater. (Do you spell it Mithr-I-dates or Mithr-A-dates? Wikipedia spells it with an "I", but CNG spells it with an "A", which makes searching his name kinda annoying in CNG's database, but then his name in Greek is spelled with an alpha so I guess CNG is actually correct (idk the ancient Greek pronunciation of his name). I saw a sold one from Pars Coins that sold for $1'995 that was really nice. It was probably before the pandemic because if it retailed in June 2022, that same one would've had a sticker price of like $3'000 or even $4'000. Also, does anyone know why Pantikapaion staters are so ridiculously expensive? I see them occasionally up for auction so they don't seem all that rare but they always go for like high 5 figures or low 6 figures. Is there a comprehensive list of all known Greek gold coins? It seems like there were a couple of types that were widely minted or had huge hoards found (like the Baktrian Diodotus stater that almost always has a test cut) that usually sell for <$4'000 and then it jumps to these really obscure types that I never seen before and rarely see at auction that hammer for like $20'000+ and hardly any in between.
  10. nice tray :0 and nice coins ofc 😛
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