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There are quite a few that are in the running for my favorite, but I'll go with my Punic tridrachm due to my interest in Carthaginian history.  A Billion tridrachm from Carthage, minted during the second Punic war. 9.589g, 26.2mm, Carthage mint, c. 215 - 205 B.C. Obverse: Head of Tanit left, wearing barley wreath, pellet on leaf, triple-pendant earing, and necklace with many pendants Reverse: Unbridled horse standing right, palm tree in background, pellet below horse's belly forward of the palm trunk; scarce; Attribution: Alexandropoulos 44a; Müller Afrique 104; SNG Cop 190 var (no pellet); SRCV II 6494 var (same) Since runner-ups seem to be ok in this thread I'll give you another as well :) I believe this might be my nicest coin as far as quality goes, other than a couple Gordian IIIs.  Silver denarius of Trajan, minted in Rome between 101-102 AD. Obverse: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GER M, laureate head right Reverse: TR POT COS IIII P P, Mars advancing right, holding spear & trophy Attribution: RIC 52 |
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Nice royal couple BOBL. Your first coin although common is nothing to sneeze at for sure.
Chuy - The Carthage Billon Tridrachm is most excellent. Much better than my example. Excellent through and through.
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Thanks, I only wish the horses head had made it onto the flan. Of course then I doubt I could have afforded it so maybe it's for the best.
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Ha chuy I hear ya. I am a huge fan of Carthage and one of those was very close to making the thread. I have a special place in my heart for Punic Carthage as well. Among my favorites is by far the crappiest of them all. (Conditionally speaking) The coin is old, rare and majestic and it take alot to look past the scrapes, corrosion, delamination, horning, wear and of course the big 50% crack. There was just enough wrong with the coin for me to afford it and there was enough right with it that I couldn't live with out it. Africa. Carthage AR Silver Shekel 21 mm x 6.90 grams BC 264-241 New Date BC 300-260 Obverse: Tanit Left. Reverse: Horse looking back, Palm Tree Ref:GC.6491, Cop.141 A.36 pl. 2 Müller108 CNP.166 a Note: ex Professor J E Seaver Collection.  Edited by Ancientnoob
05/31/2015 7:19 pm
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My favourite is my Alexander Tetradrachm   and my Gordian III avatar coin  |
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I agree, thanks to all for the photos of those great coins.
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These are some great coins. Unfortunately, I don't have many to post. Just one thing to point out- Quote:
A Billion tridrachm from Carthage, minted during the second Punic war. 9.589g, 26.2mm, Carthage mint, c. 215 - 205 B.C. A billion of them? That must be fairly expensive.  I think you mean Billon, the alloy. |
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I have apparently spelled Billon wrong for about 2 years now. I've even made billon/billion jokes that apparently nobody got because A) the jokes were incredibly nerdy and B) they made no sense. Thank you, haha. Now off to correct some coin tags...
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That's fine, we all have something we spell wrong all the time. Quote:
My favourite is my Alexander Tetradrachm Now [i]that's[i] some high relief. |
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great thread with some great coins! I don't really have a favorite coins, I probably have 20 favorites or so. here's one of them...  Roman Republic L. Scipio Asiagenus AR serrate Denarius (19mm, 3.62 g) Rome 106 BC |
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Nice coin chrsmat correct me if I am wrong but were they struck with the serrated edges so as to make them acceptable to the Gauls who would test cut their edges to make sure they were silver?
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We don't really know why the serrated denarii were originally made that way; it would have been quite a laborious process to manually carve little notches into the sides of the coin blanks, so they must have had some reason to make the effort worthwhile. The second series was certainly made because the Romans discovered that the first series were popular with the Gauls.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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My Current favorite, and only ancient gold. Romanus III 1028-1034 AD Constantinople Mint AV Histamenon SB - 1819   |
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Thanks sap for the clarification. Nice coin cgcoins I myself am looking for a gold coin for my collection.
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