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Eagle Tet... ooops, I just couldn't resist ... Carinus Potin TetradrachmDate: Year 2 (283-284 AD) Diameter: 18.9 mm Weight: 7.3 grams Obverse: Laureate bust of Carinus Reverse: Eagle between standards   ... it was calling me
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United States
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Nice Roman Provincial. I like the eagle reverse design as well.
The coin was telling you to purchase it.
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 well, maybe it didn't exactly tell me to purchase it, but it did sort of whistle at me ... then it winked (it had me at the whistle) Edited by stevex6
06/12/2012 9:37 pm
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Yah, I thought it looked like a nice tough, heavy coin ... Prior to my last couple of coin purchases, I was buying extremely small diameter Greek coins ... but my last two purchases have been nice big coins that you could easily skip across a pond ...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Late Alexandrian bronze (supposed to be billon) tetradrachm.
Nice enough a buy, if the price is right. Condition helps.
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United States
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stevex6, Man when you buy, you get very nice coins.I love the Eagle and that its a big coin...  .just wondering is going to shorten your vacation to B.C.  |
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United States
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 Nice Jerry, but watch out for the wife. I think I hear her sneakin' up on ya. |
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It was $40 delivered ... ummm, that seemed fair enough to me (again, I fell for the coin as soon as it caught my eye)
... that shouldn't shorten our BC-trip, too much
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 United States
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Very nice coin, I like these Alexandria mint coins.
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United States
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Man, that's only one bottle of good wine....  , good job... |
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United States
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Here is mine I posted not too long ago, it's a year 1 your coin is year 2.   |
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United States
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Nice...these Alexandrian tets have a very unique look. |
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Netherlands
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There is another Eagle reverse of this emporer: obv.AKMA KAPINOC CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right rev.Î"ΣÎ"BTPAI, Eagle st. left, head right with wreath in its beak TETRADRACHM L Î" year 3 Emmett 4004. The reverse legend refers to the Legio II Traiana Fortis, raised by Trajan circa 105 A.D., stationed at Nicopolis near Alexandria circa 125 A.D.  |
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Echizento & Eddop => thanks for posting your examples ... they're all very cool coins!! DVC is correct, these coins do seem to have a unique/similar style about them, eh? Bing => you're also correct about the wife thingy (she's been circling around lately, making me feel like a field-mouse and that she's a bird of prey!!) ... but again, I thought the price was okay, so I should be fine (*gulp*) |
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That coin is about the size of a US cent and rather thick, since it weighs in at 7.3g, I bet.
Somehow women always seem to notice that you're buying coins. A good friend of mine, she told me to slow down on buying coins. lol
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sel_69l => you mentioned "bronze, supposed to be a billon", so I went and tried to research what that meant, but it only lead me to more questions!! I found the following relative descriptions: billon => small percentage silver, mainly copper (sometimes tin may be added) bronze => copper, tin potin => copper, tin, lead ... then I read that due to the value of silver, "billon" coins were only produced during (Gallienius 253-AD => 270-AD Claudius-II) ... The description of my coin was a "Potin", not a bronze, nor billon ... ummm, so my coin is made of copper, tin and lead? (lead, eh? ... maybe that is why it has such a unique and "chunky" look about it?)  dougsmit? Edited by stevex6
06/13/2012 3:12 pm
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Posted 06/12/2012 9:36 pm
