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Help To Identify These Greek Coins

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 Posted 08/23/2013  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, these are a beautiful group of coins. They all look real to me but I'm no expert. We do have some folks in the Ancient coin section that will be able to give you more information.
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 Posted 08/23/2013  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ThisIsFun to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not sure if they are real or not-- will require checking some databases. But the types are all readily identifiable. Here are a few:

Top left:
[edited 8/24/13, looks like a good match for some examples on wildwinds.com, if it is authentic]
Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander III AR Tetradrachm. Mesembria mint, 175-125 BC. Head of Herakles right, in lionskin headdress / BASILEWS left, ALEXANDROU right, Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left, Corinthian helmet & ­I left, BY under throne. Mueller 486, Price 1072

Top right:
MACEDON, Under Roman Rule. First Meris. Circa 167-148 BC. AR Tetradrachm. Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield / MAKEDONWN PRWTHS, club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left.
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 Posted 08/23/2013  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ThisIsFun to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Gotta do something else right now... I'm sure others will chime in with the rest of the identifications.

Some look suspicious though.
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 Posted 08/24/2013  3:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ancientnoob to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Off the rip, I think they look authentic. There are many high value, big ticket coins here, coins of exceptional condition, we need weights and diameters of each piece to correctly attribute them.

I must say the it is quite unusual that these coins of such condition, rarity and value in the hands of someone who does know what they are.
There is at least a couple grand sitting there.
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the only one I know much about is the sassanid (middle left), it looks good...but that's the cheap coin in that group. they certainly a some nice looking one.
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Oh I do so want that owl!
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I wouldn't mind having any one of them, but my favorite would be the First Meris.
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Coin top row, middle:
AR Tetradrachm of Mithradates VI of Pontus.
Odessos mint.
Like this example from Wild Winds:
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Coin second row, left:
Sasanian Persian AR Drachm, Khusro II.
Seems to be from the Hormizd-Ardashir mint, Khuzistan, year 3 (?)

Middle row, middle coin:
An AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm, from the city of Ephesos, circa 131 BC.
Like the sort of example below, from Wild Winds:
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Jsalgado-- are you still around? Can you give us the size and weights of these coins? A little bit about the provenance would be nice too.
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 Posted 08/26/2013  04:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jsalgado to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here the size and weights
left above to right below
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

31mm 16,51 g ; 30mm 15,38g ; 31mm 16,82g

30/33mm 4,09g ; 27/30mm 12,68g ; 25/27mm 15,27g

24/25mm 16,94g ; 22mm 14,30g ; 19/25mm 16,73g
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