Old Greek Silver....

Toning may add to eye appeal, but in the case of ancients, all colored toning is simply the result of a cleaning re-toning over time. Eventually, the toning will turn gray as the layer can no longer scatter colored light.

I don't know much about ancient coins but this one sure looks as if it is in great condition.

Hey, maybe this coin was one of the 30 pieces of silver that Judas collected for his dirty-work?

If only coins could talk! Just like our recent coins, they probably circulated until monetary changes or bad economic times hit and coinage was devalued, prompting hoarding and melting. I don't know if ancient coin collectors existed. Most ancient coins surviving today were dug up fairly recently, forgotten for milennia.

Interesting to think about DVcollector and you are probably right, if there were so called ancient collectors of old antiquities an coins an such, it was probably in the highest of classes in the most elite of the royal blood in very small numbers I would think....

I recall a story of Julius Caesar standing before a Statue of Alexander the Great an he wept as he was then 25 years old an had conquered nothing to that point and Alexander the great had conquered the world....

This is a fine example of the ancient world having yet respect for their history, as man has been civilized for way longer then modern science figures in my estimation. An new finds today have backed that up....

The mountain ax man from like 5000 B.C. had many technologies an tools on his person that few scientists would have believed before that find....

I also feel in the ancient market places going way back into the pre B.C., you would have had dealers of old antiquities and perhaps old coins from an empire who once rained supreme but now had faded away like the Persian or Carthaginian empires....

But alas in the end like you said DV collector that empire that perhaps dealt in those items eventually faded away and was lost again in the sands of time, as these coins would have been buried an forgotten. In fact being preserved for a later civilization to find them.....

For a rare coin like that to survive all that time say two thousand years, it would have to be protected in some old organization like the Knights Templar or something, and past on from generation to generation an protected along the way.....

Silverhawk74: It seems to me that you may have at least some passing interest for things ancient. Knowing of your established interest in bullion silver, perhaps it may be a good idea to acquire a token ancient silver coin as well.

Even the Hunt Brothers did that! Theirs was a silver decadrachm (10 drams) of Athens. That particular coin later sold for $10 million.

If that is the case, I would suggest getting an antoninianus (double denarius) of the Roman Emperor Gordian 111. Silver coins of this Emperor are easy to obtain in attractive condition, for not much money. Perhaps around $50 to $100 for a nice one. Do a search on the 'VCOINS' website, under 'Gordian antoninianus', to get an idea of what the market is offering for this type of coin.

This one here is what you speak I think an at 70 total shipped an all slabbed one not be too shabby of a price I would think. This particular one below is a nice looking coin.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roman-Gordi...em2c61ae7eaf

Nicely struck coin--I like that one!


Do you mean 5,300 year-old Ã-tzi the Iceman? What is really remarkable about that discovery is the preservation of the body and the completeness of his clothing and tools. It sure is an interesting reconstruction of his appearance and life in "copper age" Europe.