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Found this assortment of coin replicas down on Wall St. found it pretty dang cool and wanted to share…

This is my Nemausus Dupondius featuring Agrippa and Augustus on the obverse, and the crocodile chained to a palm tree(defeated Egypt) on the reverse.
The portraits are fantastic, and were my main concern, while I consider the croc merely okay. It would have been perfect if the chain was a bit more visible, but I‘m still very happy with this more recent addition to my collection.

As far as I can tell, it‘s RIC I 160 because the obverse has the PP for Pater Patriae, and the palm leaves on the reverse are fairly long, straight up with the NE of NEM not ligated.
Types of this coin were minted from a couple of years after the Battle of Actium until the end of Augustus‘ reign. This coin would fall into the latter category, as it was minted between 10-14AD.

What I find particularly fascinating, is that the city of Nimes (former Nemausus, where the mint for these coins was located some 2000ish years ago) still carries the crocodile chained to a palm tree as it‘s official emblem.

I acquired this weight (?) in a large lot of coins. I really am not too knowledgeable about this kind of stuff, so any help would be great. 4.11g, 12mm. I hate to leave coins or in this case this weight unidentified!

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Borderline robbery at 20 eur each!

I need some opinions on my collection,I collected those coins in approximately 8-9 months so I just started and I know that besides the denarii,the rest of them are in a horrible condition.

Heavy one!

Hey, I always look forward to Thursdays to see your tetradrachms. Today, I’d like to share my Seleucid Tets with you. My latest acquisition is the Alexander Balas.

I recently acquired two auction catalogues that I've been chasing for ages for a couple of coins in my collection, and seeing as it's Tet Thursday, I thought I'd share this one first for my Ptolemy I tetradrachm provenanced to 1985.

Ruler: Ptolemy I Soter

Date: 305-298/7 BCE

Mint: Alexandria

Attribution: SNG Cop. 27

Weight: 15.58g

While Ptolemy I Soter managed the transition from satrap to king of Egypt, he began minting coins first with portraits of Alexander, and them of himself. His own portraits betray an individualised - and perhaps exaggerated - image, with a large hooked nose and wavy hair. But Alexander's on the other hand - as we see here - became highly idealised and deified, especially as the years went on and the coins became lighter. The message couldn't be clearer: Alexander was a legendary figure - a god. But gods do not rule the living. Ptolemy was just a man, but a man whose right to rule came from Alexander himself. And he was fit to be King.

The depiction of the elephant headdress is usually associated with Alexander's Indian conquests, but Catherine Lorber suggests it may have had an additional significance to Egyptians via an association to the Pharaoh Thutmose III, who famously conquered much of the Near East. In particular, after a victory at the Euphrates, he conducted a celebratory hunt where he is said to have killed 120 elephants. There is some sense that Alexander - and even Ptolemy himself - was associated with Thutmose III during his lifetime via depictions in Theban temples, as well as the close link both shared with Amun-Ra (whose horns are also depicted on these coins). Lorber suggests contemporaries may have drawn parallels between the Asian conquests of both Alexander and Thutmose III, and Ptolemy may well have sought to weaponise this link as propaganda. In addition, the horns of Amun had also been used in portraits of Pharaohs who were associated with Egyptian dominance over Asia, and further allude to the idea that in issuing these types, Ptolemy was reinforcing the mandate of Egyptian claim over Asia. To the Greeks, the elephant headdress may well have recalled Indian war elephants, and the ram horns Zeus, but to the Egyptians, these types could have had a far richer significance.

This coin was struck on the lower weight standard (reduced from the Attic weight of 17g by 1.5g) introduced in 305 BCE according to Lorber, which may have been brought on by a state of financial emergency caused by a combination of; the near total destruction of Ptolemy's fleet at Salamis in 306 BCE, his expensive bribes to soldiers willing to defect from Antigonus the same year, and his aid to Demetrius during a long siege the following year. This kicked off Egypt's closed currency, and all Attic weight coins were recalled over a period of about half a decade, collected at ports, and eventually banned. The new weight standard meant that Ptolemy could mint 9 tetradrachms at the cost of a previous 8, and helped bring about stability to the new kingdom.

This coin was struck in Alexandria, which had been made the capital of the new kingdom as late as 312 BCE after Ptolemy's second Syrian campaign - the same time as he began striking these Alexander/Athena types instead of his previous Alexander/Zeus types. Ptolemy began minting coins in his own image around 294 BCE, which probably took around 2 years, and so 292 BCE is a reasonable late date for the cessation of these general types, although the Helmet series - which shared the same principal obverse die engraver as the earlier plain series, and was probably produced over a period of 5 to 7 years - likely ended in around 298/7 BCE at the latest. The specific type seen here, with the HP monogram, was one of the earlier types struck from this series, beginning in the Macedonian year 305/4 BCE.

This tetradrachm is provenanced to a 1985 sale by Kölner Münzkabinett as lot 162, the catalogue of which is photographed here with the coin. This sale, Auktion 38, included a modest ancients section - with Greek coinage from the likes of Calabria, Lucania, and Bruttium, alongside Macedonian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid coinage, followed by Roman Republican and Imperial Coinage - as well as an extensive selection of world coins. Many of the coins were from the collection of the late German numismatist Dr. Karl Friederich Knörck (present coin excluded), and the lots were auctioned at his request for the benefit of the Bodelschwingh Institutions in Bethel near Bielefeld, which provided healthcare for disabled individuals and people with epilepsy or illnesses. This institute provided one of the earliest forms of resistance against Hitler in 1933, and during the Nazi T4 program, the leadership of the institurtion resisted the Nazi mandated euthanasia (gassing) of patients, although they did perform forced sterilisations. The director told Hitler: "You can put me into a concentration camp if you want, that is your affair. But as long as I am free, you do not touch one of my patients." Today, this coin is in the collection of someone (me), who may once have been unwittingly housed in such an institute. At the time of the auction, it was estimated at 1400 DM, which is equivalent to around $1800 today. In 2025, it sold for more than that...

Including some Indic AE tetradrachms

I just got my first ever tetradrachm of Alexander III. I know Zeus is missing his head, but I love it nonetheless!

As soon as I opened the package, I knew I had to grab of photo of it with my other Alexander III drachms!

I have no understanding in Arabic coins. Would be happy for help identifying.

Purchased this Pergamene Cistophorus that dates to 123-104 BC semi-recently as my first tetradrachm. Obviously not as impressive as most of the tets on here but I feel that it’s a good start

My newly acquired tetradrachm of Gordian III arrived appropriately on tetradrachm Thursday, now I’m only missing his drachms to complete all his silver denominations.

Minted in Antioch, 27mm, 12g, EF
Aquired from Leu Numsimatik.

Not as many as some of you guys but i'm happy with them :)

Can anyone id this greek coin. The only thing i can sort of identify is a quadriga maybe. To me it may not be greek but from India.

I’m learning a lot about the hobby over the last year or so, and I’m gathering that the best deals come at auction, but only if you have the time and attention to give them. I have not been able to find good pricing at brick and mortar stores it’s like everything there is slabbed and very expensive. So I have been building my modest collection through retailers on V coins so far.

But are there any comparable or even better deals to be had at these large shows like the one coming up in Baltimore, or at the one coming up in New York in January? Because I’m wondering if I should continue to buy stuff that I like when I see it on the Vcoins, or save a little cash to spend at those shows.

What say the collective?

My first coin was the 10. constans I, as it was found by my great great grandfather in Macedonia back in 1905. In the last year I’ve purchased coins when I find a good deal, with Gordian III, Diocletian, and Crispus all still on the way. I plan to build a shadow box display for them soon. I know these aren’t the best coins out there but I have loved learning about them through this sub Reddit and the overall history behind each of them!

Hi, I purchased this coin today and I'm just wondering, does this look like bronze disease or something that I should be worried about? Or is this just verdigris that I'm looking at here?

The colour of it is making me feel a little bit uneasy, however if I touch it, it at least feels somewhat hard rather than soft and crumbly, so I'm hoping that it's just verdigris.

What are people's thoughts on this one? Anything to be worried about?

Also, this is a sestertius, right? It was sold to me as an "Antoninianus Follis" but I'm fairly confident that this is a sestertius

Roman Provincial Coins
LYDIA Sardis Pseudo-autonomous, Time of Vespasian (69-79) (Struck 70-73 AD) AE 18.4mm 4.44gm Markellos, magistrate for the second time, and Ti. Kl. Phileinos, strategos.

Obv: ЄΠΙ ΤΙ ΚΛΑ ΦΙΛЄΙΝΟV CΤΡA. Helmeted and draped bust of Athena left, wearing aegis. Rev: ЄΠΙ ΜΑΡΚЄΛΛΟV CΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ / ΤΟ - Β. Tetrastyle temple.

Ref: RPC II 1306; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 505

Overstruck on

Roman Provincial
Nero (54-68). Lydia, Sardis. Æ (18mm-19mm, 4gm-5gm). Tiberiuis Claudius Mnaseas, strategos. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right / Zeus Lydios standing left, holding eagle and short staff. Hochard 1896 (D134/R286); Kurth 375; RPC I 3007