Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

Here is a good coin that I should like to have for Father's day.

http://www.ancientimports.com/images/coins/5021.jpg

VF/VF Seleukos I tetradrachm $219.00

Attribution: SC 82.4b
Date: 332-310 BC
Obverse: Head of Herakles r. with lionskin headress
Reverse: Zeus enthroned l. holding eagle
Size: 24.2 mm
Weight: 17 grams
Rarity: 6
Description: A nice tetradrachm very similar to the Alexander III tets from the Babylon mint.

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

or this one, Vespasian, Da man!!!!

$333

http://www.ancientimports.com/images/coins/2410.jpg


Attribution: Sear Mill. ED. 2287, RIC 99a, BMCRE 180
Date: 69-79 AD
Obverse: IMP.CAESAR.VESPASIANVS.AVG
Reverse: COS VII Eagle standing facing on garlanded base, hd. L.
Size: 18mm
Weight: 2.8 grams
Rarity: 9
Description: A very rare left facing bust of Vespasian in this RIC 99 series denarius.

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

I like this one of Juno


I dont now anything about her other than the temple of Juno also dubbled as the mint where they coined oodles of silver pieces!!!

Yum!!

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

the image looks like otacilla severus and the reverse is similar to her denarii but the words dont seem to be what I'd expect. they look like "heretous cilliane "

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

Are those originals for that price? Surely not...

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

got it!

herennia etruscilla

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

yep, probably. replicas are sold but obvious. I doubt anybody is going to a lot of trouble to fake them at that price. at higher prices sure and fake them and find ways of abrading and antiquing them and so forth. but at the $200 level thats a lot of work.

I could be wrong but I would stick to buying anything over $50 from a good vendor who is not liable to sell fakes.

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

there are a ton of supply of roman denarii and alexandrian and seleukid coins so I dont imagine there are a lot of fakes in the lower price range. the higher price range is where fakes would be worth the troulbe.

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

Well it seems to me something that old would command a higher premium, but I am not a numismatics person

Re: Seleukos Tetradrachm
 

I thought that too but its just a question of supply and demand.

its like this-- I got a bunch of silver 2,3,5 mark coins from German Reich, Prussia, etc-- they're prolific. It was a big economy! In the same era, American silvers can go for way more than equivalent size German coins. Supply-- higher; demand is greater for US coins here, too, than foreigns or ancients.