Recent Ancient NEWPS

Zohar

Caught up with all purchase updates. Need to get a closer shot of the Argenteus which has a very sharp look to it.







ROMAN EMPIRE. Diocletian, AD 284-305. AR Argenteus, 20mm, 2.87gr. Ticinum, minted ca. AD 295. Obv. DIOCLETI ANVS AVG, laureate head right within dotted border. Rev. VIRTVS MILITVM, the Tetrarchs sacrificing in front of fortified city walls. RIC 18a. NGC graded as Ch. MS? 5/5, 5/5.










MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). Price 1686. AR Tetradrachm, 34mm, 17.72gr. Late posthumous issue of Aeolis, Temnus ca. 200-170 BC. Obv: Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: Zeus seated left, holding eagle on right hand and scepter in left; in left field, two monograms above oinochoe within vine tendril. Well struck on a broad medallic planchet and beautifully toned. NGC Ch. XF 5/5, 4/5.

Zohar

Does anyone know how to create spacing between text/image? As much as I spaced these from one another, the post came up pretty condensed.

Tibor

Very nice additions. The Argenteus looks like it fell from the minters anvil into the holder.

NiceCurrency

Both are quite gorgeous but indeed that aregenteus is simply absurd, it's like they minted it and then walked outside and dropped it into a hole

lordmarcovan

Originally posted by: Zohar

Does anyone know how to create spacing between text/image? As much as I spaced these from one another, the post came up pretty condensed.

Looks like you're having the same issue some others are having. I had it too, but only briefly. I can use the Enter key to add additional line spacing now. I dunno what changed in my case. I think if you put HTML-style line breaks in, that might work. But then if I were to quote your text, I'd have to remove the HTML tags because now they don't work for me! Go figure. There is a "forum issues" thread on the Liteside. See what others who have this problem are saying, and what can be done about it, if anything. I'm sure they're still ironing the bugs out of this new software.



As to the coins, that's a very nice Diocletian. The posthumous Alexander is quite the goggle-eyed portrait, isn't it?

bronzemat

Beautiful stuff, Z. Love the Diocletian.

marcmoish

Yup that Dioc is stunning - look at the details!!

SmEagle1795

Impressive flan on the tetradrachm!

Aethelred

Originally posted by: NiceCurrency
Both are quite gorgeous but indeed that aregenteus is simply absurd, it's like they minted it and then walked outside and dropped it into a hole

I have to agree, what an awesome coin!

worldcoinguy

What a great ancient city view! Excellent detail on both pieces - amazing.

Justacommeman

Both stunning



Congrat's!



mark

Zot

Beautiful coins!

I just posted for the first time in a long time and also had my post all busted up.

At least one fix that works (but is aggravatingly cumbersome) is to write HTML break tags whenever you want a line break.
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This is it:

Zohar

Thank you








Very Much!