NEWPs: Heritage Ancients
Zohar
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Strong prices on the super nice material. I bought a couple that were not my top priority.
ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 165-42 BC. AR "New Style" tetradrachm (30mm, 16.74 gm, 1h). Struck 88/7 BC, Apellikon, Gorgias, and Argios, magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet ornamented with leaping griffin / owl standing right on amphora; magistrates ; in right field, griffin springing right; on amphora,below; all within wreath. Thompson 1140c. Sharply struck from fresh dies and attractively toned. NGC Choice AU* 5/5 - 5/5.
From The Lexington Collection of Jonathan K. Kern.
GRECO-BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Eucratides I the Great (ca. 170-145 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 16.99 gm, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Eucratides right, wearing crested Bactrian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / the Dioscuri on rearing horses right, each holding palm fronds and spears, monogram before. Bopearachchi Série 6E. SNG ANS 465. HGC 12, 131. Light toning over lustrous fields, creating a cameo effect unusual for ancients. NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5.
ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 165-42 BC. AR "New Style" tetradrachm (30mm, 16.74 gm, 1h). Struck 88/7 BC, Apellikon, Gorgias, and Argios, magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet ornamented with leaping griffin / owl standing right on amphora; magistrates ; in right field, griffin springing right; on amphora,below; all within wreath. Thompson 1140c. Sharply struck from fresh dies and attractively toned. NGC Choice AU* 5/5 - 5/5.
From The Lexington Collection of Jonathan K. Kern.
GRECO-BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Eucratides I the Great (ca. 170-145 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 16.99 gm, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Eucratides right, wearing crested Bactrian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / the Dioscuri on rearing horses right, each holding palm fronds and spears, monogram before. Bopearachchi Série 6E. SNG ANS 465. HGC 12, 131. Light toning over lustrous fields, creating a cameo effect unusual for ancients. NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5.
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one would be hard pressed to find a new style athens tetradrachm with better eye appeal than that!
World Collection
British Collection
German States Collection
You really have gone after the ancients with some fury.
You've managed to amass a collection with some serious eye appeal.
Congratulations.
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
Charles IV Album
Charles IV Portrait Set
Spanish Colonial Pillar Set
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Slabbing helps a bit with this granularity yet at the end of the day we all develop taste of what we look for.
Cheers.
Fixed images above.
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