My two ancients back from ATS with images
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I've been a coin collector since I was 4 or 5, more than 40 years now. When I started my company, I named it Electrum after the first coins ever made. That company celebrates its 25th year this year and every time I answer the phone "Electrum", it makes my day.
Several years ago I accomplished two of my bucket list end-all be-all coin fantasies by buying a Lydian trite, arguably the first coin ever created, and a Lydian siglos, considered to be the first silver coin ever made, from Harlan Berk in Chicago. Berk literally wrote the book on dawn of coinage pieces and he personally recommended these pieces to me. My icon is that trite.
I shifted focus to a "box of 20" collecting style a few years back. I had these two pieces in screw-type capital holders but wanted them in standard slabs to fit the rest of my box of 20. I sent them both off to NGC a few weeks back without much thought to grades. It's nice to see that NGC agreed with Berk's recommendations. I recently started reimaging my coins with my new camera (Samsung Galaxy S6 phone camera), so great timing
Several years ago I accomplished two of my bucket list end-all be-all coin fantasies by buying a Lydian trite, arguably the first coin ever created, and a Lydian siglos, considered to be the first silver coin ever made, from Harlan Berk in Chicago. Berk literally wrote the book on dawn of coinage pieces and he personally recommended these pieces to me. My icon is that trite.
I shifted focus to a "box of 20" collecting style a few years back. I had these two pieces in screw-type capital holders but wanted them in standard slabs to fit the rest of my box of 20. I sent them both off to NGC a few weeks back without much thought to grades. It's nice to see that NGC agreed with Berk's recommendations. I recently started reimaging my coins with my new camera (Samsung Galaxy S6 phone camera), so great timing
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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Congrats on your company making it to the 25 year anniversary as well, that's no easy feat these days.
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They look good in those holders. Be careful not to jiggle them loose in there!
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What was the mechanical error?
Very nice! The pics are quite sharp.
What was the mechanical error?
At 5.29 grams, the silver piece is without question a "siglos", or half-stater. A word and denomination that is synonymous with Croesus and these earliest of coins.
A stater would be in the 10.75 gram range.
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Very nice! The pics are quite sharp.
What was the mechanical error?
At 5.29 grams, the silver piece is without question a "siglos", or half-stater. A word and denomination that is synonymous with Croesus and these earliest of coins.
A stater would be in the 10.75 gram range.
I was suspicious of the denomination and was going to look it up. I had felt that at their weights, and the relative value of silver to electrum, one of the pieces was possibly wrongly labeled.
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PS I'm also impressed at the images came from a phone. Remarkable.
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Larger image with greater clarity
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Fantastic coins!!
Pshaw. They're 3 for a $.25 bin at the local B&M compared to your dawn of coinage pieces
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Even if I didn't collect ancients at all (and I only have a few), I'd understand these have a wow-factor few other coins could match.
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I would be lion if I said I didn't like them.
That pun is awful!