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Price 3680Thunderbolt to the left. M under the thunderbolt. Monogram under the throne. Basileus under the monogram. 27m 17.24g This auction had a collection of countermarks one of which appears on Heracles cheek.Chance Vandal08/16/21 at 01:11Chance Vandal: Thanks, Leu described the coin as "boldy struck in...
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Alexander tetradrachm Price 3218Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas circa 330-325 BC. Scorpion in left field, monogram below throne. Price 3218; Newell, Myriandros 18; ANS 1944.100.34175 (same obv. die).Chance Vandal08/31/18 at 18:33Chance Vandal: Just got it. Way better metal than the pic. The ...
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Price 3698Helios to the left. T under Helios. KY under the throne. Basileus under the KY. Listed in the auction as a 3697Chance Vandal08/11/18 at 19:40Chance Vandal: This had been lost in customs for 34 days ....but ...
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Price 3578 (2)M to the left. Φ under the throne. One of the early Babylon issues. I couldn't find any other sales of a 3578 - only examples in the British Museum (all similar wear) Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger 326 lot 1629 Feb 16 2017Chance Vandal07/16/18 at 10:52Chance Vandal: Thank you very much for that info nigma
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Eastern Europe. Imitation of Philip II of Macedon (Circa 200-0 BC)Tetradrachm (Kugelwange or "ball cheek" type)
20 mm, 11.46 g
Obverse: Stylized laureate head of Zeus right
Reverse: Stylized horse prancing left, pellet-in-annulet above, pelleted cross below.
Lanz 468-9; OTA 193/9.
Around the end of the 3rd century B.C., the Celtic Scordisci tribe started issuing their own local coinages imitating the types of Philip II of Macedon. These coinages had a limited volume of production and a restricted area of circulation, so their finds are not numerous and occur mostly in their own territory and in the neighboring territories of other Celtic or Celticized tribes. The Scordisci were originally formed after the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Northern Greece (280-279 BC) which culminated in a great victory against the Greeks at Thermopylae and the sacking of Delphi, the center of the Greek world. The Celts then retreated back to the north of the Balkans (suffering many casualties along the way) and settled on the mouth of the Sava River calling themselves the Scordisci after the nearby Scordus (now Sar) mountains. The Scordisci, since they dominated the important Sava valley, the only route to Italy, in the second half of the 3rd century BC, gradually became the most powerful tribe in the central Balkans.
From 141 BC, the Scordisci were constantly involved in battles against Roman held Macedonia. They were defeated in 135 BC by Cosconius in Thrace. In 118 BC, according to a memorial stone discovered near Thessalonica, Sextus Pompeius, probably the grandfather of the triumvir, was slain fighting against them near Stobi. In 114 BC, they surprised and destroyed the army of Gaius Porcius Cato in the western mountains of Serbia, but were defeated by Minucius Rufus in 107 BC.
From time to time they still gave trouble to the Roman governors of Macedonia, whose territory they invaded, even advancing as far as Delphi for a second time and once again plundering the temple; but Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus finally overcame them in 88 BC and drove them back across the Danube. After this, the power of the Scordisci declined rapidly. This decline was more a result of the political situation in their surrounding territories rather than the effects of Roman campaigns, as their client tribes, especially the Pannonians, became more powerful and politically independent. Between 56 and 50 BC, the Scordisci were defeated by Burebista's Dacians (a Thracian king of the Getae and Dacian tribes), and became subject to him. Nathan P06/24/18 at 16:02Chance Vandal: Yay that looks good. Thanks for the Kugelwange tra...
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Alexander the GreatCNG description:
KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.19 g, 11h). Babylon mint. Struck under Stamenes or Archon, circa 324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, horizontal ear above M; monogram below throne. Price 3611 corr. (symbol). Good VF, lightly toned, slight die shift on obverse, reverse a little off center. Ex CNG.Molinari04/04/18 at 02:33Chance Vandal: Hey I made some of the low ball bids on that coin!...
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