today's addition is a coin which i've
had for over a month now, but haven't been able to get a
good picture of it. i guess this one will have to do...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-113380 this was actually a birthday present from my bff.
it is a
tetradrachm from
Syracuse under Agathokles, featuring a
portrait of
Persephone on the
obverse and
Nike on the back.
when i first started collecting ancients back in the 80's i got very excited and bought the Sears books, which i would read through almost like a novel. i would sit in the bath or lie in bed turning page after page studying all the amazing coins within the covers and choosing which ones i wanted to try and aquire (they say catalogs are for dreamers
). i quickly fell in love with the coins from
Syracuse, and decided that more than anything else i wanted a
tetradrachm from that city. i would try to figure out how much that would cost based on different formulas, the most common being to double the
price listed in
Sear and then add a zero.
but going to various shows during that time i soon realized that, short of winning the lottery, my
collection was probably never going to contain a Syracusan tet.
it now does!
i
hope you like it,
~
Peter