Every so often I ask this question in the
hope that someday someone will reply. Forgive me if you have read it before. Some questions take longer to answer than others. This one is at 25 years.
In 1989, I bought the coin below at
auction where it was correctly described as a
fourree. The
reverse die is made distinctive by a long horizontal die
crack across
Zeus'
ribs. Not long after that, I saw a die duplicate of the coin listed for sale which
had the
exergue on
flan and provided the date OE that is missing from my coin. My coin weighs 13.8g which is much too light for a solid coin. The duplicate being offered weighed a
bit less. I asked the
auction house about it in the
hope that I
had found a solid and
fourree from the same dies but they determined that their coin was also a
fourree and withdrew the lot. It
had the most tiny
bit of core exposure which was less than obvious in the sale photo. I kick myself for not saving that image.
Now I see a coin on
acsearch that is also OE but from different dies and 16.69g which is
good weight for the issue.
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=137126The listing seller of this coin mentions
Hersh,
Additions and Corrections to
Martin J.
Price´s "The Coinage in the name of
Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus" and "Seems Unedited". I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has this reference what is said about OE coins (if anything) or what is the latest date for this series that is listed. Obviously I would also like to hear if anyone has the OE cracked die coin and to know if it was bought as
fourree. I would also like to see any
fourree Arados tetradrachms of the series but of other dates and solid coins over year O other than the one linked above.
Thanks to those who read this far. Another post here suggests there are more people here now interested in coin of Arados so I felt the need to ask.