Anyone have an extra $10,000?

[the_Thing ®]

 

Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 555. Closing Date: Sep 22, 2004. EUBOEA, Karystos. Revolt of Ptolemaios. Circa 313 BC. AV Drachm (3.58 gm). BID Estimate $10000

 

EUBOEA, Karystos. Revolt of Ptolemaios. Circa 313 BC. AV Drachm (3.58 gm). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / KAPY, bull recumbent left; trident above, club below. Cf. Melville Jones, "The Date of the Gold Drachma of Carystus," NumChron 1980, pp. 28-32; BCD 573 (same dies); BMC Central Greece 17; Jameson 2066. Near EF. Great rarity in Greek gold; 12 known (9 known to Melville Jones with 5 in museums). ($10,000)

 

Ex BCD Collection (sold privately); Spink Taisei-Zürich 36 (16 April, 1991), lot 18.

 

During the War of the Diadochs (315-311 BC), Antiogonos I Monophthalmos sent his nephew Ptolemaios to Greece, where he formed an alliance with anti-Macedonian factions in various city-states. Ptolemaios was successful in uniting these factions into a single revolt against Kassander, and effectively wrested most of Greece from Macedonian control. His effort began in Boiotia and Euboia, where this particular coinage was struck, likely to help finance the anti-Macedonian cause. The actions of Ptolemaios and his mercenaries succeeded in tieing-up Kassander’s forces during this war, and enabled Antigonos to focus his own efforts against the other Diadochoi allied against him.

[JamminJ]

Not bad, but if I were looking to spend that kind of dough I'd bid on this:

 

 

1767. SAINT EMPIRE, Maximilien Ier, empereur (1508-1519), AR Schauguldiner, 1518, St. Veit. Droit : MAXI ROM IMP ARCH DV AVST ET DO TER OCCI ORI B. à gauche, coiffé d'un bonnet, vêtu d'un manteau d'hermine et portant le collier de la Toison d'or. Revers : PLVRI EVROP PVINCIA REX ET PINCEP POT 1518 Ecu impérial couronné entouré de neuf écussons: Autriche, Carinthie, Styrie, Habsbourg, Alsace, Krain, Bourgogne, Autriche sur l'Enns et Tyrol. Ref.: Egg, 33; Voglh., 24; Dav., 8007. Très Rare. Léger tréflage. Magnifique portrait de l'empereur.

 

presque Superbe (a. EF) € 6.000

 

Maybe TJ will come along and help with the French description.

 

-JamminJ

[the_Thing ®]

Hmmm.....the gentleman on the coin looks somewhat like TJ. Certainly have the same bug eyes anyway. Perhaps its all that french inbreeding.

[TJ]

Hmmm.....the gentleman on the coin looks somewhat like TJ. Certainly have the same bug eyes anyway. Perhaps its all that french inbreeding.

I resemble that remark (and coin)!

[the_Thing ®]

You need a new icon, but I can't discuss it here, and this will be my only reference to it since this is the World Coin forum.

[TJ]

You need a new icon, but I can't discuss it here, and this will be my only reference to it since this is the World Coin forum.

I'm glad your finally watching your P&Q's. Arch whipped you into shape bigtime.

[the_Thing ®]

Yes, his Kung Fu Death Grip Attack aka banning the_Thing from the W.C. has made me see the light. But please, Mr. Jenning's, let try to follow the forum rules and keep this thead on the subject. Do YOU own any world coins?

[TJ]

Yes, his Kung Fu Death Grip aka banning the_Thing from the W.C. has made me see the light. But please, Mr. Jenning's, let try to follow the forum rules and keep this thead on the subject. Do YOU own any world coins?

I have a poop-load of world coins, no ancients, since my parents threw out my Constantine coin that I had since 1963, but my dad was in the S. Pacific during WWII and brought back several fine examples from that region, plus I have some nice French and Prussian examples. (I have to go BBQ now, will check back intermittently.)

[the_Thing ®]

TRIVIA (that I don't know the answer to). What is the most expensive "World" coin ever sold at auction? The winner of the trivia will receive one full body massage from an oil covered bikini clad TJ.

[TJ]

Thing, while you're staying here I will show you three albums. The world coins album, the world currency album, and the metal detecting finds album. You will be very impressed.

[the_Thing ®]

Thing, while you're staying here I

 

 

Are you referring to "staying" in this forum, or when I come to CA to visit you and we make smores and watch John Wayne movies? Nice coins by the way. What is modern day Prussia today?

[satootoko]

What is modern day Prussia today?

It's part of Germany.

[the_Thing ®]

Ah, thanks. Prussia. hmmm.. If my memory serves me correctly, wasn't someone in Prussia assassinated and it let to WWI?

[satootoko]

If my memory serves me correctly, wasn't someone in Prussia assassinated and it let to WWI?

Actually it was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who was assassinated in Sarejevo. Check out this interesting historical site for the details.

[JamminJ]

What is modern day Prussia today?

 

What was once the kindom of Prussia is currently divided between the German Federal state of Brandenburg and Western Poland.

 

-JamminJ

[JamminJ]

Perhaps its all that french inbreeding.

 

The guy on the coin is actually German, he's Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian.

His coins are tough in any grade which is why I'd like, but can't afford, to add him to my collection.

 

The description is written in French as the auction house is located in Belgium. They also offer lots of ancient and medieval coins. If you sign up on their website they'll send you a few copies of their catalogs (nice pictures).

 

-JamminJ

[Mikey]

I lived near King of Prussia in Pennsylvania.

[the_Thing ®]

I lived near King of Prussia in Pennsylvania.

 

Are you a Quaker, Mikey?