HEY SYRACUSIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JamminJ]

I know you are enthralled by regular business strike coins which grade out as MS68, have a look what arrived today:

 

 

 

 

[syracusian]

I know you are enthralled by regular business strike coins which grade out as MS68

 

 

 

Who isn't ?

 

I don't know if I should be jealous or happy. Hmmm, I think I'll choose happy this time.

 

 

 

 

That North Borneo is the best of the lot, but I wish you a spiritted bidding on the Greek coin as well.

[cosmicdebris]

Awesome coin. Pegasas and a Phoenix on the same coin.

[shirohniichan]

That North Borneo is the best of the lot, but I wish you a spiritted bidding on the Greek coin as well.

 

Yea, verily.

[Hoot]

Awesome coin. Pegasas and a Phoenix on the same coin.

 

I thought so at first, but then I got to looking closely at the horse and decided the sculptor needed some anatomy lessons along with some basic artistic skills.

 

Hoot

[syracusian]

The 1973 coins with the phoenix and various copies from ancients , were the first coins to ommit the portrait of the king after a fake referendum that abolished the monarchy by the colonels who had seized power since 1967.The royal shields of the reverses were already abandonned in the coins of 1971 in favour of the phoenix, presenting a bizarre mixture of a king who was in exile on the obverse and an emblem of an increasingly unpopular military government on the reverse.

 

The Pegasus of the 5 and 10 drachmai is a liberal copy of the one used in ancient Corinthian coins. The phoenix on the other hand, with its symbolic meaning of rebirth from its ashes had been already used in the first modern Greek coins of 1828-1831 and again in the 1930 5 drs before its reappearance in 1973. From a symbol of liberty and hope it became one of hatred towards the dictators who had adopted it as their emblem and as such, it still carries negative connotations to this day, at least for my generation.

 

 

 

Such sensitivities were not very likely to stop a greedy collector like me from acquiring them of course.

[1jester]

Stunning coins, as usual.

[HaydenTubbs]

Beauties!

[gunmoney-migration]

Realy nice, the Borneo is the nicest of the lot, haven't seen one in this condition in ages

[JamminJ]

Thanks for all the nice comments. I agree with the consensus that Borneo is the pick of the litter. While all are quite nice, finding early stuff in that kind of preservation is not an every day occurance.

[syracusian]

Well, I guess you can't complain James, at least from the last two.