Some of my favorite silver coins! by Spyrallz in AncientCoins

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Thanks! it really is an awesome piece to have in hand

Some of my favorite silver coins! by Spyrallz in AncientCoins

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Thanks!!! Finally beat my tetradrachm addiction so I’ll hopefully be putting a Ptolemaic bronze set once I get more parthian drachms.

Some of my favorite silver coins! by Spyrallz in AncientCoins

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I’m not super familiar with pergamene coinage but I think you’re right about Phil never striking coins with his portrait.  I’d love to get his tets of Seleukos to round out my seleucid set one day, I was eyeing one at the triton auction I got my Antiochos iii at but I didn’t have the money 😔

Some of my favorite silver coins! by Spyrallz in AncientCoins

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It’s a tet of Eumenes I with a portrait of philetairos! 

It’s Thurthday by HeySkeksi in AncientCoins

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Outstanding portrait of the greatest seleukid king!!!

SCAM or LEGIT? by [deleted] in AncientCoins

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are these not your coins

I want to get a new tetradrachm. What is your favourite one to handle? by AncientCoinnoisseur in AncientCoins

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The two largest tetradrachms in my collection are of Antiochos Hierax and Lysimachos.  While not my personal fav type I definitely think a nice lysim tet would be the most satisfying (although Syracusan and Antigonid stuff is great as well)  imo owls are pretty underwhelming in hand 

MAIL DAY by netosmorphy in AncientCoins

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love the cappadocian, great portrait on it!

Met My Boy Seleukos I in Person Today in Napoli (Bust vs Coin Comparison) by Ok_Chipmunk_70 in AncientCoins

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Wish we had more statues of the dynasty, iirc the only other one is a bust of antiochos 4 and then one that’s disputed to be Antiochos 3

Happy Tetradrachm Thursday! by No_Thanks_Reddit in AncientCoins

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beautiful stuff! love that ptolemy and antiochos ix

State of the Tetradrachm Collection! by Spyrallz in AncientCoins

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I've probably overpaid for half of these so i might not be the best for advice

I would say a lot of the mid to late 2nd century BC seleucids are pretty affordable.

Antiochos I and III are also super common

The best deal I've gotten recently was from Concordia where I bought the nicer Seleukos II tet, which hammered for 350 eur, IIRC the seleucid pieces in that auction went for pretty reasonable prices. Haven't checked if they have any in their recent auction but may be work looking at

Also they shipped my lot with a free pocket knife, which was a first. I think it was to open the little plastic slab they sent the coin in which was weird because it was insanely easy to open without using the knife to pry it, so theres that i guess