thedeadpoint Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 Vote for the coin face that best represents Ancient coins. This coin will go in the titlebar at the top of this page. Marv - Ptolemy VI, AR Tetradrachm 12.8 gm, probably Phoenician or Palestinian mint. 180-145 B.C.E Not in SNG Cop. or BMC. Ex: Shirley Barr Sage collection Voting ends Saturday, January 10th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 reverse. The eagle is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwing Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 The eagle is nice, but I thought a bit too common with the US using the eagle on its coinage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin43160 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 reverse for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzy452 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marv Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 To me, the obverse is the most startlingly beautiful face of the coin, and, as such, represents the signature high relief of many of the earlier Greek coins. The reverse is less so. When you see the coin in person, the obverse simply pops out as no modern coin design has done, with the possible exception of the high-relief or ultra high-relief St. Gaudens $20 designs. This was obviously a powerful strike too, as some of the Ptolemy eagle coinage is not so well struck. Most of the 14 Ptolemys continued to portray the visage of Ptolomy I Soter on the coinage, as does this coin, almost to the time of the last, and most famous, Cleopatra VII (there were six others), who, having married her brothers, Ptolemy XIII and XIV respectively to stay in power, was also the last of the Ptolemy lineage of Egypt, at around 300 years, the longest lived of the Kindoms resulting from the breakup of Alexander's empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 I must confess that I think the obverse is far superior to the reverse. There's just something about the portrait that wins me over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Keep voting. I'll close it when I wake up tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Obverse wins 16 - 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I remember voting for the eagle side but unfortunately it wasn't the winner - check the CoinPeople header. Hope they make it back for 2011 so I can vote for the eagle side again. Vote for the coin face that best represents Ancient coins. This coin will go in the titlebar at the top of this page. Marv - Ptolemy VI, AR Tetradrachm 12.8 gm, probably Phoenician or Palestinian mint. 180-145 B.C.E Not in SNG Cop. or BMC. Ex: Shirley Barr Sage collection Voting ends Saturday, January 10th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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