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>>56719947
>>56720226
>I believe it is this coin
Yes it is
>>56720321
>I don't think that's a bad deal, but not especially good either.

Agreed, those younger tetradrachms from the island of Thasos are relatively common in the context of ancient Greek tetradrachms, but in spite of the weak strike and pitting diminishing its eye-appeal it is very clearly genuine and will be a good starter-coin to study under magnification very closely to gain important hands-on knowledge and experience that will pay good future dividends.

>I will be less impulsive on my next purchase (like i said i would lol).

As I've matured as a collector I might look back and regret many impulse purchases, but they gave me valuable experience that one simply can't obtain any other way. Every savvy collector or expert must begin their journey as a noob, there is no other way. I'll set up a throwaway email so we can communicate directly, should've done it a year ago. We need to be able to discuss more sensitive and valuable secret scrapchad info and share links to potential cheapies or coin deals for evaluation that midwit lurkfags here have no right to learn or see. I promise that I'll never steal any deals you find from you and know you wouldn't jew me either.

Anyway congrats and welcome to the rarified club my fren, good to have you aboard!

Summoning Frogbro!

I can't find the nice bronze coin I have floating around somewhere but these are my very oldest "French" silver coins. They're from the ancient Greco-Gallic trading port city of Massalia, now Marseille, which is the oldest city in the country. The bigger silbers and bronzes are usually inscribed "ΜΑΣΣΑ" and small obols "M/A" in 2 of the 4 quadrants of a wheel, so identification is pretty easy. Ionian Greeks set up the colony 2,600 years ago as a trading post and mixed with the native Celto-Ligurian protofrog population, and back then I think lions still lived in southern France so including one on their coins makes sense. Massalian coins are somewhat scarce but generally not super expensive so if you want to be a French numischad and BTFO plebs and their young babbycoins you need to get a few for the collection, I think they're historically quite interesting.