Posted on 12/03/2025 6:28:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv
This video features an extremely rare decadrachm of Alexander the Great - a coin that the conqueror himself might have presented to one of his officers.
Alexander the Great held this coin (maybe) | 4:14
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Well an estimated 30,000 to 60,000 were pounded out. So yeah , I guess Alexander could of maybe touched it.... Or not.
A few seconds on a wire wheel would shine that right up!
You’re not getting it.
“In general, experts can usually tell a fake coin from a real one by matching it to other known examples of the same issue. Gold - being so chemically stable - changes little over thousands of years, leaving gold coins difficult to distinguish from clever modern fakes. But silver does change - it tarnishes, acquires deposits, etc. - and these are harder for forgers to imitate. Bronze changes even more; it’s hard to convincingly mimic a patina”.
You don’t want to ‘scrub’ that.
Woosh!!
“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)
New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Journal of an Asiatic Expedition
Vol. IV No. II; Feb 1793; p.98; by R
I love this journal. Henry starts it out by finding the journal in a trunk in the attic, which is SO Sherlock Holmes.
It’s almost Henry Livingston time so this came to mind. My big interview this year was for Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast *Revisionist History*. Rather depressing as his exec producer wasn’t a Henry believer, so will be curious to know how kind the podcast will be to our research.
The other interview request was very strange. They wanted to know how a different Livingston was likely to have conversed with Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831. As if I’d have the faintest notion. I pointed them to Princeton and Yale archives.
Hahahahahaha
I have a bronze coin from Ptolemy I Soter. It has Ptolemy’s own mint mark on it and was probably minted during the War of the Sucessors about 305 BC or so. The coins were minted to pay Ptolemy’s troops, so it’s safe to assume that while the coin was for certain never held by Alexander. It was first held by one of his men. A very small and insignificant piece of history, but it’s awesome to see the years staring back out of your hand.
Thx!
Nice!
Very impressive. I know just what you mean. I had an opportunity to pick up and hold one of Abraham Lincoln’s stovepipe hats...you can almost physically feel the history.
Another time, I was in Concord, MA and the had one of the lanterns that was placed in the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston to convey to Revere and Dawes “One if by land...two if by sea...”
Just looking at it made me feel the history.
That is so cool. As a coin collector and lover of history, I would love to see it.
Some of my coins and collectibles I have started to share on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/@packratcollector/shorts
One of mine, a silver Greek coin from about 350 BC. The silver has toned to a blue/green with golden highlights. Hard to capture in photos. It's been this way on my family for about 60 years, so it might have taken centuries to get this look. I'd never ever even consider cleaning that off.
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