๐ŸŒ™๐ŸŒ Selene The Moon Goddess (20 Drachmai, 1960) ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ™

As I mentioned in my yesterday's post I have been doing some hunting on Facebook market to see if I could score some nice silver deals.

So, yesterday I got for myself two ottoman coins from an old lady. And today I met with a middle aged man, I'd say around early 50s and scored another two little identical beauties.

This is a coin I have shown you a couple of times in the past and it used to be amongst my favorite when I was stacking since it's common and cheap.

Let's take a look ๐Ÿ˜

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Two, 20 drachmai coins from 1960. Each coin weights 7.5 g and is made of 0.825 silver giving us a combined pure silver weight of 12.375 g. Today's spot price per g is 0.9$ so these two little beauties have a melting value of about 11 $ which is exactly what I paid for, so I think I did well โ˜บ๏ธ

In case you wonder, on the obverse we have King Paul I of Greece who reigned from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964. The Greek text on this side translates "Paul I King of the Greeks". And we also have the date the coin was issued, 1960.

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The other side features Selene on a horse and the denomination, 20 drachmai.

Selene was a minor goddess in Greek mythology and a sister to Helios, the sun god. Essentially a personification of the moon. No wonder, selene (ฯƒฮตฮปฮฎฮฝฮท) is also one of the Greek words for Moon

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene, she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed to her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the mortal Endymion. source

If you take a closer look on the coin you will also spot a dolphin in the bottom, indicating how Selene is rising with her horse chariot from the sea :) ๐Ÿฌ

These coins also feature an engraved edge

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It reads

ฮ’ฮ‘ฮฃฮ™ฮ›ฮ•ฮ™ฮŸฮ ฮคฮ—ฮฃ ฮ•ฮ›ฮ›ฮ‘ฮ”ฮŸฮฃ 1960

For

Kingdom of Greece 1960

Pretty self explanatory!



All in all, I scored one of my favorite stacking pieces for spot price. Can't get any better than than ๐Ÿ˜†

In other news, I just finished ordering some more silver pieces from my main go-to source and I am super excited since I managed to also score one of those monetary oddities I have talked about in the past. And not only that, but I got it for 30% down than what it usually goes on eBay โ˜บ๏ธ

Can't wait to show it off!

Ok plebs, this is it for today. See you soon with more silver ๐ŸŽ‰





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You received an upvote of 88% from Precious the Silver Mermaid!

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Nice score! Those must have been beautiful coins when they were fresh out of the mint. Great silver
!BBH

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I have a couple of those, too! Love them! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Awesome! Just remember only the 1960-65 are silver!

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Nice grabs. Canโ€™t wait to see what you got coming in.
!pimp

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Very nice !BBH !LOL

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Wow, you've been on a roll in your stacking ๐Ÿ˜‚

Tried Facebook market looking for some coins and it seems it isn't as possible in my country.

I really hope that I won't have to start my stacking by shopping from overseas ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Aren't there any local shops over there?

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Naaaa

Coin keeping and stuff is sort of a Western hobby ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

Although I'm still searching, here's to hoping it's not extremely overpriced...

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Getting things cheap is always nice. Just make sure you aren't scammed by a counterfeit because its more likely to happen there.

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