View of the Acropolis from the rooftop bar of our hotel in Athens

Star of the collection, the dekadrachm of Athens, mounted
on a rotating stand, so visitors can view both sides

LEFT: a rare surviving coin die used to strike Athenian tetradrachms
RIGHT: Tetradrachm of Athens on the modern Greek €1 coin

This is one of only four gold staters known from the emergency coinage issued
in 406 BC by Athens at then end of the Peloponnesian War. After the disastrous
Sicilian expedition in 413 BC and the Spartan capture of Deceleia in Attica,
the silver mines of Laurion were no longer accessible and Athens resorted to
striking gold stripped from the statue of Athena in the Parthenon.

Two examples of the coin at the top of Mike's wish list:
Gold solidus of Michael I Rhangabe (Constantinople 811-813)

Mike Markowitz and Steve Benner