Acients => c'mon brothers, let's go fyy a fricken coin!!

Okay fine => fyy, fly => same thing, no?




Ummm, I was gonna go salvage my relationship, "but instead", here is my first offering with respect to a "flying coin" => an EAGLE!!





=> fine ... I am still gonna go save my relationship (knock-on-wood) ... but until then:

=> yup, we've got ourselves an "eagle" (caaaawwwwcaaaawwww!!) .... ummmm, but it could be a pegasus, a bat, a fly, a goose, another eagle, a griiffin/gryphons, a whatever ...

hey, please post as many "flying things" as possible and I'll touch-base with you, tomorrow!!




I love you guys!! ... cheers!!

 

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Everything's ok bro ?
Here's a Pegasus to cheer you up :hug:

 

THRACE, ABDERA Tetrobol
OBV: Griffin springing left
REV: Magistrate's name around linear border, within which head of Hermes l., caduceus before; all in incuse square
Struck at Abdera, 411-385 BC
2.780g
May 279


Hope all is well Jerry

 

How about:

SIKYONIA SIKYON AR Hemidrachm
OBV: Chimaera standing left, with heads of snake, lion & goat, raising forepaw, SI below
REV: Dove flying left
Struck at Sikyon, Fourth Century BC
2.6g, 17mm
SNGCop 57, BMC 111

 

Last one for tonight:

Domitian AR Denarius
OBV: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head right
REV: COS IIII, winged Pegasus standing right with raising left foreleg
Struck at Rome, 76 AD
3.1g
RIC 921

 

Owl...

 

[Fat] eagle...

 

Flying turtle :scratch:



Hmmmm... maybe not

 

Owl... part II...

 

Not sure if this belongs here. Er...well, it has what looks like wings. Not sure if it flies...

 

dang...there are some sweet @$$ coins on this page...just awesome...





one of my favorite winged ancients.

pontos-amisos 100ish bc
o:gorgon
r:winged nike with palm branch

 

Batman they fly in the water..:yes:, Steve great look'in Eagle, hope's all well with you...:yes:

 

oh wait...forgot to add....dionysos...oooooooooohhhh yes, there are flying turtles...

 

Ptolemy VI Philometor and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II

Obv: Zeus Ammon, head right
Rev: BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU, two eagles standing side-by-side left on a thunderbolt, cornucopiae in left field, minted sometime between 170-164 BC, Alexandria mint
Svoronos 1424

30.2mm, 22.288g

 

I know nothing about ancients but this grade blows my mind. awesome coin.

 

amazing grade on this 1. wow.

 

GRYPHONS

Roman Republic. L PAPIUS. I have more of these than is healthy! Here are just two of them.

 

Abdera, Silver Drachm

 

Another owl. This time a Transitional style tetradrachm.

 

EAGLES

Sinope, Paphlagonia, Silver Drachm