Ancients => Green Machine => post yer purdy green babies!!

Yup, "to me" => there is nuthin' quite as eye-appealing as a sweet, green patina'd coin!!!

I still have a week or so until I "may" win a coin, so I need an outlet .... hey gang, please dig-deep and post your "Green Coins" (yah, maybe it is a bit broad => ummm, but what do any of us have on the agenda that is more important than posting our green coins?!! ... anyone?)



... okay, fine ... but if you have a few sweet green babies, then "please" post 'em!! (thanks gang)

=> here are a few of my green winnas!!

Cheers!!

Antoninus Pius AE Drachm



Antoninus Pius AE Drachm



Campania Teanum Sidicinum

 

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More green in hand

 

Carinus

 

Cilicia Aigeai AE22






Syracuse Sicily (Dolphin & Scallop AE18)

 

Nice!!

=> those are some sweet coins, fellas => thank God I have some awesome coin-friends!!

Cheers!!

 

Gallienus AE TET




Philip II AE Unit

 

darker green in hand

 

Well I could post a hundred green coins, but I have few that have very interesting and beautiful patinas. This is a semi-autonomous issues of Laodicea ad Mare with a powdery, pastel green and desert patina...

 

Uuuuccckkk ... it's sooo slow on the ol' site right now (yah Doug, I know ... patience is a virtue)

... anyway ... here are a few more (man, I'm gonna run-out soon!!)

Marcus Aurelius AE Drachma




Plautilla AE26

 

Celtic potin, Leuci tribe
80-20 BC
AE18, 3.4 gm
Obv: bald warrior head left
Rev: boar standing left, three half-circles below
Ref: BN 9100-9104
current TIF Pink Floyd / Animals collection, track 3: Pigs (Three Different Ones)

 

*wants sexy times with that coin*.

 

One of my favorite Ptolemy specimens



PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM, Ptolemy IV Philopater AE42
221-205 B.C.
AE42, 67.86gm
Obv: Head of Zeus Ammon right with ram's horn, wearing taenia diadem
Rev: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; Σ between legs; Cornucopiae left decorated with royal diadem
Ref: Svoronos 992

 

Not sure if this type of coin will pass the censors on CT. It didn't on another forum so I'm blurring the offending feature...



Elagabalus
MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis.
A.D. 218-222.
Æ18, 2.78 g, 7 h
Obv: AVT K M AVP ANTΩNINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right
Rev: NIKOΠOΛITΩ-N ΠPOC ICTPO-N, Priapus standing left, pouring libation from patera and holding basket of fruits set on phallus.
Ref: Hristova & Jekov 8.26.17.1; Varbanov 3863.

Attribution per seller. All other online resources I've seen list this as Nicopolis ad Istrum. I need to research this.

 

I think the coin would have been ok to post. Seems like Priapus likes Steves Plautilla coin too. I dont blame him.

 

ahahaha, Mat => amazingly, that Plautilla-coin was the coin that finally got me kicked-out of the good ol' CCF ...

... yah, for some reason I also posted "Ralph from the Simpsons" (yup, that was the death o' me ... what a fricken place!!) ... yah, for some reason that gay moderator didn't like Ralph (who knew?)

 

Johannes, Western Roman usurper (423-425 AD)


City of Ravenna, Ostrogothic Kingdom
(struck 498-526 AD) (its a richer green in hand)

 

someone say green?

 

Weird. Well its better here anyways .

 

Varbanov 3863 is correct. Nicopolis ad Istrum was in Moesia Inferior. The basket of fruit always cracks me up. What better way to serve your guests...