Ancient => Hey-hey-hey => It's Hadrian and his Snake

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Æ Obol
AD 117-138
Dated RY 14 (AD 129/3)
Diameter: 20 mm
Weight: 4.51 grams
Obverse: Laureate head right
Reverse: Uraeus (cobra) to left, with poppy and grain ear; L-IΔ (date) across upper field
Reference: Köln 1022; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 32.501; Emmet 1170
Other: 12h ... VF, red-brown patina





=> I thought that this lil' coin was pretty cool

 

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Very Cool Steve

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dig that cobra!:thumb:

 

I almost bid against you on that one. CNG, right? Great reverse

 

Thanks for not bidding me up, Bing ...

Yah, I actually had "3" coins lined-up, but I got outbid on the other two!! (as you know, that doesn't happen very often ... imagine how frivalous that "other" dude is, eh?!!)

 

Its a cool coin. I have seen the type, but not trying to get too sucked into Roman issues. Besides, an Egyptian cobra killed someone in my compound in Saudi, so they kind of give me the willies.

 

Man, that's a pretty grizzly tale ... geesh medoraman, i didn't mean to bring-back horror-stories from your past!!


Side-note => ummm, I actually couldn't find very many similar examples of this coin (can you please give me a link(s) to any other similar examples?)

thanks (oh and again => sorry for the flash-backs!!)

 

That's one great looking snake Steve, i have to look into this place called CNG, kind of like a Eng but with a C..

 

Ummm, since it's my thread and since I know most dudes love to add one of their coins to these threads, I am gonna post my other two Hadrian coins (both of different denominations)

=> man, I absolutely "love" these cool ancient coins!! (absolutely "awesome") ......... "PLEASE POST ALL OF YOUR COOL HADRIAN COINS!!"

Hadrian silver (AR) tetradrachm
117-138 AD
Struck at the mint of Antioch in Syria
Diameter: 23.1 mm
Weight: 12.88 grams
Obverse: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian to right
Reverse: Eagle, wings spread, head left, stands upon thigh of bull
Reference: BMC 304-05
Other: NICE surfaces nearly EF. SCARCE





Hadrian Æ Dupondius

Rome mint
AD 117-138
Struck AD 125-128
Diameter: 26 mm
Weight: 11.24 grams
Obverse: Radiate bust right, slight drapery
Reverse: Pegasus right
Other: 6h ... RIC II 758 … Near VF, greenish-brown patina.

From the Robert O. Ebert Collection







=> cheers brothers .......... I gotta go out and walk the hounds!! (and then my wife is having "Book-Club") ... but I'll try to touch-base at some point!!

 

Oh, and in case you haven't noticed ...


=> man, ya gotta love the animal coins, eh?!!!


:high5:

 

Very cool cobra! Here's my Hadrian. I've posted it here before but I've recently taken new images of most of my coins. One of these days, I'll start posting more detailed writeups about them in a series:

 

i don't have a hadrian coin....

 

Hey, my coin-buddy "Batman" found a couple of examples of "similar" examples of my coins, but I think that both pale in comparison ...

http://www.vcoins.com/fr/stores/ancient_imports/8/product/gfgf_hadrian_egypt_alexandria_198_obol__uraeus_cobra/393398/Default.aspx

http://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsrome_hadrian.htm



Ummmm, does anybody else have any other examples? => should I be getting excited that my coin rocks so much!!!?

 

ahahahahaha => man, chrismat71 => you "always" seem to make me howl!! (good job, brother!!)

 

I love the new picture...

Wow!



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=> I totally agree with my super-cool-coin-buddy, Windchild => your new photos are "all that" ... congrats!!


:high5:

 

.... oh, but not nearly as cool as my new Cobra!!

 

Nice pickup

 

I have a similar coin but not in as good shape:


Hadrian Roman Provincial Bronze Obol Cobra Alexandria

Obverse:
Laureate head right
AVT KAI TPAI AΔPRIA CEB (Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus)
Reverse:
Cobra erect with head left, hood spread, crowned with horns and disc,
enfolds stalk of grain and a poppy
L-IΔ (year 14) in field

Size: 20mm
Weight: 4.94gm
Struck: AD 129-130 Alexandria, Egypt
Catalog: Milne 2249
The cobra Uraeus was a symbol of royalty and divine authority in ancient Egypt

 

awesome willieboyd2 => thanks for posting your coin!! (I think that these Cobra-coins "rock!!")


Cheers, Cobra-coin-bro!!

:cheers: