Your favorite coins by century.

Agree. Three is too much, but one is too short.

 

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Maybe I'll just make a composite picture of my favorite BC coins

 

THESSALIAN LEAGUE
THESSALI, Larissa
AR Stater, 196-146 B.C.

6.14 grams, 21 mm
Obv: Laureate head of Zeus right crowned with oak
Rev: Athena Itonia advancing right brandishing a horizontal spear in right hand and shield in left hand. ΘΕΣΣΑ to left, ΛΩΝ to right, ΦIΛ-ΩN* above, and ποΛοΧοΣ below magistrates Hippolochos and Philon.
Grade: Well centered about EF with gentle toning and attractive obverse field flow lines.
Other: Good style similar to Sear 2232, BMC 3,34. BCD Thessaly II 869.2 [Double Victoriatus = 1.5 Denarii]. Ex La Galerie Numismatique (Heritage Jan 2013) lot 61035 From Eye-Appealing Coins April 2013.

 

Here is a pretty 2nd Century B.C. coin:


AEOLIS, Kyme
AR Tetradrachm
ca. 165 BC

15.55 grams, 29 mm.
Obv: Head of Amazon Kyme right, hair bound with ribbon.
Rev: Horse pacing right, one-handled vase at feet; KYMAIΩN to right, KAΛΛIAΣ in exergue, all within laurel wreath.
Grade: a gEF coin, well centered, well struck, & beautiful.
Other: Sear 4183. NS.4183, BMC Troas 73, Oakley ANSMN 27 pl. 4, 17. SNG Cop. 103, SNG vonAulock 1636. Ex McHugh collection, ex Nobel sale 103 lot 4653 Nov 2013. From Del Parker Jan 2014.

 

My favorite RR bronze...

AE Semis 21mm, 8.6g, anonymous, after 211 BC.
Obv.: Laureate head of Saturn right; S behind.
Rev.: Prow of galley right; S above, ROMA below.
Crawford 56/3; Sydenham 143a; BMCRR 229; Sear 766.

 

nice work
i got (half numidian coin )
its for Kings of. Micipsa. son of king (Massinissa) 148-118 BC. AE 27mm (14.00 gm). Laureate, bearded head left / Prancing horse left; pellet below

 

Love those coins C89....We shouldn't rush it we have a month of Sundays, 2 days fine by me...There's about 36500 days in a century, i think they had less days in a year BC., but i said about..

 

When a thread creates more discord than it does fun, kill it. If you want to post a separate thread for some purpose (including date), feel free. I'm finished here.

 

Here is my final 2nd century coin (it was very difficult to choose this baby over another close 2nd) ...

IONIA - EPHESOS - DRACHM
202-133 B.C.
Diameter: 17
Weight: 3.2 grams
Obverse: E-Φ; bee
Reverse: BIANΩP; stag standing left, palm tree in the background
Other: very fine; scrape mark on reverse

 

What discord? Man I'm missing something.

 

Hey my awesome coin-friends ... either post your coins, or don't post your coins (there aren't any cash-prizes for the best examples)

... it's supposed to be fun, not stressful ...

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JA => you want to try every second-day => that sounds like a sound game-plan ...

Cheers

 

WHAT?!

I'm so outta here.

 

JA => nice ... man, I love seeing that AE Prow-Semis of yours (it's a super coin!!)

 

One of my 3rd century BC favorites.

I've had a thing for Pan ever since reading Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. Robbins has probably licked a few too many Bufo toads in his lifetime but his mind is a fascinating and fun place.



KINGS of MACEDON, Antigonos II Gonatas
277/6-239 BC, struck after 270 BC
AR Tetradrachm
31mm, 17.06 g
Amphipolis mint
Obv: head of Pan in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with stars within crescents
Rev: BASILEWS ANTIGONOU, Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield; helmet left, EMP monogram right
Ref: SNGCop 1200v, EMP ?
R. Martin, "A Third-Century B.C. Hoard from Thessaly at the ANS," ANSMN 26, 536 (same obv. die).
ex Demetrios Armounta Collection



Review snippets from Amazon:

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."—Washington Post

“Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world’s philosophies—problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex—and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. —Saturday Review

From the Publisher
"Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--The Washington Post

 

wow i love it thanks

 

Hey ...
=> "Welcome muhab" ... it is always awesome to attract new ancient coin-friends!!

Cheers

 

2nd century BC: One of my very very favorite coins, a 15 shekel bronze coin from Carthage. Still trying to take a great picture, can't seem to capture it with just one shot. So I'll post several

Can't believe I got it. I saw it on Great Collections and held my breath for a week, planning a big snipe at the end. Put in the big bid in the last few seconds and won. No one else even bid! Baffling. The only reason I can think of is that most ancient collectors don't even bother looking at the few ancients ever offered on GC, which are usually ordinary, slabbed, and overvalued. Thankfully this one wasn't slabbed although it was sent for grading. Photocert had a notation as to why it wasn't slabbed: "too big". Uh, yeah.

Zeugitana, Carthage
early 2nd century BC
15 Shekel
45 mm, 95 gm
Obverse: head of Tanit left
Reverse: horse standing right, left foreleg up; uraeus above

 

I didn't even know GC had ancients - that's a heck of a coin! If you ever need a doorstop, you know where to go!

 

Doorstop, hockey puck, yep! This one won't blow away in the next hurricane. Gonna have to watch out for a flying monkey though

The other puzzling thing about this coin being auctioned by GC: why would someone choose to sell such a rare ancient coin there? Maybe it was just some yucky old coin amid grandpa's mostly US collection and the heirs chose GC to handle the collection?

I couldn't believe how low the opening bid was. And that's what it sold for. The seller could've realized so much more if it had been consigned to CNG, Goldberg, etc.

 

TIF => man, I always love seeing the tropical-background in your side-shot (very well played, sister!!)

=> *sigh* ... it's still -40 Celsius with the windchill here today (dead-centre of winter)