Incuse-punch coins => Let's see 'em!!

To my way of seeing it, 'punch' should be reserved for reverses without design like the original rough punches shown on the first three coins. When you add letters and other pictorial elements, it becomes a reverse type. They may be in an incuse square or be an incuse design but they are not punches as I would use the term.

 

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LESBOS, and to think I always thought that meant something else.

 

Lesbos was the home of the poet Sappho whose works became associated with 'something else' in the 19th century. What was considered normal in 600BC and what was normal in 1880 AD is rather different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

 

=> yah, you're right ... I guess I should have merely called the thread "archaic incuse coins" rather than "incuse punch coins" (hey, ya caught me!!)

 

Thrace, Chersonesos
400-350 BC
AR hemidrachm, 13mm, 2.3gm
Obv: forepart of a lion right, head reverted
Rev: quadripartite; incuse; dot AΓ (ligate) and pentagram in opposing depressions
Ref: ? Haven't found this one yet in any online resources

 

THRACE. Byzantion
340-320 BC
AR siglos, 17 mm, 5.0 gm
Obv: Heifer standing left on dolphin swimming to left
Rev: Incuse mill-sail pattern
Ref: SNG BM Black Sea 21
Interesting and beautiful tobacco/rose toning

 

ARGOLIS, Argos
330-270 BC
AR Triobol or Hemidrachm, 14mm, 2.4 g
Obv: forepart of wolf left, retrograde Σ above
Rev: large A; Π–Ρ above, club below; all within shallow incuse square
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1083.3; HGC 5, 667
ex Dr. Georgios I. Michael Collection
current TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection, track 2, "Dogs"

 

ARGOLIS, Argos
330-270 BC
AR Triobol or Hemidrachm, 13mm, 2.5 g
Obv: forepart of wolf left
Rev: Large A; triskeles below; all within shallow incuse square
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1075.2; HGC 5, 667
ex Dr. Georgios I. Michael Collection
current TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection, track 2, "Dogs"

 

IONIA, Samos. 510-500 BC
AR drachm, 13.7 mm, 3.2 gm
Obv: forepart of winged boar left
Rev: facing lion scalp with dotted square, within incuse square
Ref: SNG Cop 1673
current TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection; track 5, "Pigs on the Wing, Part II"

 

IONIA, Klazomenai
499-494 BC
AR diobol, 10 mm, 1.0 gm
Obv: forepart of winged boar right
Rev: quadripartite incuse square, K
Ref: SNG München 451
current TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection; track 1, "Pigs on the Wing, Part I"

 

IONIA, Klazomenai
499-494 BC
AR diobol, 9mm, 1.2 g
Obv: forepart of winged boar left
Rev: incuse square
Ref: Cf. BMC 9-10 (drachm); cf. Traité I 488 (drachm). VF, toned, porous. Very rare with boar left, apparently unpublished as a diobol
ex Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 256 (25 May 2011), lot 123.
current TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection, track 1, "Pigs on the Wing, Part I"

 

CARIA, Mylasa
450-400 BC
AR hemiobol, 7 x 9 mm, 0.5 gm
Obv: facing forepart of lion
Rev: scorpion within incuse square
Ref: SNG von Aulock 7803; Klein 429 (Milet)
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So yeah, I've got a few incuse punch types I've got more but they're not yet loaded to my website. Sure is easier posting coins to CT from my new website, compared to digging through my hard drive and looking for the auction bookmark!

 

Very nice coins, TIF!

 

Well played => super-cool coins and great photos, Coin-Princess!!

 

Oh yeah, I forgot my poor lil' Lion & Scorpion (thanks TIF)

 

Between this

and this

I much prefer the second title

 

Well, I'll try not to toss-in any barnyard animal names whenever I'm referring to Your Royal Coin-Highness, okay?




... oh, but here is my far less impressive Flyin' Pig & Lion incuse (sadly, my pig certainly doesn't come-across as a real Flyin' Ace, does he?!!)

 

Perhaps because it's not a winged boar, just a regular terrestrial boar.

And isn't the whole thing excuse in relief, rather than incuse?

 

=> AHA!! ... well, that certainly explains why my poor pig keeps getting injured when he jumps outta the plane with all of his winged buddies!!

... according to my notes/description, the Lion is apparently in an incuse square (sadly, my flan is a bit too tight to show the full-effect ... which I'm sure is the reasoning for me "not" posting this example way-back-when, last year)