here's mine, santa brought me two nice greek ae coins...and thankfully the full attributions as well. thrace, thasos 2nd-1st century BC o:artemis r: herakles with bow 18 mm 5.09g BMC 105, SNG Cope 1057ff the reverse of this coin should be rotated clockwise a bit, didn't figure that out until after the fact. ionia, ephesos 48-27 BC o: artemis r: torch between confronting reindeer, dasher left and dancer right. 18 mm 4.3g SNG Cop 342 thanks santa, i very much like my coins!
As I said earlier, mine arrived today from my "not so" secret Santa. It's a great Carthage/Sicily-Punic Æ15 . I've tried several times this afternoon to take a good pic of the coin, but my images are no where near as nice as the coin. Also, doing a little research, my attribution is somewhat different than that sent by my Secret Santa. Someone needs to check me out on this. CARTHAGE/SICILY-PUNIC Æ15 OBVERSE: Head of Tanit left REVERSE: Galloping horse right Struck at Carthage, 3d-4th Century BC 4.59g, 15.6mm SNG Cop 1024 or possibly 1022 Thank you Secret Santa
Bing this might help you a little bit... http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Punic_map/Zeugitana_map/descrPunSas_056-136.html
You are most probably correct my learned friend. However take a look at this coin on wildwinds: http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sicily/punic/SNGCop_1024.jpg
Agreed coin is very close...and the plot thickens. Any who I think its a great coin and it appears you were a good boy this year.
I really appreciate that my Secret Santa remember my growing interest in early Islamic and sent me a coin from that numismatic area. Thanks again Secret Sant, you are great! I had taken Islamic History as an elective this past semester so I recognized the name of the caliph right of the bat, al-Mahdi, but he wasn't discussed a whole lot so had trouble remembering what era/dynasty he was from (Abbasids), but I thought it was pretty cool that I managed to remember his name (this is a new-ish numismatic field for me but I am pretty familiar with the history). He was the son of the previous Caliph al-Mansur, whose name is on my dirham that I have as my avatar. al-Mahdi, Abbasid Caliphate AE Fals Obv: Kufic legend (in center): "[There is] no deity except / God alone / no [one is] equal to him", two pellets below, all within triple linear circle, five annulets in margins Rev: Kufic legend (in center): "Muhammad / is the Messenger of / God"; Kufic legend (in margins): "Ordered by al-Mahdi Muhammad commander of the faithful, of al-Kufa [in the] year seven and sixty and [one] hundred (year 167) Mint: Kufa (struck 783-784 AD) Ref: Album 306
I also participated in a Secret Santa on another numismatic forum and received this gem, an antoninianus of Otacilia Severa (it's a bit shinier in hand): Oh, and for that Secret Santa my recipient was someone that collected US coinage (or Canadian, can't remember), but I sent an ancient anyways
Some really neat coins! I'll post half of mine (other half is on the way,Thanks !! ) A nice and scarce lrb. Thank you Santa Constantine I AE Follis. Rome, 314 AD. IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / SOLI INV-I-CTO COMITI, Sol standing left with hand up in salute & globe, R-F across fields; R-star-P in ex. RIC 19? R4
Good stuff, everyone. I received two nice coins which I'll post tomorrow - I'm too tired to edit pics at the moment.
Woot! I got three coin packages in the mail today, but the one I was most excited to open came from my SS (Super Santa). Just lookie what I got! I wish I had better light because the pictures really don't do the coins justice. The GLORIA EXERCITVS in particular is MUCH better in hand, and the silvered Maximianus follis looks and feels just magnificent. Absolutely love my present! Many thanks again to Eng for organizing this round of gift exchanges for us ancients folks .
For the person who is still, patiently, waiting for my package it should arrive tomorrow or Wednesday (I am assuming USPS is operating on Christmas Eve).
A big thank you to my S.S. for sending me two coins, a denarius of Caracalla and a soldiers/standard ae of Constantine II. This was a fun project and I'm glad I joined in!
Glad we are all getting our coins, Zumbly awesome, Big John great coins, this has been a great project, next year maybe we can double our group. i think there's one more to post...
