Ancients => Ooops => on the way home, I bought some magic beans

Wow, thanks for all of your great thread-additions ... apparently you coiners must also love Pontos?!! (thanks for contributing an example or a comment ... I love receiving coin feedback)



chrsmat ... man, I love seeing that sweet ol' retro coin-table of yours

=> yup, that is definitely one of my favourite ancient memories, my friend!

 

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Hey, "please" keep your coin-thread examples coming ...

=> if you're looking for a place to play, then you've found it!! (a sweet ol' pile-on thread)

Post your Pontos, post your gorgons, post your Nikes, post your Adidas!!

 

For example => here is another of my gorgon examples ... betcha nobody else has one of these babies




... I love the bull giving that huge grain ear the sweet double-look-back-glance (kinda like one of the James Bond girls, eh?)

 

The flan and patina on the coin looks very much like your table. It's a chameleon coin, trying to match its surroundings!

 

More Pontos

 

Gorgons

 

Okay . More Pontos.




I have a few more too but can't find images. They are duplicate coins from large mixed lots and the duplicates really need to find new homes.

 

thanks gang .... wow, sweeet additions!!

 

Well... There always is a loving home here...

 

Gosh, the only other Gorgon that I have, I had just shown in another thread... but here is another aspect pic of it...



Mercifully freed from its sonic-weld polycarbonate thermoplastic hades-house

 

It rained all day, so I'm afraid I didn't get the light I needed to take the coin photos I wanted for this thread. But hey, my neighbourhood grocery recently started carrying this...



I don't know what that foot-shaped giveaway has to do with fish oil, nor do I really want to think about it...

 

LOL, to "boot" the Pontos Fish Oil looks like a screw-top bottle. Hmmm, so the Pontos Company feels like the bottle openers are for beer...

Beer and Fish-Oil as a drink: would that be a "Barley-Chum"???

 

Looks like a bottle opener. Many Americans take fish oil capsules but all the references online to cooking with it come from Singapore. They advertise no fishy smell and no refrigeration needed. Perhaps it would also serve to repatinate bronze coins???

 

How about this one?


Pontos, Pharnakeia
Æ19, 8g, 12h; 120-63 BC
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right.
Rev.: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monogram to left, ΦAPNAKEIAΣ below.

 

I remember that coin @Jwt708. I almost bid against you for it. Both obverse and reverse are interesting and well detailed.

 

Thanks for not!

 

Well I do have a gorgon coin... well sort of, if you can see it that is lol.

 

After staring at it for a couple of minutes, I can make it out. It's like the ink blot test.

 

Yeah it's not the greatest to say the least. I would let it go for a pretty penny but it is my first ancient purchase.

 

Here's my two. First one from Komana. I think that means together we're only missing one of seven mints?


PONTOS, Komana
Scarce. 6.93g, 20.8mm, PONTOS, Komama, circa 85-65 BC. SNG Ashmolean 189; SNG Stancomb 715. O: Aegis of Athena, with head of Medusa at center. R: [K]OMA-NΩ[N], Nike advancing right, carrying palm branch over left shoulder; monograms to left and right.


PONTOS, Amisos
Imitative or unofficial mint
AE23. 7.27g, 23.5mm, Imitative (Sarmatian?) issue or unofficial mint. cf. Sear 3642. O: Aegis with Gorgon's head at center. R: Nike advancing right carrying palm; [A]MI-Σ… in field.