anyway ... today I only scored one of my coin-targets Oh, but I did score it for a mere $60 initial bid (yup, that means I snagged it for less than the estimated initial price) ... I love when that happens! Sure, it's a primitive looking lil' thing, but I fell in love with it immediately (another sweet animal coin) PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. AR Twenty-fourth Shekel Circa 393-311/0 BC Diameter: 7.2 mm Weight: 0.46 grams Obverse: Dolphin leaping right Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail in background Reference: E&E-T Group III.1.2.d, 1655-1710; HGC 10, 329 corr. (denomination) Other: 6h … toned, minor porosity. Choice for issue
Please feel free to jump on-board and post some relative examples ... Phoenician coins, coins with owls, coins with dolphins, coins with crooks & flails ... or post your shekels, or even your 1/24th shekels!! (yup, this is another wee lil' silver baby!!) => post *whatev*
Nice! I like those types because the owl/crook/flail devices hail back to really ancient Egypt - the coins look more Egyptian to me than Phoenician.
Man, Steve! Scored a target, cool animals, and for UNDER the estimate... man, you should pay US for all that fun! OWLS:
=> here, I'll go first second ... here are a couple of my Phoenician coins Phoenicia, Sidon. AE-23 Year 227 (AD 116-117) Diameter: 23 mm Weight: 10.56 grams Obverse: Turreted, draped and veiled bust of Tyche right, aphlastron behind, star before Reverse: Car of Astarte, baetyl within, date ZKS below Reference: BMC Phoenicia, p. 175, 197ff; SNG Cop 247 Phoenicia, Byblos King Uzzibaal AR 1/16 Shekel Date: 365-350 BC Size: 11.03 mm Weight: 0.76 grams Obverse: two hoplites with shields in war galley sailing left (roaring lion’s head on prow), hippocamp swimming left below (N O in field) Reverse: Phoenician inscription; Lion attacking bull, left Reference: BMC 6 Other: A nice example with bold detail and near perfect centering which is seldom seen in the issue
Thanks for the comments, fellas ... Oh, and thanks for jumping-in with both feet, Gandalf (great coins!!)
Hmmm...I'll play, with this one! Tyre, Phoenica AE25, 12.5g; 12h; 2nd-1st Century BC Obv.: Head of Heracles-Melqart right Rev.: MHTPONΠOΛΕΩΝ; Club surmounted by monogram of Tyre, all within oak wreath Not often I get to bring ole Melqart out.
That's a great database you've got where you can call up all the images associated with a particular word and put them together into one image. Very efficient!
I used Microsoft Access to create a way that I could enter all my ancient coins into as a record and then pull up information about the coins. The most common report I do is pulling up a list of rulers and reverse types.
Thanks Jwt ... I was kinda kidding, but thanks for the info, my thoughtful coin-bud (you rock) Ummm but honestly, my database is merely an excel sheet with as much info as possible stuffed into a table (yah, I'm pretty sure that Bing and I use the same "database strategy") ... it's kinda like a homemade computer (ummm, or more like a crappy list)
Wow AJ, your example looks like it may have cost a bit more than $60 => but man, they sure look sweet together, eh? => thanks for posting your stuff, Mr Bond (I always love seeing your top-drawer examples) Cheers
@stevex6 when do I get my royalty check for the use of that format: See my thread on "An Elephant and a Zebu walk into a bar". That will be $50. Thank you! Oh, and U.S. Dollars please. None of that maple syrup smelling Canadian Dollar stuff. Anyway, here is my Dolphin, which people must be getting tired of seeing: Istros Drachm