Ancients => Mmmm, nude wrestlers (is that wrong?)

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Steve and any others celebrating! That's a wonderful coin and has quite a bit of detail. I have no staters or wrestlers or ostriches (very cool @TIF ) to share.

How about a recent addition?


Gaius Caligula, AD 37-41
Æ As, 29mm, 11.5g, 6h; Rome mint, AD 37-8
Obv.: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, bare head left.
Rev.: VESTA above, S C across field, Vesta, veiled and draped, seated left on ornamental throne, holding patera and long transverse scepter.

Break out those sweat pants and overeat some bacon wrapped turkey!

 

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Here's a six pack of staters, starting with a rake* of colts**

* Apparently the collective noun for colts is "rake" or "rag". I was hoping it would be something more interesting, like "a murder of crows", "a parliament of owls", or "a crash of rhinoceroses". Nope. Rake. No idea why.
** Corinth staters with Pegasus are slangily called colts.


CORINTHIA, Corinth. AR stater, 400-375 BCE. Pegasus/Athena, with apotropaic pudenda virilia (man I love saying that )


CORINTHIA, Corinth. AR stater, 375-300 BCE. Pegasus/Athena, with rampant chimaera.


CORINTHIA, Corinth. AR stater, 345-307 BCE. Pegasus/Athena, with facing mask of Nick Nolte Silenus.


ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina. AR stater, 456/45-431 BCE. Tortoise/incuse skew


SIKYONIA, Sikyon. AR stater, 335-330 BCE. Chimaera/dove in wreath


THESSALY, Thessalian League. AR stater, 48/7 BCE. Zeus/Athena Itonia

 

WAY COOL on the Staters folks! I really don't collect a lot of Greek coins, which were the stater people. The only thing that I have that is "Stater", would be my Alexander III Stater from Babylon that I posted in the "Alex Again" threadhttps://www.cointalk.com/threads/alex-again.284718/page-2#post-2539522 , and this FRACTIONAL STATER from Carthage:


CARTHAGE, ZEUGITANA
AV GOLD 1/10 STATER or Trihemiobol 350-320 BCE
Carthage mint
7.50 mm, 0.94 g
Obv: Palm tree with two date-clusters
Rev: Horse’s head right
Ref:Jenkins & Lewis Group III, 138; GC.6461-Müller II,87,81; Sear 6455;SNG Cop (Nordafrika) 132, MAA 8
Comment: two small scratches on reverse (neck of horse)

Kinda cool looking at it compared to a Modern US St Gaudens $20 Gold piece.

 

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Canada! Enjoy your turkey stuffed with poutine (or whatever constitutes the traditional dinner for today.)

Very cool coin! But it has me wondering: Why the heck is there an ostrich on a coin from Thrace? When would a Thracian have even had the chance to see an ostrich, so far from the birds' African homeland? Was this animal imported for gladiatorial games? Or did the ostrich formerly have a much larger range, similar to the lion? (Herakles didn't travel to the Serengeti to slay the Nemean lion, after all.) Also, now I will not rest until I have acquired a specimen of this coin for myself.

 

Excellent questions and I'm just beginning to look for answers. This coin was a case of shoot first and ask questions later

There have been a couple of them up for auction since I've been ostrich hunting. I was very happy to get this one today .

Ostriches are also on Severan Circus Maximus denarii but they are tiny (23 animals on the reverse!) and barely recognizable (if recognizable). Exotic game was brought in from far away for various Roman games.

 

Hmmm, I'm shocked that question didn't occur to me as well......I'll blame NFL football and you can blame TIF for making you (and I) lust after yet another coin LOL

LOVE those staters guys!!!

 

Happy Thanksgiving Steve. Nothing to add.........modern guys don't wrestle in the nude, but I've heard that it was quite fashionable for ancient Greece.

 

Great score Steve, it's got everything you want from the type!

 

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day! Half my family live in Ottawa and I have spent close to a year there counting all the summers I visited. I should also get credit for all the Canadian visitors who invade my house in the winter. If you all could do something about the prolonged deep freeze period I would move there in a heartbeat.

I've got this Tarentum Stater featuring naked dudes. I loved the waves under the dolphin and the nice toning.



I always lean back real casual like the dude on the coin while riding my dolphin here in Florida.

John

 

Very nice coin, Gol.

I love this type, and I always have at least one of these on my watch list. But I can't buy everything I want, and my portrait collection takes priority - but who knows what could happen at 3am when i come home from the clubs and sit in front of my computer?

 

You thought I never rode a dolphin but I have a picture:



Oh, we had a lot of good times together, Marty and me.

 

There is something about the lighting on the coin I don't like here. It is hard to tell when a bad coin is shown in best light or the best coin shown in bad light.

My wave coin makes it easy since being fourree should make it bad in itself.

 

That was a cell phone picture taken at my bank.

I need to get a better picture.

 

Just kidding. Enjoy your national Northern holiday!

 

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! Great coin buy... I like the trio of symbols on the reverse too. Left wrestler looks like a pro, but I think my money is on the somewhat scary-looking big head dude on the right. He looks like he may have a Mortal Kombat style finisher in his repertoire.

 

Ummm, are there any Texas Ranger fans out there tonight? ... being a true Canadian, I'll say "Sorry that the Toronto Blue Jays swept your team"



Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!

 

Oh, and thanks for the great coin-participation ... I love this site!! (you guys are great coin-friends)

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 125-28 AD Neptune standing
Reference.
RIC 156d; C. 304; BMC 350

Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
Bust of Hadrian, laureate, draped on left shoulder, right.

Rev. COS III
Neptune, naked except for cloak over right thigh, standing right with right foot resting on prow, holding trident in right hand and acrostolium in left

2.91 gr
18 mm

 

Nice addition, Oki ... is it a recent score?

 

yes my friend, german auction