Good ol' boaty mcboatface ... Boeotia

Yah, a couple of my friends felt like I "settled" for this cool coin ...

Okay sure, maybe this isn't the strongest example of this type ... but I managed to score this 2400 year old AR Hemidrachm for a $60 Hammer!! ($40 below the initial estimate) .... yah, I always smile when I poach one of these solid-winnas!!

This baby is symmetric, and full of all my favourite junk!!

=> a shield, a club and a kantharos ... yup, that is fricken standard party-gear where I'm from!!

Please welcome my humble new addition ...

BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. AR Hemidrachm
Circa 395-340 BC
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 2.61 grams
Obverse: Boeotian shield
Reverse: Kantharos; above, club right; BO-I across lower field; to lower right, vertical crescent facing left; all within concave circle
Reference: BCD Boiotia 40; HGC 4, 1166
Other: VF … darkly toned, die break and a couple scratches under tone on obverse. Struck on a broad flan

 

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Oh, and yah .... you're not allowed to post anything in this thread ...

Alright, you caught me => "please" post your junk!!

shields, clubs, kantharos(esis?) ... sweet hemidrachms, Boeotian babies ...

... and of course, your favourite underpants!!

 

My sweet wife is in the big city of Winnipeg tonight ...

... and I just cracked a brand new bottle of wine ...

uh-oh

 

Boaty mcboatface ... ahaha, have you guys ever read that article/story?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...tface-wins-poll-to-name-polar-research-vessel

... ahaha, that still kills me ...

I love the name Boaty mcboatface!!



total winner (If I could have had kids, the first one would have been Mcboatface!!)

 

I think it's a cool pick-up and a bargain for the price. I'm still in the market for one......sigh, so many coins...so little money!

Well, I can throw in a vessel with two handles (and a satyr carrying one) from Thasos:


EDIT: Boaty Mcboatface LOL

 

Yah okay, I know that there has recently been a thread with Boeotian examples

=> hey, you can never get enough of cool coins!!

... anyway ...

Here are my four sweet Boeotian examples ... "please" post anything of yours

 

Super-bowl this weekend, eh?

Ummm, I have already taken this Friday and Monday "off"

=> that's right ... I have a 4-day Superbowl weekend!! (wuh?!)

Hey, don't judge me ... I only have one fricken speed!!

 

Sweet purchase Steve! Yea! Allow me to pile-on with some bronze.

Shields.

Aspendos AE14.
Obv: Shield
Rev: Head of Athena r., O-Θ
14 mm., 2.62 g.


Pamphylia, Aspendos. AE14 Pseudo-autonomous
First century A.D.
Obv: Horse galloping right.
Rev: AΣΠEN-ΔIΩN, Warrior standing right, holding shield and hurling javelin.

Clubs.

Cilicia, Tarsus. AE18. Lycias Magistrate.
Obv: Zeus seated left, holding Nike and scepter
Rev: Club tied with fillets within oak wreath, LYCIA in ex.
Lycias Magistrate.


Moesia inferior, Tomis. Pseudo-autonomous Æ18. Bust of Tomos
Obv: KTICTHC TOMOC Bust of hero Tomos r.
Rev: TOMEITΩN Herakles standing r., holding bow and lion skin, resting on club.


Thrace, Bizya. Marcus Aurelius AE25.
Marcus Aurelius, AE25 of Bizya, Thrace.
Obv: M AVRHLIOCOV HROC KAICAP, bare head right.
Rev: BIZY HNWN, Herakles standing facing, head r. holding club on ground and lionskin.


Achaea. Laconia, Lacedaemon(Sparta). Marcus Aurelius Æ20
Achaea; Peleponnessus (District: Laconia)
Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Obv: ΙΜΠ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΑΝΤΩ ΑVΓ / laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Rev: ΛΑΚƐΔΑΙΜΟΝΙωΝ / Club.



Kantharosessss.

Lydia, Saitta. Pseudo-autonomous AE22.
Obv: Bust of Senate r.
Rev: Dionysos holding kantharos and thyrsos, at his feet, panther.


Thrace, Perinthos. Septimius Severus AE20. Dionysos
Obv: AV K Λ CEΠ CEYHPOC Π, laureate head right.
Rev: ΠEPINΘIΩN, Dionysos standing left, holding kantharos in right, thyrsos in left.

 

Hmmm, sadly there seems to be something awry with this thread of mine, eh?

Ummm, or am I the only dude that's getting that weird format thingy?

Cheers, either way (oh, an thanks for posting your winners, ancientone)

 

Your coin is a pretty attractive example, especially at that price! Broad flans are always cool.

This is all I got. It is pretty sweet.

That was my first thought when I read your thread title.

 

Congrats another spectacularly cheap bargain, hard to believe we can buy 2400 year old coins for quarter of the price of women's haircuts. By the way I like your new avatar it sort of brings back memories (ouch) how much did the coin end up weighing 9gm or 19gm?

 

I haven't received it yet (actually, I just paid for it today ... Feb/01)

=> budget and all ... I will try to remember to weigh that puppy

Cheers, my friend (thanks again ... I didn't mean to induce flashbacks)

 

everything looks good to me...including your new coin!

i don't have much to share (type is on the list), here are some silly boat names nstead...

 

Cool little Boeotian snack, Steve. Thanks for the Boaty McBoatface laugh... lol.

I'm no expert on shields, but the one on this little Tarsos obol looks like a Boeotian shield.



Macedonian shield on a classic First Meris tetradrachm. Oh, and it's got a club on the other side too.

 

I'm not home now, so can't share specific coin details besides these photos of two of mine. The first, with club accross shield (barely visible) and TH-E inscription, is earlier. The second, with AN-DR magistrate and wreath, has a huge flan and the most lovely, old collection toning you'll ever see on a Thebes stater. I think they are both ex BCD Collection.

 

@chrsmat71, those boat names are pretty funny

@stevex6, I have no Boeotians

Here are a few clubs and shields not already shown by others.


MACEDONIA, uncertain
c. 500 BCE
AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 6 mm, 0.28 gm
Obv: monkey squatting left
Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square
Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", Nomismatika Khronika (1998, Tzamalis), 67
Maybe a shield... maybe just a dot or design. Today let's call it a shield


ILLYRIA, Apollonia
c. 1st century BCE
AR 15 mm, 1.25 gm
Obv: AI-NEA; fires of the Nymphaeum of Apollonia; dotted border
Rev: AΠOΛΛΩ-NIATAN, lagobolon; dotted border
Ref: BMC 44; Maier 121
A lagobolon is sort of a club, right? A specialized club used for bashing bunnies


ARGOLIS, Argos
330-270 BCE
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


THRACE, Deultum. Philip I "The Arab"
CE 244-249
AE16, 3.05 gm
Obv: PHILIPPVS IMP M I; laureate, draped, cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield
Rev: C-F P-D in two lines across fields, beehive on a base
Ref: Varbanov 3041 corr. (rev. description; Varbanov describes the beehive as on a temple, similar to the known type of Philip II, but on this coin it appears to be a simple base or stand)
Yeah, it's a pretty weak example of a shield...

 

Last summer we traversed the locks on the Champlain canal and the Erie canal. This boat docked next to us. I've been married to an Irish girl for 35 years so the translation came naturally to me.

Here is a shield to keep it coin related:

BOEOTIA, Thebes
AR Stater
ca. 395-338 B.C.
12.05 gms, 21 mm
Obv: Boeotian Shield
Rev: Amphora with ΘE-OT across field
all within incuse concave circle.
Grade: aVF nicely centered with some
horn silver
Other: Theot-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-348 BC. Similar to Sear 2384 & 2389, Hepworth 60, BCD Boiotia 546. From Allen Berman September 2013.
Thebes was perhaps the greatest & largest city in ancient Greece. Located in central Greece, the city was the arch-rival of Athens, supported Sparta during the Peloponnesian war and was subsequently destroyed by Alexander the Great.

 

Close as I can get...a club.


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

 

A good deal on a sweet coin Steve.