Let the Games BEGIN!

lol, love the canineriga race

 

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Nice additions, Brian. Would love both types.

 

Very nice! I've not had any luck getting one of these yet.

 

Awesome! The T. Didius fighting type is so much artistic than the much more common Q. Thermus denarius... I wish I had one! High on my list.

 

wow titus elephant

 

games are started with titus and vespasian they build the coloseum

 

lol with wine i get beter pictures, back ground i could work on it

 

That is a great coin! I may have to find one...

 

I like your Septimus with elephant reverse. It would be easier to view if you cropped the photo closer to the coin.

 

Pisidia, Selge AR Stater
325-250 BC
Diameter: 24.1 mm
Weight: 9.43 grams
Obverse: Two wrestlers grappling, K between
Reverse: Slinger; triskels above, club and cornucopia right
Reference:
Other: Obverse die slightly corroded, gorgeous dark toning




Mikey-Z => congrats on scoring that sweet OP-winner from your friend (cool lil' addition)

 

Great coin!

 

That is a fabulous reverse! An awesome addition to your collection!

 

Thank you David! I am amazed with your collecting specialty, the history behind it, and the focus that you have in your collection. I enjoy focus, but have so many areas that I am fascinated for its history. I realized that Gladiatorial Games had started early in the Republic, and as I understood it, as Funeral Games to honor the dead. I realized that Gladiatorial contests were very common as we perceive Roman life, and I did not have one! Now, I found another! My short attention span has now found a new collecting niche... FUN!

I have also been fascinated with the creative monograms that the Romans created on their coinage. The ROMA monogram on its reverse also caught my eye as being very different, especially spelling out their name!

 

Speaking of ancient athletic contests, there is a really cool article in the July 2006 issue of the Celator about coins portraying the contests of the Greek pentathalon.

 

THANK you!

 

You're welcome! Isn't that an interesting article? I wish I had the money and time to pursue such a collection.

 

Does this fit?


ROMAN REPUBLIC
L. Plaetorius L. f. Cestianus
AR Denarius. 3.9g, 17.3mm. Rome mint, 67 BC. Crawford 396/1b; Sydenham 792a; Plaetoria 2. O: Diademed and draped bust of Juno Moneta right; MONETA downwards behind, [SC below chin]. R: Victorious boxer running right, one hand holding a palm branch and the other wearing a caestus and trailing ribbons; L PLAETORI downwards behind, L F Q S C upwards before, torch below.
Ex Andrew McCabe Collection; Ex Freeman & Sear Mail Bid Sale 12, 28 October 2005
Notes: The athletic motif may allude to a sporty ancestor of the moneyer, or perhaps to public games being held at the time. The athlete is shown running his victory lap, holding in one hand the palm branch given to a victor of the games while wearing in the other a caestus, marking him as a boxer. The caestus, a gladiatorial battle glove, is a play on the cognomen Cestianus, making this one of the punning types popular with the wittier moneyers of the Republic.

 

Well, Haaiil YES! as we say in these parts! That is definitely a contest / game. And if the Caestus is fully loaded with iron strips, MAN, that would be a brutal bout!

Great coin example Z!

 

I'm on the road so I'll share mine layer but awesome coins everyone!

I would love to own a gladiatorial scene but I think they might be a little out of reach for me right now.

 

Horserider with palmbranch over horsehead, celebrating his victory:


Philip II of Macedonia on horseback, won 3 times a horse race at the Olympic games, with a single horse, biga and quadriga. From then one he was taken seriously by the Greek, before that he was considered a barbaric Macedonian.