My Beautiful Drachm

This one arrived in the mail today.

I already posted my other Indo-skythian coins last week so this one takes center stage. Post any of your coins that arrived sooner than you expected.

 

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Nice! (and very appropriate... ):
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/scythians.aspx

 

This exhibit and this people look remarkable! Thank you for posting a link for it @RAGNAROK.

 

Once again, Deacon Ray, you picked a winner!

Keep up the great work!

Erin

 

Nice, I like the reverse

 

Nice DR, and a nice background as usual. Yet another coin that is on my list.

I purchased this coin off the same fellow, mailed on Friday, mailbox on Monday.


LYDA, Sala. Semi-autonomous. Magistrate Androneikos.
Æ18, 3.2g, 7h, AD 128-161.
Obv.: CAΛHNΩN; Helmeted head of Athena right, aegis on chest.
Rev.: EΠI ANΔΡONЄIKOY CAΛ; Cybele, turreted, seated left, holding patera and resting arm on drum.
Reference: BMC 18-19; SNG Cop 424.

 

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Tremendous helmet! WOW!!

 

A must!!!

 

This guy is intriguingly mysterious. Is he first century? second? Saka? or not?



Very cool BM exhibition, @RAGNAROK, thanks! I might recommend Kenneth Harl's series of lectures for the Teaching Company on the People of the Steppes. Really links the history of east and west very nicely.

 

Cool coin.

 

Ohhh very nice DR.

 

The two Nahapana coins above very nicely show the variety in strike and design in these.
Below a copper of Nahapana's predecessor Bhumaka. Not a coin that will win a beauty contest, but you should be able to recognize the thunderbold on the right side.

 

Great coin @Deacon Ray , and way cool / super bonus for ARRIVING sooner than expected!

This guy keeps moving farther away from me, and I keep moving closer to HIM! We are still half-a-continent apart, and his shipping ALWAYS amazes me how quickly I get them. I am now in his HOME TOWN, but he keeps moving further... @Valentinian :

My first TYRE! And it is just cool...

Tyre, 1/16 shekel. 10 mm. 0.47 grams.
hippocamp left over waves/owl with crook and flail behind
Sear Greek 5916. BMC Tyre 43, page 233
SNG Danish 302

I do NOT collect Fourrees, but this being an EARLY forgery... cool:

Persia Achaemenid Empire 4th C BCE FOURREE 15mm Siglos Persian hero-king in running incuse

And, @John Anthony is ALWAYS consistent delivering virtually on the same day virtually every week:

INDIA Kushan Empire Vima Takto-Soter Megas Æ Tetradrachm 21mm 8.5g AD 80-100 bust r holding scepter tamgha behind on horse r holding axe tamgha Senior B17.1vT

@gsimonel shipped this one QUICK! (First bidness ever with him, even though I am not an Empire collector)

RProv Elagabalus CE 218-222 AE 18mm 4.3g Thrace Philippolis Serpent entwined tripod Pythia Festival Moushmov 5423
(HEY! A snake in a Tripod? Way cool... instant snap-up, even though Empire not my focus.)

This one FREAKED ME! I won it on Auction, and I RECEIVED it within FOUR DAYS from the UK! Regular mail...

Octavian as Augustus LEFT-Sinister 27 BC–14 AD Quinarius Emerita 25-23 AR 13.5mm 1.79g - P CARISI LEG Victory trophy C 387. RIC 1b SCARCE

 

Aha! So, you were the culprit, Alegandron! I've had my eye on that siglos fouree for long time lol.

Sweet coinage!

Erin

 

I had no idea! Like minds...! I do not collect fourrees, but one forgeried so early is crazy.

 

I´m ready! Party time!!

 

My only Indo-Skythian:


India Indo-Scythian King Azes I 57-30BCE AR Drachm
Ex: the Koin-King @John Anthony

 

Keep your eyes open. They are not rare. There are fourree Croesids and electrums from the earliest period. If they made it, someone faked it.

 

Very nice!!!