A helmet without a head

In May we had a good thread on helmets:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/

Many ancient coin types have helmets on the head of some god, emperor, or personification. Then in August we had a short thread on helmets without heads:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/helmet-without-a-head.301133/

Rather than resume that one I am starting this new thread with a newly-arrived cute Greek silver fraction:


Macedonia. King Philip V -(c. 187-179 BC) or Perseus (c. 179-168 BC) [The Romans defeated Perseus in 168.]
15 mm. 2.00 grams.
Macedonian shield with club and MA/KE on boss
Helmet left (with no head) with monograms either side.
Below to left, monogram of mint master: ZΩ. To right, star.
Hoover Handbook 3.1 324, page 136 "believed to have been struck at Amphipolis"
SNG Copenhagen 2 Macedonia 1285 (monograms the same) [1282-1288 are very similar, but with various monograms] "Autonomous issues without King's name under Philip V and Perseus c. 185-168."

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Nice coin all around and a great helmet!

Here's mine. A common denarius from Domitian but the reverse is great. The engraver has shifted the Corinthian helmet so that the ear holes lie flat on the seat rather than naturally follow the cheek pieces. Makes the helmet look like an Apulo-Corinthian rather than a Corinthian (for those who know the types!)



CAESAR DIVI F DOMITIANVS COS VII
Laureate head right

PRINCEPS IVVENTVTIS
Seat draped; above Corinthian helmet

Rome, 80-81 AD (after the deification of Vespasian)

3.40g

RIC 271 (C2)

Ex-Stack's, Ex-Calgary Coin

 

These are great images of the past.

I have 4 of these, but this one shows the helmet best.

Tryphon, Diodotus
Mint: Antioch
141 BC
Obvs: Head of Tryphon right diademed.
Revs: BAΣΙΛEΩΣ TPYФΩNOΣ AYTOKPATOPOΣ, Spiked Macedonian helmet with ibex horn.
AE 18mm, 4.9g

 

Here is an ancient counterfeit. Some of the silvering has come off the helmet.


(After) Mn. Cordius Rufus. 46 BC. 2.92g 18mm fourrée denarius.
O: RVFVS; Owl perched on crest of Corinthian helmet; all within circle of dots.
R: Small winged gorgoneion within eight-sided aegis with snakes as sides looping at vertexes, around MN·CORDIVS; all within circle of dots.

 

Here is one you don't encounter that often:

Bosnia: Štefan II Tomaševič (1461-1463) AR Dinar (Jovanovic-62.2)

Obv: crowned and veiled helmet left set on royal coat-of-arms; R and five-rayed star set in six-rayed star on either side of helmet; Legend around - STEFAn •CRAGL
Rev: St. Gregorius standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding crozier; Legend around - S GREGO RI • PAPE

 

WOW, I LOVE all the posts!!

This example came immediately to mind---EX-FORVM:



Silver diobol, SNG BM 268 ff., SNG Cop 653, SGCV I 1673, gVF, toned, Mesambria (Nesebar, Bulgaria) mint, weight 1.219 g, maximum diameter 10.3mm, c. 450 - 350 B.C.; obverse crested Corinthian officer's helmet facing; reverse M-E-T-A (T = archaic Greek letter sampi = ΣΣ) counterclockwise, in the four quarters of a radiate wheel (solar disk?).

 

Nice helmet @Valentinian !

My Helmets without a head:


Carthage Iberia 218-208 BC AE 13 1.4g Calco Barcid Military Mint 2nd Punic Tanit Helmet


MAKEDON Philip III Arrhidaios 323-317 BCE Æ 1-2 Unit 17mm 4.2g Miletos mint Makedonwn shield Gorgoneion - Helmet bipennis K Price 2064


Makedon Amphipolis Philip V - Perseus - lost empire to Romans - helmet Tetrobol


RI Magnia Urbica 285 CE silvered Ant AE 23mm 3.4g cresent - Venus Venus helmet scepter shield RIC 343 Rare

 

ALEXANDER III
AE Half Unit
OBVERSE: Gorgoneion in the center of a Macedonian shield
REVERSE: A Macedonian helmet; caduceus and NK monogram flanking below (Struck under Nikokreon)
Struck at Salamis mint. Struck under Nikokreon 323-315 BC
4.9g, 15mm
Price 3162

 

And this one:

Ancient Judaea, Herodian Kingdom: Herod I (40 BCE-4 CE) Æ 8 Prutot, Uncertain mint in Samaria, RY 3 (Hendin 1169; TJC 44)

Obv: Helmet with cheek guards surmounted by star; above to either side, palm branch
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ HPΩΔOY; tripod lebes; in left field, L Γ; in right field, monogram



and I can blame @Deacon Ray for getting me into Judaean coins...

 

Amazing!

 

Helmet with cheek guards.

 

The helmet used on this design seems to be a crowned frog-mouthed great bascinet. In Eastern Europe they seem to have had a longer usage in actual war, rather than just for jousting as they were tipically used by the late 15th century in Western Europe.

 

I have no idea what im looking at. But enjoy the pictures.
Thanks All.

 

This helmet was found at Ribchester, the site of a Roman Fort in Lancashire, Northern England. The site is just a few miles from Burnley - where I was born and grew up - and I used to visit there frequently as a young boy.

It is from the first or second century AD and is a cavalry sports or games Helmet with face covering.

It is part of the British Museum Roman Britain display.

Bronze Ribchester Helmet

(Courtesy Wikipedia Creative Commons)

Link to the Museum at Ribchester:
http://ribchesterromanmuseum.org/

Wikipedia - Ribchester Helmet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribchester_Helmet

British Museum - Ribchester Helmet:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_...nd_tours/archive_tours/ribchester_helmet.aspx

 

An awesome helmet! Here I am at the Royal Ontario Museum with a reproduction of that very helmet as a Cavalry signifer.

 

Great stuff @Jay GT4 - thanks for posting that!

 

That is an awesome pic @Jay GT4. The museum provided the gig for you or did you create that yourself?

Here is another dinar...

Serbia: Stefan Uroš V (1355-71) AR Dinar (Dobrinic-8.1.2; Dimitrijevic-39)

Obv: Stefan enthroned facing, holding cross-tipped sceptre and akakia; Legend on either side - VOIIb - YPb
Rev: Helmet facing left with crest; Legend around - VROSIVSI MPERATOR

 

Thanks! I'm part of a Roman reenactment group. The museum hires us twice a year. The kit is mine. I have Republican and1st century Roman along with early Southern Italian's like Brettian/Lucanian.

Nice Dinar!

 

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