Pretty delicate little coin from the city of Kos, home of Hippocrates- Father of Medicine and an amazing cultural history. They were known for silk, clothing manufacture, olives, wines, awesome beaches and a great Library. Everything but crabs? Post your crabs if you have them! Carian Islands. Kos 280-250 BC. AE12. Veiled female head(Demeter) right/crab with club below Sear Greek 5011 (350-300 BC). Hoover Islands Kos 1337. Rare.
Great capture @Mike Margolis ! Just a cool coin! @TIF also has a cool one, as long as she adds her Cameo pic too... Here are my Crabs: Sicily Akragas AE Onkia 16mm 3.8g 425-406 BCE Eagle r fish fly - Crab conch SNG ANS 1062 var Apollonia Pontica Thrace AR Diobol 1.3g 410-323 BCE Apollo-Anchor crab A Tupalov 56 (Tiny CRAB device on reverse, right of anchor... me... I call that a CRAWDADDY)
Definitely a crawdad. The Conch is quite unusual. Don't think I have ever seen one like that. Is the disc above the crab on the onkia the moon or just a pellet? I suspect the moon(or a pearl?). That is awesome - moon, crab and conch - like at the beach in the sand on a full moon evening- and a campfire..........
It is an Uncia (Onkia), which is 1 Unit. Ergo, a big-As DOT above the Crab. No moon above... just mooning about it. And hey, to set the scene CORRECTLY you forgot the BEER... (Oh, and you always have flies at those evening campfires with food around...) Here is a better pic from ACSearch
Sicily, Akragas 425-406 BC Crab, 3 pellets with Cray fish below Eagle with captured rabbit on reverse AE 10.3 gr
Nice little coin, and that pale blue patina is fantastic. I got an Akragas Sicily, Hemilitron (6 pellets) Circa 420 BC, 28mm, 15.47g.
BaBoom! That is a MASSIVE coin. So, I take it that the pellets are a measure of weight and value? Beautiful coin, btw
Thanks, yes more commonly referred to as mark of value after my base metal one the denominations moved to silver i.e. Litra, drachm, didrachm and tetradrachm. I always wanted one of these Agrigentum crab coins since I visited the valley of temples some still in good preserve only about 100 years older than these coins, magnificent.
Nice one, Mike! Valentinian often has interesting coins for sale (and books). One of my favorite coins features a couple of crabs: BRUTTIUM, the Brettii 216-214 BCE Æ quartuncia, 13.5mm, 2.06 g Obv: head of Amphitrite left, wearing crab headdress Rev: crab; torch above, BPET-TIΩN above and below Ref: Pfeiler p. 33, 4a; Scheu, Bronze 51; HN Italy 1944; SNG ANS 123–4; SNG Lloyd –; McClean 1579
That's a fantastic coin TIF, I don't think I have seen anything like it before.......except I may have seen a pic of you wearing a similar headdress as Amphitrite, can you refresh my memory please?
If you click the link under my coin (the first line of the attribution), it will take you to the thread where I first showed the coin and you'll find the picture there.
Wow- very nice. Let me know if these two are on any ancients any of you all know of: Oceanus and his main squeeze- Tethys = the original archaic Greek Titans of water: They also both have some stylish hair accessories!
I’m not aware of Tethys being on any ancients, but here’s Oceanus. HADRIAN AR Denarius. 2.98g, 19.1mm. Rome mint, AD 119-125. RIC 75a. O: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right. R: P M TR P COS III, Oceanus reclining left on a dolphin, crab claw horns on his head, holding an anchor in his right hand. Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection
