Here's a Byzantion cow/dolphin rider I've wanted for several years now....breaking a 3 month coin drought! The cow and dolphin are well centered, which was my chief requirement, the off reverse is ok with me. If this one looks familiar, it is from the stevex6 collection, which is also something that has been on my list! Don't worry stevex, I'll give your bovine buddy a great home! Thrace, Byzantion, AR Hemidrachm, 340-320 BC O: Cow on dolpin, monogram above. R: Quadripartite incuse mill-sail pattern. SNG BM 36-41 , 14x11 mm, 2.5 g. Ex SteveX6 collection. I shouldn't have shot the pic as sunset approached, but I was kind of excited and couldn't wait. Here is steve's pic of coin... Looks better, I'll have to reshoot. EDIT: Here is another pic, better?
YeeHAH! Nice surf ropin', cowboy I'm sure Steve will be delighted that it went to you. I bought this siglos years ago, after @Ancientnoob showed one he got in trade. I thought it was the funniest/coolest coin ever and had to get one right away . It is very darkly toned, deep gray with pinkish green overtones. THRACE, Byzantion 340-320 BCE AR siglos, 17 mm, 5.0 gm Obv: Heifer standing left on dolphin swimming to left Rev: Incuse mill-sail pattern Ref: SNG BM Black Sea 21 Last year I bought its little brother: THRACE, Byzantion Circa 340-320 BCE AR; Half Siglos; 14 mm, 2.53 gm Obv: monogram; Bovine standing left on dolphin left Rev: Quadripartite incuse square of mill sail pattern Ref: Schönert-Geiss 291. SNG BM Black Sea 36–41
Great coin chrsmat71, and nice pic but one question and I am sure steve is wondering to......what happened to your gnarly old table?
GREAT job Chris! I REALLY like that! AND, you took several pics and views of it WITHIN ONE POST! YES! Believe it or not, I always like looking at the ancient incuse reverses, and wonder about the reverse die they placed them on. Cool windmill shot up with scattershot! I always liked the surfing Bulls... I have one too (He has been surfing so much, the dolphin has lost a lot of weight!): Thrace Byzantion AR Half-Siglos bull-dolphin-incuse 340-320 BC
Sweet x6 score, Chris! In neighboring Kalchedon they surfed on ears of grain... which is really just not the same .
Thanks everyone! I still got it, in fact I put the coin on top of "ol' gnarly" and got my best pic yet!
Nice relief on that SurfCow, @chrsmat71! As @dadams and @Aethelred will recall, I won the Numismatic Gladiator XI contest over on CU with this humbly headless and dolphinless bovine. Numismatic Gladiator was always a "cheap coin competition", based on "best bang for the buck", so having acquired Archaic Greek silver with reasonably decent eye appeal for 25 bucks won me the laurels that time.
