Jeepers creepers... please stop looking @me with those crazy peepers! Please pile on wild eyes;)

Yeah, I bought her for laughs (c'mon, the reverse is a horse's rear), the fantastic turrets coming off of Tyche and those daggers that would cut the devils diamonds coming from her eyes

Troas. Alexandreia. Pseudo-autonomous issue circa AD 200-300. Bronze Æ 22mm., 4,62g. CO-L TROAD, turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right, vexillum at shoulder / COL AVG TRO, horse grazing right. very fine Belinger A486. Ex: Savoca blue 2020

But that's not the only wild eyed lunatic in my collection:









Please post your mad dogging, soul searching, crazy eyed, looking right through you, 1,000 yard stares!

 

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THESE EYES


Athens Attica 454-404 BCE ARr hemidrachm 16mm 2.08g Athena frontal eye - facing Owl wings closed olive branches COP 70 SG 2528

 

That is an impressive array of googly-eyed ancients! Very impressive.

Along the same lines, I got in this Justinian I follis the other day. Although the portrait is worn, it still has some weird eyes - or he is wearing glasses, setting back the date of the invention of spectacles a few centuries?



Justinian I Æ Follis
Year 30 (556-557 A.D.)
Constantinople Mint
[DN] IVSTINIANVS PP A[VG], helmeted, cuirassed bust facing holding cross on globe and shield; cross to right / Large M, ANNO left, cross above, XXX right, A below, CON in exergue.
SB 163, DOC 37-61.
(17.54 grams / 30 mm)

 

Excellent group of cool Eyes, @Ryro ! Big FUN!


RR AR Quinarius 16mm 1.77g P Sabinus Rome 99 BCE Jupiter r E 3 pellets - P SABINE Q in ex Victory trophy E 3 pellets Cr 331-1



RR Cn Lentulus Clodianus 88 BCE AR Quinarius Jupiter Victory crowning trophy Craw 345-2 S 255



RR Cn Lentulus Clodianus 88 BCE AR Quinarius Jupiter Victory crowning trophy QAC S 255 Craw 345-2

 

I laughed out loud on that op coin! Awesome eyedea!


Mysia, Parion. Bust of Parios AE22. Capricorn. Obv: Youthful male head r. of founder Parios.
Rev: CGIHP / Capricorn r., holding globe, behind cornucopia.
Time of Valerian (253 to 260 A.D.)



Phrygia, Philomelium. Severus AlexanderAE32
Obv: ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ϹƐΥ ΑΛƐΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑΥ / Radiate head of Severus Alexander, r.
Rev: ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛƐΩΝ ƐΠΙ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΠΑΥΛƐΙΝΟΥ / Emperor on horseback advancing, r., wearing chlamys and holding spear.

 

Class move from Gandy right here folks.
Huge respect for throwing The Guess Who back at me after my Pyrrhus, Come Undone post!
I had the double cassette greatest hits of theirs growing up that I played till it died.
Never did get to see em live though (as regret seeps in)

 

Bug eyed Domna and not even from the Alexandria mint!


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman AR denarius, 3.17 g, 19.3 mm, 1 h.
Eastern mint (formerly attributed to Laodicea), AD 196-202.
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: PVDICITIA, Pudicitia, veiled and draped, seated left on throne, right hand on breast, left arm at side.
Refs: RIC 644; BMCRE 613-16; Cohen 168; RCV 6602; CRE 385.

 

I think Demeter looks a little angry. Maybe she is a little annoyed at what Kleonymous is doing to her city. Stater of Metapontion 330-290 BC obv Head of Demeter 3/4 facing right wreathed in grain. Rv, Ear of Barley Johnston Class C 2.2. HGC 1064 the coin illustrated. 7.92 grms 20mm Phot by W. Hansen I remember when I got this coin. It was featured in the CNG Calendar for 2018 and was Miss February. I was in New York at the Triton Auction. This coin came up I put up my hand and that was it. Got it on the opening bid and basically shot my auction allowance for this event as well. However ever since I have always referred to this coin as " Calendar Girl" ( Even if she is just a little bit intimidating)

 

Antoninus Pius is disapointed and susprised

... but Septimius Severus was expecting this

Magnentius just stares blankly


And Tetricus pretends he didn't know a thing



..... but it's a fact, they are coming.

 

@Ryro .....Wow that's a mad looking Tyche!...

 

These Bulgarian's fakes were flooding the market 15 years ago. An easy way to recognized them was by their " overly circular eyes" .

 

Constans II and his son Constantine IV have a lot of these. Sometimes I wonder if the emperors just had absolutely no care about how they were presented or what



This Constantine IV is like a proto-Picasso

 

These are eyes that peer into your soul:

 

Maybe it was the constant shock of having just lost two-thirds of the Empire.

 

What an enjoyable thread this is.

Here's another - Justin II and wife Sophia on a follis, looking pretty much like a pair of praying mantises.

Or aliens. Were they aliens? Is this Chariots of the Gods evidence? Did Martians build the Hagia Sophia? Aliens did the Pyramids for sure , but what about the Walls of Constantinople, etc.?