Ancient => 50 Dollar To Make Tyche Holla!! ... Bottom-Feeder II

I snagged this sweet lil' Tyche-coin earlier today ... it has a cool lookin' eagle perched upon a bull's head!

=> how cool is that??!! ... very cool, right? ... right!! ..

Hey, I hope that you dudes are all havin' a great Sunday => oh, and please enjoy another one of my sweet lil' bottom-feeder purchases!!

=> $50 dollar makes me holla!!!

Troas Alexandria Æ20
Date: circa 253-268 AD
Size: 20.64 mm
Weight: 5.14 grams
Obverse: CO TROA, Turreted draped bust of Tyche right
Reverse: CO-L AV TRO, Eagle with open wings standing right on head of Bull
Attribution: SNG von Aulock 7553
Description: A bold bronze with sharp detail and lots of eye appeal EF/EF




... have a great night, coin-comrades!!

 

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This comes in a horse model, too.

There are so very many Tyche coins to collect. I even bought one Friday but it was really worn. The appeal to me was the radiate head countermark.

Tarsos, Cilicia / Pyre of Sandan 2nd-1st century BC

 

Cool Tyche Steve!

 

Jeez Steve, I would suspect that Tyche would be one for your favorite goddesses, you know all that randomness and such. Nice coin, man.

 

Wow nice!! => I'm lovin' both of those coins, dougsmit!! (I currently have a bead on a horse-version ... oh, but I'm lovin' that counterstamped beauty!!)

... thanks for posting your goods!! (always a pleasure my friend)

 

Nice pickup stevex6!

 

Beautiful coins.

 

I like Tyche threads. I only have two, but they are interesting on a number of levels. The first is a common Julia Mamaea cast in Bostra - common being relative when it comes to provincials of course. It's rather eye-appealing for the grade, which is average for these coins. The combination of casting and arid climate didn't result in many high-grade specimens.

What is interesting about this coin is that among the few you find, there are frequent "die" matches. I put die in quotations, because I think they should be called hub matches. It stands to reason that if you're impressing wet plaster with hubs, the hubs will last almost indefinitely, resulting in quite a few matches. Mine appears to match several in SNG and other sources.

 

The other is a pseudo-autonomous issue of Laodicea-ad-Mare. This coin represents a part of the power struggle between Marc Antony and Caesar Augustus. In order to garner favor from Laodicea, Antony granted the city a considerable amount of autonomy, from which this coinage issued. It might have made a difference until that whole Cleopatra business went down.

 

While on the subject of Tyche...

... I reshot my Gotarzes II tetradrachm

This is my first coin of the Kingdom of Parthia. The name comes from Latin and means "Old Persia". They were located in what is now Iran. A rival of Rome. The Parthian civilization is shrouded in mystery, no known literature survives from them. The first evidence of a Parthia dates back to the about 1000 BC. at different points in time they ruled over much of Mesopotamia and the Modern Persian Gulf Region, East to Afghanistan. Their civilization fought numerous battles from Nomads in the North and East to the Seleucids in Syria and the Romans from the West. Eventually Parthia would fall to their very own kinsman the Persian Sassanian peoples, who attacked from the South and succeed in vanquishing them in 224 AD, Having been crippled by internal strife and the series of invasions by the Roman Emperor Trajan.
To some point Hellenistic culture prospered here, evident from Greek script surviving on their coins. They amassed great wealth from the taxation proceeds of the Silk Road which traveled throughout their territory East to India.

Kingdom of Parthia, Seleucia
Gotarzes II 40-51 AD
AR Tetradrachm 13.87g x 26 mm
Obverse: Diademed Head of Gotarzes II Left
Reverse: Tyche Presenting Diadem to Gotarzes II Greek Legend with Regal Greek Loving title. Dated BXT (center between figures) yr. 362 of the Seleucid era = 50/1 AD.

 

That's an excellent Parthian, AN. I've looked at a number of Parthian coins, but just haven't pulled the trigger on any yet.

 

You're killing me with all these great Tyche coins. Beautiful. Here's mine from Troas Alexandria:

ALEXANDER TROAS CIVIC ISSUE AE 25
OBV: COL ALEX TRO, Turreted & draped bust of city goddess or Tyche right; vexillum behind
REV: COL AL [EX TRO], Horse feeding right, tree behind; beside the horse, a herdsman wearing chlamys, holding pedum in right hand, standing right
24.9mm, 5.6g
BMC 52

 

The obverse as photographed does not match your legends.

 

Thanks Doug. Sometimes copying and pasting can be dangerous. In this case, I copied the wrong information. It should read:


ALEXANDER TROAS CIVIC ISSUE AE 25
OBV: COL ALEX TRO, Turreted & draped bust of city goddess or Tyche right; vexillum behind
REV: COL AL [EX TRO], Horse feeding right, tree behind; beside the horse, a herdsman wearing chlamys, holding pedum in right hand, standing right
24.9mm, 5.6g
BMC 52

 

My Valerian I should look like this:

VALERIAN I AE20,
OBV: IMP LICI VALERIAN, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REV: COL AVG TRO, horse grazing right
Minted at Alexandreia Troas, 253-260 AD
SNGCop 191v

 

I also have a similar coin to the op coin:

ALEXANDRIA TROAS CIVIC ISSUE
OBV: CO-L TRO, draped and turreted bust of Tyche right; vexillum behind
REV: CO-L AVG, TRO in exergue, eagle standing right on the forepart of a bull
5.06g, 19mm
SNG Cop 117

 

Great lookin' coins, gang ... thanks for jumping on-board!!

:thumb:

 

Well, I scored the "Horse Version" ...

TROAS, AlexandriaTroas Æ
Pseudo-autonomous issue
Circa mid 3rd century AD
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 6.01 grams
Obverse: Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right, with vexillum over shoulder
Reverese: Horse grazing right
Reference: Bellinger A486; SNG von Aulock 1466; BMC 46; SNG Copenhnagen 108
Other: 6h, Near EF, attractive brown patina, light adjustment marks. Nice surfaces

 

I sat here thinking, "I wonder what Steve will conquer in today's auctions." This was exactly the coin I expected you to go after.

 

man stevex, that new coin like frosted flakes, their GGGGGGGGGGGGGGrrrrrreat!

lots of great ones on this thread!