Acients => c'mon brothers, let's go fyy a fricken coin!!

Istros

 

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wow cool 2 heads.

 

what are the values on all these gorgeous ancients coins ? do any of you have greek bees ?

 

Sol in his Quadriga flying through the clouds

 

Cool thread. This Marcus Aurelius Sestertius has an eagle on the back, with Marcus Aurelius riding it, his left leg wrapped around the eagle's wing and holding a sceptre in his right hand. The coin is a post death issue, actually struck under Commodus to commemorate his father.

I like the idea of an emperor riding a flying eagle though! I just bought the coin this week. Thanks for giving me another excuse to post it Stevex6!

 

Yup, I totally agree => Dionysos seems to have a whole collection stuffed full of total winners!! ..... bravo!!

 

.... that one always makes me laugh

 

Things are "okay" ...




=> but ummm, Saturday mornings seem to always hurt my head (my wife is never too happy with me the "next day" after Friday at the ol' watering-hole!!) ... yah, I must try and get a handle on that, eh? (old dog, new trick and all)

 

Ionia, Teos AR Drachm
375 B.C. Hagnon, magistrate
Diameter: 16 MM
Weight: 3.4grams
Obverse: Griffin seated right, raising forepaw
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with granulated quarters and thick crossbars; ZHIΩN on horizontal crossbar, AΓ-NΩN on vertical crossbar
Reference: Kinns 11; SNG Copenhagen 1443
Other: 6h, Toned, good-VF

 

One of my favorite coins is this proto-Nabataean bronze, which has a flying goddess overstruck on an eagle. On the reverse, under and around Nike, you can see elements of the eagle on the Ptolemaic host coin.



Here is an example of the type of coin that was used as a host. Everyone pursues the large, chunky versions of these coins, but the smaller ones are plentiful in higher grades, and much cheaper...

 

More Abdera Gryphons

Stater


Drachm


Triobol

 

Kainon, Sicily, AE22, griffin / horse
mid 4th Century BC (365-360 BC)
Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 11.08 grams
Obverse: Griffin (Gryphon) springing left over irregular ground (“club”)
Reverse: Horse prancing left, trailing rein; below, KAINON
Reference: SNG ANS 1169
Other: Dark patina. Very fine

 

Wow, Martin => you really are the King of the Gryphons, eh? (beautiful coins)

:yes:

 

Teos

Drachm



An obol (11.8 mm and 1.08 gms)

 

Acarnania with Bucranium
Corinthian Stater
300-250 BC
Mint: Anactorium
Diameter: 22.3 mm
Weight: 8.53 grams
Obverse: Pegasus
Reverse: Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helemt, magistrate's name KAE above and monogram below, mint mark AN monogram and control-symbol filleted bucranium behind

 

Sicily, Syracuse Æ Hemidrachm
Timoleon and the Third Democracy
344-317 BC
Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC
Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 16.94 grams
Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right
Reverse: Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right
Reference: Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72; SNG ANS 477-88
Other: 9h, Good VF, red-brown patina, a few areas of roughness, some cleaning marks
From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection, Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1227

 

Euboea, Chalkis. Drachm
Date 338-308 B.C.
Denomination: AR Drachm
Diameter: 19 mm
Weight: 3.66 grams
Obverse: Head of nymph Chalcis r., hair rolled
Reverse: Eagle flying r., carrying serpent in talons and beak, caduceus beneath
Reference: BCD 179
Grade: Good Very Fine

 

Ionia, Teos AR Hemidrachm
4th Century BC
Diameter: 13 mm
Weight: 1.3 grams
Obverse: Griffin (Gryphon)
Reverse: Kantharos, magistrate name across, lyre right

 

Just for Spirityoda

Not part of the main design but there is a bee here and an eagle.

Alexander the Great, Alexander III, silver drachm
Obv:– Head of (Alexander the Great as) Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress knotted at base of neck
Rev:– ALEXANDPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left, bee right in left field; spear head in right field
Minted in Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. circa 323-319 BC under Philip III Arrhidaios.
Reference:– Price 1936

 

AEOLIS, KYME AR Hemiobol