Ancients => Strap-on your helmets, we're headin' off to Thrace!!

I think this coin is very cool ...

=> it has very little glitz-n-glamour, but it's got a whole lotta "tough"!!


THRACE, Mesambria, Æ21
Circa 216-196/88 BC
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 4.82 grams
Obverse: Helmet with cheek guard right
Reverse: Inside of shield
Reference: SNG BM Black Sea 276 var. (helmet left); SNG Stancomb 229
Other: 11h … VF, green patina with light earthen deposits

 

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Awesome Coin Steve!

 

Simple, but beautiful (where's the animals)

 

This coin is so awesome that it doesn't need Animals!

Just look at that Corinthian (I believe) Helmet!

 

It IS nice, but it needs a goat

 

Yah, it was too difficult to find a good example of a "goat and helmet" combo!!

 

Very cool pickup, dont see these often.

 

Neat coin. My confess it would be neater if it had a goat bust wearing the helmet. Keep looking steve.

 

Wow ... are you kiddin' me??!!

=> this awesome coin needs far more lovin' than it's received ...

Here, I'll post a few more of its bros ...

=> post your helmet coins, awesome brothers (c'mon man, dig-deep and join in!!)

 

Do you wear a helmet to bed at night?

 

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Bing? ... ummm, are you asking me if I wear a helmet to bed? (*awkward*)​

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No, I do not wear a helmet to bed at night ... ​

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Ummm, but I wish that I was this guy ... yup, this guy wins!!​

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I've seen that before....the whole tosh.o bit on that was hilarious.

 

Nice!

 

how did i miss that coin, that's a great helmet and shield!

sleep with a helmet? well yeah, here's me in my pajamas.

 

Huh? ... well, maybe I've been wrong all this time? ... maybe sleepin' with a helmet is the way to go?

=> Okay Bing ... if your idea is being endorsed by chrsmat71, how can it be wrong ... I mean seriously => as far as sensibility goes, the guy is rock-solid, right?!!

Well then ... it's off to bed I go!! (sweet dreams, coin-comrades ... sweet dreams!!)

 

I think I actually have a helmet coin somewhere I will have to check when I get home.

Also Steve that wouldn't happen to be a Roughriders fan with that lovely melon helmet.

 

Whizb4ng => hello, my fellow Manitoba Bison!! (cheers, my provincial brother!!)



Hey, today in my "current" hometown, it is a stat-holiday!! (King Miner Day!!)

=> yup, they shutdown all of the mines and the surface plants and they give us the day-off (with pay) to celebrate the "Mining" associated with our northern Manitoba town (yup, apparently we're now 60+ years old!!)

"Fire in the hole!!"

 

I just love showing this one off when I can It has Roma helmeted, so it counts!

King Theodahad, Ostrogothic Kingdom (reigned 534-536 AD), AE Decanummium
Obv: INVICT-A ROMA, Roma helmeted, bust right
Rev: DN THEODAHATHVS REX in four lines within wreath, X below (the X stands for 10 nummi), Rome mint
MIB 82

 

=> atta-boy, Jango (I was wondering where you were at!!?)