Ancients => I Like my Lycia => Quiver & Torch

yup ... I was very active last night

=> here is another cute lil' pick-up!! (I think this coin has nice eye-appeal)

Man, I love incuse squares ... "say hello to my little friend"

Lycia, Masikytes AR hemidrachm
1st century BC
Diameter: 12.3 mm
Weight: 0.83 grams
Obverse: Draped bust of Artemis right, quiver at shoulder
Reverse: Quiver; torch to left, uncertain object to right; A - Y, M - A, all within incuse square
Reference: S. 5299
Other: Nice tone … Better in hand

 

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Nice coin, really dig the reverse.

Send it to me and I will send a pretty Lincoln Penny made of zinc and a layer of thin copper, how's that sound?

 

c'mon ...

Good, or bad => somebody say "somethun" about this great lil' gem of mine!!

 

Thanks Mat ... I was beginning to feel sorry for poor ol' Artemis!!

 

... hmmm? ... a Lincoln Penny, eh? (it sounds pretty ... I'll get back to ya)

 

Think how cool it will be to have a nice shiny american penny to call your own in Canada.

After all isnt it you who's been leaving them nice shiny canadian pennies littered around here in america?

 

Dang!! ... you caught me!!

 

KNEW IT. I have them packed up in a sock thats tied to a knot & loaded in a giant slingshot ready to send the wretched things back to your place!

*literally I get them in change alot, lol*.

 

Cute little thing

My variant...

Lycian League AR Hemidrachm
Masikytes mint (30-27 BC).
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo.
Rev.: Lyre; palm tied with fillets to left.
Troxell, Lycian League, 107.

 

wretched?

... man, Canadian money is by far the coolest and classiest cash goin' ...

=> please shoot that sock full-o-cash my way, my friend!!




Hey, here is a cool error-coin (a quarter stamped onto a one cent planchet)





... pretty cool, eh?

 

Wow Batman => that coin rocks!!

... geesh man, ya always have to show me up, eh?



You rock, dawg!! (King o' the heap!!)

 

Lol honestly i never cared for modern canadian coins. The maple leaf, beavers. They're up there with chinese cash coins. Im burned out looking at them like I am our american stuff.

The RCM though mades some neat commemoratives.

I do like the 1800s vickies though and bank tokens. Got alot of those from my grandmother.

 

Johnny Canuck sez " Thats an old one ehhh"

 

geez your wife must have left you alone last night. Bunch of awesome pick ups. I have had to be a bit more sneaky with my purchases. The GF thought I was buying too many coins because I was using many different sellers. Now if I just get one envelope from one seller but it has 5 coins in it she is none the wiser.

This coin is really neat I really want to get a tiny coin one day. It is amazing how much detail they were able to get even on something so small

 

The seller's description of the reverse states:

=> ummm, what do you guys think that unknown object is? ... it is grouped-in with a quiver and a torch, so it must be something fairly cool, but I can't quite figure-out what it could be? ...... do you guys have a guess?

 

It's part of the quiver, to tie it up to the body, not "another object" imo

 

aaahhhh, very good, my friend ... I'm sure that you're correct!!

Thanks, that makes complete sense

 

I am so Greek-coin challenged.... but it definitely looks like a nice one to me! Nice catch!

And while we are on Hoth's-- err, I mean, Canada's coins, I too find them in change on occasion (nearly always pennies) all the way down here in southeast Florida. I plan on sending them back as well lol

 

Great Piece!

I agree.

 

nice artemis, i have a thing for her.

whatever that is, it's a pretty darn awesome reverse.