ahaha ... yah, ya never know, eh? => could be anything from yardwork to attempting the ol' Tangled Spider!! Oh => I hear that she's awake, so I'd better slip into my slave toga and bring her a cup of coffee!!
Hey, nice Hiketas coins folks, here is mine : Syracuse Hiketas 288-279 BC Head of Zeus hellanios right ΣΙΡΑΚ ΟΣΙΩΝ. Eagle left, wings open, star and A in field 8.95 gr, 23 mm Ref : Sear # 1212 Q
Kushanshah Hormizd (Hormazd) I AE Drachm 270 - 295 AD Baktrian Mint Pahlavi legend - AUHRaMaZDI MaLKA Bearded bust right wearing lion headdress with segmented ball; crescent and two dots behind. Long ribbons flow upward from ball of hair Pahlavi legend - BWRZ'Y NDY YZTY Ahura-Mazda rising from altar, holding wreath and trident. 14.8mm 1.91 g Cribb SI 19, #24 (Bactrian issues); Mitchiner ACW 1280; Gobl Kushan 1071v; Zeymal p.257, T. 30, 31 (rare) This coin is listed on Zeno as #48442.
I very much like these travel series of Hadrian. Would it be less expensive I think I would try a go on completing the set in denarii Q
Well, not that I would like to change the rules, but aren't I and J one and the same in the roman alphabet ? Should the answer be yes, we'd be flooded with posts very soon.... Q Edit : well Doug you beat me at that (one minute...)
Hieron II of Syracuse, being the good Greek that he was, spelled his name beginning with an I since the Greeks did not see the need to write the aspirated H sound. In modern Greek, we see a mark before the I ('IEPONOC) but the ancients assumed that you knew it was to be there just like we today know when to place a long or short vowel sound in a word. Similarly Julian and Jovian never thought of using a J at the start of their names since they were properly spelled with an I.
Well now, Doug's post brings up an interesting point. I could have posted a handful of Nabataean coins minted by Aretas II, III, and IV because they all spelled their names HRTT in Aramaic. The H served to aspirate the A vowel at the beginning. But it seems we've moved onto I/J...
here's a few of my favorite "j"s....with an "i"s. justinian i julian ii how about a justianian i with an "i" on the back...double score.
Alexander Jannaeus AE Prutah (Widow’s Mite) Date: 103-76 BC Diameter: 13.0 mm Weight: 1.1 gr Obverse: Anchor Reverse: Star of eight rays