ANCIENT - Alphabetical Coins of Rulers!

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  1. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Oooh, kinky!
     
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  3. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Cleaning bathrooms, washing floors, yardwork...
     
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  4. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem


    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!!
     
  5. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Go get her tiger
     
  6. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    Hey, nice Hiketas coins folks, here is mine :

    [​IMG]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
     
  7. Windchild

    Windchild Punic YN, Shahanshah

    Kushanshah Hormizd (Hormazd) I AE Drachm
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    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.
     
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  8. doucet

    doucet Well-Known Member

    Hadrian /Africa


    Hadrian Africa rev.JPG
     
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  9. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Nice Africa, doucet, very nice indeed!
     
  10. doucet

    doucet Well-Known Member

    Thanks, I appreciate it.

    It's a new photo I took today.
     
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  11. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    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
     
  12. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Ummm, is it time for the "I-Parade" yet?

    ... sadly, I don't think I own any I-coins?

    :(
     
  13. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    No I-coins here
     
  14. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    Perhaps I and J should go together as they did in Latin.
     
  15. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    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....:cool:

    Q

    Edit : well Doug you beat me at that (one minute...)
     
  16. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

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    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.
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    Similarly Julian and Jovian never thought of using a J at the start of their names since they were properly spelled with an I.
     
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  17. ValiantKnight

    ValiantKnight Well-Known Member

  18. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    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...
     
  19. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    here's a few of my favorite "j"s....with an "i"s.


    justinian i

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    julian ii

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    how about a justianian i with an "i" on the back...double score.

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  20. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Love the patina on the first coin, Chris.
     
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  21. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    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

    Judaea Alexander Jannaeus AE Prutah b.jpg
    Judaea Alexander Jannaeus AE Prutah a.jpg
     
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