Hey Whiz and Vlaha... remember this recent Triskeles coin? No one bid on it. I didn't want it to feel unloved so I bought it post-auction He should feel right at home with my growing assortment of Alexandrian tets. Antoninus Pius, year 2 (138/9 AD) EGYPT, Alexandria billion tetradrachm, 24 mm, 12.63 gm Obv: AVT K T AIL ADP ANTWNINOC EY CEB, bare head right Rev: ETO VCB, canopus of Osiris right on cushion Ref: Emmett 1373
That's just beautiful. Something I'd put on my want list. Your photograph makes the reverse look like a sculpted bas-relief one might see in a museum!
I love that coin, TIF!! (sweet!!) => I had that lil' beauty on my want list during that last auction, but it was tucked-up directly beside that other Antoninus Pius coin with the quadriga on the reverse (remember?) ... so by the time a bid and then got outbid on that quadriga coin, I'd snoozed too long on the winner that you nabbed!! (great score!!) Yah, I think that the reverse scene is very cool => canopus of Osiris (at that time, I had to look-up the meaning of canopus and then it made the coin even that much more cool) ... oh, that was the fantastic auction where I ended-up scoring the 4-coin Lot of Alexandria drachms (wow, everybody had a great day at that auction!!) Congrats (again => I loved/love that coin ... great taste and great score, coin-sister!!)
I didn't even check to see if it didn't sell I had just assumed it did. Nice eye TIF! I will have one one day.
That is what is interesting about Roman Egypt coins. Its the only place you can find Roman, Greek, and Egyptian mythology on the same series. I have a tet of AP I love, its celebrating the Sothic cycle. It was actually struck during the year, which is about a 1400 year cycle.
