Ancients => a lil' fat dude with a hammer "and" a cool bull? => well, I'm in!!

Yah, it was absolutely love at first-sight with this lil' winner ...

The bull alone was enough to attract me to this new addition ... but the fact that the obverse had a sweet Kabeiros holding a hammer and a serpent .... well ummm, are you fricken serious? => I'm in!!!

ISLANDS off IBERIA, Ebusus. Æ Quarter Unit
2nd century BC
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 3.28 grams
Obverse: Squatting Kabeiros, holding hammer and serpent
Reverse: Bull butting left
Reference: ACIP 719; SNG BM Spain 318-21
Other: 3h … gorgeous red/brown patina





... I hope that you awesome coin-comrades will also welcome this new addition to my sweet collection

=> please feel free to post coins with "Bulls" or "Kabeiros" or that are from "Ebusus"

 

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Awesome coin little brother.

From Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri, (Cabiri, Kabeiroi, Kabiri or Greek: Κάβειροι) were a group of enigmatic chthonic deities. They were worshiped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace and at Thebes. In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the Samothracian gods may include pre-Greek elements Hittite, Thracian, proto-Etruscan, or Phrygian. The Lemnian cult was always local to Lemnos, but the Samothracian mystery cult spread rapidly throughout the Greek world during the Hellenistic period, eventually initiating Romans.

 

Awe cute, a garden gnome. Guess the ancient people kept them in their gardens too!

Cool pickup!

 

INTERESTING NOTE => Ebusus (Ibiza) => is ten times the size of Manhattan Island

=> yah admittedly, I am no big-champ on history, but perhaps "hephaestus = hammer" and "Kabeiro => sea-goddess/serpent" ........ ummm, maybe that's why there is a fella with a hammer and a serpent?

 

Thats pretty cool. At first it looked like he was pulling out his hair XD

 

Ummm well, just to keep the ball/bull rollin' ...

=> here is another one of my bull examples from the same period ... please post your examples (hey dudes, there are no rules and definitely zero-judging ... well, maybe I'll judge Bing, but the rest of you have a bye)

Mysia, Kyzikos, AE24
200-100 BC
Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 5.44 grams
Obverse: KYZI-KHWN to left and right of lit torch
Reverse: Bull butting right
Refrence: BMC Mysia p.39, 164; SNG Cop 79
Other: nicely toned ... the poor-photo-camera-glare definitely over-emphasives the scratches => beautiful root beer coloured coin in-hand!!

 

Awesome coin Steve. CNG auction, Berkeley Collection...right?

 

=> hi nathan ... ummm, it didn't actually state whether this coin was from the Berkeley Collection ... but I'm very glad that you like it (yah, it is pretty sweet)

thanks for the coin-comments, my young friend

 

oh, and by the way => "PLEASE" put "Ancients" at the start of our ancient threads (c'mon man, it is ignorant otherwise)

=> hey, we've already started a standard , so let's keep 'er goin', shall we?

Thanks

=> From everybody ancient, including myself

 

That is a strange and fabulous coin. Added to the list.

 

Both are marvelous coins little brother. And, BTW, go ahead and judge. I do you all the time.
And while not in the same category as your new coins, I thought I'd post this RR with a bull reverse from near the same time period.

L. THORIUS BALBUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS THORIA AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Juno wearing goat-skin headdress, acronym I. S. M. R. behind. REVERSE: Bull charging right, F. above, L THORIVS below, BALBVS in exergue Struck at Rome 105 BC
3.92g, 19mm
Cr 316/1, Sydenham 598, Thoria 1

 

Great pick up Steve. I was skunked in today's CNG. The Germanicus and Agrippa I was chasing both passed that amount I am willing to pay.

This dude looks a little bit like a dwarf from LOTR.

 

Definitely one of the cooler coins in that auction. I love CNG Wednesdays with Stevex6!

 

Steve covered most of my bulls but...
Augustus fourree denarius

Titus Asian denarius

 

Here's my latest bull :


PHLIASIA, Phlious
AR Hemidrachm

And one bought earlier this year :


CARIA, Knidos
AR Hemidrachm

 

Steve, great new pickup, the obverse is what a old retired meatcutter looks like, great coin, i love it...

 

Here is a bull's head:
ARABIA, Southern Saba'
AR Unit (Light Drachm)
ca. 50 B.C. – A.D. 50

2.15 gms, 14 to 15.4 mm
Obv: Simple diademed head left with
symbols in fields. Pellet within
crescent at top, beaded boarder.
Lower 50% of beading is off flan.
Rev: Bucranium (Bull’s head) facing
with symbols in fields
Grade: Near Mint, lustrous and properly
conserved. Slightly off center on a
small diameter planchet.
Other: No listing in Sear for this Southern Saba / Himyarite coin. SNG.ANS.1516. The biblical kingdom of ‘Sheba’ (ca. 1200 BC) was the ancient Semitic civilization of Saba’ in Southern Arabia (modern day Yemen). The ancient Saba’ Kingdom fell after civil war resulting in the rise of the late Himyarite Kingdom. Ex Pegasi, from Allen Berman October 2013

 

awesome => thanks for the coin-compliments and for posting your bull coins, gang!!

... is that all ya gots?