Ancients => Eion => one goose? => nope, we gottem two geese!!!

That's right ... we got ourselves a pair of geese (ummm, I think they mate for life?)

=> well, 2500 years later and these two geese are still flocking together!!

Yah, I love this cool new coin ... to me, it looks a bit like it's two love-birds (awww, how cute)

MACEDON, Eion, AR Obol (Tritartemorion?)
Circa 460-400 BC
Diameter: 10 mm
Weight: 0.37 grams
Obverse: Two geese standing right; ivy leaf and H to left
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square
Reference: SNG ANS –; SNG Copenhagen 181
Other: toned, typical porosity

 

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I love it! Two geese and a heart-shaped leaf... aww. You can justify the purchase to your wife by saying "But honey, I only bought it because it reminds me of us." Admit it, you thought of that already

 

Wow, fantastic thinking, Coin-Princess (I may have to use that line!!) ...

Oh, and yes, I do have the other super-cool coin from Eion ...

=> yup, it's the good ol' Goose & Lizard!!

"Honk-onk-onk" .... "Lizard-sound, lizard-sound, lizard-sound"

Macedon, Eion, AR Trihemiobol
500-400 BC
Diameter: 12.41 mm (max)
Weight: 0.87 grams
Obverse: Goose standing right, looking back, lizard left above, H below
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

 

Heh, very nice steve my man.

 

I really like these cute little Eion honkers. Of your two, I prefer the one with the love geese. Great art work on a tiny coin!

 

Thanks gang ...

Yah, Z-bro => that new two geese addition is far more rare (rarer?) than the traditional goose & lizard variety!! (I love the new love-birds!!)

... but they're both cool coins ...

=> oh, and "please" post any Eion coins and/or any coins with a goose(s) on 'em!!

 

I've got a typical Eion trihemiobol with goose and lizard.

 

*sweet*

=> thanks for posting (I like you)

 

Hey, I love that coin, Steve! Nice pick-up. I struck out at CNG today, but to be fair, I was being a cheapskate: trying to win coins by $10 over opening bid, lol. That's not how you win auctions.

 

I'll throw in a pigeon.

Roman Empire, Anonymous, Domitian to Antoninus Pius
AE Quadrans, 3.25g, Rome mint: AD 81-161
Obv.: Diademed and draped bust of Venus right.
Rev.: Dove standing right, S-C.
Reference: RIC II 24 (p. 218)
Notes: Countermark "AU" in field above dove, possibly from a university collection.

 

=> sometimes it pays off (I have actually won a few coins by merely jumping-on the opening-bid) ...

... but today, I knew that I was in for a bit of a dog-fight (3.2 x estimate) ...

Oh well, JA => maybe you'll get 'em next-time, my cheap-arse friend?!!



Cheers brother (I'm about to go out for dinner, so I'll see what you wrote when I return) ... you rock, my friend!!

 

Huh? ... not much going-on tonight, eh?

=> well, I'm back from my work-dinner (Chinese food ... yah, it wasn't bad)

That's a mighty fine pigeon/dove coin you've got there ... thanks for posting

 

Very cool addition, Steve!

 

Curious? .... what do you think the "H" is on my two Eion coins?

 

Nice pickup little brother. I have nothing like it.

 

No worries, my ol' friend ......... just post an eagle and pretend it's a goose!!

 

They also come with A (below) or theta in place of the H but I do not know the meaning. I understand the more globular ones are earlier. I like your 2 goose model.

 

<3

Cool addition!

 

Thanks for the coin compliments, fellas ...

=> Doug, thanks for posting your winners, plus thanks for adding a couple of clues to the ol' "H" thingy (must be some sort of control-mark or mint mark?)

 

oh wow, what an awesome little coin stevex! geese with "heart" obverse is fantastic!