Ancients => Giddy-up, Hoss ... oh, and don't forget your shield!!

Hi gang ... well, today I blew my March budget (and part of April's budget!!)

=> I bought two sweet coins from Boeotia ... here is the first example

yah-yah, it's another stinkin' horse coin, right? (yup, that's right!!!)



... enjoy!!

BOEOTIA, Tanagra. AR Obol
Early-mid 4th century BC
Diameter: 11.5 mm
Weight: 0.83 grams
Obverse: Boeotian shield
Reverse: Forepart of horse right; Τ above, Α before; all within incuse flat circle with curved edge
Reference: BCD Boiotia 291 (this coin); HGC 4, 1292
Other: sweet, even grey tone, small flan split, light porosity

Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 291; Bonham-Vecchi V (19 March 1981), lot 123; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 259 (November 1965), no. 29




=> man, I love these sweet ol' incuse darlings!! (yummy-yummy, eh?)

Oh, and in case you've forgotten .... this dude from Bonanza was "Hoss"

 

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Oh sorry, and as always ...

=> please post random photos of your underwear, or coins from Boeotia, or coins with shields, or yes, even coins with horses on 'em (that never gets old, eh?)

thanks ... you dudes rock (ROCK!!)

Cheers

 

Oh => here is a sweet example of what I'm talkin' about ...

Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater
Date: 363-338 BC
Diameter: 21.5 mm
Weight: 11.8 grams
Obverse: Boeotian shield
Reverse: Amphora, KA-LLI across field; all within incuse concave circle
Reference: BCD Boiotia 555



Mmmmm, Staters ... ya gotta love those babies, eh? (yummy hunks o' silver)

 

Excellent newp you bought, and let me guess... next month you're gonna' blow your budget for the rest of the year? Then after that blow off 2016 budget, etc.?

Everybody knows that Steve.

 

Cool addition, lovely reverse

 

very nice little shield and horse archaic...man i don't have a boeotia coin, and had to go pretty deep in the picture archive to find a horse (that wasn't been ridden or part of a quadriga team).

this is an old favorite of my though..

 

awesome addition, my table-esque friend (nice horse) ... I always love seeing your wares (thanks for steppin'-up ... I appreciate your effort)

Cheers


... anybody else feel like impressing me? (please "bring it")

 

Great addition, Steve. Now you've got a Boeotian shield for a chipmunk and a grasshopper.

 

=> exactly ... sadly, these good ol' Greek coins are a lot smaller than their photos imply (geesh, it would be nice to have a Boeotian coin that was as big as a human-shield, eh?)

... regardless ... man, ya gotta admit that it is cool enough that we actually own "stuff" from the early Greeks, yes!!

Funny, because when we were watching Game of Thrones, my wife said

=> "Wow, I bet you'd love to have coins from 'that' era, eh?" ... and I said "yeah, you're right!!"

... then I thought about it and I said => "you're correct Honey and I love you ... but man, I have coins that are twice as old as those dawgs!!"

cool feeling, my friends (we are an elite bunch)

Cheers

 

Sorry, did I get too deep? ... ummm, here are a few more examples

of "shields"

 

=> please post your cool shields

 

Great little coin, Steve. Ya blew that budget with style .

 

Thanks, Z-bro ...

Ummm, how about the "front-of-horses" coins ...

 

Awesome new coin Steve, a horse on one side and a shield on the other, you can't go wrong!!very nice..

 

Exactly, Kemo Sabe ... why don't you dudes all have one of these babies? (we could make a club and have rings and everything!!)

 

We could meet at your house the last Thursday of the Month!!

 

awesome => I'll make snow-cones for everybody!!

 

A nice coin to blow your budget on

 

thanks for your nice coinpliments, my friends

Cheers

 

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