Ancients => Tessera ... sweet, sweet Tessera (*tick*)

Um, "bedroom"?

 

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Lol, yeah I am positive I would get a kick and thrown off the bed if I dared utter that quote in that situation.

 

Before we all get in trouble, let's post some more tesserae:

EGYPT, Antinoöpolis
PB Tessera (21mm, 4.14 g, 4 h)
Dated year 2 of an uncertain era
Confronted busts of Antinous, draped and wearing hem-hem crown, and Isis, draped and wearing headdress; [L] B flanking
Nilus reclining left on hippopatumus, holding cornucopia and reeds
Milne -; Milne, Memphis p. 115; Dattari (Savio) -; Köln 3569-70; Rostovtsev & Prou 665-6; Roma 6 (29 September 2013), lot 923-4 ​

 

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I like you guys

 

Wow, it looks like it was tesserae shopping day. Nice pickups, Steve and everyone else.

 

I tried to nab a similar of tessera in today's auction. Is the above example yours? It's much nicer than the one today.

Here's my Pb from today's CNG. I've wanted an Antinous for some time and thought I might as well get one in lead.



EGYPT, Antinoöpolis. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. PB Tessera (25mm, 7.63 g, 11h). Draped bust of Antinous right, wearing hem-hem crown; crescent before, AN behind / Serapis standing right, head left, raising hand and holding scepter; to left, ЄYC/YBA/[...]. Milne –; Dattari (Savio) –;Köln –. Near VF, beige patina. An important new legend.

The reverse legend, though extremely difficult to read, appears to be some variation of the word Εὐσεβής (“pious.”) [<- auction description written by Ardatirion, no doubt ]

 

Its all Bill's fault.

Seriously Bill, you might have created a monster with you sharing with us here your passion. Just ask Doug how that feels. Now that I think about it, eek, can I delete my threads on Sogdian coins?

 

So THAT was you huh? I was the high bidder until the very end.

Just kidding, I am glad a proud owner now has it.

 

Yes, I've learned from Clio that it rarely pays to bid with more than 5 seconds on the clock.

Funny how we were all gunning for lead this time.

 

Curious? => TIF, I sent you that PM regarding my gryphon-target ... did I accidentally light your fuse, or were you already pointed in that direction?

 

When you sent that I recalled having seen a large group of tesserae in some auction as I was speed-browsing. I couldn't remember which. Upon taking a look at the CNG auction last night, they hit the radar again.

 

By the way => that "whatever" that's in front of my obverse guy's face seems to be the same "whatever" that sits upon the other coin guy's heads? (maybe, it's a hem-hem crown ... maybe?)

Ummm, or it's a thought balloon that says "wow, one day our god stevex6 will set us free"

 

..... awwwww, that's so fricken cute, yes??? (ma-ma)

 

What was the significance of the paw on the wheel? I see another coin in an auction right now with the sphinx having its paw on the same kind of wheel. It must mean something.

 

The griffin was associated with the avenging goddess Nemesis, and Nemesis shared the wheel symbol with Tyche/Fortuna who she was sometimes conflated with. I believe on coins the griffin with wheel is most common in Alexandria, but I've seen at least a few from other cities, Smyrna springs to mind.

 

... maybe? ... just maybe?

(I like you guys)

It's all I gots

 

very cool stevex, looks like we have a tessera rush in the works!

i thought of your griffon coin right away when i saw the reverse of that little lead piece. and a cool serapis head...just screams egypt.



nice!

 

Hey, thanks for the atta-boys on yesterday's cha-chinngg!! (I always appreciate coin feedback => I live for it!!)

Oh, and congrats to med-man and our Princess for also scoring fabulous Lead-examples!!

=> I'm Lead-er of the pack!!

 

Wow, I log off for a few minutes & almost missed this SteveX6 thread entirely. I didn't see it until just now as my eyes wandered a dozen threads down the list. Very nice coin & apparently all my virtual coin collecting friends at CT have them. I hope to find one that fits my collection someday.

What is this Clio you guys are discussing? Perhaps it is a famous ancient coin sniper?

Here is a lead copy of a USA NE shilling that I was researching with Ancientnoob:

 

Clio is kinda like TIF's Lex Luther ... he tosses-out nuclear-bomb bids and takes-home whatever coins lay in his path (TIF has told many coin-tales of this legendary coin-beast!!)