Ancients => P-O-N-T-O-S => that spells awesome!!

No, JA, that coin is on my want list. Steve is not allowed to have one. I want to upgrade my current one with something........real.

 

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very cool new coin stevex...i can't remember ever seeing a bell on an ancient, how neat!

dionysus always looks like a chick to me on the coins.

i had no idea what a "fillet" was...had to look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillet_(clothing)

 

very nice Steve i see why you and rest of the gang links Pontos/Pontus

PONTUS, Amisus Hadrian Drachm 132-33 AD Capricorn




Amisos in Pontos, AE 20 120-80 BC

 

Great looking coins, Oki (thanks for posting)

... thanks for the link, chrsmat (yah, I must admit that I didn't know what a "fillet" was either)

Doug => cool coin (love the grasshopper!!)

 

Oh, by the way => I won our Annual Canada Day Croquet Championship last Saturday (that's two-years-in-a-row!!)



... ummm, would you give explosives to these guys?!!

 

So the croquet trophy has a bird wearing a lei. Must be a Canadian thing.

 

ahahaha => good eye, JA ... yah, that's a Northern Manitoba Raven on the trophy (they're kinda like flyin' cats!! ... or Wizard of Oz monkeys?!!) ... but you're right => it did have a Hawaiian lei on it!! (but just for style-points!!)

 

I thought it was a crow and I was looking for the "K".

 

Ravens eat crows ... and puppies and toddlers (they're the sharks of the north!!)






okay, fine ... but they are pretty big!! (they're tough as nails to live up here all year long!!)

 

I believe you little brother. But I thought you were the "Crow-K" champion, so I thought the bird had something to do with it.

 

sorry ... good one

 

Well, if ya gotta explain it........

 

yah, it was a bit weak (but I still like you)

 

No more Pontos offerings? ... I'd love to see 'em

=> it's a bit slow and we always love the "coin show"

I wanna see that cool big Pontos "sun-face" (I don't have an example "yet")

 

Two of my favorites...



Amisos, Pontos, time of Mithridates VI
AE 18mm; 4.6g, circa 120-63 BC.
Obv.: Bust of Mithridates as Perseus right, wing at his temple.
Rev.: Cornucopiae between two pilei (caps of the Dioskuri) each surmounted by a star; AMI-ΣOY.
Reference: SNG Stockholm 1848; SNG Cop. 161; BMC 65; Waddington 32.



Pontic Kingdom, Amisos
AE21, 6.95g, 12h; 85-65 BC.
Obv.: Aegis with gorgon head at center.
Rev.: Nike advancing right with palm branch; monograms in r. and l. field; AMI-ΣOY.
Reference: SNG Stancomb 688.

 

=> Thar she blows (I don't have one of those "yet")

thanks for posting, brother

 

That sun is awesum.

 

I like the way that they rolled the A-M-I together ...



... very cool, no?

 

very kewl yes