Ancients => Dionysos & Dionysos => Grapes in yo Thrace!!

Yah, I had a few too many grapes last night and offered to purchase a couple of sweet coins from my guy .... luckily, he'd also had a few too many, so he sold them to me for peanuts!! (wine is good!!)



... anyway ...

Here is one of the two cool coins that I scored last night ...

Thrace, Maroneia AE23. Dionysos / Dionysos
Date: 189-45 BC
Diameter: 23.3 mm
Weight: 15.0 grams
Obverse: Wreathed head of young Dionysos
Reverse: Dionysos holding grapes and narthex stalks
References: SNG Copenhagen 643 var





As you know, I already have a sweet AR TET edition (probably one of my most posted examples?!) ... below

Maroneia, Thrace, AR Tetradrachm
Struck 168-148 BC
31mm
16.+ grams
Obverse - Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy and with band across forehead.
Reverse - ΔIONΣOY ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ MΑPΩNITΩΝ, Dionysus, naked, standing left, holding grapes and two narthex wards; two monogram in field, to left and right
Reference: Sear 1635
Other: Previous owner's note => Ex Forest City Coins, London, Ontario, Proprietor – Mr. Keith Greenham – purchased in the 1980s.
Authenticated by David Sear





"Please" feel free to post any coin examples that tickle your fancy!! (ummm, that's a saying, right?)

Examples could be coins from Thrace, coins with Dionysos, coins with grapes/wine ... or even photos from your summer vacation (it's free to everybody who likes coins)

 

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Wow, nice drunken splurge!

Somehow I have no coins depicting the god , but I do have one from a king named Dionysos.


Sicily, Syracuse. Dionysos I
390 BCE
Æ tetras, 14 mm, 1.8 gm
Obv: head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing necklace
Rev: octopus
Ref: CNS 29; SNG ANS 385

 

Faustina Jr. Thrace, Anchialus. Æ 24mm (9.03 g).



Reverse depicts Dionysos standing right, holding kantharos in right hand, thyrsos in left; panther at feet to left.

AMNG II 434; MC -; SNG Copenhagen -; Varbanov 90.

 

Nice fruity pickup! I don't have much by way of coins with grapes, but here are two with Dionysos.

Here he is on the obverse of a Prusias II of Bithynia AE...


An Elagabalus bronze from Laodicea shows him and Herakles making like those guys on the Aspendos staters (Dionysos is the one on the right)...

 

Bacchus on a Roman coin, with a lively depiction of his panther on the reverse:

 

Nice coins, gang ... please keep 'em comin'

Here is another Thrace Maroneia example ... it doesn't have Dionysos, but it does have a sweet bunch o' grapes!!

Thrace, Maroneia, AR tetrobol
Circa 385-360 BC
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 2.63 grams
Obverse: Forepart of horse right
Reverse: Grape-bunch on vine within dotted square border
Reference: GCV 1632
Other: VF, toned

 

Hmmmm..... Maybe I should switch to wine.....when I drink beer my coin purchases seem to shout 'falling down drunkard' LOL

Love the posts!!!

I seem to be missing any of Dionysos.... but I MUST have a Bacchus in here somewhere...I'll try to check before the Sunday football marathon....

Congrats you old wino!!!

 

Oh, and I found another one of my Dionysos examples ... I love this coin

=> it has a nice big jug o' wine on the reverse!!

THESSALY, Lamia, AR Hemidrachm
Circa 350-300 BC
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 2.58 grams
Obverse: Head of young Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath
Reverse: ΛMΑΙΕ ΩΝ, amphora; ivy leaf above; to right, prochous with handle to right
Reference: Georgiou, Mint 11; BCD Thessaly II 127.3; HGC 4, 120
Other: 3h … VF, lightly toned, minor porosity
From the BCD Collection



... and a cool lil' mini travellin' mug as well ...

 

Interesting geometric pattern on Dionysos' cheek; what caused it??

 

that is a cool AE version stevex, i didn't know these came in anything other than silver unutil a recent thread here.

the crystallization pattern on the cheek of that coin always catches my eye as well RC, i think it's just an interesting coincidence it takes that form.

man, i'm under dionysosed, and don't have any jugs of booze at all. (well, not on my coins anyway).

here's the first thing i ran into that has something to do with it, just a roman provincial from thrace.



Faustina II, Augusta Traiana, Thrace, 161-175 AD
O: ΦAYCTEINA CEBACTH. R: AYΓOYCTHC TPAIANHC, Artemis huntress with hound, right hand reaching for an arrow in quiver at shoulder and holding bow in left. Moushmov 2982. 26x24 mm, 11.4g

 

Hi, Roman Collector => yah, I'm fairly sure that is merely the way that this sweet coin has crystallized over time ... I love the effect and I have several examples of this type of effect (NOTE: it does make the coin weaker, but the eye-appeal is very appealing to this guy)

=> here are a bunch of other examples of that same type of effect (they're all a bit different depending upon the mineral content, the grade and the environment that each coin has experienced before it made it to my house)



... I hope that kinda answered your question?



*edit*

I cheated and asked TIf for the correct word (I always forget) ...

"reticulation"
re·tic·u·la·tion
riˌtikyəˈlāSHən/
noun

1. a pattern or arrangement of interlacing lines resembling a net.
   "the fish should have a blue back with white reticulation"
   • PHOTOGRAPHY
     the formation of a network of wrinkles or cracks in a photographic emulsion.

 

Cool!

 

exactly

 

Here is another Dionysos example ...

ISLANDS OFF CARIA, RHODOS, Æ DRACHM
Circa 31 BC-60 AD
Diameter: 35 mm
Weight: 21.87 grams
Obverse: Radiate head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath
Reberse: Nike standing right on prow, holding aplustre and wreath
Reference: Ashton, 'Rhodian coinage in the imperial period,' Recent Turkish Coin Hoards and Numismatic Studies, 110-112. N.
Other: R. S. Collection

 

Hi Steve. Here's Dionysos on reverse of Alexander Zebinas. Cheers..

 

Love the new coin Steve. Here's an interesting question: how many coins can we post that are more-or-less type duplicates in bronze and silver?

 

ummmm, more than seven? ...



I'm assuming that I get credit for this AE OP-coin and my AR-TET?

Okay => who is next?

 

Ummm, so this may not be quite close enough for the JA scrutiny, or what?

=> AR Rhodes & Rose and AE Rhodes & Rose ... winna-winna?



Hey, why am I asking you? ... it's my fricken thread, ya sneaky dawg!!



=> who is next?

 

Oh, and I forgot to say "thanks, coin-bros & sis" ...

=> I love seeing other people's coins!!

 

Curious, my coin-friends ...

It is currently -7 Celsius where I live (ummm, that's 19 Farenheit)

Is anybody else living in a colder climate than me?