Two Minute Greek Aes

That's my fault I think...

 

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Nah. It's just what we do around these parts.

 

That Jwt has some nerve, eh? (off with his head!!)



That's a sweet new coin-addition, JA ... man, I love dem sweet Sicily sprue coins!

I have a similar example (wanna see it?)

 

Oh, by the way => has anybody mentioned TIF's new flashy avatar? (very sweet crab-hat, my princess!!)

 

Nice hippocamp, Steve-O (and JA)! The type is perpetually on the list... the list which contains roughly 10,000x more coins than I can afford

 

I'm feeling like a sea goddess today

 

I forget: who recently got the crab hat? Mine is such a junker with that thickish patina but nice ones are coins for the want list.

Brettian League, AE15



just piling on here:

 

Me, which is why I commemorated the occasion with the purchase of this lovely crab hat

 

Since this thread already resembles a fractal*, here's another tangent-- a very cool hippocamp quadriga:


PHOENICIA, Berytos
1st century BCE
Æ19.5, 5.9 gm
Obv: Turreted head of Tyche right
Rev: Poseidon standing left in quadriga drawn by four hippocamps
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 83

And a Sicilian hippocamp:

Sicily, Syracuse. Second Democracy
c. 425 BCE
Æ tetras, 13 mm, 1.9 gm
Obv: Female head right; XXX before
Rev: Hippocamp right, octopus below
Ref: CNS 30; SNG ANS 1382

And a another Phoenician hippocamp (which needs to be reshot, it isn't that brown):

PHOENICIA, Byblos. Uzzibaal. 350-335 BC
AR dishekel, 13.3 gm
Obv: Three hoplites with shields in war galley left, roaring lion's head on prow, waves below galley; hippocamp left below; Z O (N O?) in field
Rev: Phoenician inscription; lion attacking bull left
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 132, BMC 26.95, 4.

*A related joke:

What is Benoit B. Mandelbrot's middle name?
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot

 

Nicely played => you've turned it into a hippocamp pile-on thread, with a backdoor Berytos and/or Byblos chaser

... sorry, somehow I've lost touch with the font-format

 

Okay, my font is back-on-track ... sorry about that



Here is a Byblos addition ... ummm, is JA cool with this thread-assault?! (sometimes he gets all weird, know what I mean?)

... *awkward* ...

Oh well, I'm diving-in ...

Phoenician, Byblos King Uzzibaal
365-350 BC
Galley with Hippocamp & Lion Attacking Bull

 

*awkward*

Ummm, is somebody else gonna chase a coin-tangent? (Lion, Bull ... ???)

=> it's kinda like playing hot-potato ... who is gonna be yelled at first?

 

Ahh...Fractal humor. Love it.

 

Realizing how opposed Steve usually is to taking a thread over chasing unrelated rabbits, I guess this must be a legitimate pile on following is post. Mine is like Steve's but a different date and ruler (Ainel?). Does anyone know a good online reference on these?

 

Hey, someone has a future as a hat model! Specifically, crab hats . On a separate note, that crab looks like it's been visiting your wine rack...

Oh, I should post a coin... here's my old Republican hippocamp biga: