Perseus coin

Hi all, been watching your great coins. Decided to get a few . I just go for what catches my eye... Here's a cool looking Perseus. I,m sure you guys have this one. I have a few more bronze coins coming. soon to go with a few silver denarius. I would like to collect a few Roman and Greek Gods , and Heroes... Thought about the 12 Caesars. but bang...Julius was wow...

 

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Only if you are going for a portrait coin. and it also depends on your meaning of "wow". Some of the non portrait coins are reasonable.

That's a nice looking coin. Do you have any info to go along with it? Weight? Diameter?

 

Nice coin. Welcome to the club. My only comment is that it's a pity it doesn't have the original patina, but that's just my personal preference.

 

The Caesar coins, I looked at, was the elephant coin. I would prefer a profile, or the whole name. I really like this Perseus... Macadonia(165) Amphilpolis. Perseus 196-168 bc. Ae-18. 18mm. 4.85 g. ref:.cg6807

Yes. Thanks, Macedonia(165)-Amphilpolis-Perseus. 196-168 bc-AE18. 18mm. 4.85 g. ref.:cg6807... they guaranteed its legit...If I can find a Caesar with good details. reasonable...Hmmm. The 12 Caesars seems like a good starting point. Pick up a few bronze along the way...

 

Thanks, Yes me too. I would prefer that

 

Perseus
Perseus (pûrˈsēəs, –sŏs) [key], in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Danaë. His grandfather, Acrisius, had been warned by an oracle that his grandson would kill him and therefore put Perseus and his mother in a chest and threw it into the sea. It drifted to Seriphus, where King Polydectes befriended the two. After a time Polydectes fell in love with Danaë but was embarrassed by the presence of her full-grown son. He sent Perseus to fetch the head of the Gorgon Medusa, thinking that Perseus would die in the attempt. The gods, however, loved Perseus. Hermes gave him a curved sword and winged sandals, Athena a mirrorlike shield, and Hades a helmet that made Perseus invisible. Thus armed, Perseus slew Medusa. While fleeing the other Gorgons, Medusa's sisters, Perseus asked Atlas for help. Atlas refused, and Perseus, by means of the Medusa head, promptly turned him into a mountain of stone. On his way home Perseus rescued Andromeda from a sea monster and married her. When he arrived in Seriphus, he killed Polydectes and his followers. He then gave the Medusa head to Athena. He went with his mother and his wife to Argos. There, while competing in a discus contest, Perseus accidentally killed his grandfather. Thus the prophecy was fulfilled. Perseus was the father of Electryon, who was the grandfather of Hercules. The famous figure of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.

 

Nice. Now you need one showing Perseus holding the head of Medusa while standing over her decapitated body, blood pooling on the floor from her gushing neck stump. Sorry, that may have been a bit too descriptive...


PONTOS, Amisos
Time of Mithridates VI Eupator
Circa 85 - 65 BC
AE28 (19.3g, 28mm)
SNG V Ash 109, SNG Stancomb 683 var. (right monogram).
O: Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing a helmet decorated with Pegasus springing right.
R: AMISOY, Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and head of Medusa, Medusa's body at his feet gushing blood, monograms in left and right field.

 

I'll second the suggestion for you to acquire a Perseus with decapitated Medusa coin . They were struck by a few cities. Here are two from Amisos:


PONTOS, Amisos
85-65 BCE, time of Mithradates VI Eupator
AE29, 19.5 gm
Obv: helmeted head of Athena right; gryphon on helmet
Rev: AMI-ΣOY; Perseus standing facing, holding harpa & Medusa's head; Medusa's body at his feet, blood gushing from neck; monograms in both fields
Ref: SNG BM Black Sea 1166; Stancomb 684; SNG Copenhagen 137 (best guess)


PONTOS, Amisos
85-65 BCE, time of Mithradates VI Eupator
AE28, 18.5 gm
Obv: Helmeted head of Athena right.
Rev: AMIΣOY; Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and head of Medusa, Medusa's body at his feet, blood gushing from neck; monograms in both fields
Ref: SNG Stancomb 683 var.

 

Cool posts!! I need more Greek coins!!!

 

I suggest you not look for the gushing Medusa until I upgrade mine. Yes, you can find cheap examples but ones as nice as a couple shown above will cost more than you suspect. They are the kind of coin that we here bid against each other to obtain.

 

Well, I guess I'll throw in my AE-22 of Mithradates; Zeus/Eagle and thunderbolt:

 

Greek eagles on things?


Hiketas, Syracuse, BC 288-278
AE, 20mm, 6.2g; 2h
Obv.: Laureate head of young Zeus Hellianos left
Rev.: ΣΥPAKOΣIΩN (upward on left undivided); eagle with wings open standing left atop fulmen


Apameia, Phrygia; BC 133-148
AE, 6.73g, 23mm; 2h
Obv.: Bust of Athena right wearing high crested Corinthian helmet and aegis
Rev.: AΠAMEΩN; eagle alighting on base with meander pattern flanked by caps of the Dioskouroi, star above

 

The only coin I own showing Perseus

SINOPE, PAPHLAGONIA
AE16
OBVERSE: Winged head of young Perseus
REVERSE: SINW-PHS, cornucopiae between two pilei of the Dioskouroi, each surmounted by a star
Struck at Sinope, 120-100 BC
4.09g, 16mm
SNG Cop 306, SNGvA 231, Sear 3713

 

I hesitated to clean this coin fearing that I might harm it. I can't tell whether there is Pegasus or Griffin on Athena's helmet. What do you advise me coin-friends ?

 

It's only a guess @7Calbrey....but I see a griffith (gryphon?) like @TIF 's first example.....

 

That's a mighty sweet OP-perseus, old49er (congrats)

Perseus, eh?

 

Thanks stevex6, those are some really nice coins you have. I have to get one of those Pontos Amisos!

 

yah, thanks my new coin friend , they're pretty cool => I have lotsa Pontos examples (it is a great side-track collection)

Syracuse, Pontos, Rhodes are just a few examples of neat coin-types that have lured me down a path (man, I love straying and exploring cool ol' coin-paths!!)



again, congrats on scoring that sweet OP-example

I hope that you're having a great Saturday

 

Good stuff, nice collection going there. I bid on one the other day. But got sniped from me right at the end. And I couldn't find anymore that day. looked today. nice example, but missing the head. so I passed. I will get one though. I can be patient and wait for a nicer one...have a great day man...

 

Nothing special here, but I have been trying to find out what the monograms on this coin mean, to no avail. Very hard to take a picture, because the coin is very dark.

Only found something about monograms on Amisos coins here:
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/pontos/amisos/malloy33_34_monograms.jpg
but it just shows the monograms.

Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, Amisos, Pontos ca. 86 - 65 BC
Ref.: SNG Brit. Mus. (Black Sea) 1213-15; BMC 60; RG 69, 32; SNG Copenhagen 158 var.; Sear 3639
24 mm, 12.99 g;
Obv.: Head of Perseus right, wearing Phrygian cap with griffin crest
Rev.: AMIΣOY Pegasus drinking left; two monograms below, I think these two:
on the left and on the right. Are these control symbols?

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Any ideas what they are?