U.S. Independence Day

I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all the U.S. citizens a very happy Independence Day.



AEOLIS, KYME
AR Hemiobol
OBVERSE: Eagle's head left, KY to left (M beneath the head, nearly off flan)
REVERSE: Quadrapartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern
Struck at Aeolis, 450BC
.46g, 7mm
SNG Cop 32

 

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Hell yes! Here's another eagle!



Ptolemy III Euergetes, Egypt, AE 17, 3.00g, ca. 246-221 B.C. Obv: Zeus facing right within dotted border. Rev: Eagle standing left, ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; around border. Dark green patina.

 

Vespasian
AR Tetradrachm
Antioch mint, 69-70 AD
RPC 1954 (20 spec.)
Obv: AYTOKPA OYEΠACIANOC KAICAP CЄBACTOC; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.
Rev: ЄTOYC NЄOY IЄPOY B; Eagle with wreath in beak standing, l. on club; in l. field, palm branch

Happy Fourth everyone!

 

Looks like a LOT of Ancients celebrated The United States' Independence Day with an Eagle:


Ptolemy I Egypt


Amyntas III Makedonon


Marc Antony


Roman Republic Sextans 217-215 BCE


Roman Republic AR Denarius Plaetoris 67 BCE


Roman Imperial Licinius I


Roman Imperial Romulus


Roman Provincial Nero Tet


Messana Mamertini Pentonkion 288-278 BCE

 

Happy Independence Day!

A few more ancient eagles:


ELIS, Olympia. 95th Olympiad, 400 BCE
AR hemidrachm, 16 mm, 2.6 gm
Obv: head and neck of eagle right; F below
Rev: thunderbolt, volutes above, wings below, F-A across fields
Ref: BCD Olympia 85/84 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 372
ex Frank James Collection


EGYPT. Ptolemy III Euergetes
246-222 BCE
AE35, 35.53 gm
Obv: head of Zeus Ammon right with ram's horn, wearing taenia diadem
Rev: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, filleted cornucopia left; XP monogram between eagle's legs
Ref: Svoronos 965
Formerly slabbed; NGC ChVF*, strike 5/5, surface 4/5


EGYPT, Alexandria. Gallienus
year 13, CE 265/6
tetradrachm, 21 mm, 9.1 gm
Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: AVTKΠΛIKΓAΛΛIHNOCCEB; eagle standing right, holding wreath in beak, palm over shoulder; L IΓ across field
Ref: Emmett 3806(13), R1
Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 88.203 (accessioned 1888); Benjamin Pierce Cheney Collection


Ptolemy I tetradrachm

 

Happy 4th Bing et al!

 

In this country, we frequently overlook the real reason for this holiday and focus instead on having a picnic.

Kroton AR stater



Akragas AE trias rabbit with shrimp and crab on the (back) side


Akragas AE21 picnics are more fun with a friend

 

Thus I choose to name this thread "Independence Day" rather than 4th of July. Although a picnic is nice. Nice coins all.

 

Can never get enough of these Eagles...

 

I never thought about it until now, but it's very rare to hear someone call it 'Independence Day'. Most folks think of it as a holiday to see fireworks and have a BBQ, perhaps not thinking about the true meaning at all.

 

Always called it Independence Day... How it was taught in Elementary School growing up.

 

Happy Independence day to all of my American friends.

 

I saw a reporter on the street news cast the other day asking passersby what they knew about the Fourth. I was surprised (I shouldn't have been) at how ignorant our citizenry really is about Independence Day or what we celebrate on the Fourth of July.

 

Happy Independence Day, American coin friends!

 

I just finished a book and thought this quote might be appropriate for today:

Douglas MacArthur, at the age of 82, after receiving the highest honor bestowed by the academy, spoke to the 1962 graduating class at West Point:

“Duty-Honor-Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn…
You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation’s destiny in their hands…The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty-Honor-Country…
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the miles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty-Honor-Country.
Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of THE CORPS, and THE CORPS, and THE CORPS!...I bid you farewell.”

Bob Considine, It’s All News To Me: A Reporter’s Deposition, 1967, pp 360-1.

 

Happy Independence Day from your neighbour up north!!

Have fun and stay safe!

Erin

 

Great idea Bing. Happy independence Day to all. Was it politically incorrect to include a happy 4th of July wish to a British coin company today when I paid for my latest treasure?
Today is a good day to celebrate all kinds of things American like:
eagles
the right to vote whether you vote
Republican or ...

Democrat, sorry I do not have a donkey coin so I posted an As
golden fields of grain
and fried chicken

 

Fabulous

 

Excellent @rrdenarius

 

Happy Independence Day