Ancients => Ooops => on the way home, I bought some magic beans

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  1. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Wow, thanks for all of your great thread-additions ... apparently you coiners must also love Pontos?!! (thanks for contributing an example or a comment ... I love receiving coin feedback)

    :rolleyes:

    chrsmat ... man, I love seeing that sweet ol' retro
    coin-table of yours

    => yup, that is definitely one of my favourite ancient memories, my friend!

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  3. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Hey, "please" keep your coin-thread examples coming ...

    => if you're looking for a place to play, then you've found it!! (a sweet ol' pile-on thread)

    Post your Pontos, post your gorgons, post your Nikes, post your Adidas!!
     
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  4. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    For example => here is another of my gorgon examples ... betcha nobody else has one of these babies

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    ... I love the bull giving that huge grain ear the sweet double-look-back-glance (kinda like one of the James Bond girls, eh?)

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  5. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    The flan and patina on the coin looks very much like your table. It's a chameleon coin, trying to match its surroundings!
     
  6. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

  7. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

  8. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Okay :D. More Pontos.

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    I have a few more too but can't find images. They are duplicate coins from large mixed lots and the duplicates really need to find new homes.
     
  9. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    thanks gang .... wow, sweeet additions!!


    :rolleyes:
     
  10. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Well... There always is a loving home here... :) :) :)
     
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  11. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Gosh, the only other Gorgon that I have, I had just shown in another thread... but here is another aspect pic of it...

    Etruria Populonia 3rd C BCE AR 20 As 8-1g Metus Blank NGC Cert HN 152 Obv.JPG

    Mercifully freed from its sonic-weld polycarbonate thermoplastic hades-house
     
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  12. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    It rained all day, so I'm afraid I didn't get the light I needed to take the coin photos I wanted for this thread. But hey, my neighbourhood grocery recently started carrying this...

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    I don't know what that foot-shaped giveaway has to do with fish oil, nor do I really want to think about it... :yack:
     
  13. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    LOL, to "boot" the Pontos Fish Oil looks like a screw-top bottle. :D Hmmm, so the Pontos Company feels like the bottle openers are for beer...

    Beer and Fish-Oil as a drink: would that be a "Barley-Chum"???
     
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  14. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    Looks like a bottle opener. Many Americans take fish oil capsules but all the references online to cooking with it come from Singapore. They advertise no fishy smell and no refrigeration needed. Perhaps it would also serve to repatinate bronze coins???
     
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  15. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    How about this one?

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    Pontos, Pharnakeia
    Æ19, 8g, 12h; 120-63 BC
    Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right.
    Rev.: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monogram to left, ΦAPNAKEIAΣ below.
     
  16. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    I remember that coin @Jwt708. I almost bid against you for it. Both obverse and reverse are interesting and well detailed.
     
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  17. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Thanks for not!;)
     
  18. icerain

    icerain Mastir spellyr

    Well I do have a gorgon coin... well sort of, if you can see it that is lol.

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  19. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    After staring at it for a couple of minutes, I can make it out. It's like the ink blot test.
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  20. icerain

    icerain Mastir spellyr

    Yeah it's not the greatest to say the least. I would let it go for a pretty penny but it is my first ancient purchase.
     
  21. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Here's my two. First one from Komana. I think that means together we're only missing one of seven mints?

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    PONTOS, Komana
    Scarce. 6.93g, 20.8mm, PONTOS, Komama, circa 85-65 BC. SNG Ashmolean 189; SNG Stancomb 715. O: Aegis of Athena, with head of Medusa at center. R: [K]OMA-NΩ[N], Nike advancing right, carrying palm branch over left shoulder; monograms to left and right.

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    PONTOS, Amisos
    Imitative or unofficial mint
    AE23. 7.27g, 23.5mm, Imitative (Sarmatian?) issue or unofficial mint. cf. Sear 3642. O: Aegis with Gorgon's head at center. R: Nike advancing right carrying palm; [A]MI-Σ… in field.
     
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