Got me some gold! (again!)

Thanks ... yah, those semi-golden Lesbos babies were only 100-50 years or so after the Lydian examples (I have a Lydian Lion/Bull from 560 BC)

560 - 478 = 82 years

=> thanks for the ballpark info (I love it no matter what the gold content ... but thanks again)

... gawd, that's a long time ago, eh? (2500 years!!)

 

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I agree, pretty mind-boggling

 

A bit bright but it will do for now.

 

@ValiantKnight That is just beautiful, congrats!

 

Nice! You are starting down the Yellow Brick Road! Good for you!

 

Wow ! that rocks !

Q

 

Definitely a real beauty @ValiantKnight !!!

Alas, I only have my modest solitary Byzantine tremissis for the type...

But I did score an Electrum a while back........my mini gold hoard LOL

 

My only ANCIENT gold, but I do have a bunch of moderns...


Carthage - Zeugitana AV 1-10th Stater-Shekel 350-320 BCE 0-94g 7-5mm Palm- Horse Head

 

Ummmm?? ...

 

Trick or treat!

 

It is the Anti-Christ of Gold!

 

Only got the one ancient gold so forgive me if I spam the living heck out of it.

 

Well, even though most everyone here has seen it several times over, here is my only gold:

VALENS
AV Solidus
OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: RESTITVTOR REIPUBLICAE, Valens standing right, holding labarum in right hand & Victory on globe in left, cross to left. Mintmark star ANTE star
Struck at Antioch, 364 AD
3.6g, 19mm
Antioch RIC 2d,xxxvii-5

 

Great coins all! I feel like I struck gold!

Oh and thanks for the kind words!

 

Here's a family portrait of all of my gold. My Anastasius tremissis would be here as well but he grew up and moved out of the house already

 

I have not made the leap into solidii as yet...but your coins make it very tempting.

 

Terrific… That Justinian solidus no longer has the “bumps” on his face. It was apparently a bad photo with wrong light perspective. That one you have in hand resembles more real solidii.
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I have shown my before but in case new readers want to see variations then here my Justinian and Maurice, the latter one 22 siliqua minted in Antioch according to David Sear:

Justinian, 4,19gram 20mm




Maurice Tiberius, 4,12gram and 21mm. (22 siliqua)

 

@ValiantKnight

Awesome on the Byzantine gold - I still want a nice gold Byzantine keeper, but this will have to do in the meantime. Struck in the same mint about 1000 yrs later.

Kostantiniye, (Istambul)
Ottoman Empire
Suleyman I (The Magnificent) (r. AD 1520- 1566)
AV Sultani 20 mm x 3.36 grams Dated ( AH 926 or AD 1520)
Obverse: Sultan Süleyman Shah bin Sultan Selim Shah, Azze nasruhu, dhuribe fi qustantiniyah , seneh (926)-(Sultan Süleyman Shah son of Sultan Selim Shah, May his Victory be Glorious struck in Constantinople Year (AH 926) )
Reverse:Reverse : Dharibun-Nadri sahibbul izzi vennasri filberri velbahr-(Striker of the Glittering, Master of Might Victory and of Land and the Sea.)
Ref: Album -1317

 

As most Byzantine coins seem to be base metals and severely devalued billon, when I get around to collecting a few Byzantine coins for my collection, I'll probably stick to Solidus. Some of them are very reasonably priced for ancients, at only $400-$500 per coin. Haven't gone down that route yet as I still have quite a lot of ancient silver and high quality billon to collect.

 

Nothing wrong with some rare Byzantine Silver...

Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine
AR Hexagram 22.0 mm x 6.28 g
Constantinople mint. 610-640 AD
Obv. dd NN HERAKLIUS et hERA CONST Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine seated facing on double throne
Rev. Large DEUS ADIUTA ROMANIS Cross potent above three steps (God Help the Romans)
ref# S 798