ancients => Drink-drink-drink-drink!!

Great OP coin Steve. A pity I've nothing to contribute with

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Its local coinage from Spain, Catalonia. Issued by Ferdinand V, its a half pugesa.

 

Sweet colour, Geki ...

=> thanks for posting, brother

 

Hmm, I seem to have no drinking vessels. I guess I won't be hosting a drinking party!

I do have an amphora, although it is rather garbled.

LACONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)
80-50 BCE
AR triobol, 2.29 gm
Obv: Head of Herakles right
Rev: Amphora; to each side, caps of the Dioscuri; all within laurel wreath
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 868

And I have one lonely coin from Calabria.

CALABRIA, Tarentum
325-280 BCE
AR litra, 11 mm, 0.56 gm
Obv: cockle shell
Rev: dolphin right, grapes (?) below
Ref: Vlasto 1527, if grapes
freed from an NGC slab

 

I knew I had at least one with a clear 'Amphora' and not just as a 'control. device'....and I finally 'rediscovered' it LOL

My tiny obol from Thaos, Thrace (Satyr being frisky obverse):

 

Thanks for posting your sweet examples, TIF and Mikey-Z ...

=> TIF ... apparently you don't drink nearly enough in your "older age" eh? (perhaps you burned like a comet in high-school?) ... some people just get-high on life (good for you)

... I myself, still need a wee bit of rocket-fuel to get back to "top-dead-center"

 

Nice triobol of Sparta, TIF! I don't know if you collect references along with your coins like I do, but it is also HGC 5 612.
I let it get out of hand sometimes. I have 11 references for one of my coins!

 

Thank you for that additional reference! I'm trying to be more diligent about checking the references provided by sellers since I'm finding many mistakes as I'm tidying up my website. Ideally, I should only cite references I'm actually checked myself, or had a trusted friend (who owns the relevant book) check.

 

Interesting coin Steve! Good to see you back into the swing of things!

 

A trio of amphoras:



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Phalanthos riding dolphin to left, holding a kantharos in his extended right hand


Youthful Dionysos reclining left, on the back of a panther moving to right, holding a kantharos in his extended right hand

 

Can I post my 30 dollar coin next to ancientnut's gold?

Does Dionysos look tipsy here? He's spilling all the wine on his pet panther!

Lydia, Saitta. Pseudo-autonomous AE22.
Obv: Bust of Senate r.
Rev: Dionysos holding kantharos and thyrsos, at his feet, panther.