Finally....I'm off the freakin' wagon. Holy crap that was brutal! Picked up this neat little pseudo-autonomous coin from Lydia. I've been wanting a coin with the personification of the senate..and the Roma is interesting with her Tyche styled turreted head. HERMOCAPELIA, LYDIA: TIME OF HADRIAN 117-138 AD O: Bust of Senate. R: Turreted head of Roma. SNG Cop 165. 17 mm, 2.5 g So most have the legend of the obverse listed "backward", as.. EPMOKA-PIHLTW, same for reverse legend...so read right to left? Post any coins of Senate, or anything weird and pseudo-autonomous.
Chris! Great coin, and welcome back to parting with cash! Nice coin... I only have ONE Lydian coin... I think the problem is that most of my coins are weird as I collect a lot of Niche areas of History... RI Prov Lydia Hierocaesarea 54-59 CE AE15 Capito under Nero Artemis Persica Leaping over STAG RPC 1 2391-2
I love ya, coin-bro => that wagon was livin' on borrowed time!! ... we all knew that it was gonna tumble!! Hopefully you're okay? ... man, a crash like that sometimes leaves a mark!! Your coin is a stunner!! (congrats) ... I love it
Great coin. I like Bing have been looking for the right one. The right one I don't get outbid on. Absolutely love some of the Lydian coinage & antiquities
I fail to see a turreted head but yours looks like all the ones online so I guess I don't know what a turret is. (Oh, I see it on Mikey's coin.) Three semi-autonomous. All have turrets by my definition but the last one in on the reverse with Tyche. Alexandrian Troas triple turret on head of city goddess, 3rd cent AD Hieropolis-Castabala c.150AD Smyrna, Time of Valerian? Senate/Tyche
Great idea and super nice patina on that coin! Here are a few of the Senate. Caria, Antiochia ad Maeandrum Lydia, Hermocapelia Lydia, Philadelphia Phrygia, Synaus Phrygia, Tiberiopolis
I got one (still bad pics...), thanks to @ancientcoinguru Hermocapelia, Lydia, AE 16, 117-138 AD. IERA CYNKLHTOC, Draped bust of the Senate right / EΡMOKAΠHΛIT, Turreted and draped bust of Roma right. TMP monogram in right field.
That wagon is really tricky. It's ran me over so many times I've got tire tread marks all over my back.
I didn't have a wagon as a kid. I had a BB gun and firecrackers. Wagons are for amateurs. Speaking of wagons, this came in the mail today. C. Fabius C. f. Hadrianus AR Denarius. Rome, 102 BC. Turreted and veiled head of Cybele right, wearing single-drop earring and pearl necklace; EX•A•PV upwards to left / Victory driving galloping biga right, holding reins in left hand and goad in right; • over F below horses, and stork standing right; C•FABI•C•F in exergue. Crawford 322/1b; RSC Fabia 14. 4.06g, 21mm, 6h
