Ancients => $45 Hammer gets you a 2400 year old Trident

Again, this year's budget-coins are certainly not screaming "AJ-AJ-AJ" ...

However, I loved this sweet coin when I first saw it so I fired-out an initial bid ($45)

=> seriously, $45 for this delicious lil' 8 mm silver trihemiobol => yes please!!

This sweetie has great toning and for an 8 mm coin, this example has both, a great obverse bust of Apollo and also a cool reverse showing an intricate trident within a patterned border (hey dudes, this is an 8 mm canvas!!)

=> $45 .... chicken dinna!!

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum
AR Trihemiobol
Circa 400-350 BC
Diameter: 8 mm
Weight: 0.84 grams
Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Trident head within circular maeander pattern
Reference: SNG Kayhan 404–7
Other: 2h … sweet toning
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind



=> gawd, that's a 20 mm portrait on an 8 mm coin!! (I love it)

 

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Nice coin stevex6, good value, it's hard to believe you can get 2400 piece of history for just $45 bucks.

 

Now that's a nice coin well within my budget.

 

There were a few bargains at todays auction, but overall it was quite strong. I was outbid on everything! I had thought the election grumblings would hold some back. After all, stock markets around the world have been down (as they are always childish and emotional to just about anything), but of course all will go back up. Now, there are some truly wonderful items in the current auction, and I can only hope everyone else will not see them!

 

Buying opportunities abound.

 

I managed to get the one I really wanted. Similar coins at the Baltimore show were 3-4X the price.

 

Now this one caught my eye as well... I would've been happy to have welcomed it into my collection. Glad you got it, and for the entrance fee too!

 

Thanks ... yah, I like both of my coins that I scored today

 

Please feel free to post any of your tridents and/or your cool Athena examples ...

Syracuse
Zeus & Trident with dolphons

 

Oh, I found a couple more cool AE trident examples ...

Caria, Mylasa AE10
200-100 BC





Macedonian Under Philip V & Perseus (Celtic)
187-168 BC
Strymon & Trident

 

My win from yesterday features Athena as well. The only Colt I've bought so far this year and my first from this city. Very pleased to have scored it!


AKARNANIA, Thyrrheion
Circa 360-320 BC
AR Stater. 8.45g, 18mm. Pegasi 1; BCD Akarnania 373.1 (this coin); HGC 4, 917. O: Pegasos flying left; Θ and ground line below. R: Helmeted head of Athena right.
Ex Estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind; Ex BCD Collection (Münzen & Medaillen GMBH 23, 18 October 2007), lot 373.1; Ex Münzenhandlung FR Künker, Osnabrück 14 (1989), lot 5705

 

Künker seems the place to be for Akarnanian staters, I won this one last month in their auction.

 

Nice! Here's an Anaktorion I picked up at a Künker auction last year.


AKARNANIA, Anaktorion
Circa 320 - 280 BC
AR Stater. 8.44g, 24mm. Calciati, Pegasi 58; BCD 108. O: Pegasos flying left; AN monogram below. R: Head of Athena left; API above, ΔΩ and lit altar at right.

And since we're showing Colts of Akarnania, here's one from the most prolific mint, Leukas.


AKARNANIA, Leukas
Circa 320-280 BC.
AR Stater. 8.3g, 20mm. Pegasi 132 (same rev. die); BCD Akarnania 269 var. (? behind head). O: Pegasos flying left, A below. R: Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet; mast with yard-arm behind.

 

Nice horses, fellas ... I only have this poor ol' girl



=> ummm, no trident coins?

 

I've been too caught up in the election......my fault!

My only trident:


Hieron II, 275-215 BC
Æ19, 6.3g, 12h; Syracuse mint.
Obv.: Diademed head of Poseidon left.
Rev.: Ornamented trident head, dolphin downward flanking on each side, ΙΕΡΩ−ΝΟΣ horizontal across field divided by shaft, uncertain control symbols.

 

TRIDENTS:


Sicily Syracuse Hieron II 275-215 BCE AE20 Poseidon Trident Dolphin


Sicily Syracuse 275-215 BC AE 19 Hieron II Poseidon-Trident


RI Claudius II 268-270 CE BI Ant Neptune Stndg dolphin trident

 

Cool auction wins guys!!

Here are two of my 'trident' contributions:



The oft posted Hieron example and one from Byzantion.

 

I have a few tridents to share


ROMAN REPUBLIC
Moneyer Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus
69 BCE (revised from Crawford's 72 BCE)
AR serrate denarius; 3.99 gm
Obv: draped bust of Amphitrite seen from behind, with head turned r.; behind, sea anemone; horizontal I to right of right shoulder (only partly visible on this coin)
Rev: Neptune in biga of hippocamps right, holding reins and brandishing trident; above, I and below, Q·CREPER·M·F / ROCVS
Ref: Crawford 399/1b; Babelon Crepereia 1. Sydenham 796a. Rare.
from HJB BBS 200, October 2016
ex NAC 78 lot 1828, from the JD Collection of Roman Republican Coins


EGYPT, Alexandria. Lucius Verus
year 4, CE 163/4
tetradrachm, 24 mm, 13.51 gm
Obv: ΛAVPHΛI OVHPOCCEB; bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust left
Rev: Radiate and draped bust of Serapis-Pantheos right, wearing calathus and horn of Ammon; trident behind shoulder; ∆/L in right field
Ref: Emmett 2360 (4), R1; Köln 2148; Dattari (Savio) 9420; K&G 39.77


EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
year 5, CE 141/2
AE drachm, 20 gm
Obv: Laureate draped bust of Antoninus Pius right
Rev: Radiate-headed and draped bust of Serapis Pantheos (Serapis-Ammon-Asklepios-Helios-Nilus-Poseidon), right, wearing kalathos, ram's horn round ear; at shoulder, cornucopia; behind, trident with snake twined round it, L-Є in right field
Ref: Emmett 1676.5, R1; Köln 1412


PHOENICIA, Berytos
1st century BCE
Æ19.5, 5.9 gm
Obv: Turreted head of Tyche right
Rev: Poseidon standing left in quadriga drawn by four hippocamps, holding trident
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 83


Sicily, Syracuse. Hieron II
275-216 BCE
Æ 23, 7.4 gm
Obv: diademed head of Poseidon left
Rev: IEP-ΩNOΣ; Trident upright; on either side, dolphin
Ref: Calciati 194

 

Corinthia, Corinth AR Stater
(350-300 BC)
Obv.: Pegasos flying left.
Rev.: Head of Athena wearing wreathed Corinthian helmet; A-P below, eagle behind.
Ravel 1008c.