Good ol' boaty mcboatface ... Boeotia

I thought there were rules about posting your junk, for reasons of decency.

 

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This thread is dangerously close if not already "woo woo" in case you're wondering.

 

Wow!! => thanks for the great participation, my cool coin-gang!!



Yup, you dudes/dudettes have been posting some winner coins and funny posts!! (good times)

Thanks ... please keep 'em coming

 

Hey, it's Super-Bowl weekend, so I'd better dust-off my favourite beer-steins and get ready for Sunday's big-show!!

=> oh, so here are a few more of my kantharos examples ...

Ionia, Teos, AR Hemidrachm
300-100 BC
Griffin & Kantharos




Sicily, Selinos, AE Cast Onkia
450-440 BC
Kantharos & Selinon Leaf




Calabria Tarentum AR Obol
280-228 BC
Kantharos & Kantharos



====> man, I love ancient coins (oh, and Super-Bowl weekend)

I'm off for four daze!!

 

My "JUNK"


RI Augustus Quinarius - possibly Asia Recepta - blank wore-off-rev Obv-Rev ... REVERSE??? No stinking REVERSE....

 

Hey, nice junk ... own it!!

 

... any more club-coins out there?

here are a bunch of my sweet examples (I'll try to find a few more)

 

=> club-coins are very cool, eh?

 

Curious? ... does anybody actually have an ancient club? (man, that'd be cool, eh?)

 

CLUBS??? I will join the club!

Alexander III







Perseus of Makedon:

 

ROMAN REPUBLIC:

RR Anon AE Litra 230-226 BC Mars Club Galloping Horse Cr 27-2 S 596


RR Sicinius Coponius 49 BCE Apollo Club Pompey Moneyer Exile Sear 413 Craw 444/1

ITALIA:

Etruria or Umbria Aes Grave 3rd C BCE Sextans 23mm 25-15g Club-2 Dots HN 54 Vecchi-Thurlow 172


THRACE:

Thrace Thasos 146-50 BCE AR Tet Dionysos Herakles Club Lion skin

 

Yep here is an aging thread I'm pulling up but I have to tell @stevex6 how PO'd I am that ever since I got this in hand all I've been thinking about every time I look at it is that corny name "Boaty McBoatface". Dammit!

 

LOL

 

dadams ... congrats on scoring that awesome Boeotia example

Yup, that's definitely a McBoaty classic!

 

@dadams' post reminded me I had one of those lying around. It's not as nice, but here it is to keep the Boaty McBoatface legend alive.


BOEOTIA, Thebae
AE14. 1.71g, 13.6mm. BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage, Thebae, circa 300-250 BC. SNG Cop 179. O: Boeotian shield. R: ΒΟΙΩΤΩΝ (upward on left), ornamented trident head upward, with straight crossbar; dolphin upward on right.

 

Club coin? Oh boy I get to post this agin

And this