Galley Under Full Sail

Here is a Roman Provincial with a galley under full sail. I love coins with ships and could easily go on a quest to get one of each type (good luck with that). There is an amazing amount of detail on the ship. The coin is missing some of the legends and has some cleaning damage but the ship did it for me.



THRACE, Anchialus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (26mm, 12.04 g, 7h).
Obverse: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: Galley under full sail to left. Varbanov 239. VF, brown surfaces, small flan split.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.

Post your coins with ships!

John

 

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That's a really cool ship. I love maritime history but have no ship coins.

 

I am on the hunt havnt found one I like yet.

 

I agree about the ships, but I have very few. Yours is a very nice coin.

 

below is a Constantinopolis commemorative with victory on a prow which is special due to it having a quadripartite design on the shield. A bit from this type from my page--

"The victory on a prow type alludes to the naval victory of Crispus and his subsequent capture of Byzantium (soon to be re-named Constantinople). Zosimus said that Constantine's fleet had 200 ships and Licinius had 350 ships. Zosimus might have exaggerated, but all sources agreed that Constantine's fleet was greatly outnumbered. What accounted for the surprise victory of Constantine's forces? Could it have been that Constantine had better trained sailors...maybe divine providence? A papyrus letter from circa A.D. 323, gives an answer. The letter is from a procurator who said that the government of Egypt had an urgent requirement of box and acanthus wood for repair of the men-at-war vessels in the arsenals of Memphis and Babylon. Egypt sent a total of 130 ships to serve in the navy of Licinius, but it seems that they were all old tubs!"


Palladas, a fourth-century pagan poet, wrote mockingly about the city of Constantinople and coins with Victories on the prow --

"Here we are, the Victories, the laughing maidens, bearing victories to the Christ-loving city. Those who loved the city fashioned us, stamping figures appropriate to the victories." (Anth. Plan. 282)





http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/

 

Sweet Constantinopolis @Victor_Clark !

That is about the nicest I have every seen.

 

here's a festival of Isis issue

Festival of Isis
4th cent A.D.
12mm .8gm
ISIS FARIA; draped bust of Isis right.
VOTA PVBLICA; Isis in galley, supporting sail.
Rome mint
Vagi 3389

 

Some people have made collections of ships on coins and eventually sold them. I know of two such sale (sail ) catalogs. These notes are taken from my site on what is in catalogs:
http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html

CNG 73 (2006, Sept. 13) 1130 ancients among 1311, all in color with some enlargements, plus 460 book lots. facing heads collection of David Herman, 541 G, 45 Oriental Greek, 98 ships on coins (G, R, RP, Alexandre Barros collection), 79 RP, 53 RR, 214 RI, 40 Byz, 5 Aksum, 2 Crusader, 41 high grade Turkoman bronze, 9 English
facing heads (many), ships on coins (98), Turkoman bronze (41)

Malter Fall/Winter 1989-1990, Collector's Journal of Ancient Art (a fixed-price list). A collection of 86 Greek, Roman, and provincial coins with ships or parts of ships, 61 medieval, 29 Roman Egypt, 17 Byz, 14 other ancients, 26 Byz seals and some antiquities.
Ships (86).

Can anyone show us a Roman imperial coin with a sailing cargo ship, or are imperial ships are all presented as war galleys? The sailing ships I know are provincial, like this one of Commodus at Alexandria with the famous lighthouse:

 

I love that lighthouse Warren.

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, right?

 

Dynamis, Queen of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, late 1st century BC
Bosphorus, Agrippia (Phanagoria)
AE 8 nummia
19 mm; 4.4 gm
Obv: Veiled, diademed, and draped female bust (Dynamis? Livia?), right.
Rev: ΑΓΡΙΠΠΕΩΝ, prow left, mark of value H in field at right.
Refs: RPC 1935; BMC 1; Zograph pl. XLV, 14

 

that's a great lookin' galley! man, i'm without boat.

but i do have a SS from the same neck of the woods as your cool boat coin...

 

Another very cool coin

 

@Theodosius, that's a gorgeous coin!

@Carthago...

@Valentinian-- that Commodus Pharos of Alexandria is always on my wish list

@Victor_Clark-- wow, great Festival of Isis coin!

As seems to happen often on CoinTalk, yesterday I posted the favorite galley coin in my collection but here it is again


PHOENICIA, Tyre. Julia Maesa, Augusta
CE 218-224/5
AE 27, 12.71g (11h)
Obv: IVLIA MAE - SA AV[G] Draped bust right, wearing stephane
Rev: TVRIORVM Dido (?) standing left on deck of galley sailing right, extending right hand and holding cornucopia in left; to left, helmsman bending left over rudder (?); to right, sailor extending right hand and holding curved staff in left; stern decorated with a shield and aphlaston, [two murex shells] in exergue
Ref: CNG e320, 12 Feb. 2014, lot 323 (same dies). Rouvier 2408

 

Gosh, some excellent ships in this thread. And that's an enormously eye-appealing one, @Theodosius!

I'll throw in one of Hadrian's, from the Simon Shipp collection.

 

Wow, that's an awesome OP-ship!! (congrats, Theodosius)

Ummm, I don't think I have any with the ol' sail blowing?

... but I do have afew pretty cool examples ...

 

Great OP coin!

And the rest of you can certainly put together a very formidable fleet!