Ancients => post your favourite "Other Cointalker's Coins"

Yah, this might be a fail ... but I don't have any new coins, so I thought that I'd try to keep something goin' on

I recently peeked-through Z-Bro's threads and found a bunch of awesome coins ...

Meh, it's just an idea

 

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Gandalf's coin

Roman Republic
Anonymous issue
Aes Grave Triens , Libral Standard
46mm, 90.3g, (OH! and 9.3mm THICK!)
280-276 BCE
Rome Mint
Obv: Thunderbolt; •• •• across field.
Rev. Dolphin right; •••• below.
Ref: Crawford 14/3; Haeberlin pl. 39, 7-10. Thurlow & Vecchi 3; Sear 538






That's a beauty, my friend (big and yummy)

 

meh, this might be a fail? (keep 'er goin' if you want)

 

This could become a very long thread

Of your coins, Steve, the Kisthene Pigasus is one I want:



Doug has several Roman Egyptian coins that make me a little green. Zumbly has many envy-inducing coins.

All of AJ's coins, of course.

I'll add more tomorrow but I can't stay awake right now.

 

Ajax' coin ...

Pamphylia, Aspendos AE17 I just love this little coin

 

I'll play. From the stevex6 collection.... Hoof, there it is!...

 

I like to call this one the coin that @TIF will one day give me ...

 

Funny => no Roman lovers "yet"

=> the Greeks have way more fun, eh?



awww, crap ... I posted Gandalf's Roman (ummm, but it's an AE RR => that's almost a Greek, eh?)



=> this place is fun

 

A gorgeous coin! Just an awesome example!

@zumbly's

CALABRIA, Tarentum
AR Didrachm, CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 290-281 BC.
Fischer-Bossert Group 80, 1131 (V417/R873); Vlasto 587; HN Italy 934.
Wt.: 7.75 g
Dia.: 22.3 mm
Obv.: Warrior, holding shield and two spears, preparing to cast a third, on horseback right; SA below.
Rev.: TARAS, Taras or Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding distaff and stretching out hand; pellet to left, prow below.
Ex Thomas Bentley Cederlind Collection; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 84 (20 May 2015), lot 1358

 

TIFs Antigonos III Doson tet is always a favourite to look at

Steve I love the double struck Constans

Also Dougs Byzantine overstruck on a Gordian III is awesome. I know someone here has a Seleukos I tet with elephant quadriga (@zumbly maybe?) which is another great one. I'll think of more here tonight.

 

Is it fair to say every coin in the @Alegandron collection? This could become a long thread. I'll start with this stunner of a Daric from Brian's collection.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.Darios I to Xerxes II. Circa 485-420 BC. AV Daric (14mm, 8.30 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XIII, 27); Meadows, Administration 321; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 26. VF. Well centered and struck.

 

I will kick in with one of Mikey Zee, Nero temple of Vesta Denarius with great detail.

 

@TIF 's 15 Shekels cost me a bunch of money! She inspired me to get one of these RARE Carthage coins, minted after Hannibal was defeated. He had to go back to Carthage to pay off the HUGE Roman Indemnity... so he bought the REESES Company, and made Peanut Butter Cups to pay off the mortgage...

...Yeah, TIF, "it is a TRUE STORY!"


ZEUGITANA, Carthage
early 2nd century BCE
AE 15-shekels, 45 mm, 95 gm
Obv: wreathed head of Tanit left
Rev: horse standing right, left foreleg up; solar disk with uraei above
Ref: Alexandropoulos J (2000) Les monnaies de l'Afrique Antique, 103; Müller L (1861) Numismatique de L'Ancienne Afrique, 131; Luynes 3782; Jenkins GK and Lewis RB (1963) Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins, Royal Numismatic Society, London, pl. 28 12

 

@dougsmit has soooo many coins I love. On any given day, this fossil-in-matrix Aegina turtle makes the Top 3...


@Alegandron has an outstanding rare Marsic confederation denarius that would be a prize in my collection.

 

I was thinking of this Seleukid tet from @Alegandron
And basically all of @Jwt708 's Seleukids particularly this Demetrios I tet

 

I might be the only one that likes this one, but these astrological type depicting Venus in Taurus, AE Drachma's are very hard to find in this good a condition. Congrats on a great coin stevex6.

 

Here's one of my favorite coins in the collection of any CoinTalk member: a very unassuming silver quinarius minted in Luceria in the @Alegandron collection. This type is one of the rarest quinarii out there and as part of the interesting and honestly confusing emission from Luceria, an extremely interesting coin.

 

So many to choose from... but how about if I just choose @IdesOfMarch01 's Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius:

 

And thank you very much for attributing this coin for me!!!