what do you get when you cross a pair of twins, a dolphin and an eagle?

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  1. non_cents

    non_cents Well-Known Member

    My latest purchase, of course!

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  3. Smojo

    Smojo dreamliner

    Very nice here is mine
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  4. Kentucky

    Kentucky Well-Known Member

    Hey...I got one of those...

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    Huge coin (sarcasm)
     
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  5. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    This one has been for sale on ebay for a while: what do you all think of it? one of the faces is kinda bizarre. Never seen one like this. coinistros3.jpg coinistro2.jpg coinistro1.jpg
     
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  6. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    what do you get when you cross a pair of twins, a dolphin and an eagle?




    Hydra fish head bird?
     
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  7. iamtiberius

    iamtiberius SPQR

    These are a must have for Greek collectors. Relatively cheap compared to other classical silver of similar denominations.
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    18.1mm
    5.50 g

    -Michael
     
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  8. Svarog

    Svarog Well-Known Member

    Here is one as well Screen Shot 2017-06-05 at 8.30.47 PM.png
     
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  9. non_cents

    non_cents Well-Known Member

    Very nice examples everyone
     
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  10. non_cents

    non_cents Well-Known Member

    Find me a coin with that on it and I'd be impressed!
     
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  11. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    I need the mate to mine with the right head inverted

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    THRACE, ISTROS
    AR Drachm
    OBVERSE: Facing male heads, the left inverted (Polydeuces Castor and Pollucs (AKA Dioskuri)
    REVERSE: Sea-eagle left, grasping dolphin with talons; ISTRIH above, Q between wing and tail, K beneath dolphin
    Struck at Istros, 400-300BC
    5.3g, 19mm
    AMNG 434
     
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  12. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    I do have this semi-decent example I picked up from another member here.

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  13. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Very nice!
     
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  14. Youngcoin

    Youngcoin Everything Collector

    Beautiful ancients everyone!
     
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  15. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

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    Moesia Istros AR Drachm 19mm 5.9g 4th C BCE Facing male hds inverted - Sea Eagle dolphin K Rausch 19 17
     
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  16. Mike Margolis

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  17. Carausius

    Carausius Brother, can you spare a sestertius?

    Well, this AE Sextans of the Roman Republic, 217-215 BC, Crawford 39/3, covers the twins and eagle; but alas, no fish!

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  18. Aunduril

    Aunduril Well-Known Member

    Very nice. I have one on my watch list :). Maybe one day I will joint the club.
     
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  19. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    I am thinking this coin presently on ebay looks like it may be cast as well. Does does not have the shimmer of ancient Greek Silver. Especially the reverse.
     
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  20. osdet

    osdet Active Member

    Sorry non_cents and everyone else, but none of these are examples of 'a pair of twins', there are not four portraits. A set of twins is more like it!!
     
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  21. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    Just adding my Istros to this wonderfull thread:

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