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Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Collect89, Jul 21, 2017.

  1. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    Thank You! great summary in a megabyte.
     
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  3. dougsmit

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    Mary on the obverse/Jesus on reverse right crowns emperor
    Andronicus I
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    Three or more people who can be named on coin
     
  4. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    Also, be careful reading Gibbons. His scholarship is very outdated and biassed. He tends to view everything after 180 CE as bad, and wrongly focuses on Christianity as the main reason for the collapse of the Empire...which modern scholarship has more or less discredited.

    I think he also oversimplified his analysis of the era of the "5 Good Emperors" and leaves a lot of relevant things out. But to give Gibbons some credit, he wrote a great account of Roman history for his time period. But archaeology has advanced a lot over the last 2 centuries and as a result we look at the ancient world now with the benefit of greater research and data that simply was not available to him.
     
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  5. arnoldoe

    arnoldoe Well-Known Member

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    Constans II Hexagram

    Constans II + his son Constantine IV on the right, with his other sons Heraclius + Tiberius on the Reverse
    next is Someone who's name starts with Constan
     
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  6. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    As a teenager I was given a box of old beat-up coins from my uncle, mostly Bavarian Talers, English half pennys and the like but in their was a denarius- which started my passion for ancients in my early years. I had a cheap set of "the decline & fall" and did some reading in it but do not now recall much of any info. I think at that stage I was more into just having it than really studying it. I don't recall it being very easy reading.
     
  7. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    Constantine I
    Next theme: Animals A26.Constantine I obv.JPG A26.Constantine I rev.JPG
     
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  8. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

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  9. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    Next theme: Coin with a woman A9-obv.JPG A9-rev.JPG
     
  10. Smojo

    Smojo dreamliner

    Julia Maesa
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    Next PAX
     
  11. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

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    Next: Securitas
     
  12. Alegandron

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

    Securitas

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    RI Helena mother Constantine AE Follis Securitas Nicomedia mint 325-326 CE 19mm 3.3g RIC-95 Sear 16619

    Next Theme: PROW
     
  13. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

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    Euboea Histaea
    * Trident beneath pros of ship on reverse.

    Next: trident
     
  14. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    My only trident coin!

    AV Stater ND Peshawar Mint
    Huviskha I 152-92AD
    Kushan Empire
    rev: Siva holding trident next Goddess Siva 01aab5762cfea2a1ed3434e22f00c756.jpg
     
  15. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    Welcome back Panzerman. What's the next theme?
     
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  16. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    thought Siva/Shiva was male; Goddess Sita?
     
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  17. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Thanks, yeah I was working pretty crazy hours since April....95+ hrs a week:(! OR MORE!
    Next theme: coins that depict God Shiva
     
  18. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Your right, Shiva is a God!
     
  19. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    It's been a while, so I'm not certain there are any Shiva to post. So that this hread does not end, lets try something else:

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    ATTICA, AEGINA
    AR Stater
    OBVERSE: Sea-turtle (T-backed); head in profile
    REVERSE: Large square incuse with skew pattern
    Struck at Aegina, 480-457BC
    11.96g, 20mm
    SNG Cop 507

    Next: Turtle or Tortoise
     
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  20. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    That is close to Shiva anyway since one of Shiva's associates the famed Vishnu incarnated as a Tortoise- second manifestation as I remember. You must have been thinking of that.[​IMG]
     
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  21. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Yeah. Yeah, that's it. My subconscious new the correct coin. (yeah right)
     
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