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Awesome addition! Your collection of Judaean coins just keeps getting better and better! My favourite kantharos (which might benefit from a reshoot), an early cast Onkia from Selinos (450-440 BC):

 

You bring the drinking vessels I'll bring the grapes! (It's the best I could do) Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be in Utah.

Elagabalus
(218-222). Moesia Inferior,
Marcianopolis. Æ (17mm,
2.96g, 12h). Laureate head
r. R/ Bunch of grapes. Cf.
Varbanov 382

 

Awesome coin, @AnYangMan ! I've never seen one of those before.

 

Thasos, Thrace
AR trihemiobol
Obv: Satyr kneeling left, holding kantharos
Rev: ΘAΣ-IΩN, volute-krater
Mint: Thasos
Date:411-350 BC
Size: 0.82 gr
Ref: SG1755v

 

I dont have a coin, but I do have a kantharos, Apulian, 5th - 4th Century BC:

 

MACEDON, Terone. AR Tetrobol.
Oinochoe.

 

..bronze coin from Kyme circa 350 BC and i reckon a lamp would qualify as a container of liquid, from Antioch circa 5th cent. AD....D Ray, PM me your mailing addy when time permits if you would sir

 

Here’s a recent purchase that applies


Ex-
The x6 Collection
A menagerie of ancient animals & awesomeness

Teos AR Hemidrachm
Obverse : Griffin running right.
Reverse : Kantharos; THI above, lyre right, magistrate's name accross lower field.
Date : 3rd-2nd cent. BC
Diameter : 12.69 mm
Weight : 1.35 g
References : BMC Ionia 30

Notes : Toned. Included is a certificate of authenticity from David Sear.

 

Also one from Kyme, Aeolis, 350 - 250 BC
10 x 11 mm, 3.73 g
Ref.:SNG Munich, 466-7; BMC 17.109.52; SNG Copenhagen 69-86;
Obverse: KY above horse protome to right, magistrate ΘΕΥΔΑΙΤOΣ
Reverse: One-handled drinking cup; monogram (inverted EY) for second magistrate EYBIOS? in left field

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I need better pics of this one but I’ll add Thebes to he mix




THEBES, Hemidrachm, 446-426 BC, Boeotian shield/ Kantharos, club above,
S-2385 (£80); VF/F-VF, obv sl off-ctr but complete, medium tone.

 

love the amphorae:
got this for a couple bucks and then found that it is one of the very few supposed depictions of the dude Mithras himself on a coin!
Bithynia, Cius (Kios)
Circa 3rd Century BCE
Obverse: Youthful male head (Mithras?) right wearing Phrygian cap wreathed in laurel
Reverse: KI Kantharos (Two-handled vase) from which two grape clusters come from
BMC: 20-23 var (no A atop Kantharos)
Size: 12mm, 1.75g

 

1 coin and 3 artifacts : Greece, Rome and Judea.

 

I don't have a kantharos to add but here are some other vessels.



EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero
Regnal year 14 (CE 67/8)
AE diobol; 27 mm, 10.9 gm
Obv: NEPΩKΛAVK[AIΣΣEBΓEPA]; laureate head right
Rev: L - IΔ; "vase" (Emmett), or "oinochoe" per others (others are probably correct)
Ref: Dattari-Savio Pl. 1, 2 (this coin); Dattari cf 286; RPC 5322; Emmett 153.14; Poole (BM, 1892) cf 188?; Milne -; none in a few other minor references I own. Rare.
ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/


PISIDIA, Etenna
1st century BCE
AE chalkous, 14 mm, 2.1 gm
Obv: Nymph advancing right, head left, holding coiled serpent in both hands; to left, amphora
Rev: ET-EN Curved knife
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 147. SNG Paris 1334 = SNG von Aulock 466.


ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Piso M.f. Frugi
58 BCE (redated from Crawford's 61 BCE by Hersh and Walker, 1984)
AR denarius, 20 mm, 3.94 gm
Obv: terminal bust of Mercury right, wearing winged diadem; calix below chin; to left, star above wreath; dotted border
Rev: M·PISO·M·F / FRVGI above secespita (sacrificial knife) and patera; all within laurel wreath
Ref: Crawford 418/2b; Sydenham 825; Calpurnia 23
formerly slabbed, NGC
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-different-frugi.279241/


LACONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)
80-50 BCE
AR triobol, 2.29 gm
Obv: Head of Herakles right
Rev: Amphora; to each side, caps of the Dioscuri; all within laurel wreath
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 868

 

I don't have a drinking vessel as a primary design element (that's a Greek thing), but I do have this Roman provincial featuring some nymphs carrying some water pitchers. You may read more about this coin here:


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman provincial Æ triassarion, 7.77 g, 24.2 mm, 7 h.
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, AD 193-211.
Obv: IOVΛIA ΔO-MNA CEB, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, three nymphs standing facing, wearing tunics over long, lightly billowing skirts and clasping hands, the two outer nymphs with heads turned inwards and each holding a jug in her free hand.
Refs: Varbanov 892 var (obv. legend); Staal 89.15 (plate 3, fig. 15, p. 157); BMC --; Moushmov --; SGI --; AMNG I (Pick) --; Lindgren --; Winsemann --
Note: Obverse and reverse die match to Staal plate coin (Gorny & Mosch Auction 108, lot 1421, April 3, 2001).

 

Great examples, @TIF ! The serpent coin fascinates me. It reminds me of a musical instrument that was used during the eighteenth century.

 

I've got an AE from Teos with griffin/kantharos:


Can be viewed here: https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/amcoinscanada/browse?a=407&l=398311

 

I got this recently - a bit off-centre, but at least the kantharos is centred

Neapolis didrachm - HN Italy 579



ATB,
Aidan.

 

I actually got this coin NOT because of the Kantharos, but because it depicted Mithra. depictions of Mithra seem hard to find on coins...


Bithynia Kios
~250 BCE AE11 1.06g
Laureate hd Mithra r;
Kantharos 2 grape bunches hanging K-I below within a wreath
SNG Cop 382