Ever since he showed it here a few years ago, I've been an admirer of @Bing's Arse... errrrr, his coin from the Iberian city of Arse, that is (what were you thinking? ). So, anyway, when Bing decided to let it go - what was he thinking?? - I didn't hesitate to put in a bid for it, and am now officially its happy new owner. Isn't she a beauty? SPAIN, Arse/Saguntum AE Quarter Unit. 4.15g, 18.2mm. SPAIN, Arse/Saguntum, circa 150-100 BC. ACIP 1998; SNG BM Spain 1109. O: Scallop shell. R: Dolphin right; three pellets above, Iberian script below. Since Bing did a great job with a writeup about the city of Arse, also known as Saguntum, when he first bought the coin, I won't attempt to rehash the details, but will instead provide the link to his original thread for those interested in reading about the city. Please feel free to post your ex Bing coins, Iberian coins, or coins with scallop shells and/or dolphins!
Nice, erm, Saguntum . I can comply with the third request: scallop shell + dolphin: CALABRIA, Tarentum 325-280 BCE AR litra, 11 mm, 0.56 gm Obv: scallop Rev: dolphin right, trident (?) below (I think it might be a bunch of grapes) Ref: Vlasto 1530 (if grapes rather than trident, Vlasto 1527) formerly slabbed by NGC
Calabria, Taras/Tarentum circa 275-200 BC, AE14 2.1g Shell / boy on dolphin Ref: Sear GCV 608, SNG Copenhagen 1085, Lindgren Europe 252 Purchased from Arnold Saslow, NY Fall Coin Show, October 2001
Nice! Have to say I'm a little jealous of both of those Tarentum coins, though I do also have one from that city featuring a shell and dolphin. CALABRIA, Tarentum AR Nomos/Didrachm. 7.86g, 19.3mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 500-490 BC. Vlasto 115. O: Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding octopus in right hand, left hand extended; TAPAΣ (retrograde) below. R: Hippocamp left; scallop below, TAPAΣ (retrograde) above. Ex Pegasi Numismatics XXXIV (24 May 2016), lot 18
These are all great looking coins! Thanks everyone for sharing! I especially love yours @TIF You always have amazing stuff. Peanut butter and jealous.
Thinking? I've not done that in a while now. It looks good in your collection and I'm glad it's in the hands of someone who can appreciate it.
Very nice @zumbly!! Congrats! Here's 2 coins with dolphins: one Iberian and posted once before, and the other neither (it's new... A surfing bull). Carteia, Hispania AE Semis, Struck after 44 BC Obverse: CARTEIA, Turreted head of city goddess right. Reverse: DD, Neptune standing left, right leg raised resting on stones, holding dolphin and trident. References: ACIP 2615; RPC I 122 Size: 21mm, 8.74g Ex: Timeline Auctions, February 2019 Auction (3/2/19), Lot #3591 Byzantium, Thrace AR Siglos, Circa 340-320 BC Obverse: ‘ΠΥ, bull standing left on dolphin, right foreleg raised. Reverse: Incuse granulated mill-sail pattern. References: SNG BM Black Sea 21, SNG Copenhagen 476 Size: 15mm, 6.0g Ex: CNG Triton VI Auction (1/03), Lot #1533-1536
I don't have one of those nifty shells (yet), but I do have a recent newp from @Bing, as it happens: Greece (Arcadia, Megalopolis): silver triobol, ca. 182-168 BC There's a dolphin below the bust on this next one, but he's mostly off the flan. Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte, ca. 478-387 BC
Ah, there's where that Megalopolis went! I believe I was leading on it until the last day. Congrats on the score!
Thanks. I'd never bid in a Bing auction, and thought, "why not"? The description made me look up "lagobolon", which was an entirely new vocabulary word for me.
I'd love to get in on one of these auctions some time. Though after seeing these, it's probably out of my price range. Great stuff all
People with excess rabbits get lots of practice. Ask those with boomerangs which seems to be the same concept in a different culture.
My ex-Bing Augustus as: Augustus, 27 BC - AD 14. Roman Æ as, 8.41 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h. Lugdunum, 10 BC - 6 BC. Obv: CAESAR PONT MAX, laureate head, right. Rev: ROM ET AVG, altar of Roma and Augustus, flanked by two columns, each surmounted by a statue of Victory. Refs: RIC 230; BMCRE 549-556; Cohen 240; RCV 1690; CBN 1634.
