Today's Franklin's World comic ... ... is about this coin: Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 21.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 267-268. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head, right. Rev: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp swimming right; N in exergue. Refs: RIC 245K; Göbl 743b; Cohen 667; RCV 10292; Hunter 121; Cunetio 1393. Post your hippocamps!
GALLIENUS Antoninianus OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right REVERSE: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp or Capricorn right, N below Struck at Rome, Sole Reign, 267-268 AD 3.9g, 20mm RIC 245
What is the word for a group of hippocampus or hippocampi? A pod? A school? A sea heard? I suggest... a gallienus... A gallienus of hippocampi!!!
Mine came from France, and arrived just fine. It was for a Saturnalia rather than a decennalia (thanks, @Cucumbor!) GALLIENUS AE Antoninianus. 2.75g, 21.8mm. Rome mint, AD 267-268. RIC V 245; Göbl 743b; Wolkow, CMR Gallien, 23a9. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right. R: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp right; N (officina) in exergue. Ex CoinTalk Secret Saturnalia 2017
Hippocamps, one of my favorite mythological beasts! ROMAN REPUBLIC, Moneyer Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus 69 BCE (revised from Crawford's 72 BCE) AR serrate denarius; 3.99 gm Obv: draped bust of Amphitrite seen from behind, with head turned r.; behind, sea anemone; horizontal I to right of right shoulder (only partly visible on this coin) Rev: Neptune in biga of hippocamps right, holding reins and brandishing trident; above, I and below, Q·CREPER·M·F / ROCVS Ref: Crawford 399/1b; Babelon Crepereia 1. Sydenham 796a. Rare. from HJB BBS 200, October 2016 ex NAC 78 lot 1828, from the JD Collection of Roman Republican Coins SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysius I (400-345 BC) Æ 20 mm, 8.23 gm Struck c. 390 BCE Obv: head of Athena left, wearing wreathed Corinthian helmet pushed back on head Rev: hippocamp left Ref: Calciati 35. SNG ANS 426 Formerly slabbed PHOENICIA, Byblos. Uzzibaal. 350-335 BCE AR dishekel, 13.3 gm Obv: Three hoplites with shields in war galley left, roaring lion's head on prow, waves below galley; hippocamp left below, with murex shell below it; Z O (N O?) in field Rev: Phoenician inscription; lion attacking bull left Ref: SNG Copenhagen 132, BMC 26.95, 4. acquired August 2014 https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-a-coin-from-the-purple-people.250752/ THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste 4th century BCE Æ Trichalkon; 16mm, 6.0 g Obv: head of Achilles left Rev: ΛΑΡΙ; Thetis, holding shield of Achilles with AX (=Achilles) monogram, seated left on hippocamp Ref: BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 403.1; HGC 4, 13 Ex BCD Collection Ex Hopper Collection (Sotheby’s, 9 March 1989), lot 519 (part) Sicily, Syracuse. Second Democracy c. 425 BCE Æ tetras, 13 mm, 1.9 gm Obv: Female head right (Arethusa?); XXX before; X behind Rev: Hippocamp right, octopus below Ref: CNS 30; SNG ANS 1382; rare PHOENICIA, Berytos 1st century BCE Æ19.5, 5.9 gm Obv: Turreted head of Tyche right Rev: Poseidon standing left in quadriga drawn by four hippocamps Ref: SNG Copenhagen 83 Here's a drachm I hadn't shown before. No wonder I forgot about it... it's rather aesthetically challenged . At least it wasn't as expensive as some of the ex-Dattari corroded dregs . EGYPT, Alexandrian. Trajan RY 12 (108/9 CE) Æ drachm, 33.5 mm, 22.25 gm Obv: laureate bust right Rev: Poseidon driving a biga of hippcamps right, raising arm and trident; waves below Ref: Emmett 568.12 (R5); Dattari-Savio Pl. 49, 7156 (this coin); RPC 4318.2 (this coin cited) Ex Dattari Collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1853-1923)
Tyre AR 1/16 shekel 10mm 0.47g Obv: hippocamp left over waves - Rev: owl with crook flail Ref: Sear Greek 5916.BMC Tyre 43 SNG Danish 302
I have a question about this coin: I recently won one of these in a bulk lot. There is an old label that came with it. It says: "Sicily, Syracuse AE trias Timoleon 344-336 BC S1193" In researching this I noticed that most of the examples credit it to Dionysius I (405-366 BC) Is the information that came with my coin just out of date or were there two separate issues?
Yes, one with Dolphins Dionysius II / Timoleon and one without Dolphins Dionysius I Here's mine with Dolphins:
This came in two days ago: Gallienus (253-268), antoninianus. Obv. Radiate bust right. GALLIENVS AVG. Rev. Hippocamp t.r., NEPTVNO CONS AVG. 18 x 20 cm, 2.33 gr. A merry hippo, followed by a funny camp!
Acquired two hippocamps this year: Cannot make out the held octopus in the former, but have been waiting for a decent "archaic" nomos from tarentum to complement the classical.
