Featured Coins that go bump in the night Part II- The Vampire strikes bat!

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  1. Curtisimo

    Curtisimo the Great(ish)

    Your threads always crack me up @Ryro
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  3. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Super new sea monster, Scooby! :)

    Since you called it out, here's mine. It may be prettier but yours is scarier :D.

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    CARIA, Kindya
    500-496 BCE
    AR tetrobol, 2.18 gm, 11 mm, Samian standard
    Obv: head of ketos right
    Rev: geometric pattern within incuse square
    Ref: Kagan and Kritt, 'The Coinage of Kindya,' NC 1995, 1 var. (head left); SNG Keckman 920 var. (same); SNG Kayhan 815; "Asyut Hoard" 688
     
  4. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    Did our fourrees know each other back then?
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  5. Michael Stolt

    Michael Stolt Well-Known Member

    Some additional info on the L. Hostilius Saserna : there is a proposition that the obverse figure is a representation of Pallor, the goddess of fear and paleness. The complexion on the faces of different dies lend plausibility to this theory. There was another god, Pavor, who represented consternation, panic, and dread. Interestingly, Hostilius also struck a coin with a male head (most common theory is that it is a representation of the Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix). This may be an allusion to Tullus Hostilius, who vowed (and presumably later erected) temples to Pallor and Pavor during his war with the Etruscan cities Veii and Fidenae.

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    L. Hostilius Saserna. 48 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g). Rome mint.

    Obverse: Bare head of Gallia (or Pallor?) right, wearing long, dissheveled hair; carnyx to left.

    Reverse: Diana (Artemis) standing facing, laureate, wearing long hair falling down her shoulders and long flowing robes, holding spear in left hand and stag by its antlers in her right; SASERNA upwards to left, L • HOSTILIVS downward to right.


    Reference: Crawford 448/3
     
  6. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    Very cool toning....
     
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  7. PlanoSteve

    PlanoSteve Well-Known Member

    I think they nailed it! :happy: (That is a very nice looking specimen & interesting write up!) ;)
     
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  8. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    Not ancient, but still in the spirit. German Notgeld
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