Odd shaped coins - + - + - + - +

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Collect89, Nov 29, 2008.

  1. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    Please post photos of your odd shaped coins. Let's limit photos to mint products that are 2-dimensional odd shaped coins. (Anything really 3D would deserve its own thread). Here are some of mine.

    Very best regards,
    collect89
     

    Attached Files:

  2. Avatar

    Guest User Guest



    to hide this ad.
  3. mark_h

    mark_h Somewhere over the rainbow

    Cool coins - I don't have anything like that.
     
  4. Clinker

    Clinker Coin Collector

    I can see why your're proud of them...

    C;inker
     
  5. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

    For mrbrklyn, who demands all coins be perfectly circular :D

    A hexagonal shaped flan:
    [​IMG]
    Mytilene, Lesbos
    AE19
    3rd-2nd century BC
    laureate head of Apollo r.
    lyre between two monograms, MY and T-I in fields
    BMC 17. 192-3, 96-105, Sear 4273

    A serrated edge:
    [​IMG]
    Roman Republic
    C Mamilius Limetanus, 82 BC
    AR denarius
    draped bust of Mercury r. with caduceus over shoulder
    Ulysses standing r., holding staff in l. hand and extending his r. hand to his dog Argus
    C MAMIL to l., LIMETAN to r.
    Sydenham 741, Crawford 362/1

    A cup shaped coin:
    [​IMG]
    Byzantine
    Alexius I,
    trachy - 29mm, 3.31g
    Constantinople - 1081-1118 AD
    Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, and holding book of Gospels
    Bust of Alexius facing, wearing crown and jewelled chlamys, and holding cruciform sceptre and globe cross
    Sear 1915

    And just a really tiny, ragged flan:
    [​IMG]
    Trajan
    Alexandria, Egypt
    AE dichalkon – 14mm
    113-114 AD
    laurate bust r.
    hem hem crown
    Emmet 707(17)
     
  6. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

     

    Attached Files:

Draft saved Draft deleted

Share This Page