One quarter Mina (Tetarton) scale weight, Levantine region of Northern Syria, circa 250 – 100 BC. Obv – Seleukid anchor, note that folks who publish this type of anchor weight do not know which way is up. Some post it up, some down and a few post it both ways! Rev – square lattice work with horizontal lines. Note I see more lattice work with lines on a 45 degree angle. VF Lead, cast 51 X 53 mm 114 grams, I am not sure what one Mina weighs, but Pondera has many 1 mina weights in the 440 to 470 gram range. The median is about 450. Pondera 13355, this weight! Anchors are on many ancient coins as features or counter stamps. I have a few and others here have many more.
The Seleukids depicted anchors with the flukes on top, like this: Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.82 g). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Ekbatana mint. SC 202.12; Price 3938 Classical Numismatic Group, auction e-391, February 2017, lot 299. Note: This is the Wildwinds.com example. Anchors are stored this way when they are hung over a hook on a wall. People would have imagined them like that, not as cartoons dragging the sea bed the way our culture usually imagines them.
Very cool weight! And yeah, get it right auction houses! 2 for 1 on anchors here! (Even this coins counter mark guy understands what anchors are supposed to look like)
ANCHOR PARTHIA PARTHIA Orodes II 57-37BC AR Drachm 18mm 3.3g - Crassus gold - Ekbatana mint stars crsnt Arsakes on throne bow anchor Sellwd48.9 ROMAN REPUBLIC Roman Republic C. Allius BALA, 92 BCE denarius 19-18 mm. 3.83 g Female head right (Diana?), I before neck Biga of stags (thus Diana), anchor below. A ALLI Sear 221. Crawford 336/1c. Aelia 4 Ex: Warren Esty Year before the Social War with the Marsic Confederation THRACE Apollonia Pontika, Thrace. AR Diobol (1.3g) 410/404-341/323 BCE Obv: Full-face laureate Apollo with short hair. Rev: Magistrate's initals around the images. Upright anchor with thick flukes and a rectangular stock. The letter A on one side and the additional symbol of a crab viewed from above on the other side between flukes and the stock. Topalov 56. Ex: @red_spork
Annona with large anchor: Severus Alexander, AD 222-235. Roman AR denarius, 2.95 g, 19.4 mm, 1 h. Rome, issue 12, AD 231. Obv: IMP SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate head, right, with drapery on left shoulder. Rev: ANNONA AVG, Annona standing left, holding corn-ears in right hand over modius at feet and holding anchor in left hand. Refs: RIC 188; BMCRE 674-76; RSC 29a; RCV 7859.
