So today, rather than working on my thesis like I should be, I messed around with a bunch of coins I'd put on the "back burner." I've been saving them for when I get a good light set up to photograph them. This was a coin I picked up in March. I finally got around to really working on the attribution today and it was so rewarding when I found it! Tiberius (?) Laodikea, Phrygia AE – early 1st century AD ΛAOΔIKEΩN Bust of Men, wearing Phrygian cap, r. KOP ΔIOΣKOYPIΔHΣ Eagle standing left RPC I 2907, BMC 67
nice job. shouldnt neglect your thesis to much lol, I shouldnt speak though . I got a bunch of math and science i gota take care of
I don't mean to answer questions aimed at someone else, but "AE" means bronze when referencing ancient coins.
Precisely. From the Latin aes (pl aeres). AR is silver (argentum). Gold is AV (aureum). Lead is PB (plumbum).
I didn't know about PB. Thanks for that info. the abbreviations for the metals are one of the few things I know about ancients.
That is a nice coin, even if I know very little (nothing) about the type. I can understand your enthusiasm and excitement at having been able to attribute it. It does not look very 'obvious' at all.
I've been getting more and more interested in the ancients just from reading through the posts here. While its not the most exciting genre for me, and I don't see myself doing more than acquiring a few different pieces here and there, I just find it amazing to be able to hold a coin from 2000 years ago and try to picture what that coin's "experiences" were. Not to mention the fact that there are so many which can be had for next to nothing. The few bronzes and a single silver I have were enough to get my fiance interested in coinage where my stacks of modern silver meant little more than retirement savings. Very cool stuff
