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  1. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

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    THESSALY, TRIKKA
    AR Hemidrachm
    OBV: Youth, petasos and cloak tied at neck, wrestling forepart of bull right
    REV: Forepart of horse galloping right; T-PI-KK-A-I around; all within concave incuse
    Circa 420-400 BC
    2.7g, 17mm
    SNG Cop 265
    ex: JAZ Numismatics

    Nex: More JAZ
     
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  3. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Roman Republic, P. Nerva, AR Denarius, Rome Mint, 113-112 BCE. Obv: Bust of Roma left wearing crested helmet with feather or aigrette (instead of wing) and single-drop earring, holding shield (ornamented with image of horseman galloping) against left shoulder with left hand, and spear over right shoulder with right hand, crescent moon above, star (*) [= monogrammed XVI; mark of value] before; behind, ROMA upwards / Rev. Voting scene inside Comitium in Forum: one togate voter to left of pons [bridge/walkway to place for depositing ballot tablet] receives ballot from attendant below; another togate voter to right of pons drops ballot in cista (voting basket); two lines behind voting scene and bar near top of reverse (described as “screen” by Sear) mark off voting area (denoting the barrier dividing a given tribe’s enclosure [saepta] from those allotted to different tribes), with bar or screen surmounted by marker/tabella inscribed with the initial “P” (possibly representing a particular voting tribe); P • NERVA [NE ligate] across field beneath bar (or beneath top of screen per Sear). Crawford 292/1; BMCRR II Italy 526 (at p. 274); RSC I [Babelon] Licinia 7 (ill.); Sear RCV I 169 (ill.); Sydenham 548; Yarrow 4.40 at p. 195 (ill.) [Liv Mariah Yarrow, The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources (2021)]. 17.21 mm., 3.87 g., 7 h. David R. Sear Certificate of Authenticity, May 2, 2013, No. 811CY/RR/A/CR (issued to Steve Peterson, noting “flan flaw on edge of reverse not affecting the type”).* Purchased at JAZ Numismatics Auction # 186, Lot 4, June 2021; ex. J.B. DePew Collection; ex. Steve Peterson Collection; ex. CNG Auction 295, Jan. 30, 2013, Lot 361; ex. Bruce R. Brace Collection.**

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  4. Spaniard

    Spaniard Well-Known Member

    ???Getting late here but shouldn't there have been a Shiva coin?
     
  5. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Looking back, you're right. Does that void @Bing's and my requests? Of course, in the unlikely event that someone has a Shiva coin with a Sear Certificate, that would solve the problem!
     
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  6. Spaniard

    Spaniard Well-Known Member

    For me it doesn't matter....This is a fun thread so ........
     
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  7. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

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    Next: More David Sear Certified coins
     
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  8. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    MYSIA Kyzikos A.jpg
    MYSIA
    AR Hemiobol
    OBVERSE: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish behind upward
    REVERSE: Head of roaring lion left within incuse square, star above
    Struck at Kyzikos, 480-450BC
    0.41 g, 9.5 mm
    Sear 3850
    Came with CofA from David Sear (no image of certificate)

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  9. robinjojo

    robinjojo Well-Known Member

    D-Camera Athens, tetradrachm, 510-480 BC, reversed ethnic and olive leaves, 17.8 g, 10-27-20.jpg

    D-Camera David Sear certificate for archaic owl, inverted reverse, 17.70g 1-16-22.jpg


    Next: Your favorite ancient with an owl (doesn't have to be Athenian)
     
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  10. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

    I do have a favorite Athenian - but this one is much less often seen (and the date rarely attributed correctly in auctions).
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    Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm, 92-60 BC, Exephron and Zopyros, magistrates.
    Obv: Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left below; head of Helios right and EXEΦPΩN above, owl before
    Rev: Double stellate pattern within slightly curved double linear square; ΔYP ZΩΠYPOY around

    For more on this story: Illyrian-drachms

    Edit: THanks to @Bronwen for the correction

    Next: an Illyrian coin
     
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  11. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: torch
     
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  12. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Torch:

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    Faustina II, AD 147-175.
    Roman provincial Æ 20.1 mm, 5.09 gm, 12 h.
    Bithynia, Nicomedia, c. AD 148-150.
    Obv: ΦΑVСΤΕΙΝΑ ΝΕΑ СΕΒΑ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
    Rev: ΝΕΩΚΟΡOV ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔEI, lighted torch entwined by serpent, surmounted by two ears of corn and decorated with two poppies.
    Refs: RPC IV, 6091,(temporary); RG 107, pl. XCI 24; Lindgren 166 (this coin).

    Next: a coin formerly owned by Henry Clay Lindgren.
     
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  13. Bronwen

    Bronwen Member

    It's fun just following this thread.

    In case you want to edit.
     
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  14. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    THESSALY Larissa-Kremaste - ex BCD ex Lindgren Thetis 3035.jpg THESSALY, Larissa-Kremaste
    AE Trichalkon. 5.38g, 19mm. THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste, 3rd century BC. Rogers 315; Lindgren II 1401 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 403.1; HGC 4, 13. O: Head of Achilles left. R: ΛΑΡΙ, Thetis seated left on hippocamp, holding shield of Achilles with AX monogram.
    Ex BCD Collection; ex Henry Clay Lindgren Collection

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  15. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Cool! Here's the plate from Lindgren, if you're interested.

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  16. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Thanks! Yep, I've got that volume of Lindgren, and want to at some point get the other two.
     
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  17. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Both of these were originally sold at the 2012 Triton XV auction of the "BCD Collection":

    Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Late 2nd-mid 1st centuries BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Sosipatros and Gorgopas. Obv. Laureate head of Zeus right / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; [ΣΩ]ΣIΠ-ATPOΣ above spear; ΓOPΓΩΠΑΣ in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 861.2 [CNG, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 861.2 (this coin)]; HGC 4, 209 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4 (2014)]; SNG Soutzos 397 [Tsourti, E. and Trifiro, M.D., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Greece 5: Numismatic Museum, Athens, The A. G. Soutzos Collection (Athens, 2007)]; Klose pp. 339 & 346, 2 (same dies) [Klose, D.O.A, "Zur Chronologie der thessalischen Koinonprägungen im 2. und 1. Jh. v. Chr., Ein weiterer Schatzfund aus Südthessalien," in Peter, Ulrike. ed., Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag (Berlin, 1998), at pp. 333-350]. 22 mm., 6.08 g., 2 h. [According to BCD: From Franke Hoard, Greece, found Summer 1983.]

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    Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [behind head, off flan] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 (this coin)]; HGC 4, 210 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4 (2014)]; McClean II 4797-4798 [Grose, S., Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Vol. II, The Greek Mainland, the Aegean islands, Crete (Cambridge, 1926)]. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h.

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    * [Applicable to both coins] CNG did not use the term “Double Victoriatus” in the Triton XV catalog, and apparently has not used it in general since at least 2006, because of the absence of evidence that that term, rather than simply "stater," was used contemporaneously in Thessaly.

    The Triton XV auction catalog can be viewed at https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/bcd_triton_xv_virtual_catalog .

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  18. Curtisimo

    Curtisimo the Great(ish)

    Ex BCD, ex zumbly and ex AMCC
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  19. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    BCD Incerta - Campania Capua AE18 Panther 2845.jpg CAMPANIA, Capua (?)
    AE18. 5.43g, 17.7mm. CAMPANIA, Capua (?), circa late 90s/early 80s BC. HN III 2672; Lindgren II 190; SNG Copenhagen 342-343; Stannard & Sinner, "A Central Italian coin...", Saguntum 46 (2014), p. 161, 1. O: Head of youthful Dionysos to right wearing ivy wreath. R: Panther to right, holding thyrsos over shoulder.
    Ex BCD Collection of Incerta

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  20. Andres2

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  21. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

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    Epirus, Korkyra, circa 229-48 BC, AR didrachm
    Obv: Wreathed head of Dionysos right
    Rev: Pegasus flying right; monogram above, prow and monogram below
    Ref: SNG Evelpidis 1931–2; HGC 6, 65

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