Ancient =>Apollonia

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Eng, Sep 26, 2013.

  1. Eng

    Eng Senior Eng

    Picked this up at my coin club meeting last night....haven't bought much lately...
    Steve should love this one, Mama and calf and grapes for little vino..;)

    Apollonia...229- 100...BC..
    AR...Drachm.
    Ob.Cow standing right looking back at
    sucking calf..grapevine and leaf in EX...
    Rev.Greek word..:confused:..around square, containing
    double stellate pattern..( awesome blue and gold hue)
    19mm x 3.34g.

    DSC04301_opt (1).jpg

    This might be upside down, no match on wildwinds..

    DSC04305_opt.jpg
     
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  3. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Beautiful John. The color is stunning IMHO.
     
  4. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    that's a nice drachm, very pretty ...is "toning" the right word here?

    i think the reverse need to be rotated 90 degress to the right?
     
  5. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Awesome coin, Halibut!! ... super pick-up, my good friend!!

    => yah, I have one as well, but it's not as well-centered as yours!!



    cow suckling.jpg cow suckling b.jpg
     
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  6. Eng

    Eng Senior Eng

    Steve isn't this the same as your error coin you just posted, grapes on the bottom, club far left...
     
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  7. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    Hi Eng ...

    hey, looks like you might be correct?

    Your new coin is similar to my "error-coin" from the other thread

    ... cool

    Hopefully Batman pipes-up and says "how odd to have two rare coins back-to-back"

    ;)

    ... congrats Eng (awesome pick-up)
     
  8. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Nice color to it!
     
  9. Dionysos

    Dionysos Well-Known Member

    Yes, apparently it is the same issue as Steve's (Ceka 193)... Missing the corn-ear at right but just a striking flaw I guess ?? There is one on wilwinds, none on CNG (except this one) or acsearch from what I saw ;)
     
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  10. Eng

    Eng Senior Eng

    Thank you Dionysos and thanks for the comments, i went on wildwinds, i counted 5 examples facing right, one of which was a fake, but i didn't see Ceka 193 there or a number that high..o_O
     
  11. Dionysos

    Dionysos Well-Known Member

    Eng, look under Dyrrhachium :D
     
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