Ancient => coins that can be found "on the sea" and/or "in the sea"

Calabria, Taras AR Nomos
(272-240 BC) Apollonios, magistrate.
Obv.: Warrior on horseback holding shield and spear.
Rev.: Taras riding dolphin, holding trident; Nike above crowning him; waves below.
Vlasto 894-898. HN Italy 1038.

 

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Calabria, Tarentum AR Nomos
(315-302 BC). Sl- and K-, magistrates.
Obv.: Warrior on horseback right, holding shield and spear, preparing to throw spear; ΣA below.
Rev.: Phalanthos, holding kantharos and trident, on dolphin left; K to left; below, dolphin left.
Vlasto 607.

 

Lucania, Poseidonia AR Nomos
(470-445 BC)
Obv.: Poseidon, naked but for the chlamys over shoulders, walking r., brandishing trident in r. hand and extending l. arm. POMEM right.
Rev.: Bull walking right. POMES retrograde.
SNG ANS 646.

 

Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm
Deinomenid tyranny. Struck under Hieron I (478-475 BC)
Obv.: Charioteer driving slow quadriga, Nike flying above, crowning horses with wreath.
Rev.: Diademed head of Arethusa, four dolphins around.

 

Love the coins, Batman. Absolutely stunning

 

Are you sure this is real? I wiuld check the fake reports if I wa you as it seems to match the style of the fake wild hair version Histiaia.

 

http://www.forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=o8~x~zJ2q/CKo=

Here is the fake. It is not like mine.

 

These are the ones I am talking about. There are many of them.

http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg

 

Ripley, I have no idea if your's is real or fake, but I trust Martin and Doug to have an eye for these kinds of things. If I were you, I would post my coin over on Forum and ask the question there. I think BP Murphy hangs out there at times. He's the expert. No one wants to hear they have a fake in their collection, but it's better to know and possibly be able to do something about it. If nothing else, it can serve to educate yourself about this type of coin. Good luck my friend.

 

I must agree with Martin here... There's a whole serie of these fakes, most of them characterised by the hairstyle (similar to this one)...

There is one identical in the FAC fake reports (the same ?), sold on ebay in 2008, posted there by Martin. Don't know if he remember who was the seller then ?

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-5086

 

Wow, there have been a whole lotta cool coins entered since I was last lookin' around!!!

=> maridvnvm (Martin) => always top-notch, with a seemingly endless supply (always well played => my hat is off to you, my friend)

=> Dionysos => man, I honestly think that you have the sweetest coins of all ... plus, you are our "back-bone" to all coin-questions (other than Doug, you are God)

=> dougsmit => "God" ... but at times, a bit of a shy God ... but still the ultimate coin-God (everybody bow!!)

:thumb::bow:

 

SICILYSYRACUSE HIERON II AE 21
C. 275-216 BC
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 9.02 grams
Obverse: Diad head of Poseidon left
Reverse: Trident flanked by dolphins
Reference: SNG Ans 965
Other: Good metal and surfaces

 

I should also say Dionysos (Batman) also has a good eye for this kind of thing. I would take them at their word or at least take it serious enough to check it out.

 

tiny sea creature


Tyre, 1/16 shekel. 10 mm. 0.47 grams.
hippocamp left over waves/owl with crook and flail behind
Sear Greek 5916. BMC Tyre 43, page 233
SNG Danish 302

 

Macedonia, Under Philip V and Perseus AE16
187-168 BC
Diameter: 16.8 mm
Weight: 3.7 grams
Obverse: Wreathed head of the River-God Strymon (is that legit?)
Reverse: Trident

 

Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater
(500-480 BC)
Obv.: Sea turtle.
Rev.: Incuse pattern.

 

Sicily, Messana AR Tetradrachm
(412–408 BC)
Obv.: Charioteer driving mule biga left, two dolphins nose to nose in exergue
Rev.: Hare leaping left over horizontal barley ear, dove flying left above, MESSANION in exergue.
Caltabiano 614 ; SNG ANS 378 ; SNG Copenhagen 404.

 

Sicily, Syracuse AE Drachm
Struck under Dionysos I (405-367 BC).
Obv.: Head of Athena wearing Corinthian helmed decorated with wreath.
Rev.: Sea-star between two dolphins.
SNG ANS 454.

 

There's supposed to be a dolphin on this one, but it swam off flan

Thrace, Byzantion AR Tetradrachm
(387-339 BC)
Obv.: Heifer standing left on dolphin; monogram above and under raised leg.
Rev.: Granular quadripartite incuse square.
Schönert-Geiss 688 (this coin illustrated); SNG BM Black Sea 4 var. (monogram).
From the Chris Connell Collection; Ex George Bauer Collection (Glendining's, 23 January 1963), lot 1010; Mathey Collection (Feuardent, 9 June 1913), lot 146.