Ancients => A dolphin and an owl walk into a bar ...

anyway ... today I only scored one of my coin-targets

Oh, but I did score it for a mere $60 initial bid (yup, that means I snagged it for less than the estimated initial price) ... I love when that happens!

Sure, it's a primitive looking lil' thing, but I fell in love with it immediately (another sweet animal coin)

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king.
AR Twenty-fourth Shekel
Circa 393-311/0 BC
Diameter: 7.2 mm
Weight: 0.46 grams
Obverse: Dolphin leaping right
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail in background
Reference: E&E-T Group III.1.2.d, 1655-1710; HGC 10, 329 corr. (denomination)
Other: 6h … toned, minor porosity. Choice for issue

 

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Please feel free to jump on-board and post some relative examples ...

Phoenician coins, coins with owls, coins with dolphins, coins with crooks & flails ... or post your shekels, or even your 1/24th shekels!! (yup, this is another wee lil' silver baby!!)

=> post *whatev*

 

Nice! I like those types because the owl/crook/flail devices hail back to really ancient Egypt - the coins look more Egyptian to me than Phoenician.

 

Man, Steve! Scored a target, cool animals, and for UNDER the estimate... man, you should pay US for all that fun!

OWLS:

 

=> here, I'll go first second ... here are a couple of my Phoenician coins

Phoenicia, Sidon. AE-23
Year 227 (AD 116-117)
Diameter: 23 mm
Weight: 10.56 grams
Obverse: Turreted, draped and veiled bust of Tyche right, aphlastron behind, star before
Reverse: Car of Astarte, baetyl within, date ZKS below
Reference: BMC Phoenicia, p. 175, 197ff; SNG Cop 247





Phoenicia, Byblos King Uzzibaal AR 1/16 Shekel
Date: 365-350 BC
Size: 11.03 mm
Weight: 0.76 grams
Obverse: two hoplites with shields in war galley sailing left (roaring lion’s head on prow), hippocamp swimming left below (N O in field)
Reverse: Phoenician inscription; Lion attacking bull, left
Reference: BMC 6
Other: A nice example with bold detail and near perfect centering which is seldom seen in the issue

 

DOLPHINS:

 

SHEKELS:

 

Thanks for the comments, fellas ...

Oh, and thanks for jumping-in with both feet, Gandalf (great coins!!)

 

Hmmm...I'll play, with this one!


Tyre, Phoenica
AE25, 12.5g; 12h; 2nd-1st Century BC
Obv.: Head of Heracles-Melqart right
Rev.: MHTPONΠOΛΕΩΝ; Club surmounted by monogram of Tyre, all within oak wreath

Not often I get to bring ole Melqart out.

 

Great coin Steve, congrats

 

@stevex6 , would HALF-Shekels from Hannibal's occupation of Bruttium count???

 

That's a great database you've got where you can call up all the images associated with a particular word and put them together into one image. Very efficient!

 

Wish my database did that...

 

what's a database?

 

I used Microsoft Access to create a way that I could enter all my ancient coins into as a record and then pull up information about the coins. The most common report I do is pulling up a list of rulers and reverse types.

 

By hook or by crook:

 

Thanks Jwt ... I was kinda kidding, but thanks for the info, my thoughtful coin-bud (you rock)

Ummm but honestly, my database is merely an excel sheet with as much info as possible stuffed into a table (yah, I'm pretty sure that Bing and I use the same "database strategy")




... it's kinda like a homemade computer (ummm, or more like a crappy list)

 

Congrats! Here's my copy of your coin's larger brother, a dishekel:

 

Wow AJ, your example looks like it may have cost a bit more than $60

=> but man, they sure look sweet together, eh?









=> thanks for posting your stuff, Mr Bond (I always love seeing your top-drawer examples)

Cheers

 

@stevex6 when do I get my royalty check for the use of that format: See my thread on "An Elephant and a Zebu walk into a bar".

That will be $50. Thank you! Oh, and U.S. Dollars please. None of that maple syrup smelling Canadian Dollar stuff.

Anyway, here is my Dolphin, which people must be getting tired of seeing:


Istros Drachm