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

Ah I figured you were joking considering they made you supervisor of blowing up chunks of the Earth. I use Excel for my token collection. I've been kicking around building a database for them but it just hasn't happened.

Have I told you I have a LOT of tokens?

 

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Part of me wondered why you didn't buy that shekel one lot before your itty bitty. OK, it was not quite the looker that AJ's coin is but was selling for what I would guess to be less than 1% and still had almost as much detail as your 1/24 coin spread out over a large area. The sale had five coins of this series that went for the start bid. I'm glad you threw some love at that one and hope the other buyers enjoy theirs as well.

 

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Ummmm... what Database??? I have a cool secret that I figgerred out...

 

=> 100% ... I wish that I'd bought "both" ...

=> but as you probably used to know, when you're at work it's often difficult to keep track of what's going-on in auction-land ... I merely had the specific times associated with the coins that I'd targeted beforehand, so I didn't notice that the whole bunch was being ignored (but again, at least I snagged a sweet piece o' pie, right?)

 

=> here is another one of my cool owl examples ... the good ol' two-bodied owl!!

Troas

 

Two lawyers walk into a bar ........ I hope it hurt

 

what a cool tiny coin! hadn't seen that type before!

i have no owls and only a few dolphins, i think it's been a while since i posted this one...

 

Mine is much like the OP. 9-8 mm and 0.42 grams.


Greek Coins and Their Values 5909. BMC Phoenicia p. 228, Tyre 7. Klein 726.

 

Warren, hey thanks for posting your coin-example ... it is very cool (your example probably has a better reverse-owl than my humble OP-example)

=> basically the same weight, but slightly different diameters (which makes sense since we both have 1/24 shekel worth of silver) ... cool

I love these lil' wee silver babies (gawd, I must have a couple of dozen of them by now!!)

thanks again for posting your sweet and similar example

 

Nothing here I could put side to side to that cute OP coin @stevex6, but separate dolphins and owls :


ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm
Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye
Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent behind, all within incuse square. ΑΘΕ in the right field
24mm, 17.08 g, 8h
Ref : Kroll # 8; HGC # 4,1597



Syracuse Agathokles 317-289 BC
SYPAKOSYWN. Head of Kore left
Bull butting left, two dolphins and linked VA in field
6.0 gr, 20 mm
Ref : Sear #1195 var



Vitellius, Denarius Rome mint, July - December 20, AD69
A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP TR P, Laureate head of Vitellius right
XV VIR SACR FAC, Tripod-lebes with dolphin lying right on top and raven standing right below
3.43 gr, 16-18 mm
Ref : RCV # 2201var, Cohen cf # 110 et suiv, RIC I # 86 (this example illustrated in Wildwinds)



Titus, Denarius Rome mint 80 AD
IMP TITUS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM, Laureate bust of Titus right
TRP IX IMP XV COS VIII PP, Dolphin entwined around anchor
3.56 gr
Ref : RCV # 2517, Cohen # 309

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The original joke: An elephant

Let me finish it for you. Two lawyers walk into a bar... you'd think one of then would have seen it but they were too distracted chasing ambulances.

So the lawyers are laying on the ground and badly injured after running into the bar, when another lawyer walks by and drops a business card on top of them and says "Call me, I'll sue and make you rich." A passer-by says to the lawyer..." Hey buddy, can't you see they're injured and need help? Don't you have a heart?" And the lawyer replies "What's a heart?"

 

Hey => two games tonight on Monday Night Football!!

Wha? ... ancient coins "and" NFL football?

=> yup, we're livin' large, my friends!! (get on board!!)

 

Had no idea Canadians liked the NFL. Don't you have your own Canadian Football league? If I'm not mistaken it's pretty similar to US football, minus all the cool stuff.

 

I'm a fan of anything called football

=> soccer, NFL and yes, even CFL (BC Lions!!)

 

Very cool coin!

 

Thanks Geki ... man, I love your Agrippa (I am always on the look-out for that mini-dolphin type)

=> great examples (thanks for posting)

 

Stupid me !
I completely forgot that this Agrippa as had a dolphin on it....good one Randy

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Thanks. I need to get a batter photo some time

 

I smiled when I read this

 

Here's my shekel