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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3318471, member: 91461&quot;]Wonderful coins [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] and to all whom have shared thus far! Absolutely does a war ship count! My favorite weapons are the ones involving innovation and ingenuity. And one of the coolest stories of the peloponnesian war involved a massively out numbered group of Athenian (as I recall) ships fleeing while one crazy (like a fox) man in their number decided to boomerang his ship. Whirling his ship around so quickly the enemy armada didn&#039;t have time to straighten their ships he plowed the fortified front of his ship through 5 enemy vessels. Seeing the wreckage the enemy didn&#039;t know what hit them and retreated.</p><p>I&#039;m also a big fan of the [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s spear man (?) atop an elephant, the WMDs of the ancient world.</p><p>But am probably most humbly over [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]&#039;s Macedonian dart sling! I collect the bronze Macedonian shield coins and was not aware of this awesome coin nor innovation of theirs. Thanks for the description of its usage!</p><p>Here&#039;s some more fun O mine:</p><p>Great use of the word panoply [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] and even greater coin! Here&#039;s a trophy room of weapons and young Caesars!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]879799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus</p><p>Silver Denarius, 27 BC-CE 14. Lugdunum, 2 BC-AD</p><p>12. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER</p><p>PATRIAE, laureate head of Augustus right. Reverse:</p><p>AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT around,</p><p>CL CAESARES in exergue, Gaius and Lucius</p><p>Caesars standing facing, each togate and resting a</p><p>hand on one of two shields set on ground between</p><p>them; behind shields, two crossed spears; above, on</p><p>left, simpulum right, and on right, lituus left. RIC 207</p><p><br /></p><p>When I come across ancient weaponry I do get excited as well [USER=56976]@Bob L.[/USER] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]879821[/ATTACH] </p><p>Barbed Greek arrow head 4th century BCE</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]879822[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman lead sling bullet (recovered From 54 CE battlefield near Caesaragost, Spain. modern Zaragosa)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though, of all weapons, or so they say, the pen is the mightiest:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]879818[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ionia, Smyrna. Circa 125-</p><p>115 BC. Æ 20mm</p><p>(21mm, 8.27g).</p><p>Phanokrates, magistrate.</p><p>Laureate head of Apollo</p><p>right / The poet Homer</p><p>seatedleft, holding scroll.</p><p>Milne, Autonomous 194a;</p><p>SNG</p><p>Copenhagen. Former</p><p>Kairos Numismatik[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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