Ancients => Bigfoot Captured!!

Yup, thanks to the great effort of my cool coin friend Ed Snible, I was able to set the trap and capture the illusive Pontos Laodikia aegis coin!!

=> also known as my "Bigfoot" coin (yah, I seriously didn't think that I'd ever find one and complete this mini-set of mine, but cha-ching => with a little help from my coin-friends, I managed to capture the missing link)

What an awesome feeling!! (my OCD is finally back in "check")

... anyway ...

TIF tried convincing me to make a grand research effort and wow you guys with an awesome stage-show!! ... but sadly, that is far more in her ball-park (she always has such great thread presentations, eh?)

However, as you know I'm a wee bit more off-the-cuff and ... well, a lot coin-lazier!!

So, I'm gonna stick to what got me here ... I'm gonna show-off my cool coins and hope that you join-in and love 'em!!

Oh, but my wonderful and clever coin-girlfriend did help me out tremendously with some awesome coin "jazz-hands" props ... perhaps you'll recognize her sweet style?

Pontus, Laodiceia (Laodikia), AE20
85-65 BC
Diameter: 20 mm
Weight: 8.69 grams
Obverse: Gorgoneion, facing, centered in aegis
Reverse: Winged Nike r. carrying palm branch (ΛAOΔI-KEIAΣ)
Reference: BMC 1
Other: Sweet-n-rare!!



What was the Aegis?

... all of those quotes were cut from Ed Snible's awesome link (below) ...

http://snible.org/coins/aegis2.html

Hey Ed & TIF => thanks again for all of your coin-friendship and assistance (you guys rock!!)



Oh, and I was gonna wait until later to show-off TIF's other awesome favour, but I might as well pull-out all of the cool jazz-hands props right away, eh?

How fricken cool is this?!



She made me an awesome coin-tray!! (wow, that's pretty fricken cool, eh?)



Cheers to all of my great coin friends here at CoinTalk

Oh, and cheers to actually completing one of my coin-avenues!!

=> only $660 (delivered) for the entire collection!! ... over 1/2 of that was for the two rarest (Chewy & Latka)

 

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Lovely collection Steve! Congrats on finally scratching that itch!

 

Neat coin and set as a whole. Always nice to complete a side venture. Congrats.

 

that's one hot bigfoot stevex!



congrats on completing your obsessive compulsive pontos set!

 

ahahaha, that's awesome (you always make me laugh, chrsmat)

Thanks gang ...

Oh, and I almost forgot to re-mention my other coin-buddies, JA and Z-Bro!!

... they each sold me one of the 7 coins shown above ...

=> so again, this collection has really been a combined effort by a lot of my coin-contacts here at CoinTalk (thanks again and again)

Man, I love this place!!

 

I knew you were chasing down this set. Congratulations to its completion!

 

Huge congrats!! And I LOVE the presentation!!

 

Very cool set Steve, I wondered how long it would take to lasso that last calf. It is nice to have coin friends who get it.

I will alert the media....

 

Thanks Theodosius ...


Oh, do you dudes even remember "Latka"?

 

Your entire write-up is pretty fricken cool. Thanks to Steve, TIF, Ed, and everyone that makes this World a nicer place for us all.

 

Wow @stevex6 , NAILED it! Got that super-hard coin to find! Such an awesome feeling, super-congrats, Dude!!!

Ok, now your set is completed, are you already bored? LOL.

 

I'm still drooling over that Laodikeia! Wow-- the rarest one and it's by far the best of your bunch! It's definitely the queen of your Aegis set

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Gee, I wonder how many cities issues Tetradrachms in the style of Alexander the great? Oh no! Its the ocd monster!!!

 

100%

Thanks again, Coin-Princess

(ooops, I meant TIF, not you Theodosius)

 

Somehow I managed to screw up the quote using my stupid phone. :-(

 

LOL, where did you dig that quote up?

 

LOL alternate news, alternate facts, alternate truth.

 

Fixed it!!! I am more of the court jester type than a princess but thanks anyway Steve.

 

What a wonderful addition and TIF-like presentation !

Congrats
Q

 

This Friday night is getting off to a good start...