Ancients => Bigfoot Captured!!

LOL. I love it!

 

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Ummm, 30 minutes has passed, so I poured another vino and I'm back at my machino!!

Hmmm, well I already know you dudes love Medusa and Pontos, so does this ever get old?

=> Bring-on your Medusa and Perseus winners!!

Yah, I'm sure I could also try to collect this entire set, but the price-tag on these babies is considerably higher than the cool, yet humble aegis examples!!

Pontos, Amisos





Oh, and I also tossed-in my Pamphlagonia, Sinope example ... a total winner





... arrrgghh ... I know that Z-Bro has a sweet example from Komano (maybe one day he'll man-up and try to be a solid coin-buddy?)



Just jokes, Z ... you're already in my stevex6' Coin-friends Hall Of Fame!!

 

Cool. I always wondered how it would feel to complete a collection.
Congrats Stevex.

 

I have a few things to toss into this thread

First, not a Black Sea coin but something which brings me one coin away from completing a denomination set of Klazomenai archaic silver winged boar coins. What the denominations should be called is speculative and there is not agreement in archives and in new listings. The largest denomination is sometimes called a drachm and sometimes a didrachm. The drachm (or didrachm) weight ranges from ~6.5-6.9 gm. Other denominations include hemidrachm (check!), diobol (check! check!), obol (need!), and tetartemorion (check!).

I've been hunting for one for three years. Several have come to market during that time. Most cost more than I wanted to pay, some considerably more but the price was commensurate with their much better condition. I didn't have to have an EF example and this one came up at the right time and hammered for the right amount. The new leader of my silver Pigasus squad arrived this afternoon


IONIA, Klazomenai
498-494 BCE
AR drachm, 6.77 gm
Obv: forepart of winged boar right
Rev: incuse square, somewhat quadripartite
Ref: Rosen 563; Jameson 1492; Asyut 615; Traité II 487; SNG Copenhagen 1-2)
ex NFA MBS (18 October 1990), part of lot 310

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As for the OP theme, I have two common Black Sea Aegis/Nike bronzes. It's awfully tempting to hunt for one from each issuing city and I'll probably keep a casual eye out for the rest. There is just no way I can hope to match Steve's awesome Laodikeia though!


PONTOS, Amisos
85-65 BCE, time of Mithradates VI Eupator
AE 22 mm, 7 gm
Obv: Aegis facing
Rev: AMI-ΣOY; Nike advancing right with shouldered palm branch; monograms flanking
Ref: SNG BM Black Sea 1177-1191; HGC 7, 242


PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris
85-65 BCE
AE, 23 mm
Obv: facing gorgoneion in Aegis
Rev: AMAΣ-TPEΩN; Nike advancing right, holding palm frond
Ref: Lindgren 78; BMC 85, 10
I bought this one because I was at a coin show and it is hard to refrain from purchasing stuff, and it was very cheap

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Steve also called for the decapitation parade, so here are mine... all Amisos . I wanted one badly because everyone was showing theirs at the time and it's a great story coin. I bought one with a great reverse and a month or two later found a corroded or encrusted example at a local jewelry store (not set in a bezel). It cleaned up amazingly well (second coin below). At some point in the last year or so I bid on a third example. It was going cheaply and I that darned bid finger had a mind of its own . I really should sell or trade one of them.




PONTOS, Amisos
85-65 BCE, time of Mithradates VI Eupator
AE, all are ~27-29 mm
Obv: helmeted head of Athena right; helmet decorated with griffin
Rev: AMIΣOY; Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and head of Medusa, Medusa's body at his feet, blood gushing from the neck

 

Nice @TIF ! Fantastic group! Congrats!

Wow, with everyone completing (or nearly completing), everyone will retire off the Forum! Mission accomplished, etc.

 

Complete? Retire from CoinTalk?

 

That is a fact!

Our hobby is unpopular enough that it is often hard to find someone else who barely has a clue but 'get it' grade people are hard to assemble. Take a globe an put in a pin where the people that mean most to your collecting life live. It is depressing. I have met four or five of you in person. Will 2017 boost that count?

 

I forgot to say publicly: Great coin, Steve! We had been following this process privately which is always the way to go when chasing things important to you.

 

Congrats on finishing the set! Such a great feeling, isn't it? I think that one is the nicest of your set. Well done!

 

BIG congrats Steve-o! Very cool set. I love aegi (sp?).

 

Fantastic set @stevex6 congratulations on finishing your set and it has been nice knowing you!

 

How cool would it be to have a coin-talk "reunion"? I'm guessing we're all too far way from one another to make that happen, but it would be fun...

 

We have a reunion here every day...

Have another amphora of vino Steve-o and don't water it down!

 

This AE20 from Sinope has an especially large and pathetic Medusa.

 

Hey, there is the man of the hour ... fantastic coin, Ed Snible!!

man, that is a great looking Medusa

 

TIF => great new Pigasus (I love seeing all of your varying denominations ... it is a very cool collection)

 

Congrats on finishing your set Steve. Awesome bunch of coins!

 

Wow wow wow! Steve... that is a stupendous Laodikea! Congrats on completing your set of official mint Aegis/Nike coins. Hmmmm... maybe now you also need an "irregular mint" example for a total OCD fix?

 

Nice guy, eh? ... yah, I'm not falling for it (my OCD is satisfied with the original seven!!)



... but very cool coin, Z-bro

I really wanted that Pontos brokage error (but so did CLIO)

 

Congrats on finishing your set Steve. I've seen that type and have wanted to add one to my collection. Had no idea there were so many different regions. One day I may add one, depending on grade and price of course.