Ancients => Budget-schmudget => Bring-on PAN & Syrinx!!

I saw this lil' sweetie and I had to toss-in an early bid ... luckily it stayed fairly low and I was able to survive without too many flesh-wounds!!

=> cha-chinnnggg!!

Yup, it's my favourite God, sportin' his partying horns!!

Put your hands together for PAN and his sweet, sweet syrinx coin!!

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. AR Obol
Megalopolis mint
Circa 340-330 BC
Diameter: 10 mm
Weight: 0.74 grams
Obverse: Horned head of Pan left
Reverse: League monogram above syrinx
Reference: BCD Peloponnesos (Megalopolis) 1517-8; HGC 5, 930
Other: 12h … sweet toning
Ex BCD Collection (not in previous BCD sales)




.... yummy, yummy, eh?

=> please feel free to let loose and post any of your cool and/or relevant coins!!

Cheers, gang!! (Spring has fricken sprung!!)

 

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Love the reverse little brother.

 

hiya Mate,

congrats, i was less lucky with hadrian meh....

 

i missed 3 hadrians with last second big spender

 

Very nice, Steve. Once again, I got distracted and forgot to watch the one auction I was bidding on. I have nobody to blame but myself. C'est la vie.

 

=> that sucks!!

Yah, I got lucky and this sweet PAN example only went $20 over estimate (gimme!!)

 

may i place my impuls here from last CNG?
i spend my 2x as a spend on my most expencive Hadrian.

 

same i had on Antioch from Hadrian then hit enter 3x with lag and gone ,,.......

 

??? ... I didn't understand your question, my cool dutch friend

 

sorry, i asked if i could post my other then Hadrian (impuls bids) wins here.

 

In my case it's Obama's fault! I had to update some information on our health insurance info, and the website was being screwy as usual, so I had to call and sit on the phone for TWO HOURS with a representative to get everything straightened out. The auction came and went, and I could have easily taken the coin.

 

=> Bring 'em on, brother Oki!!

 

KINGS of MACEDONIA. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 274/1-260/55 BC.

Reference.
Touratsoglou 8–17; SNG München 1074-5; SNG Alpha Bank 983; SNG Cop. 1202

Obv.
Horned head of Pan left, lagobolon behind, in the center of a Macedonian shield

Rev. ANTIGONOU left, BASILEWS right
Athena Alkidemos advancing left; crested Macedonian helmet to inner left, TI to inner right.

16.75 gr
31mm
5h

 

Wow, Oki => that's a sweet Athena butt-shot!! (*hot*)

Great new coin!!

I also have an example of this sweet PAN-type ...




NOTE => your cool stars have 8 rays, while my humble example is the ol' 6 ray type (great coins, eh?) ...... man, you've gotta love PAN (he's a freak!!)

 

Great coin Oki

 

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy IX to Ptolemy XII. 116-51 BC. Æ Alexandreia(?) mint. Series 9.

Reference.
Svoronos 1426 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and VIII); Weiser 143 (Ptolemy V); SNG Copenhagen 311-4 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII); Noeske 216-20 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII); cf. Lorber & Faucher Series 6E.

Obv.
Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right.

Rev.
Two eagles with their wings closed standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left.

8.90 gr
20 mm
12h

 

Thank you coin Brothers, i saw you had one some weeks ago, it inspired me, so...

 

Wow Oki => you're posting a bunch of winners!!

man, there were a whole lot of amazingly sweet Ptolemic coins in today's CNG auctions (literally 100's of them!!) ... I'm glad to see that at least one of us managed to score one of 'em!! (great coin)

 

thx this one was affordable

 

Well , since this awesome thread o' mine is already spinnin' off its axis ...

Ummm, I have a few P-dawgs to toss into this thread!!



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