Ancients => Poseidon, Artemis, Prow, bow, etc => cha-ching!!

Neat! I want one of those. For the moment, I have a nice thrifty bronze. Hey, the Poseidon on your coin looks very much like the Zeus on mine, eh. Family resemblance, I guess.


THESSALY, the Magnetes
AE Tetrachalkon. 7.13g, 20.3mm, THESSALY, Magnetes, circa mid 2nd - mid 1st centuries BC. Rogers 339; BCD Thessaly II 420.4. O: Laureate head of Zeus right. R: MAΓNHTΩ–N, the centaur Chiron advancing right, raising right arm, holding palm frond over shoulder in left; star below.

 

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Congratulations on a sweet ex-BCD addition. Hope you don't act with ex-BCD as you used to with ex-girlfriends though (remember, this fricken guy used to dip them into acetone )

Here's my only ex-BCD coin, from Thessaly I guess


Thessaly, Larissa, AE 20-22 400-344 BC
Head of the nymph Larissa facing
ΛΑΡΙ - Σ - ΑΙΩΝ parly retrograde, Horse trotting right
8.88 gr
Ref : Sear # 2131

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Awesome examples, gang ... please keep 'em coming!!

Sadly, I have to go to work in a sec (I'll try to post a bunch more examples later today)

 

Beautiful coin, Steve!

 

Great coin Steve,
it looks like it 25 mm great details, thank for sharing

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Late 2nd-mid 1st centuries BC. Æ Trichalkon Gennippos, magistrate.

 

This is my best Thessaly coin, showed it before.

 

Absolutely!!!!

I'll stay within the theme-- Galley/prow and Poseidon ( dolphins later LOL)

 

That coin's a beauty Steve - nice catch!

 

COOL Coin @stevex6 ! You are still scoring some great captures!

I realized that I only have ONE Artemis Coin, and never really have an opportunity to put it out there...


Roman Empire - Provincial Issue
LYDIA. Hierocaesarea. Pseudo-autonomous.
Time of Nero (54-68). Ae. Capito, high priest.
Obv: Draped bust of Artemis Persica right
Rev: Artemis kneeling on back of stag right and grasping it on its antlers
RPC 1 2391-2

 

Wonderful catch, Steve-O! We'd never known it wasn't in your top-tier choices for that auction if you hadn't said so

Okay

THESSALY, The Oitaioi
167-146 BC.
AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h)
Herakleia Trachinia mint
Obv: Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws
Rev: OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands
Ref: Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obverse die)
Private sale, Bill Dalzell (Ardatirion), March 2015
Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 290), lot 57
Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 199
Ex Vinchon (20 May 1959), lot 483
Ex M. Ratto 11 (16 May 1935), lot 239
Ex R. Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 1023
Ex Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1764

Antigonos III Doson tetradrachm; Poseidon/Apollo

Marcianopolis; Macrinus and Diadumenian/Artemis

ELIS, Olympia. 103rd Olympiad, 368 BCE
AR drachm, 21 mm, 5.7 gm
Obv: head of Hera right, wearing pendant earring and stephane ornamented with palmettes with H-R-A inscribed between them, [F-A across fields]
Rev: eagle with spread wings standing left, head reverted
Ref: Pozzi 1846 (same dies); Jameson 1240 = Seltman pl. xii, 8 (same dies); BMC 91 (same dies); BCD Olympia 113 (same dies)
ex Frank James Collection

 

That's an incredible coin Steve! Wow. Beautiful with a neat pedigree!

 

Thanks, gang ... hey, is it okay if I unload my sweet Thessaly examples "again"?

Okay => here they come ...

 

Wow, apparently I'm a big fan of these sweet Thessaly silver darlings, eh?!!

=> yah, I can't seem to get enough!! (man, I can only imagine how BCD must have felt!?)

Oh, and most of those are ex-BCD-examples

 

Cheers coin mate
i feel like

 

Ionia. Klazomenai.
Circa 480-400 BCE
AR Drachm – Pentobol. 3.54g. 13mm.
Obv: Forepart of winged boar right
Rev: Facing gorgoneion within incuse square.
Ref: Cf. SNG Copenhagen 12 (diobol); Traité II 1986; Jameson 2256.
Pecunum Comments: Good fine. Rare.


Thrace
Lysimachos
AR drachm 305-281 BCE
Obv: Alexander head Ammon horns
Rev: LYSIMAXOS - Athena seated with shield
RARE

 

That is nice of you to say! I'll hurry up and post some more coin pics before you change your mind.

 

Ahahaha, thanks ... yah, *whatev* ... you seem okay, my coin-friend

Curious? => do you happen to like any of my examples, or these babies don't turn your crank?

 

Ummm, since it's a long-weekend, how 'bout I include an additional pile-on option?

.... meh, whatev ...

I can't think of anything cool to add?

Well, maybe a few more Poseidon and/or Artemis examples? ... oh, or maybe "Easter Eggs?" (do any of you "parents" still help your kids colour hard boiled Easter Eggs?)

=> man, those are some of my favourite childhood memories ... colouring hard-boiled eggs with my cool older sister!! (she actually hung-out with me, for a sec!)

... good times ...

Oh, and then on Easter, we would each go to the opposite ends of our upstairs hallway and "wait for battle" ...

=> we'd get on our knees and whistle our coloured hard-boiled eggs down the hallway, hoping that they'd collide and explode into pieces!! (oh, and the egg with the most remaining girth would be the winner and would advance to the next round!!)

Yah, I recall having a horribly coloured egg that we named "Army Egg" because it was basically a fail in art-class and ended-up being a mess of greeny-brown blotches !! (army egg ... good times)

Anyway ... legend has it (45 years later) that my egg managed to survive several rounds and capture the "big-prize" ...

=> the big prize was nothing, but bragging rights against my cool big sister!! (Priceless)

 

I think they are beautiful, definitely the kind of coins that blow my dress up!