Ancients => Post your Favourite coin and *Favourite tune*

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by stevex6, Mar 22, 2014.

  1. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Gordian III Hadrianopolis Artemis.jpg
    Gordian III, AD 238-244.
    Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 9.53 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h.
    Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 238-244.
    Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
    Rev: AΔPIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Artemis standing left, holding patera and bow; stag at side.
    Refs: BMC 30; Moushmov 2685; Varbanov 3888; Jurukova 476; SNG Cop --; Lindgren --; GIC --. Notes: Obverse die match to Varbanov plate coin.

     
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  3. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE



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    Rimp AR Denarius AR Brutus EID MAR COPY by Slavei duplicate ex FSR 103
     
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  4. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Caesar's song for his Legions leaving Gaul for Italy... :)



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    RImp Julius Caesar Lifetime P Sepullius Macer AR Den1st 2 weeks-Mar 44 BCE 4.03g. CAESAR – DICT PERPETVO Veiled - Venus Victory sceptre star Syd 1074a Sear Imperators 107e Cr 480-14 Rare -2
     
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  5. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

  6. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    The below coin gives me tons of joy...It makes me a fool!

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    PHOENICIA, Arados.
    AR Tetradrachm, 30mm, 15g, 12h; Dated CY 160 (100/99 BC).
    Obv.: Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right.
    Rev.: APAΔIΩN; Nike standing left, holding aplustre and palm; ΞP (date), Phoenician letter and ΘC in left field; all within wreath.

     
  7. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Have another to share...

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    PISIDIA, Antioch. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217.
    Æ35, 25.8g, 6h.
    Obv.: IVLIA A-GVSTA; Draped bust right.
    Rev.: COL CES ANTIOCH; Mên standing facing, head right, left foot on bucranium, leaning on low cippus, holding sceptre and Nike; to left, cock standing left; S R across fields.

     
  8. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Weirdest thing happened...I was posting these and I forgot to mention my Bagis! It remi ds me of the below musician...

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    LYDIA, Bagis. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
    Æ28, 9.1g, 6h; AD 200-268.
    Obv.: CVNK–ΛHTOC; Youthful male bust of the Senate right.
    Rev.: KAICAPЄΩN BAΓHNΩN; Apollo standing right, holding lyre.

     
  9. NAVY CHIEF

    NAVY CHIEF Active Member

    ID thia ancient coin
     

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  10. Ajax

    Ajax Well-Known Member

    This thread has been gone for too long.
    Octavian.png C. Caesar Octavianus. Fourree denarius mint moving with Octavian 37 BC, 19mm., 3.47g. IMP·CAESAR· DIVI·F·III·VIR·ITER·R·P·C Bearded head of Octavian r. Rev. COS·ITER·ET·TER· DESIG Simpulum, aspergillum, jug and lituus. Babelon 140. C 91. Sydenham 1334. Sear Imperators 312. RBW 1826. Crawford 538/1.

     
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  11. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    it does my heart good to see Stevex6's stuff is still alive and well..i can't upload any songs here,but i do come to see other's coin and tune..:)
     
  12. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Girly God...
    Phrygia - Hierapolis Abduction of Persephone.jpg

    King Princess...
    "So tell me why my gods look like you
    And tell me why it's wrong..."
     
  13. Gary R. Wilson

    Gary R. Wilson ODERINT, DUM METUANT — CALIGULA

    Well, hello everyone. I'm brand new to the group but I have been collecting ancients since 1983. I started with Tom Cederlind and went on from there. I thought that this thread was the best one for my first post. As you can see, I love the coinage of Caligula so here is one of my favorite coins. One of my favorite movie themes is of course, "Caligula".

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  15. Gary R. Wilson

    Gary R. Wilson ODERINT, DUM METUANT — CALIGULA

    Thanks Deacon Ray.
     
  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Just heard this tune on the radio and it, of course, reminds me of a coin! Handel's opera is about Berenice III, however, not Berenice II. No coins are extant bearing Berenice III's portrait.

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    Berenice II, wife and cousin of Ptolemy III (Euergetes I), 267 or 266 BC – 221 BC.
    Phoenicia, Marathos, 187/6-153/2 BC.
    AE 8.90 gm, 21.1 mm, 12 h.
    Obv: Veiled head of Berenice II, right.
    Rev: Marathos standing left, leaning on column. Phoenician Aramaic legend.
    Refs: cf. BMC 26, pp. 120-121, nos. 3-13, pl. XV, 3-6.

     
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  17. Smojo

    Smojo dreamliner

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    KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 4.32 g, 1h). Lampsakos mint. Struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 328/5-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Artemis Phosphoros standing facing, holding two torches; Δ below throne. Price 1354; ADM II Series V. Near EF

     
  18. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    76945q00.jpg Agathocles of Syracuse
    Bronze litra,
    weight 8.501g, maximum diameter 26.1mm, die axis 315o, 305 - 295 B.C.; obverse ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, head of young Herakles left, wearing taenia, star (control symbol) behind neck; reverse lion walking right, right foreleg raised, club right above, arrow right (control symbol) in exergue; Calciati II p. 287, 150 Ds 14 Rs 63; BMC Sicily p. 196, 391; SNG ANS 740; SNG Cop 767; HGC 2 1465 var. (R1, 4th Democracy, different controls)


    The ancient world's favorite male gigolo deserves a sexy song with a music video to match. I think this is probably the most appropriate tune for him.:rolleyes:

     
  19. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Space Oddity:


    Uniface Oddity:
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  20. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Don't be afraid of these thunderclouds...



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  21. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    "... and our love become a funeral pyre ..."



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    Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.
    Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h.
    Rome, AD 140-141.
    Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
    Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right.
    Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --.
     
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