Yesssss!!! => sure, I realize that today's CNG-score isn't the prettiest example of this cool coin-type, but I was pretty happy that I snagged it with a mere opening-bid!! (cha-ching!!) Yup, the hammer came down and the man yelled-out "90 dolla" ... and I was happy!! LUCANIA, Thourioi. AR Nomos Circa 400-350 BC Diameter: 21 mm Weight: 7.35 grams Obverse: Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla holding rudder over shoulder Reverse: Bull butting right; below, dolphin right in waves Reference: HN Italy 1794b; SNG ANS 1048 Other: 8h … VF, toned, rough https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=322540 => yup, $90 seemed reasonable enough for this sweet hunk of ancient silver, eh?
Oh, my bad => "please" feel free to post any coins that kinda fit my coin-thread ... examples may include some, or none of the following: - coins from Lucania - AR Nomos examples - examples with Skylla - examples with Athena - examples with Bulls - examples with Dolphins - sweet wives and cool pets - and as always, random examples of cool underwear
Okay, maybe I'll toss-in an example to get things started ... => ummm, how 'bout another sweet Lucania example? (always cool) LUCANIA. VELIA AR NOMOS Date: 300-280 BC Size: 21.65 mm Weight: 7.29 grams Obverse: Head of Athena left, wearing crested helmet decorated with Griffin, Θ behind neck Reverse: YEΛHTΩN, Lion right, tearing at prey; above, grasshopper between Φ-I Attribution: SNG ANS 1364 ... man, those dudes from Lucania made pretty sweet coins, eh?!!
Too cheap. Next time send me a PM and I'll make sure to go and give you some competition. Congrats on the sweet score.
Patience, Steve. I paid more than that for my stater in 1991 (but you will pay more when the post office finishes with you). I favor coins like yours with good centering but can live with the rear of my bull being lost better than if it were the head. You are just rubbing it in the fact that my bull's underwear is off flan if he had any. Not nice! My other one was less but it is only a 1/6th stater which came from Harlan Berk in 1990. It is a little later as shown by the bull's head being turned a bit toward the viewer rather than straight ahead as on the earlier ones. Did you know that Thourioi was the new name given to the city rebuilt where Sybaris originally stood. Sybaris natives were driven out several times in the half century before Thorioi was founded by other settlers. The old city was also into bulls on their coins which gives me an excuse to show my stater from before 510BC when the destructive wars with Kroton began. If you are going to collect Thourioi, you need a Sybaris, too, right???
Nice pick-up stevex6, so cheap excellant buy, my favorite Athena is this Hadrian Cilicia, Aegeae, 117/118 AD, Athena standing left, goat in lower field, Sear 1218, Prieur 714. Tetradrachm 9.7 gm. Toned.
Nice additions, Mentor ... all total winners (thanks for jumpin' in!!) Oh, and thanks to you guys too, Mat & Ancient Aussie (love the goat)
=> okay, here is one of my other AR Nomos examples ... man, these are some of my better coins (cool thread) CALABRIA, Tarentum, AR Nomos Circa 315-302 BC Diameter: 20 mm Weight: 7.98 grams Obverse: Warrior, preparing to cast spear, holding two others and shield, on horse rearing right; ΣA below Reverse: Phalanthos, holding kantharos and trident, astride dolphin left; AP monogram to left; below, small dolphin left Reference: Fischer-Bossert Group 70, 846 (V336/R657); Vlasto 601 (same obv. die); HN Italy 937; Gulbenkian 35 (same dies); Jameson 156 (same dies) Other: 11h … EF, toned. Excellent metal, exceptional obverse from fresh dies From the JMG Collection => yah, apparently AR Nomos are pretty cool coins (maybe I'd better look for more of 'em, eh?)
Wonderful win @stevex6 !!!! I lost out on my 'A' bids on CNG but scored on my emergency 'B' plan...three modest types below estimate, so I'm still happy...but no Athena's etc...... My favorite Athena is not exactly real It's my British Museum electroplate---but still kinda cool This one is my next favorite of Athena...and it's actually real LOL
Nice $90 score! One of these Skylla helmet types has been on my list for awhile now but so far proven elusive. Hmm, gotta say it again... really nice score for the price!
I also picked this up today in the CNG auction and I can say it's complete bull. Or rather three bulls! I like Greek fractions and this one appealed to me (and no one else it appears) so it went for below estimate. Caria - uncertain mint c. 450 - 400 BC AR Tetartemorion 6.5mm 0.38g Confronted foreparts of two bulls / forepart of bull left, star below SNG Ashmolean 336, SNG Keckman 913-5 I bid on another Caria fraction and got nuked by the one and only Clio (not for the first time and probably not the last).
I love that little coin, TT! It was on my watch list but I was busy during the auction and had already spent too much money lately, so I regretfully let it pass. Glad it found a good home I saw that you had bid on it and later that you had won it (as I quickly reviewed the lots near the end to see who had won what... Clio hoovered up at least 67 lots )
Nice NP little brother. Here are some bulls for ya: SICILY, SYRACUSE, HIERON II AE19 OBVERSE: Head of Persephone left, wreathed with corn, wearing earring and necklace, poppy head behind head REVERSE: Bull butting left; above, club above IA; IE in exergue Struck at Syracuse, Sicily 275-265 BC 5.71g; 19mm BMC. Sicily, p 219, 624 L. THORIUS BALBUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS THORIA AR Denarius OBVERSE: Head of Juno Sospita wearing goat-skin headdress, acronym I. S. M. R. behind. REVERSE: Bull charging right, F. above, L THORIVS below, BALBVS in exergue Struck at Rome 105 BC 3.92g, 19mm Cr 316/1, Sydenham 598, Thoria 1 IBERIAN AE Semis OBVERSE: Young male head right, Phoenician letter before REVERSE: Bull right, crescent above, two Phoenicial letters below Struck at Castulo Late 1st century BC 15.6mm, 1.8g Burgos 897 AUGUSTUS AR Denarius OBVERSE: AVGVSTUS DIVI F, bare head right REVERSE: Bull butting right IMP X in exergue Lugdunum 15-13 BC 3.7g, 18mm RIC I 167a, BMC 451. C 137, CBN 1382 HADRIAN AE 22 OBVERSE: Laureate head right REVERSE: Europa riding bull right Struck at Sidon, Phoenicia, 117/118 AD 8.9g, 22mm BMC Phoenicia 225 JULIAN II Majorina OBVERSE: D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE: SECVRITAS REIPVB dot, bull right, two stars above, palm branch-CONSPA-palm branch in ex. Struck at Constantinople 3 Nov 361 - 26 June 363 A.D 7.95g, 29.48mm RIC VIII 164
LUCANIA, Velia 305-290 BCE AR didrachm, 17.5 mm, 7.3 gm Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet, decorated with griffin; at left, A Rev: YEΛHTΩN; lion standing on exergual line; above dolphin between I and Φ Ref: SNG ANS 1375-6 I don't have anything for this category WHAT?! Another strike?? Plenty of those Here's one. CORINTHIA, Corinth circa 375-300 BCE AR stater, 22 mm, 8.55 g, 1h Obv: Pegasus flying left; qoppa below Rev: helmeted head of Athena left; A-P flanking neck truncation; to right, chimaera standing left Ref: Ravel 1010; Pegasi 428; BCD Corinth 102; HGC 4, 1848 ex CNG Inventory 828126 (November, 2008) ex Gorny & Mosch 170 (13 October 2008), lot 1381 ex Giessener Münzhandlung 21 (22 March 1982), lot 37 I'll post this Phlius because earlier today I was commenting to @zumbly that the coin @TTerrier's ultimately won reminded me of bulls on the coins of Phlius. PHLIASIA (PELOPONNESOS), Phlius 400-350 BCE AR obol, 11 mm, 0.84 gm Obv: forepart of butting bull left Rev: large Φ surrounded by four pellets Ref: SNG Copenhagen 8-9 ex BCD Collection, not in previous BCD sales It's tempting to show my Agathokles tetradrachm for the upteenth time, but instead here's a Calabrian dolphin. CALABRIA, Tarentum 325-280 BCE AR litra, 11 mm, 0.56 gm Obv: scallop shell Rev: dolphin right, trident below (I think it might be a bunch of grapes) Ref: Vlasto 1530 (if grapes rather than trident, Vlasto 1527) from Heritage Auctions 13 Nov. 2014; formerly slabbed Sorry, no wife for me No current pets either. How about a free-range lizard that lived in my bedroom for 9 months a few years ago? Here he is on his last "surprise" voyage... Andy the Anole