Another $45 Hammer-time!!

Yup, I managed to score myself another sweet $45 hammer example (cha-ching)

=> man, I love it when I'm the only dude interested in the auction item!!

THESSALY, Lamia. Æ Chalkous
Circa 325-300 BC
Diameter: 14 mm
Weight: 2.29 grams
Obverse: In the name of the Malians. Helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: MAΛIEΩN, Philoktetes right, shooting arrow at bird falling to right; quiver to lower right
Reference: Georgiou, Mint 16; Rogers (Malia) 384; BCD Thessaly I 1093; BCD Thessaly II 125; HGC 4, 106
Other: 6h ... VF, dark green patina
From the BCD Collection







Please feel free to post any relevant examples (Thessaly, Chalkous, Athena, Philoktetes, bow & arrows, etc, etc)

 

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I wish I was that lucky. I've only won 2 coins for their opening bids, the rest I had to duke it out with some other cutthroats to see who would emerge winner.

Beautiful winner @stevex6 . You are full of winning my fiend.

As a politician which shall remain nameless is fond of saying: "You are going to win so much you are going to get tired of winning. Believe me! Fantastic!"

 

Cool Chalkous denomination, Herr Steve!

I have a Chalkous from Egypt...


Egypt Ptolemy III 245-222 BC AE 12mm 2.0g Chalkous Zeus-Ammon Eagle Tbolt SV 840 Righetti Collection

 

Thanks for posting, Gandalf (nice chalkous)

=> here is another cool example from Thessaly, Lamia ...

THESSALY, Lamia, AR Hemidrachm
Circa 350-300 BC
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 2.58 grams
Obverse: Head of young Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath
Reverse: ΛMΑΙΕ ΩΝ, amphora; ivy leaf above; to right, prochous with handle to right
Reference: Georgiou, Mint 11; BCD Thessaly II 127.3; HGC 4, 120
Other: 3h … VF, lightly toned, minor porosity
From the BCD Collection

 

How about a cool Athena, like you asked for?


RR Prv Macedon Province 168-166 BCE Tamios Quaestor Athena Cow - Eeyore

 

Hmm, I seem to have Thessalemia-- only two coins of Thessaly.


THESSALY, Thessalian League. AR stater, 48/7 BCE. Zeus/Athena Itonia


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 on CoinTalk), 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

 

Don't have a Thessaly, nor a Philoktetes... but I have:

Bows:

Persian Achamenid Type IV Artaxerxes II to Darios III 375-336 BCE AR siglos 15.2mm 5.45g kneeling-running stance right holding daggar and bow (where?) incuse BMC 172ff

(Well... the Bow is off flan)... But this was probably money used by Darius III to finance his War with Alexander III...


Makedon Alexander III 336-323 BC AE 16mm 4.1g Salamis-Cyprus mint Herakles club bow quiver SA Price 3143

 

Arrow?


Scythia 2 AE Arrowheads 7th-3rd C BC Trilobate Lower Danube 21-25mm


China Xinjiang Warring States Period 475-221 BCE Arrowhead socketed leaf shaped biblade w grooves nailhole bronze 36x10mm 3.9g
(This one is for @TypeCoin971793 )

I think arrowheads were used as money. I believe they were SHOT into their enemy as payment for being their enemy...

 

Nice win, Steve, cool reverse especially.

 

I have a THESSALY! From the cool Ms. @ancientcoinguru ! My first and ONLY!


Thessaly Larissa 344-337 BCE AR Obol 0.68g Nymph Larissa Horse Grazing SNG Cop 1

 

I scored two more cool and budget coins today, but I think I'm gonna pace myself and just post this OP-example tonight

 

Oh, and fantastic coins gang => please keep 'em coming!!

 

oh wow, i didn't know there was a coin with philochtetes on in it...how cool. i remember reading the play in college. i'd love to have a coin with him on it...added to list

great score stevex!

HAMMER TIME!

 

The texture on the high points of the obverse look odd. It almost looks like fabric...

I have seen many of these for sale (I can get them for about a dollar each). I just haven't had the urge to buy one yet.

 

Are you becoming a bargain hunter little brother? Nice coin; nice price.


THESSALY, LARISSA
AR Trihemiobol
OBVERSE: Head of the nymph Larissa right, wearing pendant earring
REVERSE: ΛAPI above, ΠΛE in exergue, horse right, about to roll
Struck at Larissa 370-360 BC
1.4g, 12mm
BCD Thessaly II 274; Hoover, Volume 4 under "trihemiobols (c. 1.5g)" on page 146, number 474. R2 = Very Rare...3-24 extant examples

THESSALIAN LEAGUE
AR Drachm
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right, ΓAYANA (magistrate) behind
Rev: Athena Itonia standing right, with shield and about to hurl spear, ΘEΣΣA - ΛΩN to sides, bunch of grapes on vine right, Π-O / Λ-Y (magistrate) across lower fields
Struck at Thessaly 196-146 BC
4.0g, 16 mm
BMC 36

ACHAEMENID EMPIRE
AR Siglos
OBVERSE: Persian king or hero in kneeling/running stance right, holding spear and bow
REVERSE: Incuse punch
Struck at Persia, 485-420 BC
5.5g, 16mm
Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XII, 18)

THRACE, PANTIKAPAION AE18 OBVERSE: Head of Pan left
REVERSE: Bow and arrow
Struck at Pantikapaion 400-300BC
4.4g, 18mmSNG BMC Black Sea 894

M. PLAETORIUS M.F. CESTIANUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS PLAETORIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Bust of an Vacuna right, wearing a wreathed and crested helmet, bow and quiver on shoulder, cornucopiae below chin
REVERSE: M PLAETORIVS M F AED CVR Eagle right, on
thunderbolt, head left
Rome 67 BC
3.7g, 18 mm
Cr409/1; Syd 809; Plaetoria 4

 

Nice catch Steve and a great bargain! Here's a Ptolemaic chalkous. I'm not certain (and neither is the current scholarship) about the attribution, so you get your choice of three rulers. That happens with Ptolemaic bronzes. This one has tabs which were not trimmed when the flan came off the casting sprues - I always think that makes for an interesting coin...

Other members have shown you just how large Ptolemiac bronzes can get. I'll show you just how small...



Ptolemy IX, X, or Apion
Æ Chalkous, 13mm, 2.1g, 12h; Uncertain mint of Cyprus, or Alexandria, c. 150 - 88 BC.
Obv.: Head of Zeus Ammon right.
Rev.: ΠΤ-[ΟΛ]ΕΜ [ΒΑ]ΣΙΛ Λ; Headdress of Isis.
Reference: cf. Svoronos 1845; Buttrey Cyrene 378; SNG Cop 685, Noeske 392

 

Very nice find Steve!

 

Yeah, I got mine from this Ilyan Slobberin guy on ebay. He had it listed for $12,000 but I got him down to $9,000. It was a "steal" ...................................... Jest jokin'

Mine was reasonable, but a tad over a buck...

 

Yup, and here is another Thessalian example of the dude ...

THESSALY, Homolion. Æ Dichalkon
Circa 350 BC
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 5.07 grams
Obverse: Head of Philoktetes right, wearing conical hat
Reverse: OMOΛI KO[N] around from lower left, serpent coiled right
Reference: Rogers 263; BCD Thessaly II 92
Other: 7h … Near VF, dark brown patina
From the BCD Collection

... I'm assuming that's why there is a snake on the reverse?

 

Well Bing, as you know, this is the year of the new vehicles, so my coin cash has been sparse and therefore my targets have been a wee bit thriftier in 2016 (*sigh*)