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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7927764, member: 91461"]To start off this years deadtime stories and killer coins, I would like to share my latest Celtic, Celter Skelter, druidic coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]fAkjKzfzBLE[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>What!? You didn't know that the culture that commited human sacrifice, (im)famously built Stonehenge</p><p><img src="https://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/20434786/thumb/1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and may have also been the reason/excuse Caesar needed to go on and kill some estimated 2,000,000 Gauls also has coinage! And what if I was to tell you that the coinage is also bizarre, macabre and unexplained?</p><p>I'm not sure what freezes the blood more quickly, the head or the claws on the wolf <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Don't stare too long nor look into the dead eyes of the mangled head on the obverse though or you may never look away!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370196[/ATTACH]</p><p>CARNUTES (Beauce region) (2nd - 1st centuries BC) Gossip with the diabolical head and the wolf</p><p>16.4mm, 3.81g. R3</p><p>LT.manque - DT.2612 - BN.? - PK.43 var. - BMCC.S285</p><p>Obv: <i>Spooky </i>head on the left, a drop-shaped globule, <i>possibly human flesh,</i> in the mouth.</p><p>Rev: Stylized and gendered (if you don't know what that means, look closer) wolf on the left, the tail between the legs and a cross/crucifix over the back.</p><p>Unearthed Sept 2021 Burgundy region of France</p><p><br /></p><p>"The Carnutes would have participated in the legendary expedition from Bellovese to Italy. They formed the geographical center of Gaul and, long before the start of the Gallic Wars, Roman merchants knew the way to Genabum (Orleans), then a large commercial center. The Carnutes were also famous for their forest where the annual meeting of the Druids was held. At the start of the War, Caesar had wintered among the Carnutes in 57 BC and imposed them as King Tasgetios, who was assassinated in 54 BC The following year, they submitted but at the beginning from 52 BC, they are perhaps at the origin of the revolt which will raise the whole of Gaul. It is possible that the conspirators met during a Druidic assembly. The Carnutes massacred the colonists and the Roman merchants of Genabum (Orleans) under the leadership of Cotuatos and Conconnétodumnos. Caesar came to besiege the city he took, looted and burned down, marking the start of hostilities. The Carnutes then provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army in order to free Alesia. After the fall of Vercingetorix, the following year, the Romans carried out a new campaign of pacification and Caesar punished the assassins of the previous year."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370208[/ATTACH]</p><p>Most ancient coins have what can be considered a severed head, the bust or portrait of someone, without a body. This coin however actually depicts a recently severed Christian head!</p><p>Just don't forget sometimes when you severe a head they don't stop talking back<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie95" alt=":vamp:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370206[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370197[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan, (AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200).</p><p>Dirham Bronze (31.7 mm 12.1 g)</p><p>Obv: Helmeted Turk seated cross-legged, wearing chain mail, holding sword horizontally behind his head with his right hand and severed, helmeted head by the plume with his left hand; in field to left, 'Nur al-Din Atabeg' in Kufic.</p><p>Rev: In inner field, 'al-Nasir li-din / Allah Amir / al-Mu'minin'; in inner margin, 'al Malik al-Afzal 'Ali wa al-Malik al Zahir Ghazi bin al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf'; in outer margin, 'Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan Malik Diyarbakr bin il-Ghazi bin Artuq duriba sannah sitt wa tis'in wa khamsami'a'; all in Kufic.</p><p>Spengler & Sayles 36.1. Purchased from Lydia Numismatics July 2021</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370207[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that Septimius September is over I can share this disturbing creature in a thread more suited to a distasteful audience! Straight out of a creature feature that your mommy and daddy wouldn't let you watch as a kid, this monster looks a lot like the types of man eating dragons the ancients feared and wrote about...</p><p> [ATTACH=full]1370209[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370195[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Septimius Severus</b> (193-211 AD). AE Tetrassarion (29 mm, 12.66 g). Thrace, Pautalia.</p><p>Obv. ΑΥΤ Κ Λ CΕΠ CΕΥΗΡΟC Π, Laureate head to right.</p><p>Rev. ΟΥΛΠΙΑC ΠΑΥ/ΤΑΛΙΑC, Aesculapius riding winged serpent right, holding serpent-entwined staff.</p><p>Ruzicka 345; Varbanov 4687.</p><p>Green patina. Fine to very fine.</p><p><i>From the François Righetti Collection.</i></p><p>Purchased from Auctiones GmbH Sept 2021</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course we have to share our beauties along with our beasties. Just beware for if you drop this coin on the wrong side you wont be staring at a little nymph but rather a gorgon with a tongue sticky enough to lick the skin from the bone and fangs that make Dracula look like a pussy cat.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Gorgona_pushkin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370198[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedonia, Neapolis, Hemidrachm, 424-350 BC (14 mm, 1,80 gr)</p><p>Obverse: facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue Reverse: head of the nymph of Neapolis to right, her hair coiled around her head and with a bun at the back, around Ν-Ε / Ο-Π. Purchased from Savoca June 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>If you missed out on the last three years of gore gallore here is the original "Coins that go bump in the night": <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/</a></p><p>Part 2: The Vampire strikes back: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-part-ii-the-vampire-strikes-bat.348366/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-part-ii-the-vampire-strikes-bat.348366/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-part-ii-the-vampire-strikes-bat.348366/</a></p><p>Part 3: Count Drach-ula's feast</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-3-count-drachm-ulas-feast.367628/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-3-count-drachm-ulas-feast.367628/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-3-count-drachm-ulas-feast.367628/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zAWe8oBIRtY[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>or for you Lana Del Rey fans this'll kill ya!</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zA4OjrpVsiY[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So please get spooky, do your best to scare us all and share those coins that give you a chill down your spine when you hold them and tell us about your coins that go bump in the night!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie53" alt=":hungover:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie64" alt=":mask:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7927764, member: 91461"]To start off this years deadtime stories and killer coins, I would like to share my latest Celtic, Celter Skelter, druidic coin! [MEDIA=youtube]fAkjKzfzBLE[/MEDIA] What!? You didn't know that the culture that commited human sacrifice, (im)famously built Stonehenge [IMG]https://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/20434786/thumb/1.jpg[/IMG] and may have also been the reason/excuse Caesar needed to go on and kill some estimated 2,000,000 Gauls also has coinage! And what if I was to tell you that the coinage is also bizarre, macabre and unexplained? I'm not sure what freezes the blood more quickly, the head or the claws on the wolf :eek: Don't stare too long nor look into the dead eyes of the mangled head on the obverse though or you may never look away! [ATTACH=full]1370196[/ATTACH] CARNUTES (Beauce region) (2nd - 1st centuries BC) Gossip with the diabolical head and the wolf 16.4mm, 3.81g. R3 LT.manque - DT.2612 - BN.? - PK.43 var. - BMCC.S285 Obv: [I]Spooky [/I]head on the left, a drop-shaped globule, [I]possibly human flesh,[/I] in the mouth. Rev: Stylized and gendered (if you don't know what that means, look closer) wolf on the left, the tail between the legs and a cross/crucifix over the back. Unearthed Sept 2021 Burgundy region of France "The Carnutes would have participated in the legendary expedition from Bellovese to Italy. They formed the geographical center of Gaul and, long before the start of the Gallic Wars, Roman merchants knew the way to Genabum (Orleans), then a large commercial center. The Carnutes were also famous for their forest where the annual meeting of the Druids was held. At the start of the War, Caesar had wintered among the Carnutes in 57 BC and imposed them as King Tasgetios, who was assassinated in 54 BC The following year, they submitted but at the beginning from 52 BC, they are perhaps at the origin of the revolt which will raise the whole of Gaul. It is possible that the conspirators met during a Druidic assembly. The Carnutes massacred the colonists and the Roman merchants of Genabum (Orleans) under the leadership of Cotuatos and Conconnétodumnos. Caesar came to besiege the city he took, looted and burned down, marking the start of hostilities. The Carnutes then provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army in order to free Alesia. After the fall of Vercingetorix, the following year, the Romans carried out a new campaign of pacification and Caesar punished the assassins of the previous year." [ATTACH=full]1370208[/ATTACH] Most ancient coins have what can be considered a severed head, the bust or portrait of someone, without a body. This coin however actually depicts a recently severed Christian head! Just don't forget sometimes when you severe a head they don't stop talking back:vamp: [ATTACH=full]1370206[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370197[/ATTACH] Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan, (AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200). Dirham Bronze (31.7 mm 12.1 g) Obv: Helmeted Turk seated cross-legged, wearing chain mail, holding sword horizontally behind his head with his right hand and severed, helmeted head by the plume with his left hand; in field to left, 'Nur al-Din Atabeg' in Kufic. Rev: In inner field, 'al-Nasir li-din / Allah Amir / al-Mu'minin'; in inner margin, 'al Malik al-Afzal 'Ali wa al-Malik al Zahir Ghazi bin al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf'; in outer margin, 'Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan Malik Diyarbakr bin il-Ghazi bin Artuq duriba sannah sitt wa tis'in wa khamsami'a'; all in Kufic. Spengler & Sayles 36.1. Purchased from Lydia Numismatics July 2021 [ATTACH=full]1370207[/ATTACH] Now that Septimius September is over I can share this disturbing creature in a thread more suited to a distasteful audience! Straight out of a creature feature that your mommy and daddy wouldn't let you watch as a kid, this monster looks a lot like the types of man eating dragons the ancients feared and wrote about... [ATTACH=full]1370209[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370195[/ATTACH] [B]Septimius Severus[/B] (193-211 AD). AE Tetrassarion (29 mm, 12.66 g). Thrace, Pautalia. Obv. ΑΥΤ Κ Λ CΕΠ CΕΥΗΡΟC Π, Laureate head to right. Rev. ΟΥΛΠΙΑC ΠΑΥ/ΤΑΛΙΑC, Aesculapius riding winged serpent right, holding serpent-entwined staff. Ruzicka 345; Varbanov 4687. Green patina. Fine to very fine. [I]From the François Righetti Collection.[/I] Purchased from Auctiones GmbH Sept 2021 Of course we have to share our beauties along with our beasties. Just beware for if you drop this coin on the wrong side you wont be staring at a little nymph but rather a gorgon with a tongue sticky enough to lick the skin from the bone and fangs that make Dracula look like a pussy cat. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Gorgona_pushkin.jpg[/IMG] [ATTACH=full]1370198[/ATTACH] Macedonia, Neapolis, Hemidrachm, 424-350 BC (14 mm, 1,80 gr) Obverse: facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue Reverse: head of the nymph of Neapolis to right, her hair coiled around her head and with a bun at the back, around Ν-Ε / Ο-Π. Purchased from Savoca June 2021 If you missed out on the last three years of gore gallore here is the original "Coins that go bump in the night": [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/[/URL] Part 2: The Vampire strikes back: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-part-ii-the-vampire-strikes-bat.348366/[/URL] Part 3: Count Drach-ula's feast [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night-3-count-drachm-ulas-feast.367628/[/URL] [MEDIA=youtube]zAWe8oBIRtY[/MEDIA] or for you Lana Del Rey fans this'll kill ya! [MEDIA=youtube]zA4OjrpVsiY[/MEDIA] So please get spooky, do your best to scare us all and share those coins that give you a chill down your spine when you hold them and tell us about your coins that go bump in the night!:nailbiting::hungover::mask::dead::)[/QUOTE]
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