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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4620673, member: 99456"]Thanks for sharing your coins! Those are some spiky Macedonian prize urns and a nice looking patina, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]. Agonistic urns on coins seemed to have spiked in the 3rd century - curious to know if they appeared much earlier or later. <b>Edit:</b> a good summary answer for this question can be found in Chris Howego's book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Identity-Provinces-Christopher-Howgego-dp-0199237840/dp/0199237840" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Identity-Provinces-Christopher-Howgego-dp-0199237840/dp/0199237840" rel="nofollow">Coinage and Identity</a>" on p.128-9 (essay by Dietrich Klose) which describes large prize crowns first appearing under Commodus, and has a coin of Pergamum from AD 136–8 referencing festivals for the city’s neocorate temples. A great source for information on coins and agonistic festivals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Third coin looks interesting - where is that from? Your coin of the brothers looks more like a face-off than a gaze of brotherly love, probably just my imagination. Here's my unusual (unique?) AE variation on your AR coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144100[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Pamphylia, Aspendus</b>, circa 400-380 BC, AE stater (9.47g, 22.5mm)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Two naked <b>wrestlers</b> grappling</p><p><b>Rev: </b>ΕΣΤFEΔΙΙΥΣ, Slinger in throwing stance right, drawing sling taut over head, triskeles in field before, all within dotted square within square</p><p><b>Ref:</b> <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_956" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_956" rel="nofollow">Tekin Series 3</a>; <a href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=2959" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=2959" rel="nofollow">AMC 2959</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4620673, member: 99456"]Thanks for sharing your coins! Those are some spiky Macedonian prize urns and a nice looking patina, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]. Agonistic urns on coins seemed to have spiked in the 3rd century - curious to know if they appeared much earlier or later. [B]Edit:[/B] a good summary answer for this question can be found in Chris Howego's book "[URL='https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Identity-Provinces-Christopher-Howgego-dp-0199237840/dp/0199237840']Coinage and Identity[/URL]" on p.128-9 (essay by Dietrich Klose) which describes large prize crowns first appearing under Commodus, and has a coin of Pergamum from AD 136–8 referencing festivals for the city’s neocorate temples. A great source for information on coins and agonistic festivals. Third coin looks interesting - where is that from? Your coin of the brothers looks more like a face-off than a gaze of brotherly love, probably just my imagination. Here's my unusual (unique?) AE variation on your AR coin. [ATTACH=full]1144100[/ATTACH] [B]Pamphylia, Aspendus[/B], circa 400-380 BC, AE stater (9.47g, 22.5mm) [B]Obv:[/B] Two naked [B]wrestlers[/B] grappling [B]Rev: [/B]ΕΣΤFEΔΙΙΥΣ, Slinger in throwing stance right, drawing sling taut over head, triskeles in field before, all within dotted square within square [B]Ref:[/B] [URL='https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_956']Tekin Series 3[/URL]; [URL='https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=2959']AMC 2959[/URL][/QUOTE]
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