Here's another pair of CT Peep influenced acquisitions. These measure 19 & 17 mm weighing in at 6.11 & 5.15 gm. respectively. POST YOUR COINS & COMMENTS PEEPS! Greek Syracuse Sicily bronzes ca. 409 BC Helmeted Athena obverse Hippocamp with devices reverse.
I really like the brown Hippocamp ominus1, and your's has nice surfaces randygeki. Mine is a variety with dolphins.
As often is the case with ancients, there are several variations that some of us will feel the urge to have while others won't care. I am fond of the dolphin and ΣΥΡΑ options and would not mind one with a snake or wreath on the helmet (these wear away easily). https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=126623 https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120682 Note some have a bridle on the hippocamp. Some have waves under the hippocamp but many that should lost them to small flans. https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=15438 More of us will want one with great detail and smooth surfaces or pretty patina. It can be hard to collect just one.
All very nice! I -- no surprise -- have no examples of these coins from Syracuse. But that doesn't mean I don't have any hippocampi! They were featured on coins of Gallienus's zoo series: Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 21.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 267-268. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head, right. Rev: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp swimming right; N in exergue. Refs: RIC 245K; Göbl 743b; Cohen 667; RCV 10292; Hunter 121; Cunetio 1393.
Roman Collector's Gallienus is a good example of the then fashionable letter forms where N was shown as III.
Nice chunks of hippocampi you have there, OmNomNom You know I'm going to have to roll out my hippocamp parade again ... ROMAN REPUBLIC, Moneyer Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus. 69 BCE. AR serrate denarius. SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysius I. 400-335 BCE. Athena/hippocamp. A pristine hippocamp PHOENICIA, Byblos. Uzibaal. 350-335 BCE. AR dishekel PHOENICIA, Berytos. 1st century BCE. Æ19.5, 5.9 gm. Hippocamp quadriga! Sicily, Syracuse. AE 13, c. 425 BCE. Arethusa(?)/hippocamp & octopus THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste. AE trichakon; Achilles/Thetis seated on hippocamp. Ex BCD.
I only have my tiny hippocamp to offer:- L Papius Denarius Serratus Obv:– Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin tied under chin. Behind head, Dolphin wrapped around anchor. Rev:– Gryphon running right; in ex., L. PAPI.; in field, Hippocamp Minted in Rome from . B.C. 79. Reference(s) – RSC Papia 1. RRC 384/1. RCTV 311. Symbol variety – RRC -. Babelon -. BMCRR -. A previously unknown symbol pair and the only known example
Hippos: Tyre 1/16 shekel 10mm 0.47g hippocamp l over waves - owl with crook flail Sear Greek 5916.BMC Tyre 43 SNG Danish 302 Sicily Syracuse ca 410 BC AE 19 Athena Wreath Hippocamp
The seahorse or hippocamp is an unusual type on Greek coins. We see it on bronzes in Sicily and on Phoenician coins. We also see it on coins of Taras in Italy. Here is a rare fraction that is none of these. In fact, it is unpublished. Unknown Asia Minor mint. 1.0g 10.5mm. Obv: Winged hippocamp, forelegs raised, facing right. Rev: smiling gorgoneion, tongue protruding, ears as dots, within circle of dots within incuse circle. cf. Helios Numismatik, auction 3, April 2009, lot 59 "Lycia" A Helios cataloger wrote that his or her attribution to Lycia is not guaranteed, but that is this type is related to the coins of the the Lycian Uwug. However, "Uwug" has since been called a Carian king, and is name is now spelled Orou, and his coins are now said to come from an uncertain Carian mint "G". I’m tempted to put this issue with Arados, a Phoenician city known to have used gorgoneions and hippocamps (never in the same period), or to follow the Nomos catalogers and place the issue in Lycia/Caria. Any thoughts?
I have a couple. The first one has a poor reverse and a counter stamp on the obv. the second one has BD on the reverse.... uggggh. I am posting today because I saw a hippocamp steelyard scale @TIF needs. It is in a current auction => shame on me. But it was unsold in a recent auction by the same company. I am guessing that there are few takers at $4500. should we start a go-fund-me account for her?
That is definitely what it would take! I'm still reeling financially from the two hurricanes of 2017. Repairs probably won't be finished until sometime next year... perhaps late next year .
