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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8177526, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations and the best of luck to you, [USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER]! No Internet access for 9 weeks? Wow. I think I understand the reasons, but are you old enough even to remember a time before the Internet? Can you at least bring along a coin or two to keep you company?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few at least vaguely nautically-themed coins for you (with footnotes omitted):</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-500 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. Goldsborough Type 3 [Goldsborough, Reid, <i>Apollonia Pontika Drachms</i> (see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html</a>), Catalogue of Types]; Seaby GCV 1655 <i>var. </i>(crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-4<b>2</b> [Topalov, Stavri, <i>Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. </i>(Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9]; SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" rel="nofollow">SNGuk_0901_0159</a> ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thrace-apollonia-pontika-c-mid-late-5th-century-bc-ar-drachm-gorgoneion-anchor-jpg-version-jpg.1364982/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tarentum, Calabria. AR Nomos (didrachm), ca. 302-280 BCE. Magistrates Sa.., Arethon and Cas-. Obv. Youth on horseback right, crowning horse with wreath; magistrates&#039; names: ΣA to left and AΡE/ΘΩN in two lines below/ Rev. TAΡAΣ, Phalanthos astride dolphin left, holding tripod, CAΣ below. Vlasto 666 [Ravel, O.E., <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M.P. Vlasto</i> (London, 1947, reprinted)]; HN Italy 957 [Rutter, N.K., ed., <i>Historia Numorum Italy</i> (London, 2001)]; SNG ANS 1046 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society,</i> <i>Part 1: Etruria - Calabria</i> (New York 1969)]. 23 mm., 7.86 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tarentum-ar-nomos-jpg.1379514/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Fonteius, AR Denarius, 114-113 BCE. Obv. Laureate, Janiform head of the Dioscuri, control mark N under left chin [<i>mark of value * (= 16) under right chin is worn off</i>], one dot beneath head / Rev. Galley left with three rowers, <i>gubernator </i>(pilot) at stern, rudder beneath stern, apotropaic eye on side, three-pronged ram with wolf’s head above extending from prow, banners/streamers extending from stern, C • FONT above (N and T in monogram), ROMA below.&nbsp; Crawford 290/1, RSC I Fonteia 1 (ill.), Sear RCV I 167 (ill.), Sydenham 555. 20 mm., 3.90 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex: Auctiones GmbH, eAuction 67, Lot 55, 15 March 2020; Ex: CNG Auction May 2012, Lot 293; Ex: Bruce R. Brace Collection.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/fonteius-dioscuri-galley-jpg-version-jpg.1236271/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Roman Republic, L Lucretius Trio, AR Denarius, 76 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Neptune right, XXXIII above and trident behind/ Rev. Cupid (or Infant Genius) on dolphin right; L LVCRETIVS TRIO. Crawford 390/2, Sydenham 784, RSC I Lucretia 3, Sear RCV I 322 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 16 at pp. 98, 100-103 [Michael Harlan, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, <i>81 BCE-64 BCE </i>(Vol. I) (2012)], BMCRR Rome 3247. 19 mm., 3.9 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lucretius-trio-boy-on-dolphin-jpg.1282787/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agrippa (d. 12 BCE), AE As, Memorial issue struck by Caligula, 37-41 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown, M AGRIPPA L - F COS III / Rev. Neptune standing left, holding trident in left hand; dolphin resting left on his right forearm; S - C on either side of Neptune. RIC I Caligula [Gaius] 58, Sear RCV I 1812, Cohen Agrippa 3. 31 mm., 11.0 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/agrippa-neptune-as-jpg.1368661/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AR Denarius [Restored Issue of Mark Antony Legionary Denarius Leg. VI, probably issued for 200th anniversary of Battle of Actium], 168-169 AD, Rome Mint.&nbsp; Obv. Praetorian galley moving left over waves with four crew members, ANTONIVS AVGVR around from 8 o’clock, IIIVIR R P C across below galley / Rev. Legionary eagle (aquila) facing left between two standards, ANTONINVS ET VERVS AVG REST [ = Restituit] around from 8 o’clock, LEG - VI across lower field. RIC III M. Aurelius 443 (at p. 248), RSC I Mark Antony 83 (ill. at p. 127), Sear RCV II 5236 (ill. at p. 341), BMCRE 500. 19 mm., 2.86 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninvs-et-vervs-galley-anniversary-of-actium-jpg-jpg.1415467/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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