Incuse-punch coins => Let's see 'em!!

Man, I love these old archaic incuse-square coins ... these are some examples of my oldest and favourite coins:

Lydia AR Siglos
545-520 B.C.
Diameter: 15.6 mm
Weight: 4.9 grams
Obverse: Confronted lion and bull
Reverse: Two incuse square punches



Thasos, AR Archaic Stater, Satyr & Struggling Nymph
Islands off Thrace, Thasos
c.525-463 B.C.
Diameter: 21.5 mm
Weight: 8.60 grams
Obverse: Satyr carrying off a struggling nymph, who raises her arm in protest
Reverse: Quadrapartite incuse square
Reference: SNG Cop 1010

 

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Persia AR Siglos
Time of Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II
485-420 B.C.
Diameter: 15.4 mm
Weight: 5.3 grams
Obverse: Persian hero holding bow and spear, X banker's mark in field
Reverse: Incuse punch


Caria, Kindya AR Tetrobol "Sea Monster"
circa 510-480 B.C.
Diameter: 12.6 mm
Weight: 2 grams
Obverse: Head of ketos sea monster (left)
Reverse: Latticework pattern in incuse

 

Attica Aegina AR Stater
circa 480-457 B.C.
Diameter: 19mm
Weight: 11.76 grams
Obverse: Smooth shell sea turtle
Reverse: suare incuse skew pattern
Reference: SNG Cop 507



Ionia, Miletos AR Obol, "Roaring Lion & Star Ornament"
475-325 B.C.
Diameter: 9.5 mm
Weight: 1.1 grams
Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion
Reverse: Star ornament within incuse square
Reference: SNG Kayman: 476-487, Klein 424-425

 

Ionia circa 550 BC

 

Ripley => thanks for posting!!


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Chersonesos AR Hemidrachm
4th Century B.C.
Diameter: 12.0 mm
Weight: 2.0 grams
Obverse: Forepart of lion
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with amphora/pellet A



Ionia, Teos AR Drachm
Hagnon, Magistrate
375 B.C.
Diameter: 16 mm
Weight: 3.4 grams
Obverse: Griffin (Gryphon) seated right, raising forepaw
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with granulated quarters and thick crossbars; ZHI?N on horizontal crossbar, A?-N?N on vertical crossbar
Reference: Kinns 11; SNG Copenhagen 1443

 

Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Siglos Bull
circa 340-320 B.C.
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 5.31 grams
Obverse: KALC (KALX) Kalchedon/Calchedon? ... Bull standing on grain ear
Reverse: "mill sail" incuse
Reference: SNG Cop 348
Other: Banker's mark on both sides



Thrace Byzantion AR Hemidrachm
circa 340-320 B.C.
Diameter: 14 mm
Weight: 2.48 grams
Obverse: Cow standing left on dolphin
Reverse: Incuse "mill sail" punch
Reference: SNG BM 36-41

 

Really good looking coins. Cool reverses.

 

Thanks icerain ...

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This one is stunning. Holy Gryphons, Batman!

 

I agree, but I would have to say all the coins on this thread are great. Jerry you have some beauties. Here are some of mine:

Attica Aegina AR Stater SNG Cop 507, c. 480-457 BC
OBV: Sea-turtle (T-backed); head in profile
REV: Large square incuse with skew pattern
11,96g, 20mm
Fine, toned, metal flaws and test cuts on shell, faint punchmark to left of turtle, deposits within incuse


Thasos AR Drachm Sear 1748 c. 463-411 BC
OBV: Naked satyr running right carrying struggling nymph
REV: Quadripartite incluse Square
3.40g, 15.9mm

 

Thrace, Abdera Tetrobol May 279 c. 411-385 BC
OBV: Griffin springing left
REV: Magistrate's name around linear border, within which head of Hermes l., caduceus before; all in incuse square
2.780g


CARION ISLANDS: RHODES AR Hemidrachm Sear 5065v c. 167-88 BC
OBV: Radiate head of Helios 3/4 facing
REV: Rose with magistrates name above, caduceous left all within uncuse square
1.6g; 12mm

 

Steve, awesome coins, ive seen them before, but they never get old. jw and JA very nice as well, if i had to pick it would be Mr. Turtle, that's very cool..:thumb:

 

Thanks for the coin compliments, fellas ...

=> great coins Bing!! (your Yertle the turtle coin is a total winner!!)

 

Hey, I started this thread over a year ago, but it really is still worthy, so I thought that I'd merely append my archaic coins rather than start from scratch ... I know, it's a new idea for the likes o' me, right?

NOTE => apparently, when they revamped the software all of my photos turned into thumbnails? (oh well, I hope that you spend a sec and open-up those lil' archaic buggers ... yup, they're pretty fricken cool) ...

... anyway ... here are a few more stevex6 archaic coins:

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos
AR Sixteenth Stater – Hemiobol
Circa 500-480 BC
Diameter: 8 mm
Weight: 0.56 grams
Obverse: Two dolphins swimming in opposite directions; pellets around
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square
Reference: Le Rider, Thasiennes 9; HGC 6, 337
Other: toned, light porosity

 

IONIA, Ephesos, AR Tetartemorion

Circa 500-420 BC
Diameter: 5 mm
Weight: 0.17 grams
Obverse: Bee
Reverse: Head of eagle right within incuse square
Reference: Karwiese Series IV; SNG Kayhan 126–34
Other: 12h … toned, Exceptional for issue

 

LESBOS, Mytilene. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater

Circa 478-455 BC
Diameter: 10 mm
Weight: 2.48 grams
Obverse: Ram’s head right
Reverse: Incuse bull’s head right
Reference: Bodenstedt Em. 27; HGC 6, 954
Other: 12h

 

Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater

Date: 363-338 BC
Diameter: 21.5 mm
Weight: 11.8 grams
Obverse: Boeotian shield
Reverse: Amphora, KA-LLI across field; all within incuse concave circle
Reference: BCD Boiotia 555

 

This is incuse punched? Huh, you learn something new every day!

 

Excellent coins! Too bad, I don't own any yet. lol

Keep em comin' coin bros.