Island Ancient Coins

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  1. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

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    Cyclades, Seriphos. 2nd-1st century BC? 2.95g. AE14
    Helmeted head of Perseus right
    CΕΡΕΙ-ΦΙWΝ; Harpa SNG Copenhagen 741; BMC 11; Weber 4711
    Auctiones AG, auction 29, June 2003, lot 357 (J. P. Righetti collection)
     
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  3. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    Great coins All! Thanks for unloading your sweet coins @TIF!
    @Ed Snible - I love that Perseus bust!
     
  4. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    I just sprung for one of those... YOUR fault! :D Naw, I have been expanding and capturing for my growing Carthage collection... could not resist snaring one.
     
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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    My wife and I would go to either Wrightsville Beach (and go on up to Topsail), or Morehead City in the Outer Banks... we would go every other weekend. Miss it. Sometimes we would drive there just for the day (3hr drive each way).

    Enjoy your vacation. Wonderful part of the Country!

    SICILY:

    But this one is "Get back to Work!" with the PLOW reverse! :)
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    SICILY Kentoripai
    Æ Hexas 16mm 3.0g 344-336 BCE
    Persephone r
    grain ear plow w bird two pellets
    Calciati III BMC Sicily 12ff
     
  6. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    That's a cool coin Alegandron! We love it around Surf City, it's a very peaceful area with plenty of things to do.
     
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  7. arnoldoe

    arnoldoe Well-Known Member

    I don't have ancients many from islands, but here is a new picture of a medieval coin from Venice i just took, almost looks like it's moving



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    Venice. Giovanni Soranzo, 1312-1328. AR Grosso
     
  8. MarcosX

    MarcosX Active Member

    Nice thread I'm at home in Santorini right now I'll post a relevant pic soon , nice pics
     
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  9. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    About a month ago I made this my desktop image:
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  10. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

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  11. Mikey Zee

    Mikey Zee Delenda Est Carthago

    I'll add my 11 mm .8 gram trihemiobol from the Island of Thasos....and enjoy your cool vacation!!!:)


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    Thasos, .8 g 11 mm 411-350 BC.JPG

    Fantastic posts everyone!!!!!
     
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I used to use that as a desktop background. What a beautiful place!

    @TIF - wow. Just... wow.
    @stevex6 - more "wow".

    This Akragas piece I had is the only "Island" coin I can think of, offhand, since Akragas/Agrigento is on Sicily.

    Love the designs and all the activity going on with this coin, though there's a whole lot of scary predatory action happening!

    One day I hope to have another one of these, in higher grade.

    Sicily, Akragas: silver hemidrachm, ca. 410-406 BC

    Obverse: eagle right, clutching dead hare in its talons, barley grain behind.
    Reverse: Crab, with ketos below, swimming left with fish in its jaws.

    16 mm, 1.8 g. SNG ANS 1012. Ex-Gitbud-Naumann, Germany, through VCoins store, 5/28/2014.


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    Wikipedia pages:
    Akragas (Agrigentum, Agrigento)
    Ketos (cetus)
     
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  13. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I like the non-coin photos posted here, too.

    Here is the island from which I happen to be typing this message (St. Simons Island, Georgia).

    Not my best snapshot, but the only one I had handy at the moment.

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  14. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    A current theory for why the Minoan civilization ended abruptly is a combination of events. The volcanic explosion at Thera(Santorini) would have caused massive tsunamis on all Aegean islands and Crete and led to decline. In their weakened state, an invasion by the Mycenaean's finished the job.

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    Crete, Polyrhenion. Circa 330-280 BC. Æ 12mm.
    Obv: Round shield; in center, bull's head facing.
    Rev: POLY around spear point.
    SNG Copenhagen 534; BMC Crete pg. 68, 15-17.
     
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  15. Ancientnoob

    Ancientnoob Money Changer

    Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura
    Anonymous
    AE Normal Plaque (c. BC 29 - AD 297)
    38 mm x 19 mm x 5.05 grams
    Obverse: Goddess Lakshmi facing, being showered by two mini-elephants atop of poles. - No legend.
    Reverse: Clockwise revolving Swastika tree. Uncertain symbols. Snake(?) left, Bull right(?)
    Note: Extra Large for the type. Superb Condition.
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  16. MarcosX

    MarcosX Active Member

    I took this picture of pyrgos in santorini on great Friday, the city gets lanterns set on all the rooftops it looks like it's on fire from far away I would post some santorini related coins but I would just be posting our friend Clios coins IMG_20170414_135037.jpg
     
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  17. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    I like the idea of an animated Gif showing the way a coin wiggles in hand but I'd suggest slowing down the speed quite a bit to make it less frantic.
     
  18. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    Just received this one.

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    Thrace, Islands off. Thasos. 200-1 BC. Æ 20mm.
    Diademed & draped bust of Artemis right, bow & quiver over shoulder / QASIWN, nude Herakles standing right, drawing bow about to shoot an arrow, lionskin around neck.
     
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  19. MarcosX

    MarcosX Active Member

    Does anybody have a coin from Anafi?
     
  20. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Struck in the island of Arados, the following coin shows the Phoenician god of the sea " Yamm ". Yamm O                  Arados.JPG YammPhoeR  400BC.JPG
     
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  21. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    That is a Fat coin! Literally and figuratively.
     
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