Live action Turtle, Man!

In Agora auction yesterday i picked up my long waited Turtle, the two coins i wanted the most, the Athens Owl and the Aegina Turtle, these were high on the want list!! now i have both.

Live action, Steve google The Turtle man and watch his show, he rescues snapping turtles, you'll love him.
I know there have been a lot of turtles posted lately, live action post them again anyway!

Island off Athica, Aegina 510-490 BC..
Ar Stater.
Obv. Sea turtle with smooth shell, bankers mark on top of shell.
Rev. "Mill- Sail" incuse punch.
Vf, oval flan.
18.7x 12.04g.x 12H
Ex. Elwood Rafn collection.

 

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Lucky, congrats, Eng!

 

Congrats on catching yourself a fine-looking loggerhead! I always think of these marked turtles as the tattooed tough guys of Aegina .

 

Love that bad boy Z!!

 

We're having a turtle frenzy! Nice one Eng!

 

Congrats John. I was looking at that Turtle, but decided not to participate in this auction because of my recent gold purchase. That's really a nice looking turtle.

 

Thanks jw, you got some great flippers on that one!

 

Solid purchase, Eng!

I have a tortoise stater and turtle obol:



ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina
456/45-431 BCE
AR stater; 20mm, 12.32 g
Obv: land tortoise, head in profile, with segmented shell
Rev: large square incuse with skew pattern
Ref: SNG Delepierre 1774ff; BMC Taf. 24.11


ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina
475-470 BCE
AR obol; 0.97 gm
Obv: sea turtle with single row of dots on back
Rev: windmill-shaped incuse punch
Ref: SNG Delepierre 1511; SNG Cop. 505

 

Nice turtle Eng, you scratched this off your list....now what?

 

BeauTIFul TIF, never get tired of seeing those lovey Ladies. gota love that high relief. how did you take those side shots??

Masternoob, i think i need a Alex Tet. what do you think!!!

 

These are Post Turtles . I shoot everything on a little dowel which is ~4" long. I have some non-sticky silicone putty which keeps the coin in place. For the side shots, I just stuck the coin on its side in the putty and photoshopped out the bit of putty which was visible.

 

Very nice turtle Senior Eng. I saw the Agora & Pecunem turtle offerings recently & there were several that included full & partial heads. Perhaps they came from the same hoard as my head-less bale of turtles.

 

Fantastic turtle, Eng!! (congrats)

Hey, our two turtles look so similar that they might be ancient brothers, my friend? (maybe we're related?)


Eng Turtle


stevex6 Turtle

 

I LIKE TURTLES!

 

and i meant to add that' s an awesome little turtle coin ENG.

i really wish i were in the turtle club with you guys. they are on my list, but the stars haven't aligned with the right coin when i have the money available.

 

See, told you it's getting to him.

 

Nice one! Yee-ee-ee-ee-ee!

 

Congrats, John. Great coin!

 

I don't have a Turtle yet...somebody beat me.

 

Sorry about that A, next time i'll watch for your number!!