My grandpa's pocket watch fob

i was sorting through my safe today and came across my grandpa's pocket watch. This fob has me curious as to what it is suppose to represent.
It is 1 inch long and weighs 8 grams. It's also nonmagnetic.

Any ideas?

 

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Moved this to "Ancient Coins". Maybe you guys know what this is, or rather what it was modeled after.

Christian

 

Thanks. I wasn't sure where to post this.

 

Looks like it's Greek, with Athena on the obverse, Pegasus on the reverse. Possibly from Corinth, although someone else will know more about the denominations. Don't know as to the authenticity from that picture, but the hole and flan crack might be a good sign.

 

Looks like a Corinth stater

 

Looks to be modeled on a stater of Athena and Pegasus. Like this one from Corinth: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ap..._ar_stater__pegasusathena/538302/Default.aspx

I'm not a Greek collector, so others should chime in.

 

I tried to get better photos. This fob was on his railroad pocket watch. I remember playing with the watch in 1960's. His watch is engraved December 1938. Not sure wherr the fob came along, unfortunately.

 

purdy neat piece.. i'm not able to authenticate it myself just from the pics, but it could be a legit coin.. either way, it's a purdy neat piece.

 

Dimension and weight are OK. hard to say if its authentic or not from pictures.
Never seen one with such a figure behind Athena's helmet , Zeus ?

Here's mine with similar patina:



I Like your avatar, mine is made of 5 Francs Napoleon III coins

 

Club is known as a control mark

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4241153

 

looks to be a figure of a man to me. but.. idk..

 

Nice stack!

Mine are 1794 US large cents.

 

Thank you for education on ancients. I only collect the US large cents but this coin excites me. I will take it to next months coin show and have it looked at. I will post an update later.

 

While you wait you should check out Vcoins and see some of what else is out there. It's still too early to tell, but you're showing early signs of the ancient coin collecting bug.

 

Found this upcoming auction on https://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?search=Corinth+AR+stater,&s=0&upcoming=0&results=100

Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger - Auction 336, Lot 2150
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN, GRIECHISCHES MUTTERLAND, KORINTH UND SEINE KOLONIEN, KORINTH. Stater. 4. Jh. v. Chr. Pegasos l. Rs: Athenakopf mit korinthischem Helm l. Beizeichen Ares l. mit Speer und Schild. BCD Coll. 121. Calciati, Pegasi 376. 8.53g, Schöne, etw. fleckige Tönung. Min. Kratzer. gutes vz Aus belgischer Sammlung vor 1940. Mit altem Beilagzettel. Estimate: 750 EUR... 7 Feb 2018 Upcoming
Auction


This appears to be the design featured on my piece.

Now back to looking at ancients. Man there are some beautiful pieces.

 

Akarnania, Anaktorion
AR Stater
Circa 350-300 BC.
Obv: Helmeted head of Athena left; AN monogram and bukranion to right; ΚΛE in upper field; AΓ below neck.
Rev: Pegasos flying left; AN monogram below
Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnanians 92; Pegasi 71; BCD Akarnania 86

 

My first thought about authenticity when looking at the watch fob was "modern cast" due to the lack of sharp junctions between the devices and fields and the lack of a qoppa or other city mark. However, the images are blurry so maybe that's not really the case.

These Pegasus/Athena staters were issued by several cities around the 4th-3rd centuries BCE.

Anyway, it sounds like this fob has piqued your curiosity. It's amazing that we can own such incredible bits of history and art for so little money! Maybe you'll use this as a starting point for collecting ancient coins. A Corinth stater was my first nice coin. I thought I'd stop with that. Heh. Right.


CORINTHIA, Corinth
345-307 BCE
AR stater, 8.65 gm
Obv Pegasus flying left, qoppa below
Rev: helmeted head of Athena left wearing necklace; mask of Silenus behind
Ref: Ravel 1046. Calciati 408. Scarce variety.
from Heritage Auctions, June 2013
This scarce variety was chosen to represent Corinth staters, #23 in Harlan J. Berk's book, "100 Greatest Ancient Coins".

I picked up a couple more over the last few years.


CORINTHIA, Corinth
circa 375-300 BCE
AR stater, 22 mm, 8.55 g, 1h
Obv: Pegasus flying left; qoppa below
Rev: helmeted head of Athena left; A-P flanking neck truncation; to right, chimaera standing left
Ref: Ravel 1010; Pegasi 428; BCD Corinth 102; HGC 4, 1848
ex CNG Inventory 828126 (November, 2008)
ex Gorny & Mosch 170 (13 October 2008), lot 1381
ex Giessener Münzhandlung 21 (22 March 1982), lot 37


CORINTHIA, Corinth
c. 400-375 BCE
AR stater. 20 mm, 8.25 gm
Obv: Pegasus flying left; qoppa below
Rev: helmeted head of Athena right; EYO (retrograde) above; pudenda virilia behind
Ref: Ravel 599; Calciati 155; Pegasi I p. 198, 155

 

@Moekeever, your fob's control mark is a statue of Zeus standing right, holding staff and thunderbolt. See Corinth Staters subsection of Wildwinds:



This doesn't settle the question of authenticity though.

 

Agreed, I'm holding my opinion until it's authenticated

 

Thanks for sharing, I didn't realize just how beautiful ancients were until I started this post.