Here are some new ancients that I got yesterday from Stainless. I think they are all pretty neat but I don't know a whole lot about them. I have info on one of them in the flip the other two flips just had the coins. Tell me what ya' think and give me some info if you have any. Comments are always appreciated. P.S. I have absolutely no clue about if I have the pictures right. The only one I'm really sure of is Coin 1, and maybe the last one. Coin 1: (My Favorite) I really like the obverse of the coin and I'm taking a stab in the dark saying the reverse has some sort of eagle/hawk/bird on it. Coin 2: Got no clue on the picture, the obverse is right, but is that how the reverse goes? Coin 3: I don't even know about this one. What is it trying to depict? (Obv and Rev?) 4: (Can't really call it a coin) [Or can you?] This is by far the coolest of the four, and I have info on this one. Baktria ( B.C. 600 - A.D. 300) Cast Bronze Amulet with Animal Foria and Suspension Loop Now for the picture, should it go the other way around, or is there any need to have post sides of it? I like it the way I have it now. Thanks for looking and/or helping y'all! And a big thank you again to Stainless.
number one: Tiberius, Laodikea, Phrygia, 1st cent AD Tiberius (?) Laodikea, Phrygia AE – early 1st century AD ΛAOΔIKEΩN Bust of Men, wearing Phrygian cap, r. KOP ΔIOΣKOYPIΔHΣ Eagle standing left RPC I 2907, BMC 67 Ex Ardatirion Collection Note - this is certainly the correct attribution, but there is scholarly debate as to the precise dating of the issues of the magistrate Dioscorious at Laodikea, thus the question mark next to "Tiberius." #2 - the reverse is only slightly misaligned. Its one of the fallen horseman types of Constantius II, but the mintmark in the exergue isn't visible. #3 - I can't tell from the pic, but I think its from my collection too. In which case its an Roman provincial from a city in Asia minor with a bust of the Genus of the Senate. But it was too rough for any further attribution.
Wow thanks! Also thanks for the links given in private. I got the info down in a word document for Ancient Attributions and have as much info as I could get down on each. Thanks so much. (Stainless forgot to mention that the Tibberius was from the Ardatirion collection)
I know even less about antiquities than coins and couldnt guess if its a childs charm or a religous amulet or what heres a similar one http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/saylesandlavender/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9187
LOL! But why would stainless have a child's charm? Thanks for the link, that one is the same one it looks like. Although I like mine better.... Here is an updated pic of Coin 1, my computer still won't get the photos from my camera, so I had to do some editing, this is basically what the coin looks like in my camera's photos.
Same here... Ancient coins can be alot of fun. Yet they can consume some, an addiction which knows no bounds....
Also requires a lot of knowledge and time... Ardatirion and Stainless have been trying to get me to cross over to the dark side as long as I can remember just because I called ancients dirt. Of course I still do think of them as dirt, but some dirt is nicer than others I'm getting more and more interested in them, and hope to post some threads about NEWPS soon rather than things I get from people.
Well it's surely great for learning about history and such. A retired professor of the classics that I used to work for had a large binder, filled with ancient coins, Greek, Roman, Persian et cetera, nice examples too, that he would use when he would teach. He would take coins out from whatever time period and culture they were studying and let the students hold the coins in their hands, to see what it is like to hold something that some ancient person held 2500 years ago.
That must have been very cool. But I also think collecting United States coins, can be a history lesson as well, just not as old. I've learned quite a bit about United States history by collecting coins, the thing is, there is just less to learn.
Oh of course.... there is history to be learned in all coins I think. I surely learned alot more about the United States from coin collecting than I did in school.... because in school it wasn't interesting, but when I got into coin collecting, all that nonsense they tried to teach in school became relevant and interesting.
The same thing can go both ways. It wasn't until I took my first Chinese history class that I started collecting the coins. But then it went hand in hand, and now I know a ton more.
I think a lot of it also depends on what types of things you like to learn about. I like learning about our history, but it can get boring, versus ancient history, where there is something new at every corner.
It sure isn't easy trying to keep up with this coins when you collect much more coins from the U.S and the world. I agree too that they are addicting and that they are nice coins to just have cataloged in a binder or something of that nature. Very nice T$, I like the one with the eagle as well.
