Lately, i've been noticing some really nice coin with fantastic looking mural crowns. These were made of walls/towers guarding the city worn by tutelary deities. Some are really nice and detailed, mostly on city goddess provincials of either Greek or Roman influence...my sole coin with her on it is a Greek/Phoenician galley bronze. SHOW YOUR MURAL CROWN COINS Greek/Phoenician Tyche/Galley bronze ae 20, 5.5gms. circa 100 BC
Antoninus Pius (138-161 A.D.) Laodicaea ad Mare Obverse: Portrait of AP right Reverse: Portrait of Tyche left, with city represented on her head, countermark on Pius' left shoulder
Agreed... I've always loved your AP & Tyche! Trajan, Ruled 98-117 AD AE25, Struck 116/117 AD Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare Obverse: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС ΑΡΙСΤ ΚΑΙС СΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚ ΠΑΡ, laureate head of Trajan right with drapery on left shoulder. Reverse: ΙΟΥΛΙΕωΝ ΤωΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ ΓΞΡ, turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right, date M/KO (Caesarean year 163) before. References: RPC III 3797-8 Size: 25mm, 9.8g
That is a real beauty, with the walls and towers very clear. Often they are crudely indicated, as on my Antoninus Pius from Gaza. 28-26 mm. 20.65 grams. Antoninus Pius, struck 153/4, as we can tell from ΔIC [C = Σ = 200] which is year 214 in Greek. Bust of Tyche right. ΓAZA partially off the flan at 1:00 - 3:00. RPC IV on-line 10999 [temporary] SNG ANS Palestine 927-929 Sear Greek Imperial 1509 (this date).
Love the new Avatar of the Evil Spock from the Terran Empire, @ominus1 !!! Great Tyche too... yours and my Tyre are purdy similar. PHOENICIA TYRE AE20 OBVERSE: Turreted head of Tyche to right, palm branch behind REVERSE: Galley to left, prow terminating in volute, aphlaston at stern, NA (= 76/5 B.C.) and Tyre monogram above over IEΡAΣ [AΣNΛON] in monogram above, Phoenican letters below Tyre 76-75 BC 7g, 20mm BMC 26, 255, 254 Ex: @Bing Cilicia - Tarsos turret counterstamped Bow Pompei Pirates AE 19 164 BCE Tyche-Zeus seated
hehe thanx ^^...yup!.. lQQks like maybe the same celator even..AND you got down to the year hammered too...
Excellent new addition. What a wild and fun idea, let's put turretes on a woman's head representing a fortified City! Only the ancients. Man, I knew I had one of these. I searched my Greek my Roman and Greek again... But wait, I found her hidden away in provincials!
Some nice Tyches here. The one that @ancient coin hunter showed is really exceptional. IONIA, Smyrna AE16. 4.45g, 16.5mm. IONIA, Smyrna, circa 105-95 BC. Milne 295; BMC 28-29; Hunter 54; Paris 4372-4373. O: Turreted head of Tyche right. R: ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ - MOΣXOΣ, Statue of Aphrodite Stratonikis right, elbow on short column, holding Nike.
I have several of these pseudo-autonomous issues of Alexandria Troas featuring a turreted Tyche and various different reverse designs. This one has the clearest obverse portrait and turreted crown details. Time of Valerian I to Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman provincial Æ 23.2 mm, 5.86 g, 6 h. Troas, Alexandria Troas, AD 253-268. Obv: CO ALEX TRO, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, right, with vexillium inscribed CO/AV over shoulder. Rev: COL AVGO TROA, Marsyas standing right on pedestal, holding wineskin. Refs: Bellinger A497; SNG Copenhagen 103; SNG von Aulock 1463; BMC --.
I justed posted my clearest "tower hat" in another thread, so how about a Parthian Tyche for somehting a bit different. Volgases IV, Tetradrachm. 147-191 AD O: Diademed bust left, wearing tiara; B behind / Greek legend, Vologases seated left on throne, Tyche standing right before him, presenting a diadem and holding sceptre; year (Seleucid 464, 152 AD), month below (November),Seleucia on the Tigris mint, 26 mm, 13.6 g. Sellwood 84.12-5; Shore 427.
PHILIP I AE30 OBVERSE: AVTOK K M IOVLI FILIPPOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE: ANTIOCEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-E S-C, turreted & draped bust of Tyche right, ram leaping right above, star beneath Struck at Antioch, 244-249 AD 30mm, 14g BMC 528
fine coins all...and now i thunk about it..i do another Tyche mural crown i got from our own @John Anthony a while back of Phillip ll(Roman variety)..from Antioch..here it is in a family coin portrait ..
