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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8110885, member: 91461&quot;]Yet again I am just humbled and blown away by the kindness of my Saturness.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411146[/ATTACH]</p><p>Actual footage of me opening my gift!</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, OK. More like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411155[/ATTACH]</p><p>(An actual Saturnalia holiday card!)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411153[/ATTACH]</p><p>(NOPE. You don&#039;t get to see the letter<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... coins<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411152[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Either I&#039;ve just been given the world&#039;s longest ancient coin or I was sent 4!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any long term Coin Talker knows that monogram and that I was a lucky ducky to have [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] as my Saturness!!! I can&#039;t thank you enough for the generous and very well thought out Saturnalia you have treated me to. Simply overwhelmed<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>She and I have been messaging and she offered to send me pictures of the coins shot with her first class photography skills.</p><p>So don&#039;t for a second think that these BeauuuuuTIFul coin pics are indicative of what to expect my coin pics to look like going forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, a coin of the Thessalian League minted somewhere between 196BCE and the beginning of Augustus reign, that has the greatest pedigree of any coin of mine...by a LOT! Sold by Joseph J Copeland (anyone recognize the name?) In 1993(!), when I was twelve, ex BCD, ex [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] (my first from his collection) who sold it at AMCC 1, meaning technically I get to call it ex [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] where [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] picked it up and then gifted it to my greedy little grubbers<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411147[/ATTACH]</p><p>Thessaly, Thessalian League</p><p>circa 196-27 BCE</p><p>AE 16 mm, 6.3 gm</p><p>Obv: Helmeted head of Athena Itonia right, magistrate name above</p><p>Rev: Horse trotting right</p><p>Ref: SNG Cop 324-328</p><p>Ex half of coin talk!</p><p><br /></p><p>She 1000% could have stopped here and I would&#039;ve been one pleased peach... but she didn&#039;t<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next up, an artistically beautiful coin with a sad story attached to it: Hermias was a young Greek boy whose mom didn&#039;t want to let go swimming. She finally relented and when he went swimming with all his friends at the end of the day they came back and he didn&#039;t<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A long while later a fisherman sees a boy on a dolphin. When the two washed upon shore they were dead. The myth goes, the two became friends and when playing together Hermias fell on the dolphins fin and was impaled. The dolphin do distraught he carried the boy to shore before dying of grief.</p><p>Here the two are playing together before the accident. With an Apollo obverse that reminds me of myself at that age, right down to the rebelliously long hair (though my nose is just a little straighter <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411148[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caria, Iasos</p><p>250-190 BCE</p><p>AE 17 mm, 5.78 gm</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right (looking remarkably like the remarkable Ryro)</p><p>Rev: Hermias swimming with dolphin</p><p>Ref: SNG Tubingen 3397; Klein 520</p><p><br /></p><p>Followed by a mystery coin. TIF knows how much I love trying to identify coins (it is one of my favorite parts of the hobby and I&#039;ve grown immensely at it thanks to her and this board&#039;s tutelage).</p><p>I think I&#039;ve got it, but for my enjoyment she has the label hidden in a taped up card with the words &quot;Attribution label for the BCD incerta coin&quot;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So, we know it&#039;s ex BCD. But I won&#039;t spoil the surprise. If anyone wants to take a swing have fun. I&#039;ve let TIF know my guess but am waiting to hear back before opening the taped card<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Talk about a group of coins that are ALL right up my collecting alley<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Gosh, This Is Fun<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And you haven&#039;t even seen my favorite coin (see folks, this is why you do NOT post year end until the year ends!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>Most old school CTers are aware of the coins of Tiffily, a small now submerged island located off the coast of Anatolia. You can learn more here in [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] &#039;s stirringly factual write up:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil.269689/page-2#post-2255494" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil.269689/page-2#post-2255494">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil.269689/page-2#post-2255494</a></p><p>Upon opening this wondrous gift I began to study and quickly I found a Roman connection not previously noted in our own TIF&#039;s ground breaking research.</p><p>Around the time of the Republic and before Tiffily was submerged there was a Roman colony named Thisisfunerea. Thisisfunerea was known to also have been an island off the coast of Anatolia.&nbsp; And even, not amazingly, the immensley real ancient historian Tushyass in his history makes mention of them worshiping a flying lizard creature! Now, I don&#039;t conjecture that it IS an iguana, but if it WAS then the history of western civilization may need to be rewritten by somebody who speaks iguanaease! Keeping in mind Thisisfunerea existed near half a millennia after the sources grow silent on Tiffily&#039;s population. Meaning we may never know the truth.</p><p>Now that we have the TRUE history out of the way, onto the coin!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411150[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>TIFFILY, Tiphonia</b></p><p><b>c. 5th century BCE</b></p><p>AR 17, 7.4 gm</p><p>Obv: Forepart of winged iguana left</p><p>Rev: Monogram within dotted square, incuse</p><p>Ref: SNG 2,</p><p><i>Note: Metallurgic analysis shows this unusual coin to be 99.9% pure silver yet oddly porous. </i></p><p><i>Ex [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] collection</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I&#039;ll do my best to get all of the IDs on here when time allows.</p><p>Thanks again [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] for a truly special and happy Saturnalia<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411274[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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