=> Show us yer "Eagles & Owls" and/or any of dem other birds!!

Probus, Billon tetradrachm, Alexandria, Year 8, Eagle
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Obv:– A K M AVP PROBOC CEB, Laureate, cuirassed bust right
Rev:– None, Eagle standing left, head turned right, wreath in beak
Minted in Alexandria Egypt. (L | H) Year 8. A.D. 282
Reference(s) – Milne 4655. Emmett 3984(8) R2. Curtis -.

A scarcer year.


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Probus, Billon tetradrachm, Alexandria, Year 8, Eagle
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Obv:– A K M AVP PROBOC CEB, Laureate, cuirassed bust right
Rev:– None, Eagle standing right, head right, wings spread, wreath in beak
Minted in Alexandria, Egypt. Year 8. (L in left field, H in right field). A.D. 282
Milne 4659. Emmett 3982(8) R2. Curtis -.

Ex-M&R February 1983
Ex-Keith Emmett Collection

 

Domitian AR Denarius
OBV: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG - GERM P M TR P VIII Head laureate right
REV: IMP XVII COS XIIII CENS P P P Minerva fighting right with spear and shield atop capital of rostral column, owl at her feet
c. 88-89 AD
3.55g, 18.44mm
RIC 657 (R )

 

Vespasian AR-Denarius
(69-79 AD) - Rome 76 AD
Weight: 3.4 grams
Obverse: Laureate head right, IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG
Reverse: eagle standing facing on garlanded base, hd. l., COS VIII
Reference: S-2287
Other: Good Fine with full legends

 

Alexander III AR Drachm
OBV: Head of Herakles right in lionskin headdress
REV: ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aetophoros seated left, holding eagle and sceptre. Forepart of Pegasos left in left field, X on W monogram beneath throne
c. 325-323 BC
4.2g, 17mm
Price 1505

 

Alexander III the Great AR Tetradrachm
Babylon mint (331-325 BC).
Price -

 

ARCADIA MEGALOPOLIS AR Triobol
OBV: Laureate head of Zeus left
REV: Pan seated left, holding lagobolon; eagle on knee, monogram before, D/L behind
c. 182-168 BC
2.160g, 14mm
Dengate 13

 

Attic Owl Tetradrachm
circa => after 413 B.C.
Mint => uncertain => in imitation of the contemporary coinage of Athens
Diameter: 26.4 mm
Weight: 15.2 grams
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with three olive leaves along the front edge, palmette on bowl, and spiral behind ear, her hair drawn across forehead in parallel curves
Reverse: AOE (the first letter represented as a triangle) before owl standing right, head facing, in erect posture, olive sprig and lunar crescent in upper field to left, all within incuse square
Reference: cf. Kraay (Archaic and Classical Greek Coins) pp. 73-74 and pl. 12, 204
Other: two deep test cuts on owl's head and wing

 

Last one for a while:

A. POSTUMIUS A.F. SP.N. ALBINUS ROMAN REPUBLIC AR Denarius
OBV: HISPAN, veiled head of Hispania
REV: A ALBIN S N, togate figure standing left between legionary eagle and fasces, POST A F in ex
c. 81 BC
3.34g; 20mm
Cr372/2

 

Macedon, Eion ... AR Trihemiobol
circa 460-400 B.C.
Diameter: 12 mm
Weight: 0.87 grams
Obverse: Goose standing right, head left; lizard above, H below
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square
Reference: SNG ANS 287. Ex CNG. Seaby Coins 5/93. Nice VF

 

That's all you guys got?!!

=> well, I'm gonna bring a couple more, once I pour another wine and crack my knuckles!!

:kewl:

 

Moesia, Istrus ... R Drachm
400-350 B.C.
Diameter: 19.52 mm
Weight: 4.75 grams
Obverse: Two male heads facing, the right inverted
Reverse: Sea eagle flying left, attacking a dolphin
Other: VF

 

Unique AR Tetradrachm of Alex III of Macedon
"year 14" (205/204 B.C.?)
Lycia (Mint => Phaselis)
Diameter: 32.5 mm
Weight: 15.52 grams
Obverse: head of young Heracles right, clad in lion's skin which is knotted at neck
Reverse: [AA] EEANAPOY behind Zeus seated left, holding eagle on extended right hand and resting on sceptre held in left (NOTE => countermark Seleucid anchor in left field)
Other: grade F and of historical interest

 

Ptolemy X AE24
116-80 B.C.
Diameter: 23.9 mm
Weight: 8.8 grams
Obverse: Diademed and horned head of Ammon Zeus
Reverse: Two eagles on thunderbolt
References: Svoronos 1713

 

Phrygia, Apameia AE20
100-50 B.C.
Diameter: 20.5 mm
Weight: 7.7 grams
Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena
Reverse: Eagle between pilei

 

My favorite eagles are from Akragas. I really wish I had a dekadrachm or even a tetradrachm but they are way over my head so you get bronzes showing the same eagles eating rabbits. My favorite is the two eagles/one rabbit model just like the dekadrachm pose.



My other eagle not posted so far is Kroton. This one is perched on a deer's head. It is a silver stater from 420-400 BC and came to my collection a long time ago when staters were in my price bracket if worn like this one.

 

I forgot one. Akragas also issued this tooth shaped trias cast with eagle/crab/4 dots in the earlier 5th century. Mine barely shows the crab but is not all that bad 'in hand' as these go. They are hard to find with three good sides and impossible to photograph (for me at least).

 

dougsmit => yah, those coins have some really nice gut-feelings goin' for them!! (awesome coins!!)

=> yah, you always seem to come-up with the real winners, eh? (good job!!)

:bow: :cheers: :bow:

 

Hi Eng ... ummm, do you have any birds hangin' around in the ol' coin-closet?

Cheers

 

Plautilla, AE-26. Nicopolis, Moesia
Augusta AD 202 – 205
13.33g. 26mm.
Obverse: Plautilla, the wife of Caracalla (Her draped bust right)
Reverse: Eagle standing front on globe, head right, wreath in beak
Reference: Moushmoff 1159; Pick 1636; Varbanov 3174
Other: Nice VF with an even olive patina