Featured So... Why Quadrigas?

OK, @zumbly clearly wins this thread, as convincingly as Secretariat. Those are Volodya-worthy. I especially like the Safranius: beautiful style, superb strike, and minty-fresh lustre.

 

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@Carthago should really give me those coins, just so that nobody is confused by that comment .

 

D'oh! Obviously time for me to go to bed!

 

But now you have to show us your harnesses, @zumbly...

 

I'm pretty sure these guys are harnessed in some fashion, but I'm not entirely certain...



Ok, maybe these?

 

Curious, did you get this Gold Stater @TypeCoin971793 ??? This is one of my next Targets... It is one of the first World Gold Major Unit of Account (actually the Second)... my Achaeminid Daric was the first one:
(If it is yours, WOW, congrats, itsa beauty!)


PERSIA Achaemenid Daris I-Xerxes II 485-420 BC AV Daric 14mm 8.3g LydoMilesian Sardes king wearing kidaris kandys quiver spear bow Incuse Carr Type IIIb Group A-B pl XIII 27

 

Always loved your Cupids and the banker's marks obverse on that Denarius, @zumbly !!!

 

That stater cost more than I have spent on school so far. So no, it is not mine (But I wish it was).

 

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I was hoping you might be able to write what the book says might be the most important invention the Chinese may have come up with in ancient times, since you are reading that Chinese invention book, I thought you might be able to provide me with a perspective from that particular author. If you haven't finished it, No Worries... but...

I watched an online lecture recently and it made the claim that the Chinese invented interchangeable parts over 2000 years ago. I remember being taught in grade school, that it was a process that was initiated by the western world in the Industrial Revolution

In the lecture, the professor, showed a mass produced crossbow trigger mechanism made out of bronze used to hold the bolt and line in place and was mass produced. It had FOUR Major interchangeable parts that were mass produced for the Emperors armies. This allowed them to decimate opponents and thus changed warfare forever.

Is this in the book? And is it given the same importance?

Thanks for you sharing all the info on the horse harness and chariot.... I'm a frequent reader of this section and love it.

 

Congrats on having your thread featured, @TypeCoin971793!

(Now a wider audience will get to laugh at my dough-headed confusion last night!)

 

I've only got my Byzantine photos at the office, so I may have only one or two scrappy Palaeologan coins with a horse motif, but here's a holed, but rare, one of Manuel II, but first, one of my favorite (and only) horse Alex and my grandson Aidan.

 

On the ANB FH I post, I think it is. Not on the Constantinople or Alexandria I posted though

 

Facing Quadriga



Quadriga right



Quadriga left



Triga



Biga

 

Would you be willing to post (in a new thread if you prefer) a super close look at that spot? I remember Doug's discussion of the stirrups, and in my mind did associate them with the iconography of Antioch, but to this day I'm not sure I have seen one. All I recall is a round foot below the pant legging.

 

I'll have to try n get better pics, but on my way to work now. I think @dougsmit would be better suited than I though

Have you seen his page on them?

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/notsev.html

 

This reminds me of the body leashes for dogs in lieu of the neck leashes. It seems so common sense to us, but when it never existed back then, it must've been some next gen stuff given the ubiquity of horses then.

 

Sorry, I have not finished the book yet.

But I have seen examples of the crossbow trigger assemblies come up for sale every now and then. You have inspired me to get one.

 

Thanks! 'Twas a pleasant surprise.

 

@Alegandron, would you for like me to mention your recommendation of this book on the new thread about what we are reading now and what we just finished reading? Looks good.

 

@TypeCoin971793 - I thoroughly enjoyed your article; and, it made me remember with a mixture of regret, embarrassment and for some strange reason, an amount of longing, that when I was a little girl my mother put a harness on La Cointessita when she took me out. . It was made of red leather straps that went around my chest high and waist low, over my shoulders and came together somehow in the back which was where she attached...(oh, dear)...a lead or leash. (sigh).

Nice coins, everybody.
I suppose I ought to have at least one of these at some point.