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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8188553, member: 85693"]My favorite way to collect ancients is random acts of eBay. So I often find myself drifting into areas I've never heard of, let alone collected. So I'd thought I'd share my latest. After a ferocious bidding war (12 bids!) I managed to land this lot of three AEs for $12.50 (free shipping, no buyer's fees, no VAT).</p><p><br /></p><p>First up is a lion-rider AE dirham from Begteginid at Irbil - I had no idea what it was when I bid. But after digging into it a bit, I figured out the tiger part and the rest was pretty easy, actually (unless I got it all wrong!). These are not particularly scarce despite the Album "R" notation. My knowledge of the history behind it is virtually nil - I skimmed the Wikipedia article on Gökböri - an interesting ruler at an interesting time - it seems he was commander under Saladin, later an independent ruler of Irbil, a place and period of history about which I am woefully ignorant:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kb%C3%B6ri#Ruler_of_Erbil" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kb%C3%B6ri#Ruler_of_Erbil" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gökböri#Ruler_of_Erbil</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433109[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Begteginid at Irbil Æ Dirham</b></p><p><b>Muzaffar al-Din Kokburi</b></p><p><b>(aka Gokburi or Gokbori)</b></p><p><b>AH 563-630 (1168-1233 A.D.)</b></p><p>Lion-rider left, legend around / Four-line legend and date center, legend around.</p><p>Album 1888.3 "R"; Wilkes 1289; Mitchner 1146-7.</p><p>(8.84 grams / 26 x 24 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17</p><p><br /></p><p>Sestertii in horrible condition are a weakness of mine, and this one is pretty bad. However, it was not one I had in my expanding horrible Antoninus Pius sestertius collection, so I was glad to get it. At first I thought I would not be able to attribute it (Salus was a common reverse type for AP), but I managed to piece it together (my reasoning noted below). It has been brutally stripped, yet with a few ugly globs of brown patina here and there; I suspect some bronze disease in its past, possibly some still active (I'll keep an eye on it)<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433108[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Antoninus Pius Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(144 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[ANTONIN]VS AVG PIVS P P TR [P COS III], laureate head r. / [DES IIII S C], Salus seated l. feeding snake coiled round altar and resting left elbow on chair; by chair, rudder on globe</p><p>RIC 751; C. 748 var. (see notes)</p><p>(24.31 grams / 28 x 26 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17</p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b>Salus is resting arm on rudder (on globe), with obv./rev.</p><p>legends different; the way obv. legend is split at PI VS indicates RIC 751:</p><p>...AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III</p><p><b>RIC 751:</b> DES IIII (rudder)</p><p>...AVG PIVS P P TR P</p><p><b>RIC 763:</b> COS IIII (rudder)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the whole reason I bid as aggressively as I did, was to land this little as of Gordian III - these are harder to find than the sestertii, so now I have two (my first one came via the generosity of [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] in 2020). At 11+grams it is a bit heavy for an as of this era, so I suppose it could be a starveling sestertius. Quite a bit of wear, but the color is terrific and I think the portrait charming (note to [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - Virtus is described as a female in some of the examples I found):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433110[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Gordian III Æ As</b></p><p><b>(240 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP GORDIA[NVS PI]VS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS A[VG] S [C], Virtus standing front, head left, holding branch and inverted spear, shield set on ground behind.</p><p>RIC 293b; Cohen 391.</p><p>(11.05 grams / 25 x 23 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share lion-riders (I couldn't find any others on Coin Talk), ugly AEs, new frontiers of collecting, eBay junk, or whatever. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. After I posted this, I see my title calls it a tiger, not a lion. Not sure how to fix a title. Oops. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8188553, member: 85693"]My favorite way to collect ancients is random acts of eBay. So I often find myself drifting into areas I've never heard of, let alone collected. So I'd thought I'd share my latest. After a ferocious bidding war (12 bids!) I managed to land this lot of three AEs for $12.50 (free shipping, no buyer's fees, no VAT). First up is a lion-rider AE dirham from Begteginid at Irbil - I had no idea what it was when I bid. But after digging into it a bit, I figured out the tiger part and the rest was pretty easy, actually (unless I got it all wrong!). These are not particularly scarce despite the Album "R" notation. My knowledge of the history behind it is virtually nil - I skimmed the Wikipedia article on Gökböri - an interesting ruler at an interesting time - it seems he was commander under Saladin, later an independent ruler of Irbil, a place and period of history about which I am woefully ignorant: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kb%C3%B6ri#Ruler_of_Erbil']https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gökböri#Ruler_of_Erbil[/URL]: [ATTACH=full]1433109[/ATTACH] [B]Begteginid at Irbil Æ Dirham Muzaffar al-Din Kokburi (aka Gokburi or Gokbori) AH 563-630 (1168-1233 A.D.)[/B] Lion-rider left, legend around / Four-line legend and date center, legend around. Album 1888.3 "R"; Wilkes 1289; Mitchner 1146-7. (8.84 grams / 26 x 24 mm) eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17 Sestertii in horrible condition are a weakness of mine, and this one is pretty bad. However, it was not one I had in my expanding horrible Antoninus Pius sestertius collection, so I was glad to get it. At first I thought I would not be able to attribute it (Salus was a common reverse type for AP), but I managed to piece it together (my reasoning noted below). It has been brutally stripped, yet with a few ugly globs of brown patina here and there; I suspect some bronze disease in its past, possibly some still active (I'll keep an eye on it):oops:: [ATTACH=full]1433108[/ATTACH] [B]Antoninus Pius Æ Sestertius (144 A.D.) Rome Mint[/B] [ANTONIN]VS AVG PIVS P P TR [P COS III], laureate head r. / [DES IIII S C], Salus seated l. feeding snake coiled round altar and resting left elbow on chair; by chair, rudder on globe RIC 751; C. 748 var. (see notes) (24.31 grams / 28 x 26 mm) eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17 [B]Attribution Notes: [/B]Salus is resting arm on rudder (on globe), with obv./rev. legends different; the way obv. legend is split at PI VS indicates RIC 751: ...AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III [B]RIC 751:[/B] DES IIII (rudder) ...AVG PIVS P P TR P [B]RIC 763:[/B] COS IIII (rudder) Finally, the whole reason I bid as aggressively as I did, was to land this little as of Gordian III - these are harder to find than the sestertii, so now I have two (my first one came via the generosity of [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] in 2020). At 11+grams it is a bit heavy for an as of this era, so I suppose it could be a starveling sestertius. Quite a bit of wear, but the color is terrific and I think the portrait charming (note to [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - Virtus is described as a female in some of the examples I found): [ATTACH=full]1433110[/ATTACH] [B]Gordian III Æ As (240 A.D.) Rome Mint[/B] IMP GORDIA[NVS PI]VS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS A[VG] S [C], Virtus standing front, head left, holding branch and inverted spear, shield set on ground behind. RIC 293b; Cohen 391. (11.05 grams / 25 x 23 mm) eBay Jan. 2022 Lot @ $4.17 Please share lion-riders (I couldn't find any others on Coin Talk), ugly AEs, new frontiers of collecting, eBay junk, or whatever. o_O P.S. After I posted this, I see my title calls it a tiger, not a lion. Not sure how to fix a title. Oops. :shame:[/QUOTE]
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