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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4620160, member: 74834"]Thanks for alerting me to the Neowise Comet, maybe I will go out sometime soon and look at it. Here's a picture made of it by astronaut Bob Behnken from the ISS.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143954[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You can easily find lists of comets observed by classical authors online. This article is quite good, I think: critical towards credulous authors (Livy!) and trying to distinguish between comets and meteors (the Latin for meteor is <i>Fax</i>!).</p><p><br /></p><p>I found it for free on a <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978JRASC..72...81B" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978JRASC..72...81B" rel="nofollow">Harvard website</a>: A.A. Barrett, Observations of Comets in Greek and Roman sources before A.D. 410, in the <i>Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada</i>, 1978, p. 81.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, I don't have comet coins, but many star coins. Astrology was (naturally) very important for ancients and medievals.</p><p>On this heavy Provincial coin of Domitian (Flaviopolis), the Dioscuri are shown with stars at their foreheads - because they are also the stars of the Gemini constellation. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143970[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Elagabalus with three stars and a crescent, a small coin (16 mm) of Nicopolis ad Istrum.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143971[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantinian coins often have stars, like these campgates. On the first, Constantine looks like he has swallowed one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143964[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143965[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143966[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Julian has two stars on this barbarous imitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Never saw a more sloppy star than on this early Abbasid fals. AE fals, al-Saghaniyan (Central Asia) 153 AH (770 AD). Obv. eight-pointed star with dot in the middle. Yellow copper. Album 334. Vladimir Nastich 'A Survey of Abbasid Coinage of Transoxiana' (2012), fig. 20. Zeno #127002.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But this is a very nice star coin, a well-known type of the Seljuqs, a silver dirham. I have two of them, with the same description: Kaikhusraw II (1236-1245). Obv. Lion with rising sun. Four stars in the field; but the second one has three stars. Rev. Mint Konya. Year 639 (=1241/2).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143973[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143974[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4620160, member: 74834"]Thanks for alerting me to the Neowise Comet, maybe I will go out sometime soon and look at it. Here's a picture made of it by astronaut Bob Behnken from the ISS. [ATTACH=full]1143954[/ATTACH] You can easily find lists of comets observed by classical authors online. This article is quite good, I think: critical towards credulous authors (Livy!) and trying to distinguish between comets and meteors (the Latin for meteor is [I]Fax[/I]!). I found it for free on a [URL='http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978JRASC..72...81B']Harvard website[/URL]: A.A. Barrett, Observations of Comets in Greek and Roman sources before A.D. 410, in the [I]Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada[/I], 1978, p. 81. Meanwhile, I don't have comet coins, but many star coins. Astrology was (naturally) very important for ancients and medievals. On this heavy Provincial coin of Domitian (Flaviopolis), the Dioscuri are shown with stars at their foreheads - because they are also the stars of the Gemini constellation. [ATTACH=full]1143970[/ATTACH] Here is Elagabalus with three stars and a crescent, a small coin (16 mm) of Nicopolis ad Istrum. [ATTACH=full]1143971[/ATTACH] Constantinian coins often have stars, like these campgates. On the first, Constantine looks like he has swallowed one. [ATTACH=full]1143964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1143965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1143966[/ATTACH] Julian has two stars on this barbarous imitation. [ATTACH=full]1143967[/ATTACH] Never saw a more sloppy star than on this early Abbasid fals. AE fals, al-Saghaniyan (Central Asia) 153 AH (770 AD). Obv. eight-pointed star with dot in the middle. Yellow copper. Album 334. Vladimir Nastich 'A Survey of Abbasid Coinage of Transoxiana' (2012), fig. 20. Zeno #127002. [ATTACH=full]1143975[/ATTACH] But this is a very nice star coin, a well-known type of the Seljuqs, a silver dirham. I have two of them, with the same description: Kaikhusraw II (1236-1245). Obv. Lion with rising sun. Four stars in the field; but the second one has three stars. Rev. Mint Konya. Year 639 (=1241/2). [ATTACH=full]1143973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1143974[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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