Alegandron

Very col find, @galba68 ! 

Yours too, @Ancient Coin Hunter

How bout his wife with a deer rev?

RI Salonina wife of Gallienus 254-268 CE AE Ant 3.61g 20mm Rome mint 267-268 CE crescent  Deer Walking delta RIC V 16

Fantastic capture @Heliodromus of this important historical battle!  Congrats.

RR  Clodius Pulcher T Mallius AR Den 111-110 BCE ERROR Flipover Double-Strike Roma  Triga Cr 299-1b S 176

8 hours ago, Phil Anthos said:

You're point? 

~ 👽

LOL

Kukri (Khukuri) from the Gurkhas

Nasty weapon for hand to hand battles.  Wielded by the Gurkhas for the British Army.

Made famous in the Battle of Gallipoli during WWI

Here is one of my favorites of my pachyderms...  Kinda hard to get.

Etruria 3rd C BCE AE 18mm 4.76g Hd African r Elephant r letter below SNG Cop 48 HNI 69 SNG Paris 138-140 SNG Morcom 44 R

Indy contemplating Ancient Coins, just being a typical disapproving Corgi...

Dixie just hanging out (she is not the sharpest tool in the shed...)

Dixie after being shorn

On 4/24/2024 at 1:08 PM, Phil Anthos said:

In 1998 some friends of mine started a community garden at another friend's house not to far from me. I saw this as an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do, stand some really big stones on their end. My wife and I had recently watched a show on PBS about the stones at Stonehenge and the great obelisk at Alexandria, with two groups putting their theories to practice and I thought "we could do that". So I spoke with a friend who was a rigger for a local power company, and another who was a geological engineer. We decided we could do it, but we wanted to erect the stones with no modern equipment. 

A year later we erected the uprights (14 tons of columnar basalt), and 15 months after that we placed the lintel, (3.5 tons of granite). All this was done with ropes and simple pulleys, and a LOT of volunteers pulling on the ropes!

Over the next decade we added smaller stones around to make a circle 

It was one hell of an experience which none of us will ever forget.

~ Peter 

NO WAY!  I thought only ALIENS could do that!  😄

On 4/28/2024 at 6:43 AM, Qcumbor said:

Some shots taken in our garden, and the hill seen from our garden late afternoon in autumn

 

Q

Gorgeous, Cuke.  My wife used to do a lot of Macro Photography.

On 4/29/2024 at 1:04 AM, JeandAcre said:

Yipe.  Just hope that he doesn't mess with anyone's, um, for one, cats.

...They're about to start reintroducing grizzlies into the North Cascades.  Grizzlies get to be on their own scale, literally and otherwise.  (And they will outrun you!)  ...Thank you, the North Cascades aren't just rural; they're the nearest to wilderness anywhere in Washington state.  Kind of called for, especially in that case.

But, to further wallow in the obvious, when wilder members of our extended family show up in towns, it's always because they've frankly (/been) run out of more appropriate habitat.  When that happens, the most I ever learned is to at least be as chill toward them as they are by temperament.  ...At least when they're not hungry!  If this guy is even still in the neighborhood, both sides are doing something right.

Lived in Beaverton, OR, outside of Portland for a few years.  Spent a lot of time in the Cascades from N Cal up to N Wash.  Gorgeous part of the Country.

3 hours ago, Bailathacl said:

My wife is a direct descendent of Richard Warren (and it’s her middle name.). Quite a genetic legacy that small ship left in its wake.  

Kinda like 1-in-12 folks in Asia are descendants of Genghis Kahn...  Seems like those Puritans were purdy prolific from that small ship!  

Purdy cool that your wife is my cousin.   I understand Warren was not Puritan.

But, we all seem to be descendants of Mitochondrial Eve way back in the early stages of Human History.  So I reckon we are all cousins!  

1 hour ago, JeandAcre said:

@Alegandron, your ancestor has to be Richard Warren (c. 1580-1628).  (Cf. the full list of passengers in Willison, Saints and Strangers (1945); Philbrick, Mayflower (2006), passim.) 

And there were Plenty of 'strangers' along with the 'saints.'  The Pilgrims had to book the ship from an English 'venture company' (along the lines of the sponsors of the earlier colony in Jamestown), who proceeded to include many of their own people onboard, in various logistical capacities.  Most of whom stayed put in (edit: OW: Not Jamestown) Plymouth.

And, Just Guess, we're Cuzzes!  :<}  I'm really needing this.

 

Thank you! Yes, I recall her telling me Richard Warren now. Yup, perhapswe are cuzzins!

Awesomeness on the 100 pounder AV, @lordmarcovan. Very nice.  Gold is always good.  LOL, I wonder if Britain was celebrating the LEAVING of those pesky folks from THEIR shores!  🙂

Funny you put this up.  My daughter is doing some extensive research into my and my ex-wife's family tree.  Found out that, yep, I am descendent from the Mayflower clans, and that my family were one of the very few NON-Puritan folks that came over on that ship.  Warner, I believe was the guys name.  

I don't have any coins from this time period, so sorry I cannot contribute...

Oh, wait... here is something from 1650...

Egypt 15th Dyn Hyksos 1650-1550 BCE     Scarab Sobek kneel R 16x12mm ex DeVries Collctn Flinders Petrie 942-943     Plate XIV

OOOOPS!  Sorry that is 1650 BCE... wrong direction.  😄

Great find @Al Kowsky, I am always a big fan of Tets.  And welcome back to posting!  I, too, took a hiatus for a while.  Hoping to become a little more regular.

I do not have a Tet, rather a Quinarius:

RI Caracalla 198-217 AR Quinarius CE 213 1.3g 13.6mm Laureate - Victory Wreath Palm RIC IV 101 RSC 450 R

And an everyday Denarius:

RI Caracalla 198-217 AR Denarius MONETA

Nice job @CPK.  Looks great.

I do not have a Galba Denarius, rather a Quinarius and a ruddy Sestertius...

RI GALBA 68-69 BCE AR Quinarius Lugdunum mint laureate r Victory globe stdng left 15mm 1.5g RIC 131 scarce

RI Galba AE Sestertius 69 CE SPQR - O.B - CIV.SER in Wreath

Nice Andy @voulgaroktonou!

Mine's kinda flat...

ER Andronicus II - Michael IX AD 1295-1320 AR Basilikon 22mm 2.1g Cnstntnple Jesus Christ enthroned labarum DOC V 1 Class VIII

My Limes

RI Hadrian, AD 117-138 Æ Limes Denarius 18mm 3.5mm after AD 125 Genius stndg sacrificing altar cornucopia RIC II 173

Limes are fun.  Congrats @zanzi

RI Lucilla 164-182 CE issued 164 CE 3rd Hair AR Denarius 18mm 2.8g Rome  166-169 CE Pudicitia arrange across chest RIC III 780

RI Lucilla AR denarius Juno seated  flower child in swaddling clothes Seaby 36

WOW, had no clue that prices have risen so much during my hiatus!

I wonder if I can afford my coins now?

RImp Julius Caesar Lifetime P Sepullius Macer AR Den1st 2 weeks-Mar 44 BCE 4.03g. CAESAR – DICT PERPETVO Veiled - Venus Victory sceptre star Syd 1074a Sear Imperators 107e Cr 480-14 Rare -2

I am spending a lot of money feeding hay to this guy...

RR Julius Caesar AR Denarius 49 BCE Traveling Mint Elephant trampling snake-Pontificates Sear 1399 Craw 443-1

10 hours ago, Sulla80 said:

A great coin @Alegandron - there are some words that start to make sense when stare at them long enough e.g. I think your mint is the same as mine

قسطنطينية Qustintiniyah (Constantinople or today Istanbul)

۹۲٦ date 926 (below mint) or CE 1520

Obverse is on the right in your photo.

THANK YOU! Nice that it confirms the attribute.

Great coins, @Nerosmyfavorite68

Mine:

Persia Sasanian Ardashir III 628-629 CE AR Drachm 36mm 3.85g Zoroastrian Fire Alter Gobl II-1 yr 2 Delta R

Excellent coin, @Sulla80.  Although, I do not read or write Arabic.  Had a friend in University teach me how to write my name, and showed me how the language was written, etc.  It was fascinating. Today: Brain dead.  I honestly have no clue of the writing.

I only have a couple Ottomans:  START and HEIGHT of their Empire.

Ottoman Turks Sultan Mahmed II 1451-1481 took Constantinople in 1453 Serez mint AR 1.2g

Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent 1520-1566 AV Sultani CE Constantinople mint 1520 19mm 3.5g

7 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

The definitions of other '-ist' suffixes (scientist, biologist, lexicologist) that relate to an -ology (such as numismatology) simply require the person to study the subject. You don't need a qualification (most early scientists were unqualified amateurs) or to publish papers, although if you did you are definitely a 'numismatist'. Collecting on its own would not make you a numismatist. Enjoying the history wouldn't necessarily either, although it would if that included "the devotion of time and attention to gaining knowledge of an academic subject."

I would say it's very likely an ancients collector is a numismatist, but very likely a Morgan dollar collector isn't.

Ooooh!  I like that!  My career as a Bidnessist.  And now, I am a Retiredist!  

Wow @David Atherton, very nice coin, and fantastic on finding this rarity!  

I have only a few Uraeus items:

Carthage Zeugitania AR ½ Shekel 17mm 3.8g 2nd Punic War 218-202 BC Sicily mint 216-211 BC Tanit l Horse r sun as double uraeus SNG COP 359

Egypt Scarab RAMESSES II cartouche 19th Dyn 1292-1189 BCE winged uraeus cobra 4.1g 19mm Gustave Mustaki coll acquired fr Egypt in 1948

3 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

I enjoyed this book. Despite the US coins depicted on the cover, it's 100% applicable to ancient coin enthusiasts and collectors. The author has a Ph.D. in psychology and is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at James Madison University. He is a coin collector himself. 

This is how I got started...