Di Nomos

Echo the thoughts of everyone else. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. Take it easy and when you get home, play with your coins - coins always make things better!

Dynasts of Lycia, Kherei. Stater c. 400 BC.

This Distater from Thurium, c. 410 - 400 BC, has the engraver's signature in tiny letters on the ground line on the reverse ΙΣΤΟΡΟΣ (Istoros).

Bit late to the party. Love coins with Athena and have enjoyed looking at and reading about them in this thread. My favourite in my collection is my archaic tetradrachm from Athens c.500 - 490 BC.

L for Larissa. Stater c. 350 - 340 BC.

Great coins, but isn't the current letter I (Iota) rather than L (Lambda)? Apologies if I'm wrong.

Tetradrachm minted in Ainos in Thrace. Hermes on the obverse. Goat, Pan and magistrates name on the reverse. This is a type I really wanted in my collection after first seeing one year's ago, took a while, but very happy with it.

The reverse of this tetradrachm from the island of Chios, struck c.350 - 330 BC, has the magistrates name HPIΔANOΣ (Eridanos). The obverse a sphinx and amphora.

I don't collect Roman coins and more into ancient Greek history, but that write up is fascinating and I really enjoyed reading it. Thanks. Well done on owning such a rare and important coin too.

I'm going to have to copy panzerman with Zeus Ammon. Kyrene hemidrachm, c. 500 - 480 BC.

Some very attractive shades of green on display! I posted this coin in another thread just yesterday. My only bronze coin.

The best I can do is this bronze coin which has been signed Eu on Arethusa's ampyx. Abbreviation of Eukleidas, Euainetos or Eumenes most likely. Hemilitron from Syracuse, c. 410 - 405 BC.

Demeter on a stater from Metapontum. A somewhat unusual representation of the goddess.

Hope this qualifies. Campania, Neapolis. Stater, c. 390 BC.

My only hope for the letter B. Bearded male head on the obverse and facing head of Bes on the reverse. Drachm from Philistia, Gaza. Mid 5th century BC to 333 BC. Bes was an Egyptian deity of childbirth amongst other things. Would also have a severe headache with that test cut through his head!

Excellent, the alphabet game was a lot of fun last time. Also a test for me to see how many of the 26 letters I can fill with only 30 ancient Greek coins in my collection! I'll start with Apollo on this drachm from Amphipolis.

Excellent coins on show. My example is a tetradrachm from Selinus in Sicily, c. 430 - 420 BC. 26mm, 17.32g. (Have shown this coin a few times before). Obv: Chariot driven right by Artemis, Apollo beside her drawing bow, barley grain below. Rev: River god Selinus holding phiale over lit altar, cradling palm branch in left arm. Before altar, rooster standing left, to right selinon leaf above bull standing on basis.

I have a couple of facing heads. Spent a lot of time debating before purchasing these coins, as I'm a bit fussy! First coin Apollo on a drachm from Amphipolis in Macedon, c. 370 BC. I particularly like the coins of Amphipolis, especially the tetradrachms, but they are very pricey. This drachm was a bit more affordable, and still nice style. Second a stater from Larissa in Thessaly, c. 340 BC. A popular type amongst collectors of Ancient Greek coins. Took a while to find one I really liked and was affordable, but happy with this.

Love the coins, but the photos of the actual birds are unreal, beautiful photography. My best eagle coin, stater from the 112th Ancient Olympics, 332 BC.

Congratulations, a fantastic coin, and a type I'd love to add to my collection. The obverse is great of course, but I love the elephant on the reverse, for both the style and symbolism.

I only have one coin related to Alexander. A tetradrachm minted in Alexandria under Ptolemy1, c. 315 BC, with a portrait of the deified Alexander wearing an elephant skin headress. What makes this coin somewhat rarer, is that it is minted on the Attic weight standard (17g), whereas most with the Nike reverse were minted on a lower weight standard (around 15g). The first issues with the Zeus reverse were minted on the Attic weight. So I guess this was minted right at the beginning of the new reverse design, but before the weight was decreased. Anyway, great write up Ryro. Interesting and entertaining as usual!

Happy birthday! Yours is two days after mine. Well , 13 years and 2 days to be exact! Beautiful show of coins everyone. Don't have a coin with Victory exactly, but do have Nike (hope that's acceptable). Stater from Terina in Bruttium c. 380 BC.

I've shown this a few times before. Tetradrachm from the foundation of Rhodes the city, 408/7 - 404 BC. I purchased this from a CNG auction around 10 years ago. Wanted a coin from Rhodes, and liked the sphinx on the reverse. The surface is quite granular, though seems worse in the photo than it actually is.

I don't usually start threads, but as I won't be purchasing many coins this year, I thought I'd take the opportunity to show something new. I only have a compact collection of ancient Greek coins, and thought it would be remiss not to have at least one bronze. I first saw this type in a NAC auction last year, and was staggered when it sold for 14,000 CHF, as beautiful as it was. That coin (and this) have the same artist's signature, and to be honest, I didn't realise the great Syracusan artist's signed bronze coin dies. This is a hemilitron, c. 410 - 405 BC. 16mm, 3.57g. Arethusa on the obverse with a grain ear (partially on flan) behind. Reverse has wheel with four spokes, ethnic SYRA in top quarters, two dolphins below in bottom quarters. On Aethusa's ampyx is the initial EY. Looking at others of the type, some say it's Eukleidas, others say Euainetos, but I'm pretty sure it's Eumenes. I have seen some tetradrachms with the same EY sig. attributed to him. The style also seems to be of his hand. But, it could be one of the others also. Anyway, I think it's a very attractive portrait, and I now have a bronze and a signed artist coin from Syracuse, all in one. And whilst it wasn't cheap necessarily, it was a small fraction of 14,000 CHF! In hand it is a slightly lighter green, but a very pretty colour. Thanks if you took the time to read or even just look at the picture, and feel free to post anything you like - bronze, Sicily, signed etc.

Nice coins from Kyrenaica everybody. I like these types and finally acquired one last year. It is an archaic hemidrachm from Kyrene. Doesn't have the full silphium plant, rather just the heart shaped fruit on the obverse. And of course Zeus Ammon on the reverse. Only a small coin, but absolutely one of my favourites.