Di Nomos

Awesome. Imagine if there is an ancient coin lying undiscovered somewhere with a design like that on it. Would send the numismatic world wild.

I don't have any gems. But this coin from Thourium in Lucania in Italy has a small griffin on the neck guard of Athena's helmet. Although this coin is about 1100 years younger than the "Griffin Warrior"!

I've always loved the helmeted image of Athena.

This is the most elaborate helmet design in my collection. 

Thurium Dinomos c. 400 BC. Athena's crested helmet decorated with Skylla and a small Griffin on the neck guard.

The reverse is notable for the artists signature on the exergue line.

No bull......that's a cow!

Korkyra stater. c. 400 BC. Ex: Prospero & Lockett collections.

Sun god Helios with his hair flowing like the rays of the sun.

Tetradrachm from Rhodes c. 408 - 404 BC.

Here is a man faced bull from Neapolis in Campania.

Nomos c. 390 - 380 BC.

I originally bought this cause it's a scarcer early type, and I really liked the portrait of Parthenope. Now I really like the bull too.

I want a biscuit tin like yours! The only biscuit tins I have at home have stale biscuits in them 😞

My example is from Selinus in Sicily. 

Tetradrachm c. 430 BC.

Obv. Apollo and Artemis in chariot, Apollo drawing a bow.

Rev. Youthful river god Selinus holding laurel branch and phiale over lit altar, cockeral on base. Bull on pedestal and selinon leaf to right.

If I wasn't so immersed in ancient Greek coins, I would definately collect English coins.

These farthings are excellent, have reslly enjoyed looking at them. Reminds me of being a kid and looking at old coins mum had saved and collected. She was English. That's where the coin collecting seed was planted for me.

55 minutes ago, Etcherdude said:

@Di Nomos I’ll give you $180 for it!

Wasn't expecting that! Thankyou Etcherdude for what is certainly a fair offer.

I'm tempted, though I had intended to give this (and a few other minor pieces) to my youngest daughter as presents sometime, as she seems to be taking an interest in ancient history and coins. 

So I'll decline the offer sorry. Though she'd probably prefer the $180 than the coin if I told her. I'll remember you if in the next year or so her interests head in other directions!

I just remembered I have this coin in a tray of coins I never look at any more. I just got it out now to look at it for the first time in ages. Despite that, being my first ever auction win, it holds a special place.

I bought it from CNG in 2010. Living in another country, I wanted to test the auction process out on a cheap coin first (though at $170 I'm not sure it was really that cheap).

Anyway, it is struck on such a small flan, but is ridiculously thick, it's lucky so much of the owl made it. Even Athena is almost managing a smile.

Haha.........I knew I shouldn't have shown my archaic owl in the archaic coins thread and kept it for another time! Anyway, here it is again. 

(Forgot to add, wish I could draw like you nikitov.....would love to sketch coins like that).

40 minutes ago, Severus Alexander said:

Believe me, we want to see yours too!!  And don't be shy about posting coins multiple times, especially beauties like yours. ☺️

What a fabulous Knidos Aphrodite!

Haha, ok Severus, you've talked me into it!

Here's my archaic Athens tetradrachm. This is the coin that actually set me on the path to having a smaller collection of higher quality coins. 

It's rare in so much as it is well centred and struck on quite a broad flan, with virtually complete design elements on obv. & rev. Has a few dings and marks, but very attractive for the type. The photo isn't the greatest,  but it's ok.

I really like archaic coins, and have a few I've already shown in other threads, and kapphnwn beat me to showing an archaic Athens tetradrachm (very nice by the way), but I have something I haven't shown yet.

A drachm from Knidos in Caria in Asia Minor. c. 500 - 495 BC. Roaring lion on obverse and Aphrodite, wearing hair in a sakkos, within incuse square on the reverse. I think the image of Aphrodite is in very attractive, though obviously archaic style.

Love the artistry of Sicilian coins, great examples shown.

My coin isn't so much artistic, or in great condition,but is important in the development of coins in Sicily, as one of the first tetradrachms minted on the island, and one of the first to use the famous quadriga obverse, which became very popular.

The small head of  Arethusa on the reverse was also a departure from the plain incuse square common at the time in the Greek world 

Syracuse tetradrachm. c. 500 - 490 BC. 

I have several coins from Sicily & Italy, but will show what I consider the prettiest. It is a stater from Terina in Bruttium, struck c. 380 - 340 BC. Nymph Terina on the obv. & Nike holding a dove on the rev.  Both sides are very attractive.

This coin was in Ancient Joe's collection, and I'm using his excellent photo. And if it was worth residing in his collection for a while, it is certainly worth a permanent home in mine.

This coin from Metapontum has a nice portrait of Demeter with her hair bound rather elaborately.

On 6/4/2022 at 5:29 AM, kapphnwn said:

Alexander I Ar Oktodrachm Aigai 490=480/479 BC Obv. Horseman standing right behind horse. Rv. Quadripartite incuse square. HGC 753 28.43 grms 32 mm Photo by W. HansenFor collectors of the coinage of the Macedonian Kingdom this is where the fun begins. At one time this type was considered to have been issued by the Thraco-Macedonian tribe the Bisaltae. Subsequent research appears to have made this type one of the earliest issues of Alexander I. This individual has to be one of the slipperiest characters in Macedonian history. It seems somehow appropriate that some of his coinage is equally opaque.

Really nice Oktodrachm!

Here is my example. Not quite as good condition as yours, but I like the style, and it has an excellent provenance back to 1901. Also ex. Gillet, Jameson & Prospero collections, amongst others.

Wow, I can't compete with the gold coins shown so far, but this is my one and only gold in my collection.

A stater from Lampsakos in Mysia.  Head of menaed on the obverse and  forepart of pegasos on the reverse. The test cut reduced the value at auction, but it doesn't bother me, as I think it is very artistic and one of my favourite coins.

Wow, some really attractive coins. I have a couple of electrum coins. You've probably all seen them before.

Kyzikos stater c. 550-500 BC

Uncertain mint in Ionia trite c. 600 - 550 BC

(This photo does the coin no justice, much more appealing in hand).