Topcat7

20 hours ago, Kamnaskires said:

Did you mean 16.6 mm, TC? The obverse is helmeted - and the helmet may be crested. The style is crude. It may be a contemporary imitation of a Pella, Macedon issue with Athena/cow grazing. Some of those counterfeits had cows facing left. (The official prototypes had right-facing cows.)

 

Another possibility - perhaps worth looking at given the wear (and how unclear the reverse is, as a result) - might be Phliasia issues of Phlious, with Athena/butting bull combo.

 

Yes, I did. Sorry. I have corrected the listing.

Thank you Bob. It gives me somewhere's else to look.

Appreciate you coming in.

On 6/29/2022 at 10:17 AM, DonnaML said:

Does anyone know of any other Republican coins depicting quadrigas in which the fourth horse looks back at the other three? The scene reminds me of the two Roman Republican coins depicting trigas, both of which show the third horse looking back at the other two:

There is one (well, almost) that comes to mind. (Courtesy of Acsearch)

19 minutes ago, Parthicus said:

The first set of dates refers to dates in the AH (Islamic) calendar, which is pretty often used even in Western sources when discussing the history of Muslim states.  And indeed, 884 AH starts on March 25, 1479 AD, which is the end of the Jaunpur (not Juanpur, which I guess is a spellcheck artifact?) sultanate.  863 AH starts on November 8, 1458 AD, and 1458 is the start of the reign of the last Jaunpur sultan, Hussain Khan (who uses "Hussain Shah" on his coins).  The Wikipedia article "Jaunpur Sultanate" is informative, and shows several coins.

Yes, mixing dates in two different systems can lead to confusion.  Yes, authors do it anyway.

Thank you Parthicus. My (Roman) dates had him ruling for 85 years and if he was aged 30 when he commenced his rule, he was 115 when he was defeated in battle.               (I will correct the spelling of Jaunpur. Sorry.)

What? No-one has any ideas? I have seen the horse many times but the man in the hat looks somewhat familiar, too.

Here I have what I believe to be a Tanka of Hussain Shah, (Gandharva), of the Jaunpur Sultanate, but the dates don't match, 863-884A.D. When I 'Google' the 'Jaunpur Sultanate' I see dates of 1394-1479, (although some references give dates to 1505). If the later dates are correct, to what do the earlier dates refer?

Can anyone tell me any more about this coin, please? (Even which side of my coin should be considered the 'obverse' would help.)

5 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

I believe the widely-discussed objection to Zurqieh (and some other VCoins dealers) is not in their service levels but the patina on some of their coins and perhaps the provenance of some of their items.

Mmmmm. OK. Thanks.

37 minutes ago, kirispupis said:

Couldn't you just ignore the stores that don't list prices in USD? 

FWIW, stores like London Ancient Coins ship faster than most of the US sellers. I've received FedEx packages on Thursday that were shipped Monday from London. Most of the US sellers use USPS, which can take eons...

I do wish there was a way to strip certain stores from the results, though. For example, I don't trust Zurqieh and they tend to list tons of coins that I have to scroll through.

Mmmmm. Interesting! "Tons of coins" is a good thing, isn't it?

My experiences with Zurqieh have been good. (Fast, accurate description, good communication.) Just goes to show, eh?

Not from Thespiae but a "next door Neighbor" - Thebes.

379-371 BC Hemidrachm Thebes, Obv Boeotian Shield, Rev. Amphora with Kantharos above, B-o I below. 2.5gm AR13mm BMC p.35, 32

I have this small bronze coin that appears to have the head of a (peasant) man wearing a hat, on one side and a (prancing) horse left with a 'P' behind the forelegs on the other. Of course I may well be wide of the mark in my assessment, as my eyes "aint what they used to be". I am guessing the 'Greek' part, too.

Any assistance is appreciated

The measurements are AE16.6mm.,  2.43gm.

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes), 138-129 BC. AE (Bronze, 18.5 mm, 6.0 g, ), uncertain mint. Diademed head of Antiochos VII to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ANTIOXOY - ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ Isis headdress set on inverted crescent; below, sun or star. SC -, cf. 2125A . Apparently unpublished,

On 6/26/2022 at 7:35 AM, velarfricative said:

Both of your drachms are issues of Apollodotos II; the first one is simply a finer-style example.

You are quite right. I relied on the seller's attribution, but after seeing your comment I checked. Mistaken attribution corrected.

Thank you, sir.

Here is my "Man-faced bull" (Difficult to see, but only one I have.)

500 BC IBERIA Emporion, Obol, Campo pl. XVI, 3 

Carrying on with the "What the Hell is That" theme, (and if you know, I would love to hear).

Why must we keep on treating women differently? (Coinwise)

I am an equal opportunist, and on this forum I have 'met' some truly impressive women (Tif, Pish, Erin, Donna etc.) and probably many others, (who I am not aware are women because of usernames). 

Each time I hear questions about 'numbers of women', and, of organizations like 'WIN" it sounds very patronizing to me.

By it's nature, it almost suggests that women are not 'up to it', (which I do not agree with), and some assistance is required.

Your thoughts are valuable to me, irrespective of your sex, when talking about coins. (Just my opinion. I hope that I have not offended anyone.)

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2 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

@Topcat7 has to be in the right neighborhood, never mind the obvious legend variant(s), relative to both sides.  @Topcat7, I'm having to wonder whether your pic corresponds more closely to @zadie's obverse.

...Before reading your post, the most traction I was getting was with standard-brand, scyphate Himyarite AR issues, c. 2nd c. CE. 

...Even in reference to the ensuing Himyarite influence on Aksumite /Axumite issues, over a couple of centuries (also with profiles on either side), I was having to say, 'Highly-I Unlikely-I.'

@JeandAcre  Could be. Could be.

(If it helps,) Similar to :

Lycia 410-390 B.C.

Via Fed-Ex

8th June, 2022, ordered from New York.

14th June, 2022, (6 days) package in hand in Brisbane, Australia.

Very happy; better than local mail.

Here is one of Apollodotos II:

80-65 BC Apollodotos II - Indo-Greek-Conquests of Alexander the Great - Ref. Mitch 2051

and, 80-65 BC Apollodotos II - Indo-Greek-Conquests of Alexander the Great - Ref. SNG Ans 1548-53

My most 'Hockey Related' coin would be this one.

(It resembles the 'Puck'.(Lol)

Sorry, can't help. Can't tell from those photos. 

(Might help if you didn't get so close with the camera, and then 'cropped' the photos after taking them. Just a suggestion.)

Here is my 'Shield/Helmet' from Macedon (albeit Philip III rather than Alexander III)

323-317 B.C. MACEDON Philip III Price 3158

On 6/9/2022 at 5:56 AM, Kaleun96 said:

Thanks! I suspect I have some similar 2nd grade doodads laying about in a box somewhere as well 😄 3D printers have been quite a revelation for my hobbies in this regard, no more trawling the aisles of hardware stores in search of "something", where you're not sure what that "something" is, just what is needs to do.

You could probably make some 45 degree cones out of diffusion gel or paper card using one of these template generators. I think that would've been my alternative had I not 3D printed them instead. You might be able to find one that lets you specify the angle of the cone but you can also work it out with trigonometry. I think it worked out that for a 45 degree angle, the height of the cone should be equal to half the difference in diameter between the top and bottom openings. So one of my cones has a 55mm diameter opening at the top and a 35mm diameter opening at the bottom and the height of the cone is 10mm, which is half of the 20mm difference in diameters.

Gel diffusers definitely help with the contrast problem, the main trick is to get distance between the light source and diffuser. The further away the diffuser is from the light source, the better it will do at diffusing the light. Though it's easy to have too much diffused light and that can give a bit of a dull and matte look to surfaces of coins. But I find having the diffuser far away is best when I just want a bit of "fill" light to brighten and soften everything up a touch but not too much. If the diffuser was closer to the light, I'd probably get bright spots from the fill light in that 4th image from above, which can be quite distracting.

As for AE, I find I use much more diffused light then I would for silvers. In the photos below, the darker one was taken with a ring light and no fill light, if I recall correctly, which produced this nice dark colour but I ended up not liking it due to it being so contrasty. The brighter photo is the current one I'm using for that coin and I probably used a mix of ring light and fill light -- but with a lot of fill. It really brought out the colours in the patina and brightened the portrait but I would also say it's a bit more distracting to the eye as well. There are some pros and cons to both and I tend to alternate between styles every now and then.

I don't have any tetartemoria yet but I did recently print a 5th coin mount thingy with a diameter of about 7mm, which is suited for diobols and hemidrachms. 

 

I like the clarity of your photos, but they are a little 'dark' for me, so I took photos (of your photos) and clicked on "Auto Adjust Colours", and this was the result. Not being critical, just trying to be helpful.  (More pleasing to me if I was doing it with my coins.) 

My Owl :- (1) 217 B.C. APULIA Teate SNG Cop. 690 var

I used to sell bets for the (legal) 'bookies' for a wage of $$ an hour. At the end of the day I went home with significantly more in my pocket than most of the 'punters' did, and I repeated that week after week.

As far as crypto coinage (Bitcoin etc.) goes, by not buying into it I feel that I am in the same position. (Time will tell.)

13 hours ago, ambr0zie said:

I think I see a helmet on the obverse character so I would suggest

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8960224

@ambr0zie @Theodosius Thanks fellas. I like where you are going.

Gives me something to work with. 👍