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If I had the budget and discipline in collecting then Seleucid portraits/coins would be high on my list. As it is, I have only a few eclectic examples. 

I'm still on the lookout for my White Whale: a double shekel from Babylon with a Seleucid anchor. For me, that would be the ultimate (seminal) Seleucid coin.

Here are some of mine.

Seleukos I, appropriately from Seleukeia:

In the name of Seleukos I, under Antiochos I, by  Philetairos, and in the types of Alexander. Four in one, a versatile coin:

And a serrate:

15 hours ago, Phil Davis said:

Harumph. That's all I have to say about my exalted new rank of "Collaborator."

Could be worse: logically, the next badge after 'Collaborator' should be 'Banned for Life'. 😊

Perhaps that's just my sense of semantics...

Nooooooooooooooo! No advertising! For once I enjoy the peace and quiet of a forum without that b... ,numismatic or not.

Let's keep it that way. Thank you. ☺️

I doubt it'll catch as a fashion item, but it makes a clear statement:

Next: Mithradates.

Of the Romans...

Next: more Roman before 211 BC.

There are no felines in my household for the time being. We had a cat, Maxi, that died last year. The most trusting, lazy, and friendliest creature I've ever seen. Sometimes I wondered if it really was a rabbit, accidently born in a cat's body. I still miss him.

Here's an old cat:

On 5/27/2022 at 9:28 PM, Alegandron said:

Akkadian 2350-2200 BCE Cylinder  Seal  Buff stone scene hero wrestling antelope  winged lion

Cool to see a cylinder seal, @Alegandron! 😊I really love those!!!

Hi @UkrainiiVityaz

 When you post a coin on 'Post it and Pick it' here you have to nominate what sort of coin the next poster can post. So, what's next?😊

Next: a benign looking deity.

On 5/26/2022 at 4:29 PM, Phil Davis said:

Wait till you get your first merit badge!

It's all going downhill for me...Now I'm a collaborator!  Where I live thats not good news...

Is Luceria non-Roman enough?

If it is; next: a wheel. If it's not, we're still on non-Roman Italy. 

Here's  my avatar. I chose this coin because I like it (in spite of its many faults), and because I think it nicely it represents my interests in collecting. It's a Greek(ish)/ Persian) mercenary issue from Tarsos, a place that in its types absorbs and balances many influences from both west and east. Which is more or less where my main 'focus' is ( although at heart I'm hopelessly eclectic). 

Also, it's round, which is more than can be said of most of my coins.

1 hour ago, Alegandron said:

I really enjoy these Persian King Tets,

Well, they are very small tets.😊

Seriously, I like them as well.  it's one of the few, if not the only, portrait coins of the Great King. Yours has an outstanding portrait!

Great coins everyone,  thank you for sharing your small beauties!👍👍👍

@Alegandron,that tetartemorion with astagalos from Assos just makes me envious! Cool scorpion from Mylasa, @Ryro! It's been on my wishlist for a while, but I have yet to get one. Very nice coins, @Severus Alexander, the smallest I had seen from Athens was a hemiobol, I didn't know they had tetartemorions as well. And I agree that your griffin is an archaic Apollo from Kolophon, @Valentinian. @ambr0zie, When I see a small silver griffin from Iona in a listing, I have a difficult time guessing where it's from, Teos, Abdera, or Phokaia. And when I guess, I usually get it wrong!😊  I've never seen that griffin/lion combo before, @Spaniard. Is it Lycian?

I might as  well post a few more of my small critters:

4mm. diameter, and yet, surprisingly, well centered:

And my lightest, weighing in at .14gr. ,still a heavyweight compared to a hemitetartemorion.

Sharing a head is intimate friendship:

Next: anything double or doubled.

I'd be happy to contribute as well. My account status has just been upgraded to 'apprentice', so how could I refuse? 

What a nice idea for a thread...

 Whenever I see this as of Nero, I'm reminded of the song 'Seneca' by Patti Smith, and vice versa. A logical pairing.

Melancholy, but beautiful. 

PS:I've never tried to embed a video before, so I hope this works.

It's not often you see such artwork in one thread! Breathtaking coins!

And since you're asking, here is the one tetradrachm I haven't shown before. It's probably as close as I'll ever come to art on coins. Call it Hellenistic, it's Classic in style:

Hi all

A new forum, a new(ish) member, a new obol.

And don't be fooled by the name, most of you will know me from CT as Ignoramus Maximus.  The old name was perhaps  seen as (unintentionally) self-deprecating, so I'm happy to start with a new one. 

Without further ado, my latest acquisition:

Caria, unknown. Obol, 5th century BC. 7mm. 0,61gr.

Obv: stylized head of griffin.

Rev: facing head of panther.

Seller's ref: cf. Karyan 983

It is a variety of Kayhan 983, an obol that usually has on the obverse either the forepart of a roaring lion or, sometimes, a female head acsearch.info - Auction research ). The reverse is always a facing panther's head (except a few specimens, where it has an incuse square, suggesting it's an oldie). I haven't been able to establish exactly what led to the attribution of this type to Caria, but the style of the roaring lion on Karyan983 does bear a strong resemblance to other coins from Caria (Kaunos and Mylasa come to mind). I don't know the distibution of the find-spots, but they will undoubtedly be in Caria.

Why I bought the coin? Really? There is absolutely no way I could resist this specimen. This griffin is as ferocious as they come! I simply love the close-up of the face, that big eye floating in its socket and, of course, that one menacing, spiking tooth rising from his lower jaw! ( and don't ask how this breed of griffin ended up with a spiking tooth. All griffins I have seen on coins all have a long tongue sticking out of their mouth, none have teeth).  I had come across this variety with griffin-head only once before in an auction but sadly ended up the underbidder there, so when I this second chance came along (it's not a common coin) I placed a (ridiculously) high pre-bid and hoped for the best. Fast forward three weeks and here we are. 😊

Thanks for looking, and feel free to share your comments, your griffins, your obols or whatever you feel is (ir)relevant.

And three cheers for @Restitutor for starting this forum!👍👍👍