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43 minutes ago, Spaniard said:

Here's an interesting feline coin..

Kashmir Toramana II...

A nice supposed lifetime issue of Toramana II with an added bonus!
The reason I bought this coin is at 7 0'clock on the reverse you can clearly see the lions head that Lakshmi is seated on...Quite difficult to find the lion depicted in such detail. 

That is SUPER interesting! Never seen it before, but it looks fascinating 🙂 

My avatar is one I use a lot - on my Youtube channel and website as well.

It was my favourite coin for a while, even though it's just a simple drachm from Philip III. The pics below are pretty bad and I'm planning on taking some better ones soon, but at least you can see the obverse of the coin there. 

(By the way, these aren't the exact photos used for the profile picture, but the best I could find)

Lovely piece! And fun portrait :))
Here's my Commodus AE, and a picture of it at the colosseum as I thought Commodus was the most fitting emperor to bring there. Already shown that colosseum pic but I really really like it🤣

Ok, here we go! Managed to get pictures of the lions as well:
- A Roaring Lion (Miletus 1/2 Stater)
- A Tiny Lion (Kyzikos Hemiobol
- And A Lion Being Strangled To Death By Herakles 😭(Herakleia Diobol)

Aww, such cute cats! 🙂
Here are my panthers (although they should probably be called leopards), a little more fierce than just a cat but I find them really fun anyway. I don't have a cat at home right now sadly as a pet, but used to have 2 kittens, and a few years before that, another cat - so I do really love them.
Oh - and just remembered, I have got some fun lions too so I'll post those later if I remember. 

I've only got 2 mythical sea creatures, but they're both quite fun!
(Also have a tunny fish and dolphin but can't find pictures of those currently)
Sorry for the bad pics, but here's a Skylla (on Athena's helmet!) and a Hippocamp! 😄 

Yeah me too! It would sure be quite useful if members accidentally post messages twice or something, would be a good idea. 

Here's my best related coin (have got a few others featuring grapes and amphoras though)
-may post those later-
Bacchus (and ivy+grapes) Obverse, and a mask of Silenus with panther reverse!
Vibius Varus 42 BC Denarius

Lovely piece! Here's my bottlecap that I got as one of my coins from a LordMarcovan giveaway:
(N.B. This is just a screenshot from his post, you can't actually click the blue to take you to it yeah - just kept it for a description)

Lovely coin! I don't even have a griffin yet, although I love mythical creatures on ancient coins, but here's my smallest Greek fraction so far - a very common and well known Kyzikos Hemiobol. It's also one my first fractions (got a few since then) which is nice. 

oops accidentally sent this trying to quote TIF's post, and don't know how to delete. (just disregard this message please).
Sorry

Woahhhhhh that is insanely nice!
I have no MSC yet 😞 so can't really contribute, but you're all making me jealous - maybe soon! 
So nice to see you here, @TIF! 😄 

Great coin and write-up! 
Here's my nicest coin from Kyme - I have a couple but they're all the same type I think.
Somehow got this piece in a lot of 20 coins from VCoins recently, and they were each 3 pounds a coin! Was happy to see that there were some nice coins like these in that lot 🙂. In fact, that was probably one of the most fun ancient coin lots I've ever bought. 

Yep, which is quite fascinating! That's why I chose to bring him - when most people think of an emperor linked to the Colosseum, they think of Commodus.

Yesss! 
Ok, I think I'm clogging up this thread as it's getting slightly off topic, but I'm gonna start a post later if any of you want to see some more pics I took, might be fun. 🙂

Here ya go! Not perfect - and it's taken with a phone so it's portrait - but I love it 😁
Got it as my lock screen on my phone, the home screen is a pic I took of a statue in the Capitoline museum I saw in the same visit.
This is all reminding me how much I love Rome  :))

Also did some other photos of coins in their surroundings, like a Hadrian hemidrachm in his villa in Tivoli! Was very fun to hold the coins at the same time as being there - and appreciating how Hadrian lived there thousands of years ago - and one of his coins I own is in my pocket or touching the stone!!!

I actually took a pic of a budget Commodus sestertius of mine at the colosseum! I'll try to find it and send here 🙂

@Helvius PertinaxThat looks really cool! I love the background, it adds a lot to  the photo and makes it seem even more interesting! Love the coins too - seen them before of course but every time I see them I appreciate them more, your collection is super nice in terms of fun quality pieces, lots more than mine 😅
Haha @maridvnvmyeah in some photos they look practically like they're made of gold - we sometimes joke about them being darics or aurei!
🤣

Sadly I don't yet have even one Tetradrachm, but after seeing all these insanely beautiful pieces, I think I'l try to save up for a bit to get one! 
Awesome coins everyone, soooooo nice 😃.

So nice to see you here, @TheTrachyEnjoyerand @zadie!
 

Just found out about this forum, and like all the other members here, wanted to say thanks so much for creating this! Awesome to join it - and really glad it resolves some big issues that CT has. Hopefully I'll be quite active here :))

Macrinus Sestertius - Securitas leaning on column.
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