Ryro

The coins that killed JC all seem to be wonky.

Here's my first that I sold:

And the "upgrade"

Though, will point out that these three are all on the lower end of the price spectrum. So take the comment about the flans with a grain of salt. 

I'd like to see some of these coins well centered... if antibes has one🤓

Next: bad@$$ helmet

next up: Sicily!

Anyone notice all the cool new emojis?!

Thanks @Restitutor🥰

Great thread idea! And AMAZING coins so far (I can't believe @AncientJoeposted his Parthenon Diobol!!!

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For me it's a recent purchase. I've wrote about it enough and talked about it enough. You asked😜 my favorite coin (currently):

Wonderful thread topic @Paddy54!!!

Clearly, looking at the stunners in this thread, I need to up my Elizabeth game...

though, it was a gift from my pops, so maybe not. 

Richard the third became very popular (🤑) a just under a decade ago due to the find of his remains in August of 2012 *sadly, this coin was purchased after 2012😖:

3 minutes ago, Steve said:

A wolf without twins, correct?

 

Ummm, here is a coin that I once owned (I sold all of my coins a few years ago) ... a wolf and an eagle fanning the fire (pretty cool, right?)

NEXT: how 'bout a bird other than an eagle

AWESOMENESS!!! THE Steve?? Steve, Ryan. A pleasure😃.

I joined CT not long after you left. I liked every post of yours that I ever came across. That mod is a total clown.

We should have everyone on here send you one coin! Then you'd be...

Next: another non silver coin from Athens

Man I wish I had @TIF's computer skills. Her animation on her masterful example of this type is freaking HILARIOUS 

Next: an RR that you knew you had to have once you saw one

Was very happy to add this rarity to my MSC collection. It is the only one listed in RPC:

And some other rare MSCs:

Die break turned facing Herakles into Piratekles:

On a side note, addiction is a serious subject. I once was addicted to the hokey pokey. Fortunately I was able to turn myself around😋

Touche RC. I had to look up what a neocorate is... to find out I don't have one. 

But six is six!

Next: a coin you've been waiting on that recently showed up in the mail

2 hours ago, UkrainiiVityaz said:

Casting spurs that were never removed from the blank flan:

This coin is a hemi litron from ca. 405-395 BCE. Curiously this is a cast piece, and the casting spur was never removed from the coin, making for a very dramatically formed coin which probably did not circulate for long, but may have been saved as a curiousity or perhaps never circulated at all. This piece has a portrait of Arethusa on the obverse and a dolphin and clam shell on the reverse.

 

 

Circa 410 BC. Hemilitron (3.21 gm; 18 mm x 14 mm). Head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, in field right, laurel twig; whole in linear circle / ΣΥΡΑ Dolphin right, below, pecten. Calciati II, 55, 24. SNG ANS 418. This piece, though unsigned, may have been created by one of the greats of Syracuse minting, as it displays superior skills in artistic approach and engraving.

I'm in love!

I, I, I mean, 

I literally received a warning on a prior site that rhymes with schmoin schmock for referring to a spur as having a nipple... which it did! They just jumped right to thinking I was talking about lady lumps. 

Anyways, the 🪙 I'd mentioned:

And it's upgrade:

next up: big nose

Check out that Mohawk @?

Next: ancient punk rock looking coin

Don't mind if I do!

next: freaky looking artistry 

Beautiful style on your tet!

Here's Seleukos I:

And Antiochos III Megas "The Great"!

Next up: blotchy toning/patination

Double dippin'

And Mr helmet head makes an appearance:

Next: bankers mark

Next: "find" patina left on the coin

Very cool! And I thought the dolphin surfing core was cool. Check out that vegetarian cow!

My surfer moo'd 

It seems like it might be a good idea for @Restitutor's and all of our pocket books if we started leveraging contacts to see what businesses would stand to turn a dime advertising on here. 

If I'm putting the horse ahead of the cart please say so, but this is an absolutely ideal location for places like biddr, sixbids, heck maybe straight to the source and add CNG or heritage to the list to attract new clients as well as show off upcoming pieces. 

I really like how ACsearch/biddr has theirs set up. You see the name of the sponsors and then upcoming pieces in their auctions.

Though, some have mentioned just wanting a small group for this site to keep away the, "What's it worth?" and, "Look what I found in my gramps attic... is it real?" And I'm down for this as well... though, if that's the case we may want to take up @Alegandron's cause and name the joint "Old Crappy Coins " or something to that affect. 

However, if this place is gonna blow up anyway...

Thoughts?

Oh, and coins featuring well used Denarii!

Great idea! A sub collection that's as rewarding as it is hard to acquire. 

Though, first I'll share this ex @Bing in hopes that he realizes that site hasn't done anything for him. His friends from that site have. Nobody over here cares about his politics, nor anyones. Over there it's about being part of that party that the sites owner and mod are. Just cause he may share views with them doesn't mean they're his friends. We are. 

Thanks for the cool coin old pal:

MACEDONIA, Eion

AR Trihemiobol

OBVERSE: Goose standing right, head reverted, lizard downward to left above

REVERSE: Quadripartite incuse square

Struck at Eion, 460-400 BC

.66g, 11mm

SNG ANS 273-284ʺ

Former CT pal Bing

Alexander I:

Alexander I

498-454 BC. AR Tetrobol (15mm, 1.97 g). Horse right / Quadripartite incuse square. Raymond pl. V, b; SNG ANS 20. 

Ex Savoca

Raymond concluded that this rare issue was most likely struck before Alexander's escape from Persian influence in 480/79, yet the fine style of the incuse is unlike his earliest coinage. Thus, she was unable to place it securely within the established chronology of Alexander's coinage. Likewise the low weight - which corresponds precisely to the weight of a triobol on the Macedonian octadrachm standard (1.83 g) - of this and the other fractional issues she illustrates leaves little room for a certain identification of the denomination. This coin could be a very light-weight tetrobol or it could equally be a triobol. Because of the significant wear and the likelihood of internal crystallization of this piece, we have called it a tetrobol, assuming that when it was freshly minted it was probably close to the theoretical weight of 2.18 g on the Macedonian tetradrachm standard.

 Perdikkas II:

Perdikkas II

451-413 B.C. Æ 18 (19 mm, 2.94 g, 11 h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ΠEPΔIK-KA, Lion standing right, breaking spear with mouth and foreleg. SNG Alpha Bank 240; SNG ANS 114. Purchased from Savoca Oct 2021

Amyntas III

Amyntas III

(393-369 BCE). 3.42 g.

17 mm. Tetrachalkon. Aigai or Pella.

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.

Rev: AMYNTA. 

Eagle standing right, grasping serpent with talons.

SNG Alpha Bank 214-230.

Very fine.

Ex-Savoca. *In ATG frame

 Perdikkas III

Perdikkas III, (365-359 B.C.), AE 18, tetrachalkon, (18 mm, 6.31 g), Aigai mint, obv. head of Herakles in lion skin to right, rev. lion standing right, breaking a javelin with its jaws, above **PERDIK*, (S.1515, Westermark, Kraay-Morkholm Essay, Remarks 47, SNG ANS 114, BMC 3, HGC 3, 839 [R]) (illustrated) Nearly VF

And my latest Philip II:

Philip II

(359-336 BC). AR Hemidrachm. Amphipolis.

Obv: Diademed head of Apollo right.

Rev: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ.

Rider on horse rearing right. Control: Below horse, Grain (?).

Cf. Le Rider pl. 46, 28 var.(branch.)

Condition: Fine.

Weight: 2.41 g.

Diameter: 13.87 mm

Purchased from Bucephalus April 2022

some more result Macedon:

Macedon, Tragilos,

450-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (7.4mm, 0.28g, 6h). Grain ear. R/ Quadripartite incuse square; T-P-A-I in quarters. SNG ANS 903; SNG Copenhagen 446. 

Macedon had some fun ones!

Stunning display! 

When I saw the Drachm version on Numismatik Naumann going for a reasonable price I snatched it up!

Thus far my on Athens new school:

ATTICA. Athens. Drachm (151/0 BC). New Style Coinage. Dionys-, Dionys-, Ari-, magistrates.

Obv: Helmeted head of Athena right.
Rev: A - ΘE / ΔIO - NYΣ / ΔIO / NYΣ / API.
Owl standing right on amphora, head facing. Controls: To right, Helios facing in quadriga; uncertain letter on amphora; ΣΩ in ex.

Thompson 579; HGC 4, 1635.

Condition: Fine.

Weight: 3.87 g.
Diameter: 17 mm.