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@galba68 this kind of aes rude is now often presented in auctions. I am not interested in it, but, as I said in an other live 2000 years ago : de gustibus, coloribus et mulieribus non disputatur. So, how can you be sure it is Romen Republican and why you take such thing in your collection ? ps : 2000 years ago I didn't speak the Latin language of Cicero, only the Latin of Antwerp ( yes, Roman finds here)

i think @kapphnwn is right. There can be a difference in weight for antique coins, a difference in the silver.... most important, I think, are the style and the performance of the coin. It is avery beautul coin.

Antiquities were very cheap 25 years ago, if you compare the prices, in spite of the laws. Beginning the years 90, it was the moment here to buy antiquities from Irak, I suppose it was the same all over the world, so a lot of objects in the collections, imo, are looted. the same happened with objects from all over the world. I think that the situation has to be as it is now, with the ownership to the country where it was looted and the exhibition in the country where the object is now. I think I don't have to explain this

@zumbly maybe the maker of the scarab was an 'alien' for the Egyptians, living in that period. I think it is a Mediterranean imitation and I have a personal interpretation for your 'alien' scarab : on the top of the back side you have a spacecraft, leaving the earth, on the lower part, a frog sitting on a stool is watching it. So, if I am right, you have an unique piece of history 😄 I think the hieroglyphs have no sense, imitated by a non-Egyptian. @DonnaML that's right, only the style of the scarab can give you an exact making date

I think it is the head of a cycladid idol. It is a nice exemple of popular art, made by quantities. Really nice and old, I think the end of the second milennium, about 1250 BC.

I have only one republican couples : Lepidus and Octavianus, Cr 495/2d. In fact, it was not a couple, because they were three 😄

congrats with your wife's scarab collection. I think you make a mistake with the date, it is not december 2021, but november 2021 😊 That Osiris looks a nice one, I had a similar in my second residence, but one day in summer, birds came in and did fall the stature from 4 m high : I had one osiris in 5 pieces

very nice collection. I was looking now the first scarab of Ramesses. For determination of the period : see nr 110 : XIXth Dyn for the side, nrs 22 or 23, I think 22 for the inscription : the winged uraeus is indicating a king, the cartouche shows the beginning of the name as king of the 2 Egypts : 𓇳 𓁦 𓌀 wsr m3(.t r' : rich in truth on the right side, it more difficult to see : I identificate a sign mn and a sign nb and a third, not easy. The 2 signs mean nb = lord mn = stability

very nice coin. I have only a trihemiobol, a small coin, 10 mm, 1.19 gr, dated 470/460 BC, SNGAns 275

Here is my version of the scarab of @Alegandron It is a big steatite scarab : 26 mm,18 mm,11 mm, dated XVIII°-XIX° Dynasty. The inscription is : 𓆄 𓇳 𓏠 𓆣 𓆄 𓎟 . The feather is the symbol for Maat, the Truth, the the name of Thoutmosis III -Mn hpr r' and under neb, lord. So we can translate it as : Men Kheper Ra, lord of the two Truths. This form of the name is the identification as King of the two lands of Egypt, the name Thoutmosis is indicated by S} r' : Son of Ra, the Sun : Dhwtj ms : Thot (the God) is born. The 2 lines on the cartouche represent the title of king of Upper and Lower Egypt. from : De Buck, Grammaire élémentaire du Moyen Egyptien,Leiden,1967, p209

very nice scarabs, I could spend hours on. @Topcat7I was thinking this week about your scarab, I think it is an oriental production, as I suggested. @Steve very nice, every real Egyptian scarab had a name or a message, it is not only a picture. So the first with an antilope represent a gazelle, the signs reads : ghs and the branch can be read nht=strong. so I think it is a name. Your crocodile is the god Sobek, with his town in the Fayoum Sjedet, named by the Greeks Crocodilopolis : town(polis) of the Crocodiles, and rebaptized by Ptolemaios II in Arsinoë for his wife and sister . His name Sobek is incorporated in several names of Pharao's in the period 1950-1650 BC, so the date will be +/- correct. @Alegandronnice hart scarab, I don't have it in my collection and I don't think I can use my reference to date it, but ,coming from a good museum, there is no problem. For the Amenhotep scarab, the name indicates the early possible date, I think it would be interesting first to determine the date and then translate the inscription. Maybe I can help you, I hope so. For the Thutmosis scarab, there is similar in collection, here is the impression. I am making a detailled description for my daughter now af all my collection. Can I reproduce here my script in Flemish and French, it is 4/5 pages, can you translate it by google?

@DonnaML if ever I can help, let me know.

not only very rare, but lso very beautiful. I don't know much of this period, but the Kabeiroi were worshipped in the Cyclades and Asia Minor. The coin indicates clearly : The gods Kabeiroi ( theoon kabeiroon), from Syrioon : genitive of Syros, as usual. You have also o check the political situation at that time. Caesarea was producing lots of drachms with Ariobanos and his successors for the Romans, so maybe here is the same explication. It is only a supposition.

@Topcat7 nice scarab, but I have some problems. There are very few with an inscription on the back. Her is the name of Thoutmosis III (Men Kheper Ra) in the cartouche with an uraeus (most chance) or a Maat sign (feather) at each side, difficult to see. Only the upper part (head ans clypeus) is represented, the prothorax and elytra are a whole, needed for the inscription. Above the cartouche, there are some more hiëroglyphs, difficult to identify at first vieuw The side gives us XIII-XVI° dynasty : nearly the whole scarab period The upper part is difficult to identify, but the horizontal lines at the tail are typical for the XVIII-XIX° Dynasty. We can date it, I think, XVIII-early XIX° Dynasty. It is possible by the name of the Pharao (XVIII° Dynasty) and the style and quality of the side and the upper part and the material : steatite I think. The big problem for me is the bottom, it looks as signs, carved by a man without experience. Another possibility is a scarab of the late period, fabricate somewhere in the Mediterranean ( I Think Phenicia) and then I dat it 7/6° century BC. I prefer this possibility as long as the base has not been translated ( difficult in this quality, if it has a signification. The problem is that most sellers of scarabs knows nothing about it and date it in a very long period. If you trust your seller, you have a very nice scarab, and, I think with the photos, authenthic. Congratulations !!!!

@DonnaML I hope I can help you with these copies. from 'Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs' .If I can help you, let me know

sorry @DonnaML, it is a little bit late, but maybe this can help you for your scarab of Psammetichos I. See numbers 897-898. If you want, I can also make a copy of the photos of the scarabs, but even in the catalogue from Rowe, they are very bad. For the work of Gorton, I have it here somewhere or in my second residence. I can confirm by memory what you write. I am leaving here sunday morning, so, when I have found the book in my disorder, I can also make a copy of the concerned pages.

beautyful speareheads. I have only one, an iron Celtic spearhead dating to 400 BC and found in the Danube river. Its shaft is hollow and still retains remnants of the original handle, the lenght is about 16,5 cm. Ubfortunately, I have no photo here.

Many of us have Egyptians scarabs in their collection, so I think it is interesting to show and discuss these objects. For the date of my scarabs, I use the work of A. Rowe, A catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, Chicago, 1936. It shows many scarabs with interpretation and, very important, it gives the elements to date, so this book is also the origine of some illustrations. For dating, there are 2 possibilities : first the inscription and then the form of the scarab. The inscription gives us the most ancient date possible : if there is a mention of a Pharao, the earliest date possible is his period or later. The form of the scarab is needed to date. from A. Rowe For each part of the scarab, Rowe gives a lot of examples for dating. here a first scarab sorry, I have some problems with the photos a white steatite scarab, the base engraved with a scarab flanked by two cobras, 19.48 mm, 12 mm, 7 mm. The head and the clypeus is number 30 in Rowe's catalogue, dated Hyksos-XX° dynasty The elytra and prothorax is nr 3, XIII° Dynasty-Hyksos The side is nr 51, XIII° Dynasty-Hyksos With this elements, we can date the scarab in the period XIII° Dynasty-Hyksos, and more correct: the XV° Dynasty = a Hyksos dynasty. On the base are two uraei with a long tale, this is interpreted as a form of the name of Ra, the sungod. The scarab is the sign for hpr. The name is also Ra Kheper, an unknown Hyksos king, only known by a few scarabs; If you have scarabs, show them please. PS : sorry for the size of the photo's, but I have problems with

@Spaniardvery nice coins, bronze and silver, all from about 1600 to 1900. I had a lot of work to catalogue all. The best surprise was that later I received also a lot of gold coins. Nearly all my coins from this period I ve received from the grandmother of my wife. There was also a collection of medals from an artiste from Bruges, nearly all his work, I contacted a few years ago a very well known collector of medals and he made a book of it. Very nice. If I post her a coin, it is most of time from this gift. I received also a lot of stamps from the beginning till 1912 in an album. Since that time, I am amusing me with stamps in second residence. @Parthicusyes, it is an official coin, very rare but there are other examples, not necessarily with the same coin. A few years ago, I was in contact with an Italian about my Gepid-coins and for thanking him, he mailed me a few more examples. I regret I didn't keep this mail. @JeandAcre, yes this cois are not rare. there was one in the lot and two others I've bought for a very good price years ago : the firt: n'ayant pas le courage de mourir à la tête de mon armée, je me livre à mon frère de Prusse : not having the courage to die at the head of my army, I deliver myself at my Prussion brother, Napoléon III le petit Vampire de la France, Paris 2 déc(embre) 1851- Sedan 2 sept 1870 the second the third : about a same one, but very expensive : 1 €

wow, I have only 2 poor medals of Victoria and I have no information for this medal

My wife's grandmother gives me this Italian coin. It was in a bag with many coins (a few thousand from 1600 to 1900), I don't think she ever saw it before. It is a 10 centesimi coin of the king Vittorio Emanuele II (1861-1878), dated 1866. The king is represented with a kind of papal tiara after he took Rome

what is the distance from the US to Ireland ? what is the distance/hour for a dolphin ? I think it is a normal time for the period the coin was struck 😁

I have only 2 coins of Alexandria Troas. First Berlinger A 491, AD 200-268, semi automous period. Berlinger A 486 var. reverse : COL AL AV : I have read that this inscription was only used by Alexander Severus, but I am not sure.

@shanxigood idea a stag. What do you think of a coin of Amyntas, king of Galatia ? https://www.google.com/search?q=galatia,amyntas,coins&rlz=1C1CHZN_nl&sxsrf=ALiCzsZ4rTsK4ryflkbKB7D0tg552LjkFQ:1658602410830&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinjZW814_5AhWaD-wKHd8PDx8Q_AUoAXoECAEQA

Next 3 coins from Syracuse are my last coins for Magna Graecia. The town has been colonized by Archias from Corinth in the thirties of the 8° century BC (Thucydides), other sources mention the year 700 BC (Diodoros and the Marmor Parium). The town was took the name from a marsh, named Surako. Syracuse started minting around 520/510 BC on Attic standard. The basic coin was the tetradrachm with the typical images : a quadriga on the obverse and the head of the nymph Arethusa on the reverse. In the years 470/460 BC the litra and the dekadrachm (temporarily) were introduced. AR obol, 8.5 mm, .67 gr, 12 h Boehringer364, Raggi478-480 480-475 BC AR hemidrachm, 12 mm, 1.29 gr, 6 h. SNGMuenchen1130. 344-339 BC, period of Timoleon and the Third Democracy. AR Tetradrachm. obverse : Charioteer, holding keltron and reins, driving walking quadriga r.above Nike flying r., crowning horses. reverse : head of Arethusa r., wearing earring, necklace and headband, her hair tied in a krobylos, around 4 delphins. 25 mm, 16.77 gr, 6 h. Boehringer338, Randazzo507 (this dies). 475-470 BC The image of the horses is an indication for the date of the coin. Untill about 440 BC the horses advance slowly and majestic, after this date in gallop or prancing. On the last coins, the horse are again quick. In this early tetradrachm, there are two horses very well represented and the two others imaged with lines. The charioteer ha s a kentron in his hand, a stick with a sharp end. Arethusa is represented with her hair on old fashion in a krobylos, typical for men and women in late archaic and early classic period. The hair is token together at the base of the neck and is turned under the taenia or hair ribbon. This way of representation is used till about 465 BC. ps: sorry for the translation, but I am thinking in french (most) and flemish.