...ANOTHER DOGGO!...AND THIS TIME IS ARGUS..

[ominus1]

i've wanted one  of these for years now and i went just to bid on one coin and well, you know the dangers of having a mouse in your hand and your coin number is in the 300's  i bid on 5.....  .... ><.  .anyway this one, featuring Mercury along with Ulysses and Argos is the BOMB..i LOVE the winged hat and always have .. and the one i went to bid on i won  i'll do a thread when they come in. now there's 2 more collections taken care of ...

.POST WHAT YOU WILL 🙂

C. Mamilius Limetanus 82 BC. Rome
Serrate Denarius AR

20 mm, 2,57 g

Draped bust of Mercury to right, wearing winged petasos; caduceus and M (control letter) behind / Ulysses standing to right, holding staff and extending hand to Argus standing to left; C•MAMIL downwards behind, LIMETAN (partially ligate) upwards before.

 

[CPK]

Nice coin with an interesting reverse!

[Alegandron]

GRRRRREAT COIN @ominus1 !  I really like this series… Argos being so faithful to Odysseus…

RR C Mamilius 82 BCE AR Den Serrate Mercury winged petasos caduceus Ulysses Dog Argos Sear 282 Craw 362-1

Edited October 28, 2024 by Alegandron

[Alegandron]

Here is an Argos the wuff-dog!

ARGOLIS Argos 490-470 BC AR Triobol 14mm 2.9g Forepart of wolf lying - A 2 incuse sqs pellet crossbar within shallow sq incuse BCD Peloponnesos 1009 R

[Roman Collector]

I love that type! Coingratulations, @ominus1!

[ambr0zie]

This was on the very top of the bucket list for me and I am happy with this specimen. 

20 mm, 3,75 g.
Roman Republic. C. Mamilius Limetanus. AR serrate denarius. Rome. 82 BC.
Draped bust of Mercury to right, wearing winged petasus and with caduceus over his left shoulder; behind, S. / C·MAMIL LIMET􀺏AN, Ulysses advancing right, holding walking stick in his left hand and extending his right towards his dog Argus, on the right, standing left.
Babelon (Mamilia) 6; Crawford 362/1; RBW 1370 var. (differing control-letter on the obverse); Sydenham 741.

 

Here is the man who told us the story 

21 mm, 6,26 g.
Ionia, Smyrna. 75-50 BC. Ӕ.
Laureate head of Apollo right; laurel wreath border / ΞMYPNAIΩN, Homer seated left, resting chin on hand and holding transverse sceptre.
Milne 359; SNG Copenhagen 1207; BMC 116; Mionnet 921; Weber 6138; SNG Tuebingen 3180.

[ominus1]

11 hours ago, Alegandron said:

GRRRRREAT COIN @ominus1 !  I really like this series… Argos being so faithful to Odysseus…

RR C Mamilius 82 BCE AR Den Serrate Mercury winged petasos caduceus Ulysses Dog Argos Sear 282 Craw 362-1

..and again your influence is showing my old Friend! 🙂

[antwerpen2306]

Here is my coin : 19 mm , 3,14 gr , as 6 uur, RRC362/1.

TThe different controle letters on the obverse spell the name of the mintmaster C.LIME(TA)NUSCF.. every control letter has more than 1 die. The dog on the reverse died of sadness, seeing his boss Odysseus back after 20 years, but Odysseus, arriving as a beggar to rest unknown had to keep this attitude.

 The reverse makes an allusion on the statement of the mintmaster he was a descent of Telegonos, the son of Odysseus and Kirke, a divine sorceress who received Odysseus and his compagnions on her island. She transformated the compagnions in pigs and lived with Odysseus. He stayed about a year on the island and made a son Telegonos by her. Once adult, Kirke charged her son to search his father, once arrived on Ithaka, he killed his father Odysseus without knowing who he was. After conciliation with Telemachos, the other son of Odysseus with his wife Penelope, he married Penelope and Telegonos married Kirke. Later Telegonos founded Praeneste and Tusculum. The history of Telegonos is described in 2 books by Eugamon of Kyrene (6° century BC) in his work Telegonia. Of this coin, there has been a new coinage by Traianus, Ric II, 780 ( coin in the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin).

reverse : IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST C MAMIL LIME TAN :  Imperator Caesar Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Pater Patriae Restituit Caii Mamilii Limetani.

 

[Phil Anthos]

  😥

[ominus1]

1 hour ago, Phil Anthos said:

  😥

..is that a tear in your beer Phil?...:P.

[Phil Anthos]

Yeah, I always get that way with dogs. Especially Argus, he was a good boy.  🦴

~ Peter 

[Alegandron]

Yeah, I am a big fan of dawgs also! Had one save my life twice. They all have better souls than us.

[ominus1]

30 minutes ago, Phil Anthos said:

Yeah, I always get that way with dogs. Especially Argus, he was a good boy.  🦴

~ Peter 

..oh ...ok i see...:)