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Pillar of the Community
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I think Antwerpen sewed the seed for my Brittium Croton coin which is one of my more recent purchases, I forgot to post.  |
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Belgium
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@DavidUK : fantastic stater , congrats
@Spence : I suppose it is a head of an eagle , as Sinope had eagles on his coins.
Let us wait now for the previous ,but next, century . albert
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What is the design element on the obv--a flower? It's supposed to be an eagle's head, with a dolphin below. I think most of the dolphin is off the flan, due to the irregular shape. |
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Well again I will bridge the gap... firstly with a Aegina turtle stater, and then with an earlier coin which is a much smaller version and attributed as earlier.   |
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@davidUK, thanks for getting us started on the 500s BC. Here is a uniface Karshapana tentatively attributed from Magadha Janapada India. The bull stamp is most visible through all of the environmental damage. It dates to between 550 and 470 BC.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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For this 6th century : Lucania , Metapontum . AR stater. obv: grain ear rev : incuse Metapontum , 510-470 BC ,HNItaly1482 7.74 gr , 22 mm ,  Lucania , Sybaris : AR 1/3 nomos : drachme. obv: bull standing left , head right , VM in exergue rev : incuse of obverse, but no ethnic . Sybaris : 550-510 BC , HNItaly1736 18 mm , 2.21 gr,  Lucania : poseidonia AR drachme Obv : Poseidon right , wielding trident rev : incuse Poseidonia , 530-500 BC , HNItaly1108 20 mm , 2,8 gr  Ionia, Teos . AR drachme , 1/2 Aegina-stater; Obv :griffin seated right,forepaw raised,olive leaf before rev: quadripartite incuse square. Teos : 540-478 BC , SNGCop1433 22 mm , 7.7 gr , 6 h .   Lesbos , Mytilene . Electrum hecte . obv:Lion's head right rev : incuse head of a cow right. Mytilene : 521-478 BC , Bodenstedt13 10 mm , 2,52 gr , 12 h . albert  |
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Those are amazing coins! Here is my oldest coin and the last one that I will be posting to this thread. It is an Obol from Miletus, Ionia dated between 550 and 494 BC. The attribution is SNG Cop. 252.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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I have been a terrible OP and I apologize. I haven't posted anything for about a month. I'll throw in the towel on trying to get all of my coins from the 1st-4th century BC imaged, and will just post one of my favorites for last week: Achaemenid Empire AR siglos Time of Xerxes I - Darius II 485-420 BC Obv: Great King kneeling, spear over shoulder and bow in outstretched hand, crescent countermark Rev: Incuse punch   |
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Sorry for the bad photo but this similar coin, Darius siglos, Lydia under Persian rule, was attributed to 510-486BC.   Love some of those coins Antwerpen, particularly the ear of corn. |
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a last one for this last century : Lydia , Sardes : electron hemihecte ; Mint : Sardes , 8 mm , 1.21 gr Period of Alyattes - Kroisos : 610-546 BC obv : head of lion right , star above rev : incuse Weidauer 90 albert  |
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what an iconic coin Albert!  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pressumably this thread has run its course? I certaibly havent got anything earlier...is there anything earlier to have?
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One more flutter of life and then I'm out: India Gandhara Janapanda dynasty c. 600-300 BC AR 1/8 Shatamana Uniface scyphate with six-petaled "flower" and dot  Obviously this is a wide range for the coin, but these coins are known to have already been in production when the Achaemenids arrived in the 6th century BC. The full denomination used the same punch, but presented as curved bars. I doubt we are going to get anything else for this thread, but I am pretty sure that TypeCoin has some very old Chinese Spade and knife coins from this period. Next week is our bonus round for any pre-coin commodity money that our members have, such as cowries, ingots, etc. |
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Pre-monetary money : a Gallic AE fusaļole ( rouelle ) : second century BC 30 mm , 13,6 gr .   Greece : pre-monetary bell : height : 19 mm , base : 17 mm , 7 gr. albert   |
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Very nice!
I may someday expand into these weird proto money objects, but right now my collection consists of only "coins" that would fit into a 2x2
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