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Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 01/29/2021 08:05 am Quote: Yeah, seems to be a match (or very similar) on the reverse. Can't place the obverse though. I can see the plough and what appears to be an ear of corn, instead of a palm branch. With the obverse image turned 90° anticlockwise, it does resemble a bull's head. Another coin from Syracuse that caught my eye due to the dolphin and the shell. It was listed as "female head", but given the date, the dolphin and scallop shell, and the absence of any signs of corn, I'm inclined to view the head as Arethusa rather than Persephone Sicily, Syracuse, 357 - 344 BC. Obverse: Female head left, hair in sphendone. Reverse: Dolphin leaping right above scallop shell; ΣΥΡΑ between. Bronze. Diameter: 16 mm. Weight: 2.6 gr. Sear 1187. Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/02/2021 08:56 am As requested, here is an index for the first 21 pages. Page 1) Julian II - Bull; Troas, Alexandria - Gallienus, Horse; Magnesia ad Maeandrum - Horse, Bull; Kyme, Aeolis - Horse forepart, one handled cup; Kyme, Aeolis - Eagle; City Commemorative, VRBS ROMA - Wolf and twins. Page 2) Alexandria, Troas - Caracalla, Wolf and twins; Parion, Mysia, Commodud - Capricorn; Kingdom of Pergamon, Mysia - Attalus II in the name of Philetairos, Coiled serpent; Kings of Northumbria, Eadberht; Thessalonica, Macedonia - Pegasos springing right. Page 3) Seleucus I - Elephant quadriga; Lysimachos Kingdom of Thrace - Lion charging; Shahis of Ohind AE Jital of Vakka Deva - Elephant, Lion; Thessalonica, Macedonia - Goat standing right; Lydian 1/2 stater - Lion head; Amphipolis, Macedonia - Two goats standing on their hind legs; Perseus, Kingdom of Macedonia - Eagle standing on thunderbolt; Seleukos I Nikator - Bull butting right. Page 4) Kujula Kadphises - Humped bull, Camel; Philip II Kingdom of Macedonia - Naked youth on horse; Philip V. Kingdom of Macedonia - Philip on horse rearing right; Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III Megas - Elephant standing left; Seleukid Kingdom, Demetrios I Soter - Horse's head, Elephant's head. Page 5) Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochos IV Epiphanes - Head of elephant; Seleukos I Nikator - Bull butting right; Antiochos VIII Gryptos - Eagle standing left; Seleucid Kingdom of Syria, Achaios - Eagle standing right; Lysimachia, Thrace - Head of a lion. Page 6) Kebren, Troas - Ram's head right; Skepsis, Troas - Forepart of Pegasos; Ephesos, Ionia - Bee with straight wings, Stag kneeling left; Ephesos, Ionia - Bee with straight wings; Kyme, Aeolis - Forepart of horse. Page 7) Atarneos, Mysia - Forepart of horse; Elaia, Aeolis - Rider with raised arm on horse; Cleopatra & Antiochos VIII. - Owl standing right; Pergamon, Mysia - Owl facing, wings spread. Page 8) Ephesos, Ionia - Bee with spread wings; Sicily, Akragas - Eagle left, holding a hare; Dionysios I. Syracuse, Sicily - Hippocamp left; Pergamon, Mysia - Serpent-entwined staff of Asklepios; Macedonian Kingdom, Perseus - Eagle, wings open, standing. Page 9) Perge, Pamphylia - Sphinx, wearing kalathos; "Did you say griffin?"; Mysian tunny hekte. Electrum; Sicily, Akragas - Eagle right and Fish, Crab and two Fish; Nagas of Padmavati - Hump-backed bull; Mysia, Priapos - Crayfish. Page 10) Mysia. Kyzikos - Tunny below amphora; Klazomenai, Ionia - Swan standing left; Athens Owl + Forepart of lion Thrace + Slightly mis-shapen turtle + Head of cow; Carthage - Horses head with three pellets; Philip II - Horse and rider; Alexandria, Troas - Horse grazing left; Sicily, Akragas - Eagle standing on dead hare. Crab with tunny fish below. Page 11) Troas, Dardanos - Rider on horse, Cockerel standing right; Parion, Mysia - Bull standing head turned back; Troas, Gergis - Sphinx sitting right; Lysimachos, Kingdom of Thrace - Forepart of lion right; Antigonos II Gonatas. Kingdom of Macedonia - Horseman right. Page 12) Ionia, Leukai - Swan standing left; Thrace, Pantikapaion - Forepart of Pegasos right; Mysia, Adramytteion - Eagle standing on altar, wings closed; Thrace, Cherronesos - Lion's head left; Cilicia, Tarsos - Sandan/Heracles standing on horned and winged lion. Page 13) Cyzicus (Kyzikos), Mysia - Forepart of running boar, Head of roaring lion; Plakia, Mysia - Lion right, devouring prey; Thessaly, Metropolis - Dove with wreath in beak; Eion, Macedonia - Goose standing right; Selge, Pisidia - Forepart of stag; Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum - Horse pacing right. Page 14) "Large and little coins"; Thrace Sarmatia, Olbia - Dolphin swimming left; Ionia Phokaia - Head of Griffin left; Spain, Castulo - Bull right; Ionia, Miletus - Lion walking left. Page 15) Ionia, Miletus - lion standing right, looking back at star in upper field; Ionia, Miletos - Lion standing right; Lycia, Termessos Minor - Eagle standing right on kerykeion; Aeolis, Aigai - Forepart of goat right; Pisidia, Komama - Lion bounding right; Sicily, Leontini - Forepart of roaring lion left; Cyprus, Marion - Head of roaring lion right; Mysia, Pergamon - Two bulls' heads facing. Page 16) Sicily, Motya, Siculo-Punic issue - Crab; Euboia, Euboian League - Cow recumbent to left; Larissa, Thessaly - horse standing left; Egypt, Ptolemy VI? - Eagle standing left with closed wings; Amyntas III, Kingdom of Macedonia. Page 17) Sicily, Panormos - Livia seated right, Ram standing left; Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor - Head of Zeus Ammon, Eagle standing left; Parion, Mysia - Bull butting right, Lit altar; Aeolis, Kyme - Forepart of prancing horse right, Rosette; Aeolis, Kyme - Eagle's head left, Shallow quadripartite incuse square. Page 18) Coin storage; Cilicia, Hieropolis-Kastabala - Veiled and turreted head of Tyche right, Eagle standing left; Caria, Kaunos - Bull butting right, Sphinx seated right; Seleukid Kings Of Syria - Antiochos VI Dionysos, Radiate and diademed head right, Elephant advancing left; Thessaly, Trikka - Head of nymph Trikka to right, Young Asklepios seated on stool to right; Sicily, Syracuse - Head of Arethusa left, Forepart of Pegasos left; Sicily, Syracuse - Head of Arethusa facing, Octopus. Page 19) Sicily, Syracuse - Head of Kore left, Bull butting left, dolphin and Φ above, dolphin below; Sicily, Syracuse - Hieron II. Head of Persephone left, Bull butting left; Sicily, Syracuse - Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet, Hippocamp left; Sicily, Syracuse - reign of Hieron II. Diademed head of Hieron left, Cavalryman charging on horseback right; Mysian stater with the kneeling man and his tuna; Mysia, Lampsakos - Head of bearded Poseidon right,Forepart Pegasos right. Page 20) Macedon, Paroreia - Laureate head of Zeus right, Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; Kings of Macedon - Pausanias, Young male head to right, wearing tainia, Forepart of boar right; Sicily, Syracuse - reign of Hiketas. Head of Persephone left, Galloping biga driven right by charioteer; Aeolis, Boione - Female head right, Bull standing right; Troas, Alexandria - Turreted bust of Tyche right, Eagle flying right. Page 21) Aiolis, Aigai - Laureate head of Apollo right, ΑΙΓΑΕ behind goat's head; Aiolis, Aigai - Laureate head of Apollo right, Head of goat right; Ionia, Teos - Magistrate Polythros. Griffin springing right, Lyre, THIΩΝ above, magistrate's name ΠOΛY / ΘΡOYΣ; Ionia, Teos - Griffin standing right, Kantharos, THIΩΝ around; Macedon, Thessalonika - Pseudo-autonomous, Helmeted head of Athena to right, Horse galloping to right. Plus one from january1may. Edited by Novicius 02/02/2021 6:06 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 02/02/2021 6:16 pm That really helps Jim.....Thanks for spending the time doing this really appreciated! Got to be worth some fruit!.. Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/03/2021 08:05 am Quote: Got to be worth some fruit! Happy to oblige, Paul. Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/05/2021 11:21 am I didn't think that one of these tiny coins featuring a bee and an eagle's head would be within my budget, but at the price I couldn't resist. It is straying away from the bronze theme again, but the earliest coins were made of silver. About the first historical mention of Ephesos was in the mid-7th century BC when it was attacked by the Cimmerians, but unlike its neighbour, Magnesia, it survived the attacks. During the first part of the early 6th century the city was ruled by tyrants. Even though Ephesos was allied by marriage to the kings of Lydia, the Lydian, Croesus, asserted a general suzerainty over the city. He did however oversee the rebuilding of the Artemiseum (Temple of Artemis), and presented many columns and some golden cows for the project. According to Strabo, the Ephesians began to live in the plain, and around this time the laws were redrafted. This was said to have been the work of an Athenian, Aristarchus. The city soon submitted to Cyrus of Persia. Early in the Ionian revolt (499-493 BC) against the Persians, Ephesos served as a base for an Ionian attack on Sardis, but there is no mention again until 494 BC, when the Ephesians massacred the Chiot survivors of the Battle of Lade. The massacre is thought to have occurred because Ephesos was a commercial rival of the chief rebels, Chios and Miletus. Ephesos maintained friendly relations with Persia for about 50 years, and in 478 BC, Xerxes, returning from his failure in Greece, honoured Artemis of Ephesos, although he sacked other Ionian shrines. He also left his children in Ephesos for safety. Themistocles landed there in the 460s BC on his flight to Persia. After 454 BC, Ephesos appears as a regular tributary of Athens. Great Ephesians up to this time had been Callinus, the earliest Greek elegist (mid-7th century BC), the satirist Hipponax, and the famous philosopher Heracleitus, one of the Basilids. Ephesos - Ionia. (Bee / Eagle head). 550-500 BC. Obverse: Bee with curved wings and coiled tendrils. Reverse: EΦ to right of eagle's head right within incuse square. Tetartemorion (1/64 stater). Silver. Diameter: 6 mm. Weight: 0.12 gr. Reference: SNG Kayhan 126; SNG Copenhagen 211; Karwiese series IV. Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 02/05/2021 7:58 pm What a sweet wee coin Jim!..Amazes me how much detail can be transferred onto these tiny flans! Great write up too thanks. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 02/05/2021 8:04 pm Quote: ...sweet wee coin...Great write up too Thanks for sharing, Jim. Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/10/2021 09:39 am Thanks Paul and Bob. At last, a griffin (well half of one) that actually looks like a griffin, and the added bonus of a sturgeon. In 2013 an enormous hoard of Pantikapaion copper coins of the 3rd century BC was found near a group of Hellenistic estates, in the vicinity of the farmstead of Usatova Balka (Anapa district). The area was the nearest chora (space) of Gorgippia. A Sinopean amphora and a big red-clay jug contained altogether 21,366 coins. It is part of the group of Bosporan hoards of the monetary crisis period. The hoard was concealed either in c. 270-250s BC under the threat of invasion of the Sartmatians, Siraki and other tribes of the Kuban area and Meotis, or closer to the date of the great fire in Gorgippia in the mid 3rd century BC. The catastrophe in Gorgippia led to the devastation of its chora, ruining of some estates, and also to the concealment of hoards including those two from the settlements near the farmstead of Usatova Balka. Tauric Chersonesos, Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion. Circa 310-304/3 BC. Obverse: Bearded head of satyr right. Reverse: Forepart of griffin left; below, sturgeon left; #1055;#1040;N around. Bronze. Diameter: 23 mm. Weight: 6.75 gr. Anokhin 1023; MacDonald 69; HGC 7, 113 Ex "Autumn 2013 Pantikapaion" Hoard. Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 02/10/2021 4:44 pm ooooh! That's a very nice coin! This is a type I often look at but have yet to pull the trigger on. It's actually one coin where I find both sides attractive. Your coin has really nice detail Jim and lovely colour too! I often see the Satyr described as Pan? Thanks for sharing and great pick up Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/10/2021 8:23 pm I find these coins to be very attractive too, Paul. They can be a bit pricey, but this one was competitively priced. It is very nice in the hand. Quote: I often see the Satyr described as Pan? Yes, it is the satyr Pan, with strong features he makes a nice addition to the collection. Report this Post to the Staff
Novicius Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1168 Posts	Posted 02/25/2021 1:04 pm Larissa Phrikonis in Aeolis is another town/city that not a great deal is apparently known about. The British Museum lists the following as alternative names: Larissa Phriconis, Larissa, Larisa, Larissa in Aeolis, and Buruncuk, being a city in the plain of Phriconis in southern Aeolis. Now modern Buruncuk. Barrington Atlas ref: p56, E4. Larissa or Larisa Phrikonis was a Bronze Age city in the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is in the immediate vicinity of Menemen, in the district of Izmir province. Larissa was founded during the third Millennium BC, and the ruins of the city are on a hill top next to today's Buruncuk village.. The town survived all through the Persian and Hellenistic periods, although it was largely destroyed during the Peloponnesian war in 405 BC. Larissa was rebuilt after the war, but was destroyed by the Celts, the Galatians, in 279 BC. It is known as one of the twelve Aeolian cities. Strabo believed that this Larisa was referred to in Homers "Iliad". Xenophon writes that Cyrus the Great founded the colony of Egyptian soldiers. Xenophon also says that he was besieged in vain in Thimbrom. In Strabos time it was abandoned, although it is mentioned by other ancient geographers such as Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Stephen of Byzantium. Ruins at Buruncuk 28 km North of Izmir are usually identified with Larisa, the principal place in the region before the coming of the Aiolian Greeks. Of the various cities of the name, this is perhaps the one referred to by Homer as fertile Larisa, home of warlike Pelasgians. These Pelasgians of Larisa resisted the Greeks on their arrival, but were eventually overcome, and Larisa became one of the twelve cities of the Aiolian League. After 546 BC the city acquired the name of Egyptian Larisa owing to the settlement by Cyrus of some Egyptian allies of Croesus. In the Delian Confederacy Larisa was assessed for tribute, at east in 425 BC, but there is no evidence that it was ever paid. In 399 BC Larisa successfully resisted Thibron's attempted liberation from the Persians. Included in the Attalid kingdom, the city at some time during the Hellenistic period lost it's independence, though the cause is not known. Strabo said the place was deserted; Pliny wrote "fuerat Larisa." On the other hand we find a Larisa still existing in the 2nd century AD, when Aelius Aristides passed through on his way from Smyrna to Pergamum. On the hill above Buruncuk, some 100 m high, the remains of three period buildings can be seen: a pre-Greek city wall enclosing a remarkably extensive area; second, the fortification of the acropolis from about 500 BC; and finally a complete reconstruction in the 4th century. The walls still standing, in polygonal and ashlar masonry, are of exceptionally fine construction. The main gate, on the North side, is approached by a winding road up the hillside, and much of the paving remains. This coin was said to be rare, as is a similar one on Asia Minor Coins. Wildwinds only shows nine coins for Larissa Phrikonis, all bronze. The only match is larger in diameter at 14 mm, and has ΛAΡIΣA above the bull. This one has the full ΛΑΡΙΣΑ-IΩΝ, with the IΩΝ to the right of the bull. Aiolis, Larissa Phrikonis, 4th cent. BC. Obverse: Head of Apollo right. Reverse: Bull standing right, ΛΑΡΙΣΑ-IΩΝ above and right. Bronze. Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 1.25 gr. Klein 337. (possibly) Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 02/25/2021 2:32 pm Another excellent addition. Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 03/03/2021 5:52 pm .....And a really nice write up too, thanks! ps...Just to let you know I've used your index page a few times now it's been very helpful Report this Post to the Staff
erafjel Pillar of the Community Sweden 2124 Posts	Posted 03/04/2021 5:05 pm There are so many fabulous coins here ... And the level of knowledge presented is truly impressive! But I see no Celtic coins, and with animals being so abundant on those, I think they deserve a place here. As it happens, I am in possession of a few . Gallic coins, to be more precise. Gaul during the centuries BC was inhabited by more than twenty tribes who traded and competed, and often fought each other. Their bravery was well known - Celts were often hired as mercenaries by for instance the Greek - but unorganized and uncoordinated they could not match Rome. Eventually they united under the chief Vercingetorix, but at the decisive battle of Alesia in 52 BC they were fundamentally defeated by the Roman army under Julius Caesar. Soon after Gaul was incorporated into the Roman empire. The first Gallic coins appeared during the late 4th - early 3rd century BC, when some tribes began imitating the Greek gold coins that Celtic mercenaries brought back from their service. More widespread and diversified coinage began towards the end of the 2nd century BC and continued until (and somewhat beyond) the Roman conquest. Each tribe had its style of coinage and choice of technique for minting, but common themes are visible. Attribution is often tricky and uncertain. Animals played a prominent role in Celtic mythology and religion. They were links between humans and gods, between this world and the Otherworld, the realm of the gods and the dead. Deities and spirits could take the form of animals, and druids could transform humans into animals, willing or unwilling. Among animals on Gallic coins, the horse is the most common motif. Its multiple roles in religion, war and hunting gave the horse a special position in the Celtic society. Leading back to Indo-European mythology, horses drew the chariot of the sun (god) across the sky (this could explain the popularity and extensive copying of the gold staters that the mercenaries were paid with; its two-horse chariot with its charioteer could easily be seen as an illustration of the sun myth). On 2nd-1st century coins they are depicted in different ways: as a war horse surrounded by swords and shields, with or without a rider; as a mythological creature, sometimes with wings, a fish tail, or a human head (alluding to the ever present shape shifting capability in Celtic mythology). Very often other symbols occur around the horse, such as sun wheels, stars, pentagrams, etc. The symbolism of all these are not clear. Now for my first coin: Bituriges Cubi, 60-50 BC. Silver, 1.93 g, 15 mm. La Tour 4097, Delestree 3435. The Bituriges Cubi tribe were located in what is today central France. The coin is minted in the midst of the military campaign led by Julius Caesar against Gaul. The reverse shows a war horse, without rider but with what is presumably a dagger floating above it. Below is a pentagram (the meaning of which is unknown). The dagger was not really used in battle at this time, it was an older type of weapon. Its presence here may be a reference to the heroism and bravery of the ancestors rather than to current warfare. The obverse portrays an unknown person or deity. More coins to follow. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 03/04/2021 5:19 pm Super coin and write-up, Erafjel. Looking forward to more. Report this Post to the Staff
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