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Here's a nice lunker   EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian, 117-138 ADÆ Drachm, 35 mm, 24.8 gm Regnal year 15 (130/1 AD) Obv: AVT KAI TPAI ADPIA CEB; laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind Rev: Hadrian standing left, togate, holding sceptre, greeted by Alexandria, clad in elephant's skin headdress, chiton, and peplos, holding two grain ears in her left hand, and kissing Hadrian's extended right hand; L-IE (date) below. Ref: Emmett 964(15) This coin commemorates Hadrian's visit to Alexandria in 130 AD. His beloved companion, Antinoüs, drowned in the Nile on the trip. The circumstances are unclear and some historians suggest it was an intentional sacrifice. Hadrian mourned the loss of his lover. Antinoüs was deified, a cult began, and the city of Antinopolis was established on the Nile's bank not far from where he drowned. |
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I need to win the lottery :)
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FR, you got that Castulo coin? I was watching it go, but couldnt really justify it (I thought the seller meant to say 25mm).
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nice choclate brown lunker TIF,i could just eat that one up! mice and thick to....even better.
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Ya'll seen this one before...but I found my self playing with it today and decided that it was Big enough for the thread... Italy, Sicily, Syracuse Bronze Litra 29.2 mm x 25.16 grams Struck 405-367 BC Time of Dyontysios I to the Third Democracy Obverse: Head of Athena left in Corinthian helmet decorated with the olive wreath- Greek Script- SYRA Reverse; Octopus between two dolphins. ref: Calciati pg. 128 62/70; SNGANS 454 SNG Morcom 697 Sear #1189 Note : Scarce early bronze coin with intact legend of Syracuse. Cast globular flan. Looks like a rock.   Edited by Ancientnoob
02/18/2014 9:00 pm
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how big is that one AN? 27 mm?
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When your done playing with the coin send it to me I want to play with it too. :)
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I was planning to post my AE37 from Ptolemaic Egypt in a new thread when I came across this old chestnut of a thread and decided to reanimate it. With apologies to the OP "ThisIsFun", here is my own recent acquisition:   My coin was issued by Ptolemy IV Philopator in 211 BC (the lambda between the eagle's talons provides the year) and is 37 mm in diameter and weighs 34.7g. The attribution is Svor #1167 and SNG COP 222. "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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Great pick-up, Spence. I love large Ptolemaic bronzes. Yours is a beauty - and without any of the surface deposits that often come with these. Congrats.
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Beautiful coins in this thread! I'll see what I have to add.
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Wow. Just wow.
My only Ptolemaic bronze is a tiny fiddly dark little thing barely recognizable as Ptolemaic (I hadn't yet managed a good enough photo for attribution to be possible, and I completely forgot the seller's, but it was somewhere in the II-IV range).
Now I'd be constantly looking for large ancient bronzes! Hope I'm able to find one that is affordable with my money.
I almost said that I don't think I have any pre-1750 large bronzes yet; then I realized that I actually have one (in fact pre-1600), which is so different from what I was thinking of (and from everything posted on this thread so far) that I didn't immediately realize it counted! Rather pretty coin too.
It's stuck at a friend's house right now though, so I'm unlikely to post any photos of it until at least Saturday.
What I do have is something like half a dozen of 18th century 5 kopek pieces though (including a recent purchase with a downright gorgeous circulation cameo - if its post-1600 date is not a problem, I'd be posting pics of it sometime soon).
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I will add a couple... republic semis are obviously big solid and atteactive coins...  This Byzantine is a large and sweet example...  |
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if its post-1600 date is not a problem, I'd be posting pics of it sometime soon). To be sure, we are all proud of our coins; but I just reviewed the thread and except for a single entry on the first page all the rest here fit with ancient and medieval. May I respectfully suggest that there ought to be a similar thread in the World Coins category for more modern coins. |
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To be sure, we are all proud of our coins; but I just reviewed the thread and except for a single entry on the first page all the rest here fit with ancient and medieval.
May I respectfully suggest that there ought to be a similar thread in the World Coins category for more modern coins.  but I'm hardly going to start it, and it's going to be a thread-ful of Russian 5 kopek coins, anyway (maybe with the occasional cartwheel penny or twopence). |
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