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For the last several months I've been putting together my first themed collection and it's finally ready to unveil! I'll continue adding to it but at this time I have enough examples to fully represent the theme. I have an interactive presentation you can watch here: http://prezi.com/q7mw1k1zur65/?utm_...&rc=ex0shareIt's my first time using Prezi so let me know if you have any technical issues. It may take a minute or two to load. I strongly recommend clicking the full-screen view (icon at bottom right of the presentation). Have your sound on. Click Play. Let the presentation roll on its own. You can, however, click on everything or use your keyboard arrows to go forward, backwards, zoom, etc during or after the playback. The presentation only takes a minute and a half on its own time but it goes too quickly to really read everything... so I recommend letting it roll through fully and then go back and click whatever you want. Zoom away. I wanted to have the corresponding music tracks play during each grouping of coins but there are technical limitations of Prezi, so for now I just have one of the tracks playing in the background for the whole thing. Here's a composite of the collection... and I already have more to add    This is fun! Edited by ThisIsFun
11/24/2013 11:26 am
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TIF you never cease to amaze me. I love how you took your coins and combined them with my all time favorite group. That must have taken a lot of work to put together. In the short time you have been collecting you have put together and outstanding collection.
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Thanks, Ski, Eng! I've been spending many many hours a week (ok, day) putting it together, sometimes setting my alarm for 2 a.m. to get up and bid. Been working on that Prezi for a month. Would LOVE to do a similar collection for my all-time favorite album--the best recorded music in the history of mankind forever and ever amen-- Dark Side of the Moon of course But it it doesn't lend itself to such a literal ancient coin interpretation. I bet I could make some coins fit somehow though. Here's another I bought for the Floyd/Animals collection, but the presentation was getting a bit crowded. I'll upload all current and future F/A coins to an album somewhere.  I think I posted this one a couple of weeks ago. Macrinus and Diadumenium / Artemis and her hound. Edited by ThisIsFun
11/24/2013 11:50 am
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That is bar far the best, period! What a great idea for a presentation. The coins are awesome and the music is some of my favorite. I was lucky to have attended this concert tour stop in Cleveland back in the day.  Thanks for the reminder.  |
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FRUITOCALYPSE!  New favorite word! |
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I don't have much to say about this collection, outside of DANG THATS PHAT...
Well done TIF, where are you going now with your collection?
I see you have built yourself of a vast collection in a short amount of time. I would say you don't do anything piecemeal.
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Maybe someday, hopefully in the distant future, these will hit the auction house and carry the coveted italicized provenance... "From the TIF Pink Floyd Animals collection."and the bidding will be fierce. |
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...ex.TIFPFA Collection 2013 lot no.1 est. 85000CHF.
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TIF, very cool presentation--nice set too!  |
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A couple of new additions for the Pink Floyd Animals collection, some fantastic canines of Argolis. These are wonderful coins, very good condition and good strikes. Check out the teeth on the second coin!  ARGOLIS, Argos330-270 BC AR Triobol or Hemidrachm 13mm, 2.46 g Obv: forepart of wolf left Rev: large A; triskeles below; all within shallow incuse square Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1075.2; HGC 5, 667 ex Dr. Georgios I. Michael Collection. ARGOLIS, Argos330-270 BC AR Triobol or Hemidrachm 14mm, 2.42 g Obv: forepart of wolf left, retrograde Σ above Rev: large A; Π-Ρ above, club below; all within shallow incuse square Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1083.3; HGC 5, 667 ex Dr. Georgios I. Michael Collection.Map of this area of Greece, in Peloponnesos:  Edited by ThisIsFun
12/03/2013 05:44 am
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Finally received that Samos drachm today. Guess flying from Austria was a challenge for those little pig wings.  IONIA, Samos. 510-500 BCAR drachm, 13.7 mm, 3.2 gm Obv: forepart of winged boar left Rev: facing lion scalp with dotted square, within incuse square Ref: SNG Cop 1673 |
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I haven't been paying close attention these past few weeks. Toooo many things going on.
Argos ! I like it. A long time ago .... I think it was 1974 ? I found myself walking through the ruins of Mycenae. Young and stupid. If only I had known then what I know now ! I had no idea of the importance of the place. Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Cassandra et al. At least I knew enough when everyone was looking down the shaft graves to look behind me. The slag heaps of Schliemann were conveniently located behind me. I filled my pocket with bronze age pottery shards from "Golden Mycenae". My treasure from the age of Hellen.
By the way Tiryns is well worth the trip (although I never made it) The birthplace of Herakles ..... presumably he was the King. If only I knew then .......
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Posted 11/24/2013 11:46 am
..very cool..
