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Just bought my Oldest Lion

theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
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Looks well centered and a nice patina. What do you think?,,Other than being a lion, this is way out of my collecting time frame.image

Pantikapaion satryr/lion
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin!

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Wow- for it's age it is great, what a piece of history!!
    Shep
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  • pythonpython Posts: 1,158
    Very nice.image
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    Cool!
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Oldest but not most expensive. And nice too.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Pantikapaion satryr/lion

    Theboz11: you Satyr you- and not a young one at that!

    Nice coin-may you revel in its history...image
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Pantikapaion. Circa 330-200 BC. Æ 19mm (6.52 gm). Beardless head of Pan wreathed with ivy left left / Forepart of lion's head head left, fish below. SNG BM Black Sea 883; Anokhin 125.

    Pantikapaion was founded by Greek colonists from Miletos in the late 7th century BC. Situated on the west side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, in what is now the Crimea, it achieved great prosperity through its exploitation of the abundant fisheries of the Straits and the export of wheat from the Crimea. This wealth is attested by its splendid gold coinage commencing in the mid-4th century and by the magnificently furnished rock tombs of its principal citizens in the 4th and 3rd centuries. Later, it was to become a regional capital of the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontus (120-63 BC) and later still the seat of the kings of Bosporus (1st cent. BC - 4th cent. AD).

    This is all I have .image
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  • BruceBruce Posts: 484
    I can't make any educated observations about it because my collecting is limited to things with dates on it. But, hey, it sure looks interesting!
    So many coins, so little money!
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    There have been a couple others on ebay, there must have been a dig with a pot full of them foundimage
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