The Cows of Apollonia

nicholasz219

So, I like cows. More importantly, my gf likes cows. With that in mind, I found a piece that I fell in love with a while ago from Dyrrhachion in Greece with a cow suckling a calf. I purchased it after much looking for a good coin at a bargain price and missing the ends of many auctions.

Then a friend happened to come across some other ones. These are from Apollonia, in Illyria, a Greek colony in what is now Albania. This Balkan colony was founded in 588BC by colonists from Corinth and Corfu. It is a fun little series, with many different magistrates to collect. All are reasonably priced and I am very happy with my collection nucleus.

AGIAS 230 - 229BC





ARISTWN





NIKHN





XENWN





The XENWN is shown on Wildwinds as an imitation. I am not certain if all of the type are all an imitation or if the single example on their website is an imitation of that legitimate type. I am a bit confused, honestly because I have had kind of a hard time finding appropriate information about these coins. I don't have a reference book beyond Wildwinds and Forum has not been too helpful.

Any feedback or information would be helpful for sure.

STLNATS

I like this series a lot and you've got a fine start represented here. As old ads used to say: Collect 'em all!

Thanks for sharing.

TIF2

An insta-collection, sweet!

A request though... your images are so large that I can't really take in the whole coin. Half that size would still be huge yet would allow better interpretation of the overall design.

nicholasz219

Tif and STLNATS, thanks for the compliments. A ? though. How do I manage the size of the images posted? I am super unfamiliar with photos and editing, so assume I am totally stupid and walk me through it. PM is totally fine. I finally started showing my coins because I enjoyed looking at others so much and wanted to be part of the conversation. I want to make looking at them enjoyable as well. Any advice is welcome.

STLNATS

I have a couple of photo editers that came with Windows to resize my images - usually try to end up with an image no bigger than 300k or so. I sort of tinker around until I'm happy with them and then link them up thru photobucket.

TIF2

<< <i>Tif and STLNATS, thanks for the compliments. A ? though. How do I manage the size of the images posted? I am super unfamiliar with photos and editing, so assume I am totally stupid and walk me through it. PM is totally fine. I finally started showing my coins because I enjoyed looking at others so much and wanted to be part of the conversation. I want to make looking at them enjoyable as well. Any advice is welcome. >>



If you don't have any basic photo editor on your computer, try this online photo editor: pixlr.com

Being a newbie to photo editing, you might want to start with their Pixlr Express. It's fairly intuitive and easy to use. Here are the basic steps to resizing with Pixlr Express:

1. Click the Pixlr Express link
2. Click "Browse" and select from your computer the image you wish to resize. Your picture will appear on the edit screen.
3. Click "Adjustment" at the bottom right.
4. From the pop-up menus, click "Resize"
5. Enter the new dimensions. If you check the "keep proportions" box you will only need to change one of those numbers. For one a picture showing only one side of the coin (a more or less square picture), I'd recommend no larger than 500 pixels wide. If the picture is a rectangle containing both sides of the coin, no larger than 1000 pixels wide.
6. Click "Apply" after changing the dimensions
7. Click "Save" (top left). The pop-up screen will show the approximate file size. A slider bar allows you to save it at higher or lower resolution, with the file size changing accordingly. I'd save everything at the maximum resolution.
8. When you click save again, another popup comes up and you name your file and select where (on your computer) you want to save it.

Done!

Pixlr has several fun products available for online and mobile use. Their "Pixlr Editor" product is a little more complicated and is almost a carbon copy of Photoshop Elements (I use PSE).

I hope this helps, and let me know if you have questions.

TIF2

Immediately after posting the above instructions I noticed that you use Photobucket. They have a photo editor right there! On Photobucket, click Editor, then resize, etc. You can choose photos you've already uploaded from your Bucket or you can upload new pictures.