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Venturing into Ancients - Updates with more examples
Windycity
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I have been a collector (lifetime) /dealer (7 years) of US coins and currency but never really ventured into ancients. I recently came upon a wonderful group of ancients and I am having a blast learning more about them. Here are two wonderful example of the collection - an uncirculated gold Peter the Great III of Aragon Messina mint Ducat (circa 1282), and an Arsinoe II, Wife of Ptolemy II Mnaieion or One-Mina gold coin (circa 253BC) in Near Mint State. These are admittedly two of the better coins in this collection but many of the others are very impressive. I will post more photos as I continue my studies. Beginning to put these up on Mullencoins.com.
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When you just started out driving a car, was your first car a Lamborghini, by any chance?
Looks like you just "ventured into" ancients with a vengeance!
Wow!
Now that's my kind of eye candy!
<< <i>Wow.
When you just started out driving a car, was your first car a Lamborghini, by any chance?
Looks like you just "ventured into" ancients with a vengeance!
As a "wet behind the ear beginner" myself I agree
Beautiful coins
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
You deep pocket newbies slay me sometimes!
But more power to ya both, I say.
Macedonia Kingdom Alexander III the Great Gold Stater - Miletus Mint - circa 323 BC
Gold Solidus - Constantinople Mint - Zeno 479-491 AD
Nice example of a mint state Lesbos Hekte - Bodenstedt Em.90, - Head of young Dionysus, hair bound by ivy wreath. Reverse is mask of bearded Satyr with animal ear and shaggy hair. 377-326 BC 7.56 grams
<< <i>And two more examples of the gold issues...
Macedonia Kingdom Alexander III the Great Gold Stater - Miletus Mint - circa 323 BC
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
<< <i>I have to ask the obvious question , the coin that is 323 BC , what does the angel and the cross signify ? What am i missing here...BC is before Christ ..right? >>
That's not an angel, that's the Greek Goddess Nike. It's a wreath in her right hand a stylis in her left. As far as I can tell a "stylis" is part of the bow of a ship.
<< <i>I have to ask the obvious question , the coin that is 323 BC , what does the angel and the cross signify ? What am i missing here...BC is before Christ ..right? >>
The "angel" is Nike. Later personified as Victory on Roman coins, and of course as a generic "angel" in still later Christian iconography. The early Christians had a habit of borrowing earlier symbols and incorporating and assimilating them. It helped ease the conversion of all those pagans! The "cross" is described as a "stylus", as in "Nike with wreath and stylus". I guess a stylus was a writing instrument, as the modern definition indicates? Why the stylus is so large and looks like a cross I don't know.
--Severian the Lame