Author Topic: First Man Faced Bull added: Campania! (Read 35218 times)

peterpil19 · « **Reply #125 on:** January 24, 2018, 09:38:03 pm »

Jay,

Those are great photos. Well done!

Peter

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #126 on:** January 24, 2018, 10:09:05 pm »

Quote from: peterpil19 on January 24, 2018, 09:38:03 pm

Jay,

Those are great photos. Well done!

Peter

Quote from: Jay GT4 on January 24, 2018, 02:35:31 pm

2 new photos of some older coins. One is in the BOT:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143340

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143339

The new pics are superior to the originals but they loose some of the tone they have developed.

Thanks!

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #127 on:** January 27, 2018, 04:42:20 pm »

Picked up just one coin today at the show in Hamilton. A tiny Obol with Kantharos on one side and a Bucranium on the other. When I got home and started researching the type it turns out that this very coin has a pretty long provenance.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143389

Does anyone know about the Dr. P. Vogl collection?

stevex6 · « **Reply #128 on:** January 29, 2018, 07:55:47 pm »

Very cool addition Jay ... I happen to have this kantharos example (congrats again on scoring your cool new winner)

Enodia · « **Reply #129 on:** January 29, 2018, 11:42:07 pm »

nice one Jay!
these cup/skull types are much scarcer than the typical cup/cup ones. i'll have to check my sources when I get home and see if I can add anything to your attribution. or you can look at the one in my gallery and maybe get some clues (although mine is a 5-dot).

in any case, congratulations on a cool find,
~ Peter

Enodia · « **Reply #130 on:** January 30, 2018, 02:33:11 am »

Well, i haven't been able to find another 3- dot, which is interesting in itself.

Vlasto dates these from 302-228 BC, and yours is c.f. 1615-18. SNG France has three specimens, c.f. 2201-03 (again the dots), and cross-references to Copenhagen 1065 and Munich 784 (although i don't have either of those). HN Italy lists the general type as 918.
I found no examples in either McGill nor Cote.

- Peter

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #131 on:** January 30, 2018, 07:44:55 am »

Thanks Peter, I appreciate it very much. When researching it I could only find a photo of this specimen online. I don't have any of the book references for this type so just relying on what was on the tag and at acsearch, I knew it had to be pretty rare. I'll update my gallery. Thanks again.

quadrans · « **Reply #132 on:** January 31, 2018, 03:59:47 pm »

Quote from: Jay GT4 on January 27, 2018, 04:42:20 pm

Picked up just one coin today at the show in Hamilton. A tiny Obol with Kantharos on one side and a Bucranium on the other. When I got home and started researching the type it turns out that this very coin has a pretty long provenance.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143389

Does anyone know about the Dr. P. Vogl collection?

Nice kantharos, Jay,

Q.

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #133 on:** February 02, 2018, 09:23:45 pm »

Three new pics of older coins:

C. Porcius Cato:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143633

Ap Claudius Pulcher, T Manlius and Q Urbinius:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143632

L Saufeius:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143631

quadrans · « **Reply #134 on:** February 03, 2018, 03:03:39 am »

Nice group

Q.

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #135 on:** February 03, 2018, 09:15:36 am »

Thanks Q

Canaan · « **Reply #136 on:** February 03, 2018, 09:57:43 am »

Very nice group, congrats Jay.

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #137 on:** February 03, 2018, 05:52:38 pm »

Thanks! Two more new photos:

Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, One of Caesar's assassins (The other Brutus):

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143657

Thorius Balbus:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143656

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #138 on:** February 09, 2018, 03:15:48 pm »

Latest acquisition from Terina, Bruttium.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143802

Nymph on the obverse with a Crab and crescent moon on reverse. Purchased from ebay on a very poor picture. Turned out to be a great looking coin. In hand it has a beautiful glossy black/brown patina.

Terina is located about 20 minutes away from my home town in the mountains above the Savuto river.

stevex6 · « **Reply #139 on:** February 09, 2018, 05:02:41 pm »

Cool crab ... congrats on your new addition

quadrans · « **Reply #140 on:** February 09, 2018, 07:04:44 pm »

+ 1,

, cool crab

Q.

Stkp · « **Reply #141 on:** February 10, 2018, 12:46:16 pm »

Quote from: Jay GT4 on February 09, 2018, 03:15:48 pm

Purchased from ebay on a very poor picture. Turned out to be a great looking coin.

Occasionally one can find underpriced gems due to poor pictures. Stkp

JBF · « **Reply #142 on:** February 10, 2018, 03:40:52 pm »

Do you have any idea of the significance of the crab _with_ the moon? Or is it just a crab and a moon? I am not familiar with crabs on the coins of Terina, but then again, I don't know the bronzes. Are they rare? Of course, Croton, who dominated at times Terina, sometimes has a crab secondary symbol on their coins.

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #143 on:** February 10, 2018, 04:40:44 pm »

Thanks guys.

I've heard from others that the crab was symbolic of joining Hannibal against Rome but I haven't found anything to support that yet. The Brettian's were originally mountainous peoples who were not Greek so not sure when the crab became known to them. This is an area where there is very little academic research available in English. Academia has some papers in Italian but my academic Italian isn't very good. A great book I'm just finishing is "Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War" by Michael Fronda. Some numismatic info but it's more about the rivalries between the various cities in Southern Italy. A very good read for anyone interested in the politics of Non-Roman Italic peoples of the 2nd Punic war.

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #144 on:** February 24, 2018, 02:57:42 pm »

Added a really nice denarius of Domitian today from 87 AD.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-144192

quadrans · « **Reply #145 on:** February 25, 2018, 07:29:09 pm »

Nice piece, Jay,

Q.

peterpil19 · « **Reply #146 on:** February 25, 2018, 09:33:44 pm »

Great coin Jay,

Here is one of mine with a Minerva reverse.
It is amazing how slight differences in the bust make such a difference.

Peter

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #147 on:** February 25, 2018, 10:20:26 pm »

Thanks guys! Nice one Peter!

Jay GT4 · « **Reply #148 on:** February 28, 2018, 03:13:14 pm »

A fantastic silver drachm with Latin legends and double portrait of Nero and Claudius:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-144261

It's been on my wish list for a long time. You got to love those wonderful eastern portraits.

orfew · « **Reply #149 on:** February 28, 2018, 03:48:00 pm »

Great coin Jay. Congrats on a stellar acquisition.

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