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Offline Enodia

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Some sour additions
« Reply #150 on: January 24, 2018, 08:32:46 pm »
here's a few new ones I've just uploaded to my gallery.

the first I've actually had awhile, but i'm just now adding it here. it is a bronze from Pherai which I was given for my birthday back in September...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143328

the second is a Provincial with a veiled Demeter from Anazarbus i bought just last week...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-143270

enjoy!
~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #151 on: January 24, 2018, 09:36:11 pm »
Great additions Peter,

How did you pick up the reference to Hamlet?

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #152 on: January 24, 2018, 09:49:02 pm »
from a paper I once wrote regarding Shakespeare's obsession with Hekate called (what else?) Shakespeare in Love... With Hekate?

in fact the Immortal Bard makes reference to Her in no less than 4 different plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course the wonderful scene in MacBeth with the Weird Sisters. She also appears again in that same play.

go figure!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #153 on: April 03, 2018, 06:43:47 pm »
here's my newest coin, another bronze from Pherai which bookends a different one I have that depicts Hekate facing left...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-145306

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #154 on: April 04, 2018, 08:04:13 pm »
I like this :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #155 on: April 05, 2018, 07:42:39 pm »
thanks Q!

I haven't added many coins so far this year, but that should change soon as I have a new coin from Taras on the way which i'm pretty excited about.

stay tuned,
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #156 on: May 21, 2018, 07:27:22 pm »
this post is not to announce a new addition, but rather a number of subtractions.

I have come to an agreement with the Hallie Ford museum here in Salem to donate my wife's collection of antiquities to their permanent collection...
 https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2424

everything but the arrowheads will be on display there in her memory sometime soon.
this was something I've thought about doing for a few years now, and I think under the circumstances she would approve.
however actually taking them out of her display cabinet and packing them up was harder than I thought it would be.  

the Hallie Ford museum is an extension of Willamette University, and they have a rather nice collection of Greco-Roman items already, including coins. it will be nice to see her small collection of glass and statuary in context with the other permanent pieces displayed there, and now everyone who cares for such things will be able to enjoy them too.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #157 on: May 21, 2018, 07:48:24 pm »
That is a very thoughtful gesture (neat little collection)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #158 on: May 21, 2018, 08:05:08 pm »
Very nice of you.  I’m sure the museum and patrons will appreciate them.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #159 on: May 21, 2018, 08:07:16 pm »
Indeed.  Great idea.  It would be nice to see a picture of the display once they arrange it.

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« Reply #160 on: May 22, 2018, 12:58:45 am »
Congratulation  +++

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #161 on: June 05, 2018, 10:32:47 pm »
thank you all.
I will be signing the papers this week, and they should be on display at the museum in a few months time.

along the same lines I just added this Thracian bronze of Demeter in Her veil...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-146958

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #162 on: June 19, 2018, 06:55:26 pm »
my latest additions are this bronze coin from Poseidonia which I got from Joe last week, very rare with the left-facing Poseidon...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-147145

and a bronze Roman key from around the 3rd to 4th centuries AD...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-147222

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #163 on: June 19, 2018, 11:43:23 pm »
Great additions Peter.  I somehow missed the Poseidonia bronze.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #164 on: June 20, 2018, 12:10:59 am »
yeah, I grabbed it almost as soon as Joe put it up!     ;D   

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #165 on: June 20, 2018, 09:06:09 am »
That's a very cool Poseidon coin ... oh, and the bull reverse is also very appealing (congrats on that sweet addition)

Man, your entire Magna Graecia - Italy grouping is a fantastic sub-gallery (it was a pleasure to thumb-through your awesome examples)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #166 on: June 26, 2018, 09:37:33 pm »
thank you Steve, very kind of you to say so.   :)

today I added a charming little seated griffin from Teos in Ionia. I've wanted one of these for along time (although to tell the truth I was hoping for a stater   ;)  )...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-147457

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« Reply #167 on: September 10, 2018, 07:14:06 pm »
here is my latest addition, and also my oldest coin.
it is an obol from the earliest days of Sybaris (550-510) before its destruction by the Krotones...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-149273

these are usually described as "bull with head turned back", and of course the staters from this period are of the classic Magna Graecian incuse type (which I wish I could afford!).
but reading through one of my books about Sybaris I find that the white ox was the most common and preferred beast of burden there, and this (to me anyway) looks more like an ox than the bull devices usually seen on Greek coins of this region. it is certainly different than the bull types of Sybaris' colonies of Poseidonia and Thurii.
  
what do you think?

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #168 on: September 10, 2018, 08:20:02 pm »
Nice!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #169 on: September 10, 2018, 10:25:29 pm »
Fantastic!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #170 on: September 11, 2018, 03:14:41 am »
great looking bull
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #171 on: September 11, 2018, 09:30:12 pm »
Moooo => sweet bull (congrats)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #172 on: November 14, 2018, 08:27:21 pm »
I haven't posted here for a couple of months, as i haven't bought any new coins during that time. However i did have three coins lying around which i hadn't added to my gallery until now.
Since i changed jobs (and my home computer is DOA) i no longer have office access to the internet. But after a lot of trial and error and cursing i finally figured out how to add coins from my phone! So here they are...

This one is a type I've been after for a long time, but the nice ones are usually too expensive and the budget examples are often kind of, well, ugly. But i found this one reasonably priced so i snagged it. It is from Terina in Bruttium and features a lovely nymph on the obverse and a delicate Nike holding a bird on the reverse...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-150948

The next one is a really cool provincial bronze from the time of Claudius which was a birthday gift from a friend. It depicts both Livia and Hekate, and for me that is a hard combination to beat! ...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-150944

Check them out,
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #173 on: November 15, 2018, 10:46:47 am »
Both, great addition,   +++
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #174 on: November 16, 2018, 11:17:48 am »
Cha-ching! ... Enodia, congrats on adding those two new babies to your already kick-arse collection!

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