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(0218) ELAGABALUS218-222 AD
Æ 29 mm, 10.36 g
O: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind
R: Table with drapery and two agonistic urns each with a single palm; below, balloting balls and amphora
PHOENICIA, Sidon
cf Rouvier 1514
laney
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Austria, CNA I. C a-005, Eberhard I. (1147-1164 A.D.), AR-Pfennig, Friesach, under Archbishopric of Salzburg, Sprag cross with balls in each angle, #1Austria, CNA I. C a-005, Eberhard I. (1147-1164 A.D.), AR-Pfennig, Friesach, under Archbishopric of Salzburg, Sprag cross with balls in each angle, #1
avers: Saint’s bust facing between Crozier and star, cross above.
reverse: Sprag cross with balls in each angle.
diameter: 17,5-18,0 mm, weight: 0,73g, axis: 6/12 h,
mint: Krems - Friesach, mint mark: -/-,
date: 1147-1164 A.D., ref: CNA I. C a-005,
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Austria, CNA I. C k-002, Eberhard II. von Regensberg, (1200-1246 A.D.), Duchy of Steiermark, Friesach under Archbishopric of Salzburg, AR-Pfennig, #1Austria, CNA I. C k-002, Eberhard II. von Regensberg, (1200-1246 A.D.), Duchy of Steiermark, Friesach under Archbishopric of Salzburg, AR-Pfennig, #1
avers: Facing busts of bishop and duke side by side, above a wall. Above: star between small crosses, 3 balls between busts.
reverse: EBERHARDS EPS, Standing archbishop facing.
diameter: 15,5-16,5mm, weight: 0,80g, axis: 7h,
mint :Rann, mint mark: ,
date: 1200-1246 A.D., ref: CNA I. C k-002, Probszt 23. Rare!
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Copper Massa of Chola Sinhalese Dynasty 1208-9 ADObverse: King standing and sniffing lotus blossom in left hand and carrying lamp in right hand. Five balls or golas to right.
Reverse: Sitting king with lotus blossom and to right in 4 lines of Nagari script Sri Dharmasoka
Dharmasoka was a short-lived infant king of the Ponnaruwa kingdom which ruled Ceylon from the eighth to 13th centuries
The massa was a copper unit of about 4 grams. The basic design was retained for centuries and was used on both silver and gold issues as well. This coin is an exceptionally well preserved example of the typedaverino
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France (French Flanders). The Battle of SeneffeFeuardent 14726-14734; La Tour 1890-1893
Jeton; minted by Lazare Gottlieb Laufer (active 1660-1690) in Nuremburg during reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715); brass, 25.54 mm. max., 180°
Obv.: LVDOVICVS MAGNVS REX, laureate head of mature Louis XIV facing right, LGL beneath.
Rev.: PVGNA AD • SENEFFAM • (= the Battle of Seneffe), Victory flying right, holding a crown and a standard; below, a cannon, barrels of powder, flags and cannonballs.
The Battle of Seneffe was a fought during the Franco-Dutch War on August 11, 1674 between a French army under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and the Dutch-German-Spanish army under the Dutch Stadtholder William III of Orange (later King William III of England). The jetons were based on the official silver medals struck to commemorate the battle.Stkp
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France (French Flanders). The Battle of Seneffe Feuardent 14733; La Tour 1893
Jeton; minted in Nuremburg during reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715); brass, 25.66 mm. max., 180°
Obv.: LVDOVICVS • -- MAGNVS • REX •, laureate head of mature Louis XIV facing right, N beneath.
Rev.: * PVGNA * AD * SENEFFAM * (= the Battle of Seneffe), Victory flying right, holding a crown and a standard; below, a cannon, barrels of powder, flags and cannonballs.
The Battle of Seneffe was a fought during the Franco-Dutch War on August 11, 1674 between a French army under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and the Dutch-German-Spanish army under the Dutch Stadtholder William III of Orange (later King William III of England). The jetons were based on the official silver medals struck to commemorate the battle. Stkp
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HUNGARY - Stephen IIHUNGARY - Stephen II (1116-1131) AR Denar, Obv.: Iin quadralobe shape: A cross with 4 balls in angles; in the lobe angles are crosses. Rev.: Markigns in double-circle; cross with wedges at center. Reference: Huszar #84, Unger #39.dpaul7
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Hungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116). Huszár 34; Toth-Kiss 11.5 sigla c1.6/54; Unger 30; Réthy I 42; Frynas H.9.7; Lengyel 9/4; Adamovszky A49; Kovács pp. 169 ffHungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116)
AR denar (average .41 g., 10-11 mm.), . 39g., 10.55 mm. max.
Obv: + CAL–MAN, Three crosses with balls.
Rev: LADLAV RE (decaying legend), cross with wedges.
Struck in Esztergom. Struck ca. 1105-1116 (per Gyöngyössy, whose dating has not been accepted by later catalogers and appears to be speculative). Hóman hypothesized that the chronology of Coloman’s coinage can be determined via the progressively diminishing average weights of the emissions. By this hypothesis, this emission is ranked 11/15, and was struck at the end of Coloman’s reign.
Huszár rarity 10, Toth-Kiss rarity 20, Unger rarity 60 DM, Frynas rarity N.
Ladislaus/László I (1077-1095) was canonized in 1192. His name typically appeared, albeit in an increasingly decaying form, on the reverse of 12th century emissions such as this.Stkp
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Israel, Masada - pile of ancient catapult projectiles - Ouch!
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Italy- Rome- Part of the city wallRome is the city in the world with the longest set of ancient walls still partly standing.
This unique relic of roman history, though, is somewhat neglected by the thousands of tourist who visit the city every day: very few of them pay attention to these massive structures, as their interest is mainly caught by famous buildings and sites such as the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, or the Colosseum.
Certainly less beautiful than these gems, the walls proved more useful to the city than any other well-known monument or building. And still today they stand as an important memory of the city's ancient boundaries.
The several restoration works carried out through the ages, in order to keep them strong and steady, give reason for the good state of preservation of the set of walls built in the 3rd century AD: unlike other ancient buildings, they mantained their original function until the end of the 1800s. Many of the original gates are still in place, as well, and some of them have witnessed important historical facts.
Besides their importance during wartime, the city walls enabled the local authorities to keep under control the many people who every day entered or left Rome, as the only way in or out was through the gates: the doors were usually kept under sentry during daylight, and closed after dusk. And since a tax was usually imposed on people and goods entering the city, the gates yielded also a considerable income for the municipality.
Since its foundation, Rome has always adopted defensive means, to prevent the several populations surrounding the original nucleus from invading the city.
They are not one single structure, but several walls belonging to many periods. They were built with different techniques, according to the different weapons they had to face, from early enemies' stones, to catapults, to more powerful cannon balls.
Each of them will be therefore dealt with separately, as individual structures.
All of them are conventionally named after the ruler (king, emperor or pope) who had them built.
ROMULUS' WALLS
We know little about the very first defensive structures that protected Rome's original nucleus, over 2700 years ago; the top of two adjoining hills, the Capitolium and the Palatine, was enclosed by two separate walls; the one on the Palatine was probably rebuilt over a pre-roman structure, and protected Romulus's House, claimed to be the dwelling site of the mythical founder and first king of Rome.
Only few visible traces, both of the Palatine's and of the Capitolium's wall, now survive (the latter is shown on the left). Therefore, these are the only walls not dealt with by the following pages.
SERVIAN WALLS
(or REPUBLICAN WALLS)
They are named after Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius: by tradition, he was the first ruler to order the construction of an early defensive structure around the city. Also in this case it is impossible to state a precise date. According to reliable sources, by the 6th century BC the city of Rome could indeed rely on some sort of protection; nevertheless, there is enough proof that an actual wall was not built until the late 4th century BC (during Rome's republic, whence the other name). And a further extension, beyond the left banks of the river Tiber up to the top of the Janiculum hill, was built two centuries later.
Therefore, the evolution of this set of walls must have been rather complicated.The older defensive technique probably consisted of a sort of mound dug in the ground; the earth coming from the latter was simply used to make a long heap on the inside, as a further protection.
Later in time, a real set of walls was built in place of this primitive boundary. But along the north-eastern part of its perimeter, a deep mound with earth and stones piled by the inner base of the wall was still in use: this structure was called an agger (from the Latin ad gerere, "to bring, move towards").
The actual wall was built according to the dry-stone technique, i.e. without any mortar, large blocks were piled one on top of the other, in multiple rows. The porous stone is tufa (which in Rome was used for the making of buildings up to the early 1930s!).
Unfortunately, of these walls no more than a few fragments scattered in various parts of the city is now left.
Further data based on historical sources and archaeological excavations have enabled to define more or less precisely their full perimeter: by the end of the 4th century BC, the city boundaries enclosed the famous seven hills, or Septimontium, over which the city was originally built: the Capitolium and the Palatine (i.e. the early nucleus), the Aventine, the Esquiline, the Quirinal, the Viminal and the Coelian.
Peter Wissing
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Italy- Rome- Part of the city wall 2Rome is the city in the world with the longest set of ancient walls still partly standing.
This unique relic of roman history, though, is somewhat neglected by the thousands of tourist who visit the city every day: very few of them pay attention to these massive structures, as their interest is mainly caught by famous buildings and sites such as the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, or the Colosseum.
Certainly less beautiful than these gems, the walls proved more useful to the city than any other well-known monument or building. And still today they stand as an important memory of the city's ancient boundaries.
The several restoration works carried out through the ages, in order to keep them strong and steady, give reason for the good state of preservation of the set of walls built in the 3rd century AD: unlike other ancient buildings, they mantained their original function until the end of the 1800s. Many of the original gates are still in place, as well, and some of them have witnessed important historical facts.
Besides their importance during wartime, the city walls enabled the local authorities to keep under control the many people who every day entered or left Rome, as the only way in or out was through the gates: the doors were usually kept under sentry during daylight, and closed after dusk. And since a tax was usually imposed on people and goods entering the city, the gates yielded also a considerable income for the municipality.
Since its foundation, Rome has always adopted defensive means, to prevent the several populations surrounding the original nucleus from invading the city.
They are not one single structure, but several walls belonging to many periods. They were built with different techniques, according to the different weapons they had to face, from early enemies' stones, to catapults, to more powerful cannon balls.
Each of them will be therefore dealt with separately, as individual structures.
All of them are conventionally named after the ruler (king, emperor or pope) who had them built.
ROMULUS' WALLS
We know little about the very first defensive structures that protected Rome's original nucleus, over 2700 years ago; the top of two adjoining hills, the Capitolium and the Palatine, was enclosed by two separate walls; the one on the Palatine was probably rebuilt over a pre-roman structure, and protected Romulus's House, claimed to be the dwelling site of the mythical founder and first king of Rome.
Only few visible traces, both of the Palatine's and of the Capitolium's wall, now survive (the latter is shown on the left). Therefore, these are the only walls not dealt with by the following pages.
SERVIAN WALLS
(or REPUBLICAN WALLS)
They are named after Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius: by tradition, he was the first ruler to order the construction of an early defensive structure around the city. Also in this case it is impossible to state a precise date. According to reliable sources, by the 6th century BC the city of Rome could indeed rely on some sort of protection; nevertheless, there is enough proof that an actual wall was not built until the late 4th century BC (during Rome's republic, whence the other name). And a further extension, beyond the left banks of the river Tiber up to the top of the Janiculum hill, was built two centuries later.
Therefore, the evolution of this set of walls must have been rather complicated.The older defensive technique probably consisted of a sort of mound dug in the ground; the earth coming from the latter was simply used to make a long heap on the inside, as a further protection.
Later in time, a real set of walls was built in place of this primitive boundary. But along the north-eastern part of its perimeter, a deep mound with earth and stones piled by the inner base of the wall was still in use: this structure was called an agger (from the Latin ad gerere, "to bring, move towards").
The actual wall was built according to the dry-stone technique, i.e. without any mortar, large blocks were piled one on top of the other, in multiple rows. The porous stone is tufa (which in Rome was used for the making of buildings up to the early 1930s!).
Unfortunately, of these walls no more than a few fragments scattered in various parts of the city is now left.
Further data based on historical sources and archaeological excavations have enabled to define more or less precisely their full perimeter: by the end of the 4th century BC, the city boundaries enclosed the famous seven hills, or Septimontium, over which the city was originally built: the Capitolium and the Palatine (i.e. the early nucleus), the Aventine, the Esquiline, the Quirinal, the Viminal and the Coelian.
Peter Wissing
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Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma VI.(1885-1895)(Coin left)
Indian states Kingdom of Travencore.
Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma VI.(1885-1895)
1 Cash..Copper..7.60mm diameter
Obverse..Sri Krishna holding balls of butter in both hands
Reverse..Sudarsana chuckram (six pointed star) within a circle of dots
- KM#34.1 - two dot body
(Coin right)
Indian states Kingdom of Travencore.
Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma VI.(1885-1895)
1 Cash..Copper..8mm diameter 0.66gr
Obverse..Sri Krishna holding balls of butter in both hands
Reverse..Sudarsana chuckram (six pointed star) within a circle of dots
KM#34.2 - One dot bodyPaul R3
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Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico and Northern Central America, Mayan Territories, Late Classic (ca. 550-900 CE) Rattle-Legged Tripod PlateA classic example of a rattle-legged tripod plate from the Mayan period, with a band of glyphs around the flared rim and a lordly figure - possibly a scribe - depicted in tondo. The plate stands on tall, open legs with small clay balls inside of each to create a rattling sound. The seated figure has a headdress of very long, grey and orange feathers, and sits with his legs crossed, one foot up on his knee, leaning on one arm and reaching forward with the other as if to paint the sides of the bowl. Beside/underneath him is a basket containing what looks like eggs but could be any number of objects. The figure is painted with red, black, orange, and the rarer grey pigment. Scribes played a vital role in the Mayan world, and they were minor royalty, with the ability to read and write. They had the power to immortalize a king or queen through their writing, documenting battles, religious favor, and political skill.
Size: 12.55" W x 3.75" H (31.9 cm x 9.5 cm)
ex Donick Cary Collection
Quant.Geek
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Rondanini MedusaSo-called “Rondanini Medusa”. Marble, Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original by Phidias, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos.
Homer wrote about the Gorgon on four occasions, but only about the head, as if the creature had no body. Up to the 5th century B.C., the head depicted was very ugly, with her tongue sticking out, boar tusks, puffy cheeks, her eyeballs staring straight ahead and the snakes twisting all around her. The direct frontal stare was highly unusual in ancient Greek art. In some cases a beard, (probably representing streaks of blood) was added to her chin, making her appear as a wild. Gorgoneia painted on the shields of warriors on mid-5th century Greek vases, however, are not as ugly, strange or frightening. By that time, the Gorgon had lost her tusks and the snakes were rather stylized. The Hellenistic marble known as the Medusa Rondanini shows how the Gorgon changed over time into a beautiful woman.Joe Sermarini
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S.5195 James IGroat of James I, king of Scotland 1406-1437
Mint: Edinburgh
Mintmark: cross
First fleur-de-lis issue
S. 5195
O: +ICOBVS DEI GRACIA REX SCOTOR
R: +DNSP TECOTOR MSLI BATORM VILL AED INBV RGh
The first 5 James' met untimely ends. James I was assassinated at home. He was warned of the assassination attempt and might have gotten away, but the basement exit was locked to prevent people from stealing his tennis balls, and preventing his exit.
Ex- A.Howitt, CNG eAuction 468 (lot 788), J & M Robertson, Coin Galleries 13 Apr 2005 (lot 239)St. George's Collection
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S.5195 James IGroat of James I, king of Scotland 1406-1437
Mint: Edinburgh
Mintmark: cross
First fleur-de-lis issue
S. 5195
O: +ICOBVS DEI GRACIA REX SCOTOR
R: +DNSP TECOTOR MSLI BATORM VILL AED INBV RGh
The first 5 James' met untimely ends. James I was assassinated at home. He was warned of the assassination attempt and might have gotten away, but the basement exit was locked to prevent people from stealing his tennis balls, and preventing his exit.
Ex- Hammered British Coins Ltd, D. McDonald Collection, DNW Auction, 7 Oct 2004 - Lot 688, K. StephensSt. George's Collection
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sidonbmc274Elagabalus
Sidon, Phoenicia
Obv: IM C M AVR AN-TONINVS AVG. Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. Countermark: murex shell in rectangular incuse.
Rev: COLAVRPI AME TR SIDON →IEPEOECISE, Agnostic table with four legs, upon it two prize crowns each with a palm branch, below the table, amphora and five balloting balls.
29 mm, 14.11 gms
BMC 274. Countermark: Howgego 360Charles M
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