here's another new one, a bronze from Kyzikos...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-137527this seems to be a rather unimpressive coin, but it actually means quite a lot to me (apart of its connection with
Persephone).
when i first started collecting ancients back in the late 80's many of my cheaper purchases in those pre-internet days were made from non-illustrated
price lists which i would get from dealers listed in the back pages of various coin magazines. if the description was interesting and the
price reasonable i would send a letter off and a few weeks later my new 'treasure' would arrive, and my wife would be looking over my shoulder as i opened up the envelope for the big reveal.
one of the coins i bought this way, back before i thought of specializing, was a common bronze from Kyzikos, very much like this one.
years later, after we moved to Oregon, i saw a special on PBS about a group of people in
England who were attempting to raise a standing
stone in a way which could possibly explain how our ancient ancestors might have done it. this fascinated me as i
had always been impressed by the various standing
stone sites throughout Europe, and
had even dreamed of trying it myself one day. so some friends and i decided to give it a go at a communal garden we
had established a year earlier, which was 20 years ago this summer. so we lifted 17.5 tons of columnar basalt and granite into a trilithon, using no modern machines, nothing more than ropes and pulleys, and a LOT of people power! as a dedication i decided to bury a coin from my
collection beneath the garden, and it seemed only natural that it be my bronze from Kyzikos...
Persephone returning to the Underworld!
so since this is the 20th
anniversary of the garden i went looking for a similar coin, and this is it.
pretty long story for a very common coin, huh?
~
PeterPS; i've attached a picture of the original structure, which has now been joined by a
complete circle of smaller stones.