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Offline Enodia

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2013, 04:53:01 am »
a new image of an old coin...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-94008

still taking advantage of my brother-in-law's lights, i think this looks a bit better than the old photo, although still not quite right.
but in replying to Lloyd's comment it occured to me that having bought this coin in 1989 i have now had it for 1% of it's entire history.
and i think that's pretty cool!   8)

~ Peter


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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2013, 05:42:07 am »
Peter, I don't mean to offend you but the pictures look strange, as if they had been very strongly compressed but the file size speaks against that. How are you taking these pictures?
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2013, 06:23:39 am »
.....  but in replying to Lloyd's comment it occured to me that having bought this coin in 1989 i have now had it for 1% of it's entire history.
and i think that's pretty cool!   8)

An interesting perspective to which I had never given any thought.... you have probably had this coin in your possession longer than anyone else in its 2,346 years!  8)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2013, 02:43:00 pm »
once again stepping outside of my usual Magna Graecia collection i have added a new coin from the BCD collection.
this is a coin my wife always wanted to buy for me, and now she has. it is a hemidrachm from Pherai in Thessaly and depicts a portrait of the goddess Hekate (sadly appropriate here)...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-94858

i wish the condition were a bit better and the lion's head fountain was shown, but i got it for the minimum bid as that was all i could afford and under the circumstances i'm very happy to have it.
this is one of those coins which are very often labelled 'Rare' (the nearby Boeotian hemidrachms are another), but of which i have dozens of examples in my files. so no, not particularly rare.

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Peter, I don't mean to offend you but the pictures look strange, as if they had been very strongly compressed but the file size speaks against that. How are you taking these pictures?

hellifino, i'm just flying by the seat of my pants here. sometimes they come out well, sometimes not. when they don't i tend to over process them to try and get them back to something like the original color, etc, and that's where they probably go wrong.
if i had more patience... but alas, no muse.   :(

~ Peter


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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2013, 10:10:16 pm »
Peter

Very nice.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2013, 05:00:00 pm »
thank you Doug.

nothing exciting to announce today, but i did add a couple of Julian AE3's last week, one from Constantinople and the other from Heraclea.
have a look!

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2013, 03:39:59 am »
in an effort to clean up my Magna Graecia gallery i recently redid the image of my Velia didrachm, which i aquired 24 years ago. this is the coin that really got me started collecting ancients seriously, and it continues to impress me all these years later.  
the image isn't quite right yet, but i think it's a lot better than the old scan...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-97831



and i should be posting something new here very soon.   8)

~ Peter


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New Velia!
« Reply #32 on: June 15, 2013, 04:59:04 pm »
i just posted this new didrachm to my Magna Graecia gallery...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-98023

i've wanted to add a Philistion type to go with my Kleudoros for some time now, but nice ones are hard to find in my price range. this one came at a reasonable price, and so my tax return has finally yielded fruit!
but it was the lion which really sold me on this one. the typical attribution usually says 'lion devouring prey', or similar. but the prey on this one is clearly a ram's head, and being an avid 49er fan i just couldn't resist!  8)

anyway, i really like this one and i hope you all do too. 

~ Peter


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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #33 on: July 06, 2013, 03:25:22 pm »
this veiled Demeter from Metapontum is my latest addition, and once again the coin is far nicer in hand than this picture suggests...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-98678

i like the way these types capture the torment of grief, the sense of loss a mother has for her lost daughter. strong emotions rendered in bronze.

~ Peter





(this coin was purchased in loving memory of my beautiful wife)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #34 on: July 12, 2013, 03:12:19 pm »
today i post a newer image of an old coin...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-98950

in fact this was the first ancient coin i ever bought, the coin which started 'the fever'. i spent $20 for this odd-shaped lump of bronze, but over the 25 years since it has cost me many many thousands!

it's not much to look at, but it means an awful lot to me.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2013, 04:39:43 pm »
here's another re-do, which just about finishes the remodelling of my Magna Graecia gallery.

this one was bought for me by my wife as a Christmas present a few years ago. it is a didrachm from Metapontum, a fairly common type but unusually well centered and on a full flan, both traits quite uncommon for this type...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-99058

thanks for looking!

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #36 on: August 06, 2013, 05:25:58 pm »
here are a couple of new coins i recently received as a gift from a friend.
the first is a bronze from Metapontum with a nice portrait of Demeter...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-100091

and the second is a cool eagle from Syracuse, under the reign of Hiketas...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-100096

thanks for looking!   :)

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #37 on: August 26, 2013, 01:05:25 pm »
i spent last week in California, and while there i visited my old friends at the local coin shop. these were the people who first piqued my interest in ancient coins 25 years ago, so it seemed appropriate to pick up a little something while i was there.

the first is a bronze of the nymph Arethusa from Syracuse under the reign of Dionysius I...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-101147

the second is a large bronze of Dionysus from Maroneia in Thrace...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-101138

these were bargain coins but i think they are both in acceptable grade, and i find the Arethusa portrait quite lovely.

i hope you do too,
~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #38 on: September 05, 2013, 04:14:25 am »
this latest addition is another bronze from Syracuse, and was strictly an impulse buy. but at the price of a couple of bottles of inexpensive wine i just couldn't pass it up...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-101543

this is the point where i usually say "it looks much better in hand", but in this case what you see is pretty much what you get.
gotta be the bargain of the day though!   :)

~ Peter

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Eleusis!
« Reply #39 on: September 22, 2013, 12:12:24 am »
good friends are nice to have. good friends with excellent taste and an eye for ancient coins are even better!  ;)

i recently received two coins from such a friend for my birthday. the first i already posted in my Taras Collection thread here...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102091

the second is a little bit outside of my usual collecting area, but it is so personally significant and was so thoughtfully chosen that i was deeply moved when i opened it.
it is an example of the Eleusinian Festival coinage which was probably struck in Athens, and the representations on the obverse and reverse are both iconic symbols of the Mysteres itself. as such this makes a perfect bookend piece to the Kore bronze in my Sicily gallery...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-87593

Eleusinian festival coinage
340-335 BC
AE 16 (16mm, 3.65g)
Triptolemos seated left in winged chariot drawn by two serpents, holding grain ear in right hand. / Pig standing right on mystic staff; EΛEYΣI above, bucranium in ex.

anyway, see what you think...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102257

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #40 on: September 22, 2013, 08:26:42 am »

A wonderful coin and a great write -up.

Occasionally my wife calls me a pig. Should i be worried? :)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2013, 02:59:02 am »
lol!  
thank you cicerokid.

no new coin today, but a new image of a Carthaginian bronze i bought many years ago. i've been trying to get a good photo but just can't seem to light it well enough. so i've reworked an old scan and at least it looks better than before...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-102822

... i hope so anyway. in any case i think it is a pretty portrait underneath that patchy patina.

but my best 'new addition' is pictured below.
i had been looking for a dog for a long time, even getting long distance help from a friend. but i found my new buddy at the local shelter. he had actually been adopted two weeks earlier and then brought back, so i named him Repo.
he's not ancient, only 10 months old, but he is a gem.   :)

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #42 on: October 09, 2013, 06:18:34 am »
but my best 'new addition' is pictured below.
i had been looking for a dog for a long time, even getting long distance help from a friend. but i found my new buddy at the local shelter. he had actually been adopted two weeks earlier and then brought back, so i named him Repo.
he's not ancient, only 10 months old, but he is a gem.   :)
 

Great acquisition... congratulations. Nice smooth dark patina, with great style and in EF grade! Repo  ;D... he'll be a loyal friend for life!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #43 on: October 09, 2013, 09:10:05 am »
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but my best 'new addition' is pictured below.
i had been looking for a dog for a long time, even getting long distance help from a friend. but i found my new buddy at the local shelter. he had actually been adopted two weeks earlier and then brought back, so i named him Repo.
he's not ancient, only 10 months old, but he is a gem.   :)

~ Peter

WTG Peter.  Thanks so much for giving a home to a shelter animal.  Probably will be your best acquisition for a while. He's a cutie.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2014, 12:58:49 pm »
i can't add anything which will top my last addition  :)  , but i did just aquire this new bronze from Syracuse under Agathokles...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-106038

the charging bull is a common theme on Syracusan bronzes, and this one is pretty cool. but what really drew me to this coin was the portrait of Persephone (Kore).
i hope you like it too. 

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #45 on: January 24, 2014, 03:56:43 pm »
Love you dog!  We rescued 2 last year.  It's a very rewarding experience.   ;D

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #46 on: March 23, 2014, 01:46:38 pm »
Quote from: carthago on January 24, 2014, 03:56:43 pm
Love you dog!  We rescued 2 last year.  It's a very rewarding experience.   ;D  


VERY rewarding carthago, and i couldn't be happier. he is a flat-coat retriever, a scarcer breed.
it took a long time and he was nothing like what i was looking for, but everything i needed. fate?   :)

i recently added another Syracusan bronze from the reign of Dionysius I to my collection, and a very nice one i think. i have only participated in the Member Auctions here at Forvm a few times, and this is the first one i have won. it is quite lovely in hand (much nicer than my picture), and i'm glad to add it...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-107992

thanks for looking,
~ Peter



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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #47 on: April 01, 2014, 01:42:32 pm »
it was only just brought to my attention that the link for my new bronze (above) was incorrect. it has now been fixed.

sorry for the confusion!
~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #48 on: October 05, 2014, 05:12:59 pm »
a new addition received as a gift from a friend...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-113165

i don't know how this coin would grade at NGC, nor do i care. the personal significance to me is immeasurable. the obverse shows a the portrait of the goddess Persephone (my wife's favorite myth), while the reverse depicts a filltted cornucopia.
that it was struck at Aitna makes this coin particularly relevent to me.

my wife and i enjoyed reading the classics out loud to each other, and often did so while on the Olympian-like heights of the many active volcanoes here in the Pacific Northwest. Mounts Shasta, Ranier, Hood, Adams and the notorius St. Helens all got to share in our enjoyment of The Illiad and Odyssey, The Aeneid and The Argonautica.
so the fact that this coin is from Mt. Aitna touches me deeply, and i am proud to add it to my collection.

~ Peter



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Syracusan tetradrachm!
« Reply #49 on: October 17, 2014, 02:42:04 pm »
today's addition is a coin which i've had for over a month now, but haven't been able to get a good picture of it. i guess this one will have to do...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-113380

this was actually a birthday present from my bff.   :)
it is a tetradrachm from Syracuse under Agathokles, featuring a portrait of Persephone on the obverse and Nike on the back.

when i first started collecting ancients back in the 80's i got very excited and bought the Sears books, which i would read through almost like a novel. i would sit in the bath or lie in bed turning page after page studying all the amazing coins within the covers and choosing which ones i wanted to try and aquire (they say catalogs are for dreamers   ;) ). i quickly fell in love with the coins from Syracuse, and decided that more than anything else i wanted a tetradrachm from that city. i would try to figure out how much that would cost based on different formulas, the most common being to double the price listed in Sear and then add a zero.
but going to various shows during that time i soon realized that, short of winning the lottery, my collection was probably never going to contain a Syracusan tet.
it now does!

i hope you like it,
~ Peter


 

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