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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #125 on: June 04, 2017, 03:40:59 pm »
here's another new one, a bronze from Kyzikos...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-137527

this 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?   ;)

~ Peter

PS; i've attached a picture of the original structure, which has now been joined by a complete circle of smaller stones.


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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #126 on: June 04, 2017, 06:03:30 pm »
Wow, that's amazing!  Nice work (and coin too).

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #127 on: June 04, 2017, 09:44:31 pm »
thanks Nick.
it was a true labor of love, and the second greatest thing i ever did.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #128 on: June 05, 2017, 04:49:32 pm »
here's another new bronze, this time from Soloi in Cilicia...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-137573

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #129 on: June 06, 2017, 02:09:34 am »
Nice coin,

It would be great to see a photo of the completed structure you posted earlier at some stage.  :)

Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #130 on: June 06, 2017, 02:23:22 am »
thanks Peter.

the stone circle was completed about 10 years ago, although it's hard to see the entire thing from any one vantage point. the garden is 39 feet in diameter and composed of three concentric beds divided by walkways, with a fire pit at the center. besides the large 'gate' in the above picture there are 12 more smaller stones around the perimeter. i always get a kick out of thinking about the future archaeologists who will be arguing about whether or not the ancient Greeks ever made it to Jefferson Oregon.  8)

here are a few more pics, the first from the west looking east, and the second from the north looking east....

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #131 on: June 06, 2017, 02:41:50 am »
What a marvelous feature for your  garden. 

I am envious of your large garden.  Inner metropolitan suburbs in Australia rarely come the large backyards my parents generation were accustomed to. I have become accustomed to looking out of my windows and straight into a colorbond fence. One day I'll retire in the Barossa Valley (our wine region) and make sure I have lots of land.

It would be funny if those stones survived many generations until one day some future archaeologist wonders how they came to be put on your land and what their connection is with Stonehenge!

Peter








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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #132 on: June 06, 2017, 03:15:34 pm »
thanks Nick.
it was a true labor of love, and the second greatest thing i ever did.

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What was the greatest, if you don't mind me asking?

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #133 on: June 06, 2017, 03:18:54 pm »
marrying my wife, Debbie. 

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #134 on: June 06, 2017, 03:36:48 pm »
and yet another new coin, this one a silver fraction from Eion in Macedonia...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-137595

i really love this little coin.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #135 on: June 06, 2017, 05:55:03 pm »
Ah, yes, of course!

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #136 on: July 08, 2017, 01:43:42 am »
What a marvelous feature for your  garden. 

I am envious of your large garden.  Inner metropolitan suburbs in Australia rarely come the large backyards my parents generation were accustomed to. I have become accustomed to looking out of my windows and straight into a colorbond fence. One day I'll retire in the Barossa Valley (our wine region) and make sure I have lots of land.

It would be funny if those stones survived many generations until one day some future archaeologist wonders how they came to be put on your land and what their connection is with Stonehenge!

Peter

i'm on .7 acres in the middle of Salem, but the house is situated in the center so i don't have enough usable room for a garden like this either, although my dog Repo can stretch his legs.
this garden is located at a friends house about 18 miles south of here in a small town where most of the homes have a least an acre, and many are small farms. it is, in fact, the mint capitol of the world!

my latest addition is a diobol from Ephesus which i purchased last weekend from Joe. i like these little bees and didn't have one in silver until now. i think it's kinda cute...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-138209

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #137 on: July 09, 2017, 04:30:27 am »
Hmm both :

the Eion, Macedonia and the diobol from Ephesus are great

 Congratulation  +++

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #138 on: July 12, 2017, 12:49:24 pm »
i may bee going buggy, since my last three coins have all featured bees, but i am currently all a-buzz about this sweet early 5th century diobol from Ephesus...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-138281

and remember to choose 'Position +' if you're browsing my gallery so everything shows up in the proper order.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #139 on: July 12, 2017, 04:48:47 pm »
That's an anatomically reasonable bee, with the wings in the position adopted by flies, and a shortened abdomen. That's what a dead and dried bee looks like, and it's very common, so I suspect they tended to work from old dried specimens at times. Other times they're anatomically all over the place.
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #140 on: July 16, 2017, 03:32:15 pm »
interesting observation Robert, and i remember a similar discussion on this very subject a few years ago.

my newest addition is a beautiful silver drachm from Herakleia in Lucania...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-138339

i went through a lot of hassle with this coin, including unnecessary delays and what i consider to be excessive fees, overly high postage (for the service), etc. i was getting so frustrated that i just knew i would never be able to look at it without remembering those frustrations.
and then it arrived, and i have to say i'm enthralled.
this is from the final period of Herkleia as a Greek mint, but they sure went out with a bang!
have a look and see if you don't agree.

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #141 on: July 16, 2017, 04:34:50 pm »
I'm actually quite impressed by some of these representations of bees. Old bee identification books (I have one from the 1930's) have pics done from dried museum specimens, and they show similar distortions.
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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #142 on: August 13, 2017, 04:33:22 pm »
here's an AE drachm from early 4th century Syracuse, an enormous hunk of bronze!...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-139054

i've wanted one of these for a long time, but they are usually, imo, quite overpriced. it is also a coin which is very often faked, which made me a bit shy as well.
i got this one at auction for what i think was a very reasonable price, although it is far from pristine.

it occurred to me that if launched from a sling this coin could be as lethal as a sling bullet!

~ Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #143 on: August 14, 2017, 05:24:02 am »
Nice addition Peter,

 I like this style of small Greek coin... :) ;) +++

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #144 on: December 14, 2017, 09:18:24 pm »
thanks Q!   :) 

here's a couple of new coins I picked up from Joe during the recent sale.

the first is a cool little billon fraction from the island of Lesbos, c. 500 BC, featuring a very interesting visual illusion...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-141775

and the second is a bronze from Campania after the Roman occupation. I had actually been considering this one for quite awhile, but something else always turned up...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-141774

enjoy, and remember to hit 'Position +' to view my gallery in the proper order.   8) 

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #145 on: December 14, 2017, 11:01:23 pm »
Great additions.

I had my eye on the one from Cales, Campania. I am glad it went to a good home.

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #146 on: January 12, 2018, 09:11:05 pm »
yeah, it seems like a few people were eying that one.   8) 

here's my latest acquisition, a bronze from Pherai in Thessaly...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-142947

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #147 on: January 13, 2018, 02:15:39 am »
Interesting coin. A lion-head fountain!

Peter

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #148 on: January 13, 2018, 09:14:18 am »
Wow, Enodia => you have several cool new gallery additions (congrats)

I love the lion fountain examples from Thessaly (I have a Pherai example as well ... very cool addition)

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Re: Latest additions to my gallery...
« Reply #149 on: January 13, 2018, 10:24:07 pm »
very nice coin. Stkp

 

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