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Offline stevex6

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #775 on: July 30, 2019, 11:31:16 pm »
Here is another gallery addition ...

PAMPHYLIA, Perge, Æ18
Circa 50-30 BC
Diameter: 18 mm
Weight: 3.92 grams
Obverse: Cult statue of Artemis Pergaia facing within distyle temple; c/m: sphinx seated right within circular incuse
Reverse: Bow and quiver
Reference: Colin Series 7.2; SNG BN 373-8
Other: dark brown to black patina with earthen highlights/deposits ... cool sphinx counter-mark
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind


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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #776 on: August 06, 2019, 11:28:49 pm »
  I should close out the story of the Gryphon As (Crawford 182/2) , which arrived several days ago and is now in queue for cataloging and to go to my gallery!  Very happy to have it.  Thanks for turning it loose, Steve!


I also wanted to share this unheralded coin, from the same source: 

AE Dupondius. Augustan Moneyer T Quinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus, ca 18 BC. AVGVSTVS/TRIBVNIC/POTEST within oak wreath / T.CRISPINVS.III VIR.A.A.A.F.F. around large S C. [RIC 332 although it is possible that it is a variant with just one "F" , I need to look a bit more closely.]

Crispinus had a decent start -- he was one of Augustus's moneyers and then later shared the consulship with Nero Claudius Drusus in 9 b.c.e. (Or, more properly stated, "the year in which Crispinus and Drusus were consuls".) 

As the coins graphically demonstrate, their legacies were not parallel -- "Commander and Conqueror of the Germans" on an aureus commissioned by son Claudius versus "one of three men who melt and strike gold, silver and bronze". 

And, although Drusus died shortly after, greatly lamented, as wikipedia notes, Crispinus did not fare as well in history:  "Velleius Paterculus characterized Crispinus Sulpicianus as "useless and defiant", and accused him of “unique depravity disguised by forbidding eyebrows”. A supporter of Iullus Antonius, he was accused of being one of the lovers of Julia the Elder and was either banished from Rome or executed in 2 BC as a result."


If only our eyebrows could disguise even some of our depravity...

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #777 on: August 07, 2019, 07:58:57 am »
PMah => I'm glad that you liked the Gryphon As (enjoy it)

Oh, and congrats on your Crispinus addition as well (thanks for posting it)

... I laughed at the eyebrow comment (sadly, I have very thin eyebrows that wouldn't be able to cloak any of my many vices!)

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #778 on: August 07, 2019, 10:49:28 am »
Steve P,

Interesting obverse. Love that countermark.

Tracy

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #779 on: August 14, 2019, 05:43:51 pm »
 :)

Thanks Tracy

Hey, here is today's gallery addition ... Lotsa anchors!

Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos I, Æ 20
Antioch
280-261 BC
Diameter: 20 mm
Weight: 4.52 grams
Obverse: Macedonian shield with anchor as central boss
Reverse: Elephant right; c/m: anchor
Reference: SC 339.4; WSM 946
Other: Black patina, minor roughness ... sweet elephant & anchors

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #780 on: August 14, 2019, 06:33:40 pm »
Nice Jumbo  ;D
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #781 on: August 15, 2019, 01:42:54 pm »
Wow, Steve, great coin,  ;) +++

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #782 on: August 15, 2019, 02:54:17 pm »
 :)

Thanks fellas

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #783 on: August 16, 2019, 10:41:01 pm »
That's a lot of anchors.   I didn't even know that elephants needed anchors.
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #784 on: August 17, 2019, 03:49:37 pm »
 :laugh:

Ahaha, good one PMah

Hey curious? ... what do you think that symbol is in exergue on the reverse?

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #785 on: August 17, 2019, 07:06:50 pm »
My guess, and I do mean guess, mandible of a boar or bull.
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #786 on: August 17, 2019, 08:19:07 pm »
I think you’re right, Joe.

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #787 on: August 18, 2019, 12:26:41 am »
 +++

Thanks for the info, fellas

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #788 on: August 31, 2019, 11:14:17 am »
Here is the latest addition to my gallery ... ya gotta love the Tyche coins, eh?

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Philip I
Æ 8 Assaria
AD 244-249
Antioch mint
Diameter: 30 mm
Weight: 16.39 grams
Obverse: Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip I right
Reverse: Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right; above, ram leaping right, head left; Δ-Є and S-C across field
Reference: McAlee 990
Other: 6h … earthen green patina, areas of light roughness

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #789 on: August 31, 2019, 01:18:18 pm »
Steve P,

Gorgeous coin, especially the reverse. Love that patina.

Tracy

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #790 on: August 31, 2019, 09:59:53 pm »
Thanks Tracy

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #791 on: August 31, 2019, 10:08:12 pm »
Hey, it's finally the NFL once again

=> yeeeehaaaaaa

Man, I love the NFL (good times)

Hi

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #792 on: September 08, 2019, 10:59:03 am »
Great  Philip I love it  +++ +++
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #793 on: September 10, 2019, 04:17:59 pm »
 :)

Thanks, coin bro

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #794 on: September 12, 2019, 12:02:20 pm »
Hi there, gang ... stevex here

Hey, my wife and I are moving from Thompson Manitoba to Kamloops British Columbia on Monday September 16th (this fricken Monday!)

... anyway ...

We're totally panicking about leaving our northern palace, but excited to be going south to the "Desert of Canada"

=> yup, it's the next chapter in our lives (wish us luck)


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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #795 on: September 27, 2019, 08:11:51 am »
lOOKS GREAT
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #796 on: September 27, 2019, 11:17:51 pm »
Best wishes to all, Steve. 
Bring sunscreen,  you're a lot closer to the Equator now.  Less than 10 degrees North of Rome.
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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #797 on: October 18, 2019, 04:59:18 pm »
Thanks, gang ...

Hey => I'm back! (yup, we're almost all set-up in Kamloops)

Did I miss anything?

 ;)

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #798 on: October 18, 2019, 06:05:23 pm »
Welcome back Steve. All moved in, I assume? From the picture above it certainly looks gorgeous.

Tracy

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Re: Steve P's Sweet Gallery
« Reply #799 on: October 18, 2019, 09:14:28 pm »
Here are a couple more recent gallery additions ...

Umayyad, Anonymous AE Fals
Date: 730-740 AD
Diameter: 14.3 mm
Weight: 2.6 grams
Obverse: Pentagram
Reverse: Legend
Other: kinda cool


IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum.
AR Trihemiobol
Circa 400-350 BC
Diameter: 8 mm
Weight: 0.84 grams
Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Trident head within circular maeander pattern
Reference: SNG Kayhan 404–7
Other: 2h … rugged patina (neat lil coin)
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind


 

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