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Offline Tracy Aiello

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #75 on: April 04, 2020, 05:36:54 pm »
...and one more for the day. A wonderful bull wrestling drachm from one of my favorite places, Larissa.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-161998

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #76 on: April 05, 2020, 04:37:11 pm »
Nice one!

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #77 on: April 08, 2020, 11:32:48 am »
Both of your's coins are great... +++

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #78 on: April 08, 2020, 03:19:50 pm »
Thank you Joe and Mark. I've two more coming, once I get them written up: a wonderful little Sicilian litra (from Forum) and another bull wrestling drachm.

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #79 on: April 18, 2020, 06:47:45 am »
Great coin!  I love these types from Southern Italy

Here's mine

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-119935

Quite right, Jay.  Both you and Tracy cast my example into the shade... 
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-155926

You've clearly looked deep into some arcane references.  Can you clarify your reference to McGill? 

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #80 on: April 25, 2020, 04:03:38 pm »
I finally posted the bull wrestling drachm, after moving the picture from my "random coins" album to my "Larissa" album. What attracted me to this coin was the heavy incuse square on the reverse, the fact that the reverse legend is partially retrograde, and the wonderful toning on the coin.

   
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-162524

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #81 on: May 09, 2020, 03:26:02 pm »
Greetings Coin Lovers,

I have finally added to my collection a type that I have eyed up for quite a while: a Cista Mystica from Pergamon. Of all the things about this wonderful coin that I like the most, it is the eagle on the fulmen with a star above its head. Although in the photo it looks as if the eagle’s head is off of the flan, trust me it is not; it is there in all of its glory.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-162947

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #82 on: May 09, 2020, 04:19:04 pm »
Wow, both are great  +++

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #83 on: June 14, 2020, 12:55:45 pm »
Greetings,

I have finally be able to add a wonderful Q. Nasidius to my Sextus Pompey album. The coin has great detail (the photo, I believe, was lightened in order to highlight the detail. In hand the coin has a wonderful toning to it) and a "first" for my collection: a banker's mark.  I hope that you enjoy.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-163507

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #84 on: June 14, 2020, 02:42:30 pm »
Wow, Great album, congratulation... +++

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #85 on: June 16, 2020, 06:13:34 pm »
Great looks, with interesting reverse  +++
All the Best,
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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #86 on: June 20, 2020, 04:46:55 pm »
Joe and Eric,

Thank you very much. The compliments are appreciated.

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #87 on: June 28, 2020, 03:49:28 pm »
Greetings,

I have had the opportunity to add two wonderful Larissian obols to my collection. I find myself attracted more and more to these smaller denominations. When I have them in hand I wonder what skill, steady hands, and excellent eyesight it must have taken to cut the dies.

I hope that you enjoy.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-163680

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-163681

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #88 on: July 01, 2020, 03:21:13 am »
Both nice additions, Tracy 👍😉😀

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #89 on: July 18, 2020, 02:02:45 pm »
Greetings,

It has been a few weeks since I added a coin to my gallery. I recently purchased another little gem for my Larissian gallery. A beautiful bull hoof/horse head hemiobol.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164083

I hope that everyone is staying safe.

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #90 on: July 18, 2020, 06:16:05 pm »
Great piece... +++

 Joe
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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #91 on: January 27, 2021, 09:04:16 pm »
Hello Everyone,

It has been over six months since I last uploaded a coin to my gallery. I just added an obol of a horse prancing left on the obv. and Larissa playing with her ball on the rev. My quest for small denomination representations of Larissa engaged in ordinary activities continues.

I hope that you enjoy. Please stay safe.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-168015

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #92 on: February 08, 2021, 04:19:53 pm »
I like themes.  I'm always impressed when someone manages to stick with it.  Way back when, my first theme was the Roman Severan Dynasty, which I interpret to be one coin, preferably a denarius, of each key person.  I hope you develop your theme, which is reasonably narrow ("Larissa engaged in ordinary activities" or, simply put, 'Nymph Larissa'). 

I've only just now seen a post by Enodia pointing out in Collecting Themes that there are threads just for such themes. Check it out; it's the post with no replies.  :'(  It'd be lovely to start a theme on Larissa and have other contributors.

There's also the Coin Collecting Theme Galleries, which include 'Ancient Ladies.' Such a broad topic, though. I'm interested in countermarks (my stater of Olympia has three), but I cannot yet effectively search the vast Countermarks Theme Gallery, but I could see a smaller, focused discussion thread on, say, Countermarks of the Peloponessos.


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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #93 on: February 09, 2021, 06:24:10 pm »
Hello Anaximander,

When I first got into collecting I naively thought “hmmmm, my theme will be captives.” I found that theme in Joe’s shop and quickly realized that I would need to narrow that theme down, significantly. For Larissian coins I was originally attracted to the facing head drachms (who isn’t?) but came to really enjoy the smaller denominations with their depictions of Larissa, as well as bulls. I have some other themes, some that are stalled (Aurelian and the Palmyrene empire) and some that are slowly growing (the coinage of Khusro II that illustrate iconographic shifts). When I get the itch to buy but can’t find something in my theme de jour, I just come up with another theme.  ;D

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #94 on: February 10, 2021, 08:50:53 pm »
Greetings,

I have just added another small denomination coin to my Larissa gallery. Another obol, another bull, another wrestler, another bridled horse’s head. This one, however, presents a different perspective than the coins from Larissa of which most people think when they think of the bull wrestling type. This obol is a frontal perspective. Heck, our hero might not even be wrestling the bull; he might be rewarding him. I would like to quote from BCD Thessaly II, the collector’s note to lot 353.3 (a reference for my coin), p. 138: “...the attitude of the hero towards the bull remains friendly. Perhaps, after the contests were over, the bull riders would reward their bulls with a little something, the same way today riders give a small treat to their horses after they have performed well in a competition.”

I hope that you enjoy: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-168221

Stay safe.

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #95 on: February 10, 2021, 10:33:48 pm »
Great little coin.  Congrats.

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #96 on: February 11, 2021, 03:26:25 am »
It’s a very professional and well-organised gallery. I’ve just got the one ancient coin at present. It will be quite a while before I build a sizeable collection of my own.

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #97 on: February 11, 2021, 10:43:36 am »
Great coin, Tracy, and nice addition 👍

All the best

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #98 on: February 11, 2021, 03:35:45 pm »
Thank you Jay, Roger, and Joe for your kind words.

Tracy

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Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery
« Reply #99 on: February 13, 2021, 12:36:24 pm »
Greetings,

This is the last coin in my inventory to upload and it fits into my random coins gallery. It’s a triobol from Argos, Argolis. Who couldn’t love what’s on this coin? It has the forepart of a wolf, a large A in a nice incuse square, some Greek letters, a badass eagle standing on a harpa…. Well, at least I love what’s on the coin, in addition to it’s amazing condition. It really is gorgeous in hand.

If you check it out in my gallery one obvious question would be “why didn’t he list what is probably the standard modern reference for this coin, BCD Peloponnesos (or would that be Peloponnesos II?), instead of those much older references?” The answer to that question is simple: I only list a reference if I have access to it and can verify the attribution.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-168255

Take care.

Tracy

 

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