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Geta, 209 - c. 26 December 211 A.D., Ancyra, Phrygia
Ancyra means anchor in Greek. There were two cities named Ancyra in Anatolia, the one in Abbaitis, Phrygia that issued this coin, and another larger city in Galatia, now the capitol of Turkey. Ankyra in Abbaitis may have struck autonomous coins as Abbaetae Mysi in the 2nd century B.C. Under Rome, Ankyra in Abbaitis struck civic coinage from the rule of Nero to the rule of Philip the Arab.RP92645. Bronze AE 27, cf. Waddington 5653, SNGvA 3442 var. (legend), SNG Cop -, SNG Hunt -, SNG Tub -, SNG Mun -, Lindgren -, VF, well centered, attractive style, edge crack, porous, Ancyra (Ankara, Turkey) mint, weight 9.831g, maximum diameter 26.8mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, 198 - 209 A.D.; obverse Λ CEΠT ΓETAC KAI, bare-headed and draped bust right, seen from behind; reverse EΠ AΠOΛΛOΦ NOVCΛOV AP A (magistrate Apollophanes Nousloua), Cybele seated left, wearing turreted crown, phiale in extended right hand, left forearm resting on tympaeum, lion left at her feet on far side of throne, AΓKVP,A,NΩN starting in exergue, second A in right field, ending in two retrograde lines in the upper left field; from the Errett Bishop Collection; only one sale of this type recorded on Coin Archives in the last two decades; extremely rare; SOLD
A few quotes from Errett Albert Bishop...
| "Mathematics is common sense." "The real numbers, for certain purposes, are too thin. Many beautiful phenomena become fully visible only when the complex numbers are brought to the fore." (Bishop 1967, Ch. 5, Complex Analysis, p. 113) "The primary concern of mathematics is number, and this means the positive integers...In the words of Kronecker, the positive integers were created by God. Kronecker would have expressed it even better if he had said that the positive integers were created by God for the benefit of man (and other finite beings). Mathematics belongs to man, not to God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself." (Bishop 1967, Ch. 1, A Constructivist Manifesto, p. 2) Errett Bishop, Jane Bishop and Rover are in the photograph right. |  |
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