Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful detail and tones as usual John Do you know if these were cast? or stamped? Thanks all for the explanations already provided on the context. Bien cordialement de Metz Philippe Le 27 mai 11 ? 01:58, John Nebel a ?crit : > > Inspired by Jim's Homeric photos... > > http://photos.csd.net/protesilaus.html > > Mouse over to see reverse, click for an enlargement. > > The head on the coin is Protesilaus, an Homeric hero; his name is > retrograde in the crest of his helmet. The coin's reverse is the > stern of a ship with the letters SKIO in the corners of the incuse > naming the town Skione which issued the coin in the early 5th > century BC. The ship is anachronistic as it appears to be 5th > century design, more advanced than those used in the Trojan war > around 700 years earlier. > > "They who held Phylake and Pyrasos of the flowers, > the precinct of Demeter, and Iton, mother of sheepflocks, > Antron by the sea-shore, and Pteleos deep in the meadows, > of these in turn fighting Protesilaus was leader > while he lived; but now the black earth had closed him under, > whose wife, cheeks torn for grief, was left behind in Phylake > and a marriage half completed; a Dardanian man had killed him > as he leapt from his ship, far the first of all the Achaians." > > (Iliad 2.695) > > Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesilaus > > > > Best, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >