PING Jim Higgins ( Mesembria In Thrace)

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gogu wrote:

I don't know, as I said the only info I had was from that old Italian
documentary, maybe I am confusing names.
If you say he had children then you must be right about Moreschi:-)


Only Mrs. Caruso knows for sure. ;-)

How true.

I have two coins from Mesembria. I always assumed that they were from
the town on the Black Sea, but now I'm not so sure. More research is
needed. To wildwinds.com I shall go...

http://members.aol.com:/ankaaz/mesembriaeux.jpg

http://members.aol.com:/ankaaz/private/mesembria.jpg

I hope you can see these. Some non-AOLers may have problems.
Apologies in advance.

No problems here, I could see them all right.
I think there is a big confusion between the two towns and that's due their
identical name, so I believe you should do some more research to see from
what Mesembria your coins are coming.
But from a quick net search I can see that most dealers do not say from
which
Mesembria their coins come and every site is just stating "coin from
Mesembria".
I believe they do not know that there are two Mesembrias...


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in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane! F.d.A

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~Anka

gogu wrote:
No problems here, I could see them all right.

Good!

I think there is a big confusion between the two towns and that's due their
identical name, so I believe you should do some more research to see from
what Mesembria your coins are coming.
But from a quick net search I can see that most dealers do not say from
which
Mesembria their coins come and every site is just stating "coin from
Mesembria".
I believe they do not know that there are two Mesembrias...


You may be right!

Here's a very good website, the author of which -does- know his
Mesembrias:

http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/thrace.html


~Anka

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gogu wrote:
No problems here, I could see them all right.

Good!

I think there is a big confusion between the two towns and that's due
their
identical name, so I believe you should do some more research to see from
what Mesembria your coins are coming.
But from a quick net search I can see that most dealers do not say from
which
Mesembria their coins come and every site is just stating "coin from
Mesembria".
I believe they do not know that there are two Mesembrias...


You may be right!

Here's a very good website, the author of which -does- know his
Mesembrias:

http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/thrace.html


~Anka


Impressive-and now filed away for further study.

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gogu wrote:
I think there is a big confusion between the two towns and that's due
their
identical name, so I believe you should do some more research to see from
what Mesembria your coins are coming.
But from a quick net search I can see that most dealers do not say from
which
Mesembria their coins come and every site is just stating "coin from
Mesembria".
I believe they do not know that there are two Mesembrias...


You may be right!

Here's a very good website, the author of which -does- know his
Mesembrias:

http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/thrace.html

Indeed, one of the very few.
And a good one!
To note here that the coin he is presenting is from the Aegean Mesembria!
You definitely should research the origin of your coins:-)

--

E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane! F.d.A

Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos
http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html


~Anka

gogu wrote:
To note here that the coin he is presenting is from the Aegean Mesembria!
You definitely should research the origin of your coins:-)



Who he?


~Anka

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gogu wrote:
To note here that the coin he is presenting is from the Aegean Mesembria!
You definitely should research the origin of your coins:-)


Who he?

The guy in the site you pointed us!

--

E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane! F.d.A

Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos
http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html


~Anka

gogu wrote:

The guy in the site you pointed us!


The "guy in the site" describes several obverse/reverse combinations
for coins of Mesembria on the Euxine (pg. 278) and one for Mesembria on
the Aegean (pg. 248).


~Anka

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gogu wrote:

The guy in the site you pointed us!


The "guy in the site" describes several obverse/reverse combinations
for coins of Mesembria on the Euxine (pg. 278) and one for Mesembria on
the Aegean (pg. 248).


The first Mesembria coin you meet in his site (pg. 248) is the one from the
Aegean Mesembria.
And yes, later he has two coins from Euxinus Mesembria.

It's nice he is doing the difference between the two Mesembrias, he is the
only one I could find to do that, but again, I am not in the ancients...
"There were two places of this name in Thrace, one an important colony of
Megara on the Euxine, the other mentioned only by Herodotus (vii. 108), who
calls it a continental stronghold of the Samothracians.".

--

E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane! F.d.A

Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos
http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html


~Anka