Alegandron

Great capture @expat!

RR Titurius Sabinus 89 BCE AR Den Tarpeia buried shields S 251 Cr 344-2a

RR L TITURIUS LF SABINUS AR Denarius Rape of Sabines 89 BCE Sear 249 Craw 344-1a

Very nice @Roman Collector

Cupla mine...

RR Vibius Pansa 90 BCE AR Den Apollo V control - Minerva Quadriga Sear 242 Cr 342-5 Social-Marsic War

RR C Vibius CF CN Pansa 48 BCE AR Denarius Pan Jupiter Anxurus Sear 420 Craw 449-1

Nice coin @expat

PIGGIES !!!

Here are a few...

RR M Volteius Mf AR Denarius 78 BCE 18mm 3.96g Hd Hercules R lion skin headdress - Erymanthian boar Cr 385-2 ex SteveX6

Ionia Klazomenai 480-400 BC AR Drachm Pentobol 3.5g 13mm Forepart  winged boar r gorgoneion incuse sq Cf SNG Copenhagen 12 Rare

Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 BCE Diana Boar Hannibal capital Italia SCARCE

I do have the OTHER Apollo / Galloping Horse version of the DiDrachm:

RR Anon AR Heavy Denarius -  Didrachm 275-270 BCE ROMANO Apollo Left-Galloping Horse Sear23

Oh, wow, @red_spork!  Lovem!  Very nice gorgeous examples!

 I am fascinated by the Pre-Denarius AR coinage, and captured a few Drachmae (and DiDrachmae)...  I have a few others...

Roman Republic
AR Half-Quadrigatus (216-214 BCE) DRACHM
17.7mm, 3.2g
OBV: Beardless Janiform (thought to represent the Dioscuri being beardless)
REV: Iupiter and Victory in galloping quadriga LEFT (to distinguish it from Quadrigatus Didrachm), ROMA in ex
REF: Sear 35

RR Anon AR Heavy Quin Drachm Half  Quadrigatus 225-212 BCE 3.1g 18mm Janus Jupiter in Quadriga L Victory ROMA  Cr 29-4 S 35 S

RR Anon Ca 240 BCE AR Drachm 16mm 3.0g Rome Helmet Hd Mars r - Horse’s hd sickle Wildwinds  Cr 25-2 Syd 25 RSC 34a 

RR Anon AR Heavy Denarius -Quadrigatus - Didrachm 225-215 BCE Incuse Roma Janus Jupiter Cr 28-3 S 31

17 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

Thanks All the way Back At you!  :<} 

...Hoping you get an honest minute to post more.

I plan to. I am in the process of adjusting to retirement and life changes. I plan to finally execute my project of thoroughly cataloging and reshooting my collection. Going to redo my office for my collection projects. I may even look to sell some of my lower interest categories in 2025… dunno yet.

@JeandAcre:

lol,

and, thank you, Sir

Ca the same area and time:

for @JeandAcre

Egypt Mamluk Qalaun 1279-1290 CE AR Dirham Dianeshq



AYYUBID Caliphate - Saladin al-Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf AH564-589 1169-1193 CE AR Dirham RARE mint

SELJUQ OF RUM 
Kaykhusraw II 
1236-1245 
AR dirham
Siwas AH 639 A-1218 
lion sunface star L

Wow Gorgeous coin @Phil Davis and @red_spork, the Half-Vic is on my wish list, and has been for along time.

Here is one of my Full-Vic and a couple Half-Quads chaser for fun…

RR Victoriatus after 211 BCE Jupiter Victory Trophy VF Craw 53-1 Syd 83




RR
Anon
AR Heavy Quinarius / Half-Quadrigatus / Drachm
216-214 BCE
Janus
ROMA Jupiter Victory Quadriga LEFT
Craw 29-4 Sear 35

RR Anon AR Heavy Quinarius / Drachm / Half-Quadrigatus 225-212 BCE 3.1g 18mm Janus Jupiter in Quadriga L Victory ROMA Craw 28-4 Sear 35 SCARCE
5 Asses = Quinarius

All I got…

Egypt Mamluk Qalaun 1279-1290 CE AR Dirham Dianeshq

18 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

Sorry, but now is when I have to ask, how drunk are we?

LOL, nope not inebriated. I may have one, maybe two beers a month, anymore.  You need to see more of this guy’s work. His schtick is hilarious as a clown, but his voice is great. He has done songs without the makeup. 

I love the Irony....  🙂

Marsic

denarius 90-88 BCE

Italia-Corfinium

Oath pig

Marsi Picentines Paeligni Marrucini Vestini Frentani Samnites Hirpini

S227 SCARCE

RI Paulina w Maximinus I D before CE 235 AE sestertius 30.77mm 19.66g 2nd emiss of Maximinus I CE 236 Peacock RIC IV 3 RARE

RI Orbiana w Severus Alexander Augusta 225-227 CE Æ AS 23 mm 8.75g Rome Concordia patera double cornucopiae RIC 656

Since coins were not minted prior to 650 BCE or so, and the Egyptians were WAY late to the coin party, I have been collecting a few Scarabaei to capture landmarks in their History.

Pharaoh Thuthmosis III The Great

Egypt SCARAB Thuthmosis III ca 1504-1450 BCE ex CNG ex Hendin

On 1/30/2024 at 8:34 PM, JeandAcre said:

...Oh, No, @Roman Collector, "Fresh Air" just reaired this:

https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2024/01/26/1226877301/fresh-air-for-jan-26-2024-remembering-p-d-q-bachs-peter-schickele-the-shangri-la?showDate=2024-01-26

When you posted 'Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice,' I was wanting to return the favor.  Here's one.  Likely it was already old enough that it took finding in the library, or maybe used. ...Only dates me in the wrong way.

Wait! a coin!  The most Greek I have pictures of are two complementary hemidrachms of Kolchis.  Sometimes dated as late as the 4th c. BCE, but even from out there in the western Caucasus region, I have to think that the pronounced archaism of the style puts them earlier than than that, by a century if not two.

 

 

@JeandAcreReally like those coins!

Kolchis

5th-4th C BCE

BI hemidrachm  11.5mm 1.8g

Archaic female head possibly Georgian goddess Dali -

Bull head  border

SNG Cop 98

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali_(goddess)

RImp

Marc Antony

AR Quinarius

Concordia Clasped Hands Caduceus

Cr 529-4b

Tragically passed at too young an age of 45yo in '97...

Luceria

AES Grave

Anonymous 217-215 BCE

Uncia 7.35g

Frog

-Corn Ear pellet retrograde L

T-V 285

LOL, I thought this would be appropriate for Fulvia...

😄

RImp

Marc Antony 43 BCE

AR Quinarius

13mm 1.67g

Lugdunum

Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia

Lion DVNI LVGV

Cr 489-5 Syd 1160

Syracuse Tyrant Gelon 458-478 BCE AR Tet 24mm 16.7g Slow Biga Victory  Arethusa 4 dolphins Sear-Greek 914

3 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

@Alegandron, going back to the mid-'60's, when I was that low to the ground, my mom used to sing me that song.  I literally grew up assuming it was a folk song, with connotations of, say, Odetta.  Wow.  Thanks for the enlightenment!  A really solid RR, by the way, single-handedly justifying the earlier types, before the designs started going all over the place in the next century.  (Cf. esp. @DonnaML's Favorites of 2023 thread.)

Ditto about my mother singing that to me when I was a wee lad, too.  Good memories.

RR Saturninus 104 BC Roma Saturn hldng Sickle Quad 2 dots-V S 193 Cr 317-3a var

On 12/31/2023 at 2:08 PM, Heliodromus said:

I wonder how these beasts were actually used, and what their purchasing power was? They seem unpracticably heavy to be carrying around on the off-chance you want to spend one ... more for a pre-planned payment perhaps ? More bullion than coin ?

 

 

In the case of the Carthage 15 Shekel coin, I found this info… 

Hannibal issued it (after losing to Scipio at Zama), when he was organizing Carthage's finances after the 2nd Punic War. Hannibal was scrambling to pay the massive Roman War indemnities. 

I like to personally call these very scarce coins the ZAMA since no one truly knows what they were called at the time.

These were probly produced to ship to Rome, then they (Roma) may had melted them down to convert into their currency.

My thoughts.

But with all these honkin' big-as coins from Egypt, I still enjoy my baby DiChalkon from Trajan:

RI Trajan Egypt AE Dichalkon Laureate hd L Rhinoceros walking L LI-Z yr 17 CE 113-114 12.9mm 1.25g Emmet 719 var. rhino right