Steve

UNO => Green Patina "and" Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius AE Drachma

Alexandria, Egypt

AD 161-180 (struck AD 150/151)

Diameter: 31.9 mm
Weight: 15.66 grams
Obverse: Laureate head of Marcus Aurelius right
Reverse: Female “griffine” seated right, left paw on wheel, across field regional year ( 14 = AD 150/51 )
Reference: Dattari 3224, Emmett 1866 (Rarity 3)
Other: 12h
Ex-stevex6 … Ex James E. Seaver collection

D is for Diva and Divus ... ummm, D is for Dead dude's and dudessa's coins

Diva Faustina Senior, AE Sestertius

Diva Julia Titi, AE Sestertius

Divus Augustus, AE Sestertius

D is for Deadly coins!!

Hey sorry that I'm posting to this dead-thread (great thread, by the way => cheers, expat)

... but ummm, some amazing coin-dude that went by "Zonad" posted this coin several years ago (probably over a decade ago now, because I no longer check-out "modern" coins) 

=> OMG!! ... this coin wins on being a cool ol' coin from the 1880's ... plus, the fact that this stunner is also an error-coin makes it off-the-charts in my eyes!!

Cheers => Z for "ZONAD"

... okay fine ... I have had a few beers (no judging)

"More Celtic"

Celtic Gaul, Senones AE Cast Potin (below)

Date: 100-50 BC

Diameter: 17.8 mm

Weight: 4.0 grams

Obverse: Head right

Reverse: Stylized horse with pellets around ... ummm, or horse playing soccer?

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FRANCE. CELTIC TRIBES OF GAUL 

CORIOSOLITE CLASS IIB BILLON STATER (below)

Date: 80-50 BC

Diameter: 20.69 mm
Weight: 6.13 grams
Obverse: Stylized Celtic head right
Reverse: Celticized rider on horseback right, below, boar right

Reference: De LaTour 6598
Ex-stevex6 … From an old French collection

NEXT => more horses playing soccer

Ummm, or "rider on horseback"

UNO => Grapes

Boeotia, Thebes, AR tetartemorion

Ca. 405-395 BC

Diameter: 7 mm

Weight: 0.18 grams

Obverse: Boeotian shield

Reverse: Θ-Ε, grape bunch on vine

Reference: BCD Boiotia 466; SNG Copenhagen 294-5

Other: Sweetly Toned … Rare

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UNO => cool boar coin(s)

M. Volteius M.f AR Denarius / Boar (below)

Date: 78 BC

Size: 18.42 mm
Weight: 3.96 grams
Obverse: Head of Hercules right, wearing lion skin headdress
Reverse: Erymanthian boar right, M. VOLTEIA M.F in exergue

Attribution: Crawford 385/2, Volteia 2, Syd 775

Ex-stevex6 (I think it’s now ???'s coin ... sadly, I can't recall ... Ancient Aussie, Qcumbor, Alegandron maybe? ... gawd, I can't remember anything nowadays)

C. Hosidius C.f. Geta (below)

64 BC. Rome Mint.

AR (silver) Denarius Serratus (3.63 gm  20mm).

Obverse: GETA – III·VIR, Draped bust of Diana to right, with her hair simply arranged and with bow and quiver at her shoulder.

Reverse: C.HOSIDI.C.F, Wild Calydonian boar standing right, pierced by spear and attacked by hound.

Ref. Hosidia 2. Cr.407/1. Syd.904.

Other: linear banker's mark on neck

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UNO => ummm, the mention of Mr. Lucius Verus 

Lucius Verus AE Sestertius

164 AD

Diameter: 33 mm

Weight: 26.69 grams
Obverse: L AVREL VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, laureate head right

Reverse: TR P IIII IMP II COS II S-C, Victory standing right, placing a shield inscribed VIC/AVG in two lines on palm

Reference: RIC 1396, Cohen 249
Other: Nice portrait ... cool back-lighting/toning

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UNO => Faustina-II (Junior)

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AR Denarius

Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 161-164

AD 147-175

Rome mint

Diameter: 18 mm

Weight: 3.35 grams

Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane

Reverse: Draped and ornamented throne on which are two infant boys

Reference: RIC III 712 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 27-4b Diad.; RSC 191

Other: 12h … sweetly  toned

Ex-stevex6 … From the Dr. George Spradling Collection

UNO => Rudder

Antoninus Pius Sestertiu

Date: 144 AD
Diameter: 30 mm
Weight: 20.4 grams
Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III - Laureate bust of Antoninus Pius.
Reverse: DES IIII - Salus holding rudder and patera, feeding snake entwined on altar.
References: RIC 122, 749

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Ummm, I must be in a bit of a down-mood? (oh well, it's a very cool tune)

... oh, and a very cool coin as well ... 

Marius, Romano-Gallic Emperor, Antoninianus

Treveri (Trier) mint

2nd emission, mid AD 269

Diameter: 18 mm

Weight: 2.79 grams

Obverse: Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right

Reverse: Clasped hands

Reference: RIC V 7; AGK 3b

Other: 6h … brown surfaces with traces of silvering

Ex-stevex6 … From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind

Well, hello ...

Ummm, I haven't tossed-in an ol' tune and/or an ol' song in quite a while, so here's a happy little tune ...

KINGS of COMMAGENE

Antiochos IV Epiphanes Æ28

AD 38-72

Diameter: 28 mm

Weight: 15.57 grams

Obverse: Diademed and draped bust right

Reverse: Scorpion within wreath

Reference: RPC I 3854; AC 199 (obv. legend)

Other: 12h … earthen brown patina, rubbed on the high points, two long scratches near obverse edge (sweet blue-green toning)

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cheers, coiners

Hi

6 hours ... sorry, I couldn't find a fun example of a flat-strike (my bad)

However, I did absolutely love this sweet coin ... super-cool, right?

Ionia, Teos AR Hemidrachm

Obverse: Griffin

Reverse: Kantharos, magistrate name across, lyre right

Date: 4th cent. BC

Diameter: 12.8 mm

Weight: 1.3 gr

Other: Chocolate toning

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NEXT => hmmm? ... GRIFFIN (Gryphon)? ... chocolate coin? ... kantharos? ... 4th century BC coin? (surprise me)

UNO => Bull and/or incuse punch

Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Siglos

c. 340-320 BC

Diameter: 17 mm

Weight: 5.31 grams

Obverse: KALC (KALX) Kalchedon/Calchedon? … Bull standing on corn ear

Reverse: “millsail" incuse

Reference: SNG Cop 348

Other: Comes with old CNG tag that describes it as good VF.  Banker's mark on both sides.  Nice grey toning.  An attractive piece

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DOGS

=> here are a couple of my sweet dogs: Larry (R.I.P.) & Hector

NEXT => Bow & Arrows

"Crested helm not on Athena"

Lucius Axius L.f. Naso AR Denarius (below)

Rome mint

70 BC

Diameter: 18 mm

Weight: 4.04 grams

Obverse: Helmeted head of Mars right, wearing crested helmet with plumes; XV¯ to left

Reverse: Diana driving biga of stags right; behind, two dogs running right; below, dog running right

Reference: Crawford 400/1b; Sydenham 795; Axia 2

Other: 4h … toned, banker’s mark on cheek. Rare

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NEXT => DOGS!!

🙃

what do you got?

"an AE with an aqua or blue patina"

Gordian III, Cappadocia, Caesarea-Eusebia AE21

238-244 AD

Dated RY 4 (AD 240/1)

Diameter: AE21

Weight: 8.24 g

Obverse: AV K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC, laureate head right

Reverse: MHT PO KAI B N, calathus containing five grain ears

Reference: Sydenham, Caesarea; SNG Hunterian; SNG von Aulock; SNG Righetti; Lindgren & Kovacs; Lindgren III; MPR II

Other: some cleaning marks … rare … sweet bluish patina

NOTE: apparently, an unrecorded type for Gordian III

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NEXT => ummm, a lion and a dove?

Ummm, UNO???

NEXT => LIONS!!

"Minerva"

Domitian AR Denarius (below)

Date: 88 AD

Diameter: 19.2 mm

Weight: 3.2 grams

Obverse: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VII - Laureate head right.

Reverse: IMP XIIII COS XIIII CENS P P P - Minerva standing left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, shield at feet

References: RIC 109

Characteristics: Good style, details and toning.

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NEXT => Thunderbolt

"V" is for Vandals 

Vandals, Municipal Coinage of Carthage (below)

AE 4 Nummi

Date: 480-533 AD

Diameter: 9.61 mm

Weight: 0.85 grams

Obverse: Diademed and draped bust, holding palm

Reverse: - / N / IIII

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=> Vandal Horse!! (below)

VANDALS IN CARTHAGE, Æ 21 NUMMI 

SOLDIER / HORSE HEAD

Attribution: MEC 45
Date: 523-533 AD
Obverse: Soldier standing facing
Reverse: Head of horse left, XXI in exergue
Size: 20.26 mm
Weight: 6.28 grams
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=> Very, Very Vonderful

"V" is for the Various V-gang ... 

Valens

Valerian-I (below)

Valerian-II (below)

Vespasian (below)

Victorinus (below)

Vitellius (below)

Volusian (below)

=> Voila 

I had a couple of sweet goldie examples ... 

LESBOS, Mytilene. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (below)

Circa 478-455 BC

Diameter: 10 mm

Weight: 2.48 grams

Obverse: Ram’s head right

Reverse: Incuse bull’s head right

Reference: Bodenstedt Em. 27; HGC 6, 954

Other: 12h

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LESBOS, Mytilene. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (below)

Circa 454-428/7 BC

Diameter: 10 mm

Weight: 2.44 grams

Obverse: Diademed head of Silenos right

Reverse: Two ram heads butting each other; palmette above; all in incuse square

Reference: Bodenstedt Em. 37; HGC 6, 963

Other: 6h … VF, toned

Ex-stevex6 … From the Kallman Collection

"U" is for Uboea Chalkis

=> Unbelievably cool

Wow, that's a beauty, Al ... congrats on adding that great OP-coin! 

Oh, and I agree that they feel amazing "in-hand" 

Ummm, I had a handful of fairly cool Ptolemy examples ... but none of them were particularly high-grade (but still cool and great in-hand)