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fantastic coin, I think it is Cr 346/6 ( BMCRR ROME 2419) : (NUMA P)OMPILI . (clockwise) ANCUS. (MAR)CI .(counterclockwise) MAR in ligature.

very interesting coin, rare and an engraver's error, yo have to - know and to - find !!

ery beautiful coin, I think the monogram reads as : mu chi upsilon epsilon omikron

I have the same tetradrachm of Nero as yours :23,5 mm , 12,98 gr , as 12 uur . The reverse is the personification of the town Alexandria. In the first century of Roman art, a woman with an elephants symbol was the image of Africa. The first representation of a head with an'exuviae elephantis' is on a tetrdrachm of Ptolemaios I, about 320/315. The represented person is Alexander the Great. Ptolemaios made also an analogy of Alexander with Heracles with a lions skin, referring to the battle of Alexander with Poros on an elephant in Hydaspes in 326 BC. In the Julian-Claudian period is there only one representation of a woman with a cap in the form of an elephants head, this coin, the reason why numismatics think it is a representation of Alexandria. The personification of Africa occurs not often in the period Traianus-Hadrianus and Africa is also represented as an elephant or a protome . I am making an inventory of my coins for my daughter and this is the commentary I made for this coin.

I am sure it was not found here in my garden in Antwerp 😁 maybe in the garden of my second house in Rettigny ( Belgium Luxemburg, near Germany and Luxemburg) where the Ourthe river forms a border... Seriously now, I think your spearhead is not fake, but from a later period.; I think with a split socket, it is not Roman but earlier medieval, but all this weapons are a mystery for me. It is a beautiful object, take your time to make some investigations and I am sure it will be a very nice object for you. I agree with @Kamnaskires he kows a lot more than we two, hen selling objects as this, the sellers tells what he like to tell.

It is not the part of my collection where are my interests, but looking the photos, I am asking : how looked Lucilla? On my coin it is not a beauty queen, looking and comparing the differend photos, an evolution in representing is showed. What I mean is very easy to see : my picture and this one above from Herodotus

no, that is the problem, the socket is closed and I think, a split socket is to date later. I hope for you I am wrong because it is a nice specimen

nice collection, I have about 10 coins, denarii and sestertii, this is one of the most special : pictures I ve made about 20 years ago. RICIII,786 , C86, AD 148 – 182, 18 mm , 2,7 gr , as 6 uur

I have only one spearhead, Celtic, found in the Donau river in Germany. I think yours is iron as mine. It is dated in the fourth century BC, sizes 162 x29 mm, 53 gr. There are still some rests of wood in the socket.The point and the sides are still sharp.

lovely medals, I know nothing of this, but I like to look at. What is beautiful for me, every period has his own style.

I received yesterday the missing bronze medal, I bought it for only 25 €, very cheap. 47.3 mm, 60.97 gr, Guioth, RB73.

I think you are wrong : he liked to write, but lived in the desert....

@kirispupis maybe good news : your bronze coin can be Sambon,Thourioi,44. : his description : obverse : head of Pallas, T in the field. He never reports other inscriptions for bronze coins, so without looking, this is maybe your coin. I think in more recent books, It is possible to find more references. It is in French, but maybe you can translate it. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ia601309.us.archive.org/32/items/recherchessurle00sambgoog/recherchessurle00sambgoog.pdf

@Phil Anthos : This coin from Thurii recently sold at Praefectus, and with the reverse monogram I thought it might be relevant here... The city'name is on the top : Thourioi, the monogram is T H = tau êta, not an abbreviation of Thourioi.

I have only a few Greek one and two euro coins : the one euro for the four drachme revers and the two euro for Europe and Zeus, represented on my guttus.