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How do you know it is Gepid/Avar period? I don't know much of this period, so I am interested .

fantastic collection, I think I 'll bid on some republican coins I don t have; Thanks. I don't understand you can sell such a collection, to make it you need years and money. So, keep it.

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.

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@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.

once cleaned, a very beautiful coin, I am sure

I don t understand it, because it is ease the read IV. It is not the first time we see mistakes and we have to be happy for it : beautiful coin and, I am sure, cheaper than  a rare one, congratulations and let' s hope a next time

I had the luck to find this medal in the Netherlands. It is a very rare one for 95 € + 7 €. I am looking now since 15 years on internet to find medals of the artist De Hondt missing in my collection , I found 2 medals and now on a month time, I bought this one and have a bod on a bronze medal of king Léopold, as presented in another treat. I am waiting the end of this month to know.

Here my new bronze Wild Man : (photos of the seller (https://haffmansantiek.nl/beloningspenning-van-de-koninklijke-school-voor-nuttige-en-beeldende-kunsten-te-s-hertogenbosch-1828.html)

I have only one medal of Napoléon :

obverse : BAPTEME DU ROI DE ROME / MDCCCXI .  -  ANDRIEU FECIT

Baptism of his son in 1811

reverse : A L’EMPEREUR / LES BONNES VILLES / DE L’EMPIRE , around : ANVERS / ALEXANDRIE / AIX-LA-CHAPELLE / AMIENS / ANGERS / BESANCON / BOURGES / BREME / BRUXELLES / CAEN / CLERMONT / COLOGNE / DIJON / FLORENCE / GAND / GENES / GENEVE / GRENOBLE / HAMBOURG / LA ROCHELLE / LIEGE / LILLE , op de tweede rij : LIVOURNE / LUBECK / LYON / MARSEILLE / MAYENCE / METZ / MONTPELLIER / MONTEBAN / NANCY / NANTES / NICE / ORLEANS / PARME / PLAISANCE / REIMS / RENNES / ROUAN / ROTTERDAM / STRASBOURG / TOULOUSE / TOURS / TURIN / VERSAILLES .

To the emperor - the good towns of the empire, beginning with Antwerp ..

68,50 mm , 128 gr , as 12 uur,  Félissent,467/468, 

I visited Vienna a last time about 10 years ago. I'll never forget the great mosaic you see entering : beautiful !!! just as the museum and the ruins of the townand the city. Also very interesting is the archaeological museum of Lyon-Lugdunum. There I saw a denarius of August with his 2 adopted sons, found in the grave of a soldier who died in the battle of Septimius Severus, about 200 years later with contemporary denarii. I think this coin was a talisman for him, but not a good one.....

Socrates ?

one of my coins : 

here is my Wild Man :

12 Mariengroschen = 1/3 Thaler , 32 mm, 6,4 gr, Georg Ludwig (1660-1727) in 1698

The Wild Man was also used in The Netherlands : a test in tin from the same medalist as my medal for the king. It was made in 1828 for the academy in 's Hertogenbosch, now in the Netherlands :

52 mm, 19,8 gr., Dirks, N.P., p 241, nr 300

KONINKLIJKE SCHOOL VOOR NUTTIGE EN BEELDENDE - KUNSTEN TE S’HERTOGEN-BOSCH. : Royal School for useful and plastic arts in 's Hertogenbosch.

Wild Man with his left hand on a crown and the arms of the town of 's Hertogenbosch, left an orange tree, symbol for the king of the Netherlands : the house of Oranje (from Orange)-Nassau