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For me, it is very expensive. I bought the first paperback in 2019 for about 75 € delivered in Antwerp, now the price is 106,86 €. Just after buying, I found it on the web for free, but illegal, I think now, but I took a copy of it. If I can help you any information, let me know.

my coin

RR Memmia,dioscuri, 1.docx

this is my coin, I am sorry but I can not display now the photo.

First : I am happy Tejas continue this scarab topic; I hope to be able n a few months to continue also.

Conservatorgg : I think the silver ring is new, for the scarab, it is possible to give a date with this pictures, but need, if possible, better photos of the inscription.

@Tejas very nice and interesting scarabs, I hope to give a comment asap. 

I am jealous 😄

nice coins. Here my coin Crawford 319/1

Claudius AD 41-54

TIberius CLAUDIUS CAESAR AUG

PONtifex Maximus TRibuniciae Potestate IMPerator COnSul DESignatus ITerim , in the mile : Senatus Consulto

16 x 17 mm, 2.72 gr, 6 h.

RICI 84

AD 25/1/41 - 3/12/41

my exemple

beautiful coins

I was lucky to buy this stater last Saturday on the club auction. It is not the kind of coin I usually collect, but the price (45 €) decided me to buy.

It would be a stater of Corinth, SNG COP84, but I know nothing of this coins. I was checking quickly in Wildwinds and there this staters have mostly a symbol on the reverse and a letter on the obverse. Problem is also that there are many cities with this coin. Can anybody confirm or give information where to look ? Thanks.

    310-300 BC -- 8.48 gr

I like the fly and most the captive, as you do. Can you give the link ?

IVery nice scarab, do you have a translation. I have some ideas on the first view, but I am not at home for the moment. 

The name of Thoutmosis I doedn t mean the scarab is to date on hislifetime period.

 think I ll try it also with mu republican coins; I did something similar with 17-18 century coins, each coin with identication, This example for silver coins.

Eigen werk ,zilveren munten , 1,250119.doc

beautiful coins

So, no doubt, reduci the dative is the solution, @Roman Collector has right.

@maridvnvm thanks

A sestertius of Lucius Verus

L.VERUS AUG.ARM.PARTH.MAX.

TR.POT.VIIII.IMP.V.COS.III, FORT.RED., S C : Fortuna with cornucopiae and rudder

Also maybe, but then I prefer an ablative Fortuna reduce because it was Fortuna who brings back. I know an ablative figures not often on coins, but here it is more appropriate I think.

I have a problem with the reverse inscription : FORT REDUC, Fortuna staying with 2 cornucopiae.

The usual version is Fortuna ReduX, redux being a substantive meaning :who is coming back. The usual illustration on this coin is Fortuna seated, holding in the right hand a rudder, which rests on a globe and in the left a cornucopia. The meaning is that Fortuna protected the emperor coming back from a war or a journey.

Here we have reduC and Fortuna with 2 cornucopiae. It is possible it is an error, but I don't think so because the cornucopiae, meaning abundance, fecundity and happiness. I think the transscription is Fortuna reducit or reducta : Fortuna brings back ( the good times) or (The good times) are back by Fortuna.

The coin has been minted in 196/197, the year Severus defeated Clodius Albinus near Lugdunum, the civil war came to an end and he became the sole emperor. 

What is your opinion ?

@DonnaML 4 pulchri quadrantes 🙂

I have only 2 quadrantes :

Claudius, 

TI CLAUDIUS CAESAR AUG : modius

PON M TR P IMP COS DES IT in the middle : SC

16 x 17 mm , 2,72 gr, minted : 25/1/41 – 3/12/41 : consul designatus iterim , RICI,84 .

Domitianus

IMP DOMIT AUG GERM : head of Minerva

SC : olivebranch

18 mm , 2,2 gr, minted after 83, RIC428

This coin has been in circulation till the years seventies. The first emissin was in 1946, the last in 1954 in 2 languages.

 AG 835, Cu165, 33 mm, 18 gr, 6 h            

obverse : 4 kings : Leopold I, Leopold II, Albert I, Leopold III from right to left

reverse : value 100 frank. / francs België / Belgigue and coat of arms.

and a little introduction to the country 😁

obverse : (L SE)PT SEV PER  /  T AUG IM(P ?)

reverse : FORT REDUC

16,6 mm, 2,8 gr, 12 h.

mint : Laodicea

I have identified this coin as RIC 477a, R2, Imp VIII, AD 196/7.

There is also an unpublished similar coin for IMP II. Is it possible to be sure for the date, based on the image?

@dougsmit I agree for the obverse. I have 2 coins.

I bought this coin in my club in Antwerp for 3,6 euro. Very expensive😄

That's a nice collection, very difficult to find. As you said, I think you are alone here. Congrats.

At last, I have a few other Republican Dioscuri :

RRC 304/1, mint Rome, 19 mm, 3.88 gr, 19 or 108/ BC, number of dies : 162/202

The moneyer is the brother of C.Memmius, tribunus plebis in 111 BC .

RRC 353/1c, mint Rome, 85 BC, 19,5 mm, 3,45 gr, 12 h, number of dies : 206/229 for 4 varieties.

The moneyer is perhaps the brother of the moneyer M.Fonteius (RRC 347). The pilei on the reverse suggest maybe the Dioscuri.

RRC 463/1b, mint Rome, 85 BC, 18 mm, 3,9 gr, 6 h, number of dies : 549/610 for 2 varieties.

The moneyer is Manius Cordius Rufus.

To finish a Greek coin with the Dioscuri, an Athenian New Style tetradrachme.

Thompson489,156/155 BC, 28,4 x 29,4 mm,16,7 gr, 12 h.

The Dioscuri are on the reverse right. As there are several Greek cities with Dioscuri types, also on horse as the Roman, I am interested to make also such a collection.