Post it and pick it!

[TuckHard]

6 hours

Safavid Dynasty of Persia
1552 to 1564 AD
Issued under Tahmasp I
Nakhjavan Mint
AR bisti | 1.16 grams | 12.7x13.3mm wide
Ref: Album#2609A, Z#278989

Next: another sixteenth century coin

[shanxi]

Freiburg im Breisgau
Batzen 1533
Vs.: +MONETA·NO·FRIBVRG:BRISGAVD 1533 - Head of Raven
Rs.: +DOMINE·CONSERVA·NOS·IN·PAce - Eagle.
AR, Ø28mm, 2.7g
Ref.: Berstett 223; Schulten 903

 

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[Qcumbor]

3 hours ago, TuckHard said:

Next: another sixteenth century coin

France : Francois I° (1515-1547) - Teston du Dauphiné deuxieme type 

Atelier de Romans (point secret sous la deuxième lettre, R couronnée au revers)
+ (triangle) FRANCISCVS.DEI.GRA.FRANCOR.REX (triangle) buste cuirassé et couronné a droite
+ (triangle) SIT.NOMEN.DNI.BENEDICTVM.R.(Mm) (triangle). Ecu ecartelé de France et Dauphiné. Grande F sur l'ecartelé (après le 8 octobre 1528, date à laquelle une lettre F brochant sur l'écartelé fut ajoutée sur les testons (source CGB VSO 09/1067))
9,25 gr - 26/29 mm
Ref : Ciani # 1141v

Next : Still a sixteenth century coin, yet bearing a portrait

Q

[Dafydd]

Iulius Caesar. Denarius Spain 46-45, AR 18mm., 3.68g. Diademed head of Venus r.; behind, Cupid. Rev. Two captives seated at sides of trophy with oval shield and carnyx in each hand; in exergue, CAESAR. Babelon Julia 11. C. 13. Sydenham 1014. Sear Imperators 58. RBW 1639. Crawford 468/1.

Next, more captives.

[Qcumbor]

39 minutes ago, Dafydd said:

Iulius Caesar. Denarius Spain 46-45, AR 18mm., 3.68g. Diademed head of Venus r.; behind, Cupid. Rev. Two captives seated at sides of trophy with oval shield and carnyx in each hand; in exergue, CAESAR. Babelon Julia 11. C. 13. Sydenham 1014. Sear Imperators 58. RBW 1639. Crawford 468/1.

Next, more captives.

Is that a sixteenth century coin ?

😄 😄 

Q

[Dafydd]

Apologies @Qcumbor For some reason I did not see your post. Really not sure what happened because I posted this 4 hours ago . as I was out of my house 2 hours ago. Weird.

To make amends here is a 16th Century coin with a portrait.

QUEEN ELIZABETH 1st silver hammered three pence dated 1578 ad,5TH issue Seaby 2573.

Next carry on @Qcumbor 's thread interrupted by me. So 16th Century portrait next.

[Dafydd]

2 hours ago, Qcumbor said:

Is that a sixteenth century coin ?

😄 😄 

Q

Ah this should have been my first answer heading. Not sure what is wrong with my fingers today. Possibly because I lost my spectacles but just found them on top of my head....................

[Qcumbor]

5 hours ago, Dafydd said:

Ah this should have been my first answer heading. Not sure what is wrong with my fingers today. Possibly because I lost my spectacles but just found them on top of my head....................

Maybe the coronation has been too much of a trouble !!!

😄 😄 

Q

[DonnaML]

Henry VII, AR Groat, profile issue, regular issue, 1504-1509, London Mint. Obv. Crowned and draped bust right, wearing arched imperial crown with triple band, HENRIC' VII' DI' GRA' REX AGL' Z F' [Henry the Seventh by the Grace of God King of England and France] / Rev. Royal shield of arms over long cross forked, POSVI DEV. A DIVTOR E': MEV' [abbreviation of POSUI DEUM ADJUTOREM MEUM; I have made God my helper]. Mintmark pheon [barbed arrowhead pointing downward] on both obv. and rev., saltire stops (mixed on rev.). S. 2258. 26 mm., 2.98 g., 9 h. Purchased from Noonans (Noonans Mayfair Ltd., London, UK), Auction 270, Mar 9, 2023, Lot 2097; ex Clive Dennett Coins, Norwich, UK (retail purchase 1991).*

*See Peter Seaby, The Story of British Coinage (1985) at pp. 83-84 (ill. 106 at p. 83 shows a specimen of S. 2258 with mintmark pheon), describing the introduction under Henry VII of an individualized profile portrait of the king, instead of the facing image of a generalized monarch that had previously been featured on the obverses of English coinage, representing “a step moving from medieval to Renaissance style, . . . perhaps coinciding with the appointment of Alexander de Brugsal, a German goldsmith, as engraver to the mint.” Thus, “in 1504, there were produced at the London mint coins with a profile portrait which compete for excellence with the finest portrait pieces issued by the Italians.  This new coinage consisted of testoons of twelve pence (the first of this denomination to be issued), groats and half-groats, though only the last two coins appear to have been minted in any quantity. These portrait pieces have been attributed to Alexander de Brugsal, though as he moved to Antwerp in 1504 it is possible that they were the work of some other engraver.” The author notes that Henry VIII retained his father's portrait on his own coins for the first fifteen years of his reign.  

Next, a portrait of another monarch named Henry or any variant of that name.

Edited May 8, 2023 by DonnaML

[TuckHard]

1 hour ago, DonnaML said:

any variant of that name.

Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spain)
1471 to 1474 AD
Issued under Enrique IV
Toledo Mint
BI blanca | 0.78 grams

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[Qcumbor]

2 hours ago, TuckHard said:

Next: another fifteenth century coin

Charles VII (1422-1461) - Ecu d'or - 3° emission de 1424, atelier de Toulouse (annelet sous la cinquieme lettre)
Croisette sur etoile initiale, KAROLVS : DEI : GRATIA : FRANCORVM : REX, Ecu de France couronné
+ XPC : VINCIT : XPC : REGNAT : XPC : IMPERAT, croix arquée, evidée et fleudelisée, cantonnée de quatre coronelles
3.76 gr, 28 mm
Ref : Ciani # 617

Next : something french or from a place which is now France (roman from Lugdunum is OK for instance)

Q

[DonnaML]

Augustus AR Denarius, 11-10 BCE, Lugdunum (Lyons) Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, banker's mark[?] below ear, AUGVSTVS downwards behind, DIVI • F upwards in front / Rev. Bull butting right, right forefoot raised, lashing tail over back, IMP • XII in exergue. RIC I Augustus 187a (2d ed. 1984), RSC I Augustus 155 (3rd ed. 1978), BMCRE I Augustus 472 at p. 81 & Pl. 11 No. 19 (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1866-1201-4186 ). 19 mm., 3.69 g. Purchased from Kölner Münzkabinett, Jan. 2022.

Next: a Roman coin minted in today's Bulgaria.

Edited May 8, 2023 by DonnaML

[TuckHard]

Well, it's not present-day Bulgaria, but it's been 6 hours and I went through all of my Roman coin mints and this is the closest I have: Sirmium which is located in today's Serbia, a neighbor of Bulgaria.

Roman Empire
363 to 364 AD
Issued under Jovian
Sirmium Mint
AE follis | 2.54 grams | 21mm wide
Obv: Bust right, DN IOVIA-NVS P F AVG
Rev: VOT V MVLT X in wreath, ASIRM below
Ref: RIC 118

Next: another Jovian or Sirmium coin

[DonnaML]

4 hours ago, TuckHard said:

Well, it's not present-day Bulgaria, but it's been 6 hours and I went through all of my Roman coin mints and this is the closest I have: Sirmium which is located in today's Serbia, a neighbor of Bulgaria.

Roman Empire
363 to 364 AD
Issued under Jovian
Sirmium Mint
AE follis | 2.54 grams | 21mm wide
Obv: Bust right, DN IOVIA-NVS P F AVG
Rev: VOT V MVLT X in wreath, ASIRM below
Ref: RIC 118

Next: another Jovian or Sirmium coin

FYI, Marcianopolis and Nicopolis are both in Bulgaria.

[Roman Collector]

Here's a Sirmium mint one.

Fausta, AD 324-326.
Roman billon centenionalis, 2.65 g, 20.2 mm, 6 h.
Sirmius, AD 324-25.
Obv: FLAV MAX FAVSTA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, Fausta standing facing, head left, holding two children in her arms; SIRM in exergue.
Refs: RIC vii, p. 475, 55; LRBC I 810; Cohen 7; RCV 16549.

Next: a coin you found very difficult to photograph.

[expat]

Difficult to photograph

This coin is almost jet black in hand, arranging the lights was in fact more difficult than getting an acceptable image.

NEXT: Dark patina

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by expat

[shanxi]

black

Perge
Asia Minor, Pamphylia
2nd - 1st Century B.C.
Obv.: laureate head of Artemis right, hair rolled, quiver behind neck, border of dots
Rev.: AΡTEMIΔOΣ right [ΠEΡΓAIAΣ out of flan left], Artemis standing left, wreath in right, long vertical scepter in left, stag at her feet right
AE, 5.45g, 15.1mm
Ref.: BMC Pamphylia p. 120, 5

[expat]

@shanxi what is the next subject, please.

[shanxi]

Oh yes, again 

 

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[Prieure de Sion]

5 hours ago, shanxi said:

Next: stag

 

 

Marcus Iulius Philippus I Arabs
Antoninianus of the Roman Imperial Period 248 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 22mm; Weight: 4.00g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC IV Philip I 20; Obverse: Bust of Philip the Arab, radiate, draped, cuirassed, right. The Inscription reads: IMP PHILIPPVS AVG for Imperator Philippus Augustus; Reverse: Stag, walking left. The Inscription reads: SAECVLARES AVGG for Saeculares Duorum Augustorum (Secular Games of the two Augusti).

 

Next: a middle age gold coin please... 

[Ryro]

next: cool helmet

[Prieure de Sion]

47 minutes ago, Ryro said:

next: cool helmet

 

Its late here in Europe... and I am not sure, the color its golden or not 😄

[Roman Collector]

Athena's triple-crested helmet is cool!

Troas, Sigeion, c. 335 BC.
Greek Æ 12.2 mm, 2.37 g, 5 h.
Obv: Head of Athena facing slightly right, wearing triple crested helmet and necklace.
Rev: ΣΙΓΕ, owl standing right, head facing; crescent to left.
Refs: BMC 17.86,7-10; SNG von Aulock 7637; SNG Ashmolean 1214–6; SNG Copenhagen 496–8; Sear 4145.

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[Ryro]

Next: more pretty little coins

[shanxi]

 

Uncertain Mint
Pontus or Asia Minor
about 130-100 BC
Obv.: Horse's head with star
Rev.: Comet
AE, 1.66g, 12.1mm
Ref.: SNG Black Sea 984, Lindgren III 154
OMNI 8 (11-2014), p.49, Fig. 17, this coin

 

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