Benefactor Steve Posted June 9, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) Ummm, it's a dude's butt ... but still a butt MYSIA, Kisthene, Orontes, Satrap of Mysia, AR Half Siglos or Tetrobol Circa 357-352 BC Diameter: 13 mm Weight: 2.75 grams Obverse: Nude hoplite crouching left behind shield, spear at ready Reverse: Forepart of winged boar right Reference: Troxell, Orontes 4; SNG France 1164A (Lampsakos); SNG von Aulock Other: 12h … bright surfaces, porous Ex-stevex6 (ummm, I think I sold it to TIF?) NEXT => way more butts ... butt-butt-butts!! Edited June 9, 2022 by Steve 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientOne Posted June 9, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 9, 2022 How childish! I can not believe you guys keep posting this stuff. Next: More butts! 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 next: big ole butt 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) On 6/9/2022 at 9:03 PM, Ryro said: Next: big ole butt How about Homer, sitting on his thinking about writing the Iliad and the Odyssey? This coin from Smyrna also has a great portrait of Apollo. Ionia, Smyrna, c. 125-115 BC. Æ (22mm, 8.63g, 12h). Apollodoros, magistrate Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right Rev: Homer contemplating, seated left on his big ole butt, resting chin on hand and holding sceptre Ref: Milne 197; SNG Copenhagen 1147 Next: a fabulous portrait Edited June 11, 2022 by Sulla80 linking to the request more clearly 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 This is one for @Octavius or @Romancollector - but I will give it a try - Next: Another fabulous portrait! 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Here is a nice portrait of Caligula on this sestertius with OB CIVIS SERVATOS reverse.. show another nice looking portrait. 12 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANTE Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 A less than mediocre coin, but with a good portrait between the cracks and the corroded edge: Next: a poor coin, but one you wanted nonetheless. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAg47 Posted June 10, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 10, 2022 I got this Chola silver stater a couple of years ago, silver issues from this empire is really scarce, so when I came across this coin I bought it regardless of its condition, which set me back nearly 100 bucks (still a large sum to me). However I still haven't seen another silver coin for sale till now! Uttama Chola, 970-985 AD Anyways I tried to clean it, and I think I made it worth what I payed. Next, your ugly but expensive coin. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 250 Euros, but it's Artemis with Callisto Septimius Severus Arkadia, Orchomenos Diassarion (2 Assaria) Æ Obv.: [...]CEOVHP[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev.: [ΟΡΧΟ]ΜΕΝ[ΙΩΝ], Artemis expels Callisto: Artemis standing facing left, her head to right, holding bow (?) with her right hand and extending her left to Callisto right, who holds a bow. AE, 23 mm, 5,50 g Ref.: - Next: Another ugly but expensive coin 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 10, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 10, 2022 Although I am aware that this might not sound expensive for other members, for me it was and I am not 100% happy with this coin (120 EUR+ taxes. my most expensive individual purchase). However, not a disaster since you can't find Julia Titi every day. Next - another coin of a rare ruler, in modest condition, that you bought because you wanted that specific ruler and a decent coin from him/her would have been very expensive. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAg47 Posted June 10, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) This Nerva denarius I bought to complete my five good emperors only cost me $90, tbh given the condition, it was a great deal. Next- expensive coin from a common ruler. Edited June 10, 2022 by JayAg47 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Can't remember how much but a lot more than I normally budget for.... Layaway was my saviour..... Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. AE Dupondius (11.76 gm, 25.3mm). Rome mint. Struck 154-155 AD. Obv.. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVIII, radiate head right. Rev.. LIBERTAS COS IIII / S - C, Libertas with pileus and sceptre standing left. RIC 933....BMC 1469. gVF. Next...Pileus 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANTE Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Next: part of the legend off-flan. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 10, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 10, 2022 I was able to reconstruct the legends on this coin by comparing it to the two other examples illustrated online. Julia Soaemias, AD 218-222 Roman Provincial AE 21.4 mm, 12.48 g Samaria, Sebaste, AD 218-222 Obv: SVΛEMIAS ΛV[GVSTΛ] SEB, bare-headed and draped bust, r. Rev: COL• L• SE• [SEB• ASTE•], temple of the Capitoline Jupiter* with four columns; Jupiter standing in center between Athena and Hera. Wreath within pediment Refs: Rosenberger 36 (die match); Price & Trell 786; SNG ANS 1083. *You can read a very interesting article about this temple here. Next: Tetrastyle temple 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Lydia. Hierocaesaraea Commodus Bronze, Æ 31 Obv: AVT KAI Λ AVPH KOMMOΔOC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: ЄΠ AI APTЄMIΔOPOV APX IЄPOKAICAPЄΩN, Tetrastyle temple, with pellet in pediment and containing Artemis standing right, drawing bow; behind, stag standing right RPC IV.2, 11398 (temporary) [this coin]; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC - Ex Numismatik Naumann, auction 52, Lot 1030 Ex Plankenhorn Collection Next: Hexastyle temple 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 10, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 10, 2022 Probus AD 276-282. Rome.Antoninianus Æ. 22 mm, 3,59 g RIC V Probus 187 Date Range: AD 276 - AD 282 PROBVS P F AVG Bust of Probus, radiate, wearing imperial mantle, left, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle in right hand ROMAE AETER Hexastyle temple, Roma seated in centre, holding Victory in right hand and sceptre in left hand MintMark: -/-//RVA Next - distyle temple 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Augustus Pergamon, Mysia, AD 1 Ae 21 Obv.: CEBACTON KE ΦA…, Statue of Augustus, standing facing and holding scepter, within distyle temple. Rev.: ΠEPΓAMHNΩN KAI CAPΔIANΩN, Demos of Pergamon crowning Demos of Sardeis. AE, 5.46g, 20.8x22.2mm Ref.: RPC 2362, SNG Copenhagen 519. Next: Octastyle temple 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 10, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Octastyle. Sabina, AD 117-137. Roman provincial Æ 24.5 mm, 8.12 g, 6 h. Bithynia, Koinon of Bithynia. Obv: CΑΒЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, draped bust of Sabina, right, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane. Rev: ΚΟΙ-ΝΟΝ BЄIΘΥΝΙΑϹ, octastyle temple on podium; pellet in pediment; Nikes erecting trophies (?) on raking cornices. Refs: RPC III, 1016A; SNG von Aulock 291; cf. BMC 13.107,30. Next: Sabina. Edited June 10, 2022 by Roman Collector Spelling 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted June 10, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 10, 2022 Sabina (wife of Hadrian) Billon Tetradrachm, Year 15 (130/131 AD), Alexandria, Egypt mint. Obv. Draped bust right, wearing double stephane, with hair coiled and piled on top of head, ϹΑΒΙΝΑ - ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ / Rev. Sabina (as Demeter) seated left on throne without back, hair plaited over stephane, wearing chiton and peplos, holding two ears of corn with right hand extended, and, with left hand, holding long scepter, ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ around; LΙΕ [Year 15] at 11:00 on reverse between ears of corn and Sabina's head. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5773 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5773; BMC 16 Alexandria 917 at p. 106 [Poole, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)]; Emmett 1334.15 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1308 at p. 32 (differentiated at p. 152 from Milne 1309, on basis of reverse hairstyle) [Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], ill. at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/56405 [Specimen No. 10 of RPC 5773, held by Oxford, Ashmolean Museum]; Sear RCV II 3954. Purchased from Zuzim Inc. on Jan. 14. 2022 at NYINC 2022. 24 mm., 12.309 g.* *One of only two basic reverse types of Roman Alexandria tetradrachm with bust of Sabina on obverse; the other type shows Sabina standing on reverse. Various subtypes exist with different legends (ϹΑΒΙΝΑ vs. ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ) and hairstyles (queue vs. upswept) on both sides. Next, another Empress on the obverse of a Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm. 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 10, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 10, 2022 Faustina II Alexandria Billon-Tetradrachm Obv.: ΦAYCTIN CEBACTH, draped bust right Rev.: L ΙΓ (year 13), Dikaiosyne seated left, holding scales and cornucopia Billon, 13.46g Ref.: RPC online 13660, D 3239, Geissen 1949, M 2040 Next: Faustina II provincial 14 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 10, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 10, 2022 Thrace, Hadrianopolis Faustina II 161-176 21 mm 6.6 g ΦΑVϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ, draped bust of Faustina II, r. / ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Tyche standing, l., wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia RPC IV.1, 3917 (temporary), Jurukova 68, 72 and 74, BMC 7 Next - Hadrianopolis 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 11, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 11, 2022 Now, I'm not saying there were aliens in Hadrianopolis ... JK ... Here's a real one from the city. Caracalla, AD 198-217. Roman provincial AE 17.1 mm, 3.44 g, 12 h. Thrace, Hadrianopolis, AD 198-217. Obv: AVT K M AVP CE ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head, right. Rev: AΔΡIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Nude Eros standing right, left leg crossed over right, leaning with right hand and left elbow on inverted lit torch. Refs: Varbanov 3526; Jurukova, Hadrianople 390.2; CN 5217; Moushmov 2615; cf. SNG Cop 271. Notes: Reverse die match to CN 5217 specimen (Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, no. 1566). Next: Tooled beyond recognition. 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 11, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2022 10 hours ago, Roman Collector said: Next: Tooled beyond recognition. It is prudent to check out both sides of a coin before buying....this example showing some evidence of "cleaning" on the obverse: Next: an untooled AE litra from Syracuse 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 11, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2022 SyracusePyrrhosSyracuse Sicily Pyrrhus Epirus 278-276 BCE AE Litra 11.4g 23.3mm Herakles Nemaean Lion scalp - Athena Promachos thunderbolt shield SNG Cop 813, SNG ANS 852 Next: AR Pyrrhos - any of his kingdoms... 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 12, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, Alegandron said: Next: AR Pyrrhos - any of his kingdoms... image, public domain, via archive.org Since it has been ~11 hours - I will take some liberties with the interpretation of "AR Pyrrhos, any of his kingdoms" and share this coin of Epirote League. Pyrrhus of Epirus became leader of the League in 297 BC. When his wife, Antigone, died, he married three other women: - Lanassa daughter of Agathocles, King of Syracuse - A daughter of King Audoleon of the Paeones - Bircenna, the daughter of the leader of the Illyrians, Bardyllis This secured peace with all of Epirus' neighbors. The other important neighbor, King Demetrius of Macedonia was married to Pyrrhus' sister. This coin was issued well after the death of Pyrrhus and is federal coinage of the Epirote League. Epeiros, Epirote Republic, AR Drachm, circa 234-168 BC Obv: Laureate head of Dodonaean Zeus right; monogram below Rev: Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, ΑΠΕΙ to left, ΡΩΤΑΝ to right; all within wreath Ref: Franke, Group II Next: a coin from any of the neighbors to Epirote Edited June 12, 2022 by Sulla80 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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