Post it and pick it!

[TuckHard]

United States of America (North)
c. 1863 AD
Issued privately and anonymously
AE patriotic token | 2.21 grams | 18mm wide
Obv: Horseman center, The Federal Union It Must Be Preserved
Rev: Our Union within a wreath, below a shield
Ref: Fuld 178-267

Next: another shield

[John Conduitt]

Elizabeth I Sixth Issue Shilling, 1589-1592

Tower. Silver, 5.83g. Hand initial mark. Crowned bust 6B left; ELIZAB.’D.’G.’ANG.’FR.’ET:HIB.’REGI.’ Long cross fourchée over square shield; POSVI/DEV!AD/VITORE/M.MEV! (S 2577). From the Market Harborough (Leicestershire) Hoard. Portable Antiquities Scheme: NARC-51AB00.

Next: Shilling

Edited May 19, 2023 by John Conduitt

[DonnaML]

6 hours ago, Prieure de Sion said:

PS: 

 

Nemesis statue from the 2nd century AD.

 

 

Or here an Nemesis - Victory from Hadrianus:

https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.2239-2241 

 

Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus
Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 136 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 17mm; Weight: 2.86g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC II, Part 3 (second edition) Hadrian 2239; Obverse: Head of Hadrian, laureate, right. The Inscription reads: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P for Hadrianus Augustus, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae (Hadrian, Augustus, consul for the third time, father of the nation); Reverse: Nemesis-Victory advancing right, holding branch and raising fold of drapery. The Inscription reads: VICTORIA AVG for Victoria Augusti (Victory of the Augustus).

 

 

PS: my next wish is still a gallic or britannic Usurper... 😄 

 

 

I found an explanation: it's the lifting of the fold of drapery that identifies the winged figure on the reverse of your Hadrian coin as "Victory-Nemesis." (A gesture that I don't think is present on the Postumus you posted.). See John Melville Jones, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (Seaby, London 1990), entry for "Nemesis" at p. 209:

"In art [Nemesis] appears as a draped female figure, her attributes being a bridle or wheel. [Note to @Roman Collector: the diamond-shaped object you identified as a sling is actually a bridle.] In due course a gesture became associated with her, that of raising a fold of her dress at the top, and holding it before her. This is explained by the tradition that the goddess expressed the idea of aversion by spitting upon her bosom inside the opened garment, and that humans could avoid her anger by making the same gesture.

A winged figure which appears on an aureus of C. Vibius Varus (42 B.C.) shows Nemesis with wings, which are usually the attribute of Victory."

An illustration at the same page shows a sestertius of Hadrian from AD 136, with a caption reading "The figure on the reverse must be identified as Nemesis because of the gesture with which she brings her robe before her face, but she has the wings of Victory and the branch appropriate to Pax."

TL, DR: sometimes Roman coins depict deities that blend the attributes of two or more gods or goddesses.

[DonnaML]

Charles I, AR Shilling, Second Milled issue, by Nicholas Briot, 1638-1639, mm. anchor, dies unsigned. 5.91 g., 6 h.  SCBI Brooker 728 (same dies) [North, J.J. and Preston-Morley. P.J., Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 33, The John G. Brooker Collection, Coins of Charles I, 1625-1649 (London 1984)]; S. 2859 (ill. p. 299). Purchased from Dix Noonan Webb (n/k/a Noonans Mayfair), Auction 251, 8 Mar. 2022, Lot 219.

Next, another Charles I coin or medal.

[John Conduitt]

Charles I Siege Ninepence, 1646

Newark-on-Trent. Silver, 4.43g. Large crown with jewelled band, Royal cypher, denomination below, C R IX (King Charles 9 pence). Legend across two horizontal lines, OBS: Newark (Siege of Newark), 1645 below (S 3144). Hand cut during the siege of Newark from donated silverware.

Next: siege

[TuckHard]

6 hours so here is a contemporary counterfeit of an occupation coinage from when the British Empire briefly ruled over the faraway islands of the islands of Java and Sumatra. Notice that the 1/2 fraction was erroneously copied as 2/1, as an effect of the 'beginner' minter trying to account for the mirroring effect of dies/moulds. This thing is so incredibly crude, I love it.
 

British occupation of Java
1813 AD (or soon after)
Contemporary counterfeit, issued locally and privately
AE (?) half stuiver | 1.00 grams | 26mm
Ref: Z#311840, also on Numista

Next: more mirrored/retrograde text, intentional or not

Edited May 20, 2023 by TuckHard

[John Conduitt]

Most Saxon coins are retrograde 🤣

Archbishop Wulfhere Phase IIc Styca, 854-900

York. Bronze, 1.06g. +VLFHEDARED. +VVLFRED retrograde (moneyer Wulfred) (S 871).

Next: more retrograde

[TuckHard]

This is another contemporary counterfeit coin from a Sumatran kingdom dating to the late eighteenth century. This retrograde wasn't on purpose, although when strung on a string it all passed the same it seems.

 

Jambi Sultanate of Sumatra
c. 1770-1790
Contemporary counterfeit of an anonymous seriers
Tin Pitis | 1.35 grams | 23.6mm wide | 0.7mm thick
Obv: Inscription Sultan Anum Sri Ingalaga in retrograde
Rev: Blank (uniface)
Ref: Z#313407

Next: more contemporary counterfeit or private coinage

[John Conduitt]

Edward IV Contemporary Counterfeit, 1490-1500

London, imitating York. Silver, 15mm, 0.42g. Facing bust; ECARCVS CEI (G)RA REX (instead of EDWARD DI GRA REX ANG). Long cross with quatrefoil; (CIVI TAS) EBOB ACI (instead of CIVITAS EBORACI); York reverse 3. Small letters; same broken B for B and R. Copies 1465-1483 coinage but probably produced early in Henry VII's reign when official Edward IV coins in circulation would be worn and clipped. From the Queenhythe Hoard.

More counterfeits.

[Prieure de Sion]

On 5/20/2023 at 7:09 PM, John Conduitt said:

More counterfeits.

 

 

Titus Flavius Domitianus as Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus
Subaratus Fourrée Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period after 84 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 2.89g; Mint: Imitating the Rome mint; Reference: For prototype, cf. RIC II, Part 1 (second edition) Domitian 188; Provenance: Ex Leu Numismatic Winterthur Swiss

Obverse: Bust of Domitian, laureate and draped, left. The Inscription reads: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG GERMANIC for Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus (Imperator, Caesar, Domitian, Augustus, conqueror of the Germans); Reverse: Minerva standing left, holding thunderbolt and spear; shield at side. The Inscription reads: P M TR POT III IMP V COS X P P for Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Tertia, Imperator Quintum, Consul Decimum, Pater Patriae (High priest, holder of tribunician power for the third time, Imperator for the fifth time, consul for the tenth time, father of the nation).

 

Next: a coin with a pedigree before 1900 - is there anyone? 

[John Conduitt]

14 minutes ago, Prieure de Sion said:

Next: a coin with a pedigree before 1900 - is there anyone? 

There are several hoards that were found before 1900, like East Harptree. So anything from that has a pedigree back to 1887 and a provenance back to the Romans.

This coin cheats a bit in that the collection was only sold recently. But it belonged to a numismatist who died in 1814.

Commonwealth Sixpence, 1660

Tower. Silver, 2.98g. Arms of England surrounded by a wreath, anchor mintmark above; · THE · COMMONWEALTH · OF · ENGLAND. Arms of England and Ireland, topped with mark of value in Roman numerals; · GOD · WITH · VS · 1660 · VI · (S 3220). Ex Samuel Birchall of Leeds (1761-1814), precursor to James Conder and author of A Descriptive List of the Provincial Copper Coins or Tokens issued between the Years 1786 and 1796, arranged Alphabetically.

More pedigree before 1900.

[akeady]

This was in the Duke of Northumberland's collection, catalogued by Admiral Smyth in 1856.

Admiral Smyth was a very interesting character in his own right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Smyth

If I recall correctly, I first read of him in an article by Phil Davis on the Erato vs Terpsichore identification - Smyth got it right and was then ignored for over a century.

Moneyer:	Pinarius Natta
Coin:	Silver Denarius X - Helmeted head of Roma right NATTA - Victory in biga right
Exergue:	ROMA
Mint:	Rome (149 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis:	3.40g / 18mm / 9h
References:	RSC 1 (Pinaria) Sydenham 390 Crawford 208/1 Smyth p. 167 #45 (this coin)
Provenances:	Ex. Noble Sale 107A, lot 3573 Ex. Colin Pitchfork Collection Ex. Sotheby's 4-Nov-1982, lot 232 Ex. Duke of Northumberland Collection
Acquisition:	Del Parker NYINC Bourse 11-Jan-2019

The Northumberland collection - it was the fourth duke whose collection was catalogued by Smyth, though the coins had been in the family for many years according to Smyth so the collection was probably formed by one of his ancestors - was sold by Sotheby's in 1982 and I have two coins from it now, neither of them exceptional, except in having a reasonably old provenance.

P.S.   The catalogue is available online (unfortunately, there are no plates, but some of the coins are illustrated in the 1982 sales catalogue):

https://archive.org/details/descriptivecata00nortgoog/

Next - another coin with an old and/or interesting provenance.

Edited May 21, 2023 by akeady
Added link to online catalogue and a photo'

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Attribution: RIC III 482 Rome
Date: AD 161-162
Obverse: IMP L AVREL VERVS AVG, bare head right
Reverse: PROV-DEOR TR P II COS II, Providentia standing left, holding globe and cornucopia
Size: 16.90mm
Weight: 2.96 grams

Description: toned good Fine. Includes old yellowed paper envelope from the coin dealer E. Boudeau, Paris - dating prior to 1912 - with dealer name, coin description and price (1.80 francs, about 36 cents) hand-written in French with an ink pen. Élie Boudeau (1853-1912) was a politician and numismatist in late 19th century-early 20th century Paris. He served in the 5th legislature of the Third French Republic from 12 November 1889 to 14 October 1893. He owned a shop in the numismatic district of Paris at 11 Rue Rameau, only a stones throw from the Bibliotheque Nationale and one block from the Rue Vivienne where several coin shops, including CGB, still exist today. (Marc B description).

Next: another old provenance.

[Roman Collector]

The oldest, well-documented and illustrated provenance I have is this one. It was formerly owned by Clarence Bement (1843-1923):


Julia Domna, AD 193-217
Roman orichalcum dupondius; 10.61 gm, 24.2 mm
Rome, issue 6, AD 195
Obv: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: FECVNDITAS, Fecunditas enthroned right, nursing one child, second child stands before her.
Refs: RIC 844; BMCRE 494; Cohen 43; Hill 126; RCV 6639
Notes: Ex Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement Collection, lot 1184. Die-match to BMCRE-494, pl. 21.4.

It appears in Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement Collection, lot 1184. Here's the listing from that auction:

Next: Fecunditas on a coin of the Severan dynasty.

[akeady]

Fecunditas on a Severan dynasty coin...

Ruler:	Julia Maesa (Augusta)
Coin:	Silver Denarius JVLIA MAESA AVG - Draped bust right FECVNDITAS AVG - Fecunditas standing left, extending hand over a child and holding cornucopiae
Mint:	Rome (ca 218-222 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis:	3.17g / 19.5mm / 6h
References:	RIC 249 (Elagabalus) RSC 8
Provenances:	Ex. E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection
Acquisition:	Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live Auction 26 #437 23-Oct-2016

Next - Fecunditas on a non-Severan dynasty coin

[DonnaML]

Faustina II (wife of Marcus Aurelius & daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, ca. 162/163 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. draped bust right with hair in chignon behind, wearing double strand of pearls, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA ./ Rev. Fecunditas (or Faustina as Fecunditas) standing facing, head right, holding long scepter in right hand and, with left hand and arm, infant with its arms raised towards its mother (representing Marcus Annius Verus, b. ca. 162 AD*), FECVNDITAS. RIC III MA 677, RSC II Faustina II 99c (Faustina with double strand of pearls)**, Sear RCV II 5252, BMCRE Marcus Aurelius 92 (var. with Faustina wearing single strand of pearls***). 18.46 mm., 3.54 g.

[Footnotes omitted.]

Next, a young Faustina II on a coin struck during the reign of her father.

Edited May 22, 2023 by DonnaML

[Roman Collector]

This is as young as she appears on coins. Her first issue.

Faustina II, 147-175 CE.
Roman AR denarius, 3.63 g, 17.3 mm, 5 h.
Rome, December 147-148 CE.
Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust, right, wearing stephane.
Rev: LAETITIAE PVBLICAE, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and scepter.
Refs: RIC 506c; BMC 1050; Cohen --; Strack 491; RCV --; CRE 196.

Next: Another teenager on a coin.

Edited May 22, 2023 by Roman Collector

[Prieure de Sion]

7 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

Next: Another teenager on a coin.

This was not so easy, because the definition about a teenager was an age between 13 and 19 years. First I would post something from Diadumenianus or Philippus Caesar - but too young (on my coins). So I would take Gordianus III. Born around 225 AD, and Caesar at 238 AD - he is perfectly 13 years old.

 

Marcus Antonius Gordianus III as Caesar

Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 238 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 21mm; Weight: 1.97g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC IV Gordian III (Caesar) 1; Provenance: Ex Naumann Numismatik Vienna Austria

 

Obverse: Bust of Gordian III, bare-headed, draped, right. The Inscription reads: M ANT GORDIANVS CAES for Marcus Antonius Gordianus Caesar; Reverse: Priestly emblems: jug between lituus and knife on the left and simpulum and sprinkler on right. The Inscription reads: PIETAS AVGG for Pietas Duorum Augustorum (Piety of the two Augusti).

 

 

Next: another Teenager (not Gordianus III) please... 

[Broucheion]

Hi All,

Ptolemy V Epiphanes was elevated to the throne at the age of 5 in 205/204 BCE upon the suspicious death of his parents. By the end of of the Fifth Syrian War (202-198 BCE) he would have been in his teens.

PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES (205/204-180 BCE)
UNCERTAIN MINT: PHOENICIA AND PALESTINE
Fifth Syrian War Coinage
AR STATER (TETRADRACHM)

Size: 24x2 5mm
Weight: 13.99 g
Die Axis: 11:00
Broucheion Collection P-2017-05-11.001

Obv: Ptolemy V portrait bust diademmed, with barley ear on diadem and wearing chlamys, facing right. Dotted border.
Rev: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ; to right ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Between the eagle's legs: NI. Dotted border not
References: Svoronos 1271, pl xlii, 3 [5 listed]; Mørkholm (1979), Issue XII, obverse dies A11, A14, A15 (= A20); Giessener Münzhandlung 31, 24 April 1985, 222 (from Mørkholm’s obverse die A3). Obverse die link (through A3) with CPE 1045, 1046, 1047, 1048, and tetradrachms of Berytus, CPE 1079, 1081; second obverse die link (through A11) with CPE 1065, 1066, 1069; third obverse die link (through A14) with CPE 1059, 1069, 1073; fourth obverse die link (through A15 = 20) with CPE 1043, 1046, 1066, 1072, 1073.

APPEARANCE: Reverse, left field: Traces of erased letter M visible. Reverse, right field: Traces of erased symbol with one or two horizontal strokes. This could be for Tripolis (letter A) or
Berytus (trident). Die break between eagle's lower beak and chest. Evidence of clipping during manufacture from 11:00-1:00.
Provenance: Ex-Peuss 318 (7 May 1987), Lot #1410; MA-ID: 181100194; Ex-Schulman Sale 227, (1984), Lot #502. Die information comes from Carlen & Lorber "The Fifth Syrian War portrait coinage. A die study" (RNB vol CLXV, 2019). This coin listed as Main Series with Portrait of Ptolemy V, page 201, #13.

Notes (due to Lorber) : "The portrait coinage of Ptolemy V was associated with the Fifth Syrian War by Svoronos (1904, Vol I, cols τμζ-τμθ; 1908, IV cols 263-265). In a series of three papers, O Mørkholm developed this theme, citing a large hoard found in Syria in 1981 (CH VII, 90 = CH VIII, 339 = EH 1, 105) which, however, also contained coins of the four preceding Ptolemies. Mørkholm further drew attention to die links, control links, and stylistic affinities which indicate that a number of different mints collaborated to finance the Lagid war effort."

Next: Another coinage issued during wartime.

- Broucheion

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by Broucheion
Typos

[expat]

3 minutes ago, Broucheion said:

Next: Another coinage issued during wartime.

Obverse: Bearded male head right. Iberian sign BON behind

Reverse: Helmeted rider with lance in right hand, galloping to the right. Below on line, Iberian inscription BOLSKAN.

AR, 3.44gr. 22mm (VG +). Jenkis Palenzuela type. Huesca province, Spain.
ACIP. 1423.

The "Palenzuela" type coins correspond to the Sertorian war of the years 80-72 BC

NEXT: Sulla

 

 

 

[Phil Davis]

Crawford 376/1, probably Sulla's scarcest silver coin:

Next: More Sulla

[Ryro]

Next: another favorite bad guy

[Roman Collector]

Nero is a popular bad guy!

Nero, 54-68 CE.
Roman AR denarius, 3.17 g, 18.1 mm 5 h.
Rome, 66-67 CE.
Obv: IMP NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head of Nero, bearded and laureate, right.
Rev: IVPPITER CVSTOS, Jupiter, bare to waist, seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt in right hand and long scepter in left hand.
Refs: RIC 64; BMCRE p. 210 n.; Cohen/RSC 121; RCV --; Giard BNC II, 233-35.

Next:

More bad guys!

Edited May 23, 2023 by Roman Collector

[Prieure de Sion]

5 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

More bad guys!

 

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula
Sestertius of the Roman Imperial Period 37/38 AD; Material: AE Bronze; Diameter: 36mm; Weight: 27.46g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC I (second edition) Gaius/Caligula 37; Provenance: From a private Swiss Collection, from Nomos Numismatics Zürich Switzerland; Obverse: Head of Caligula, laureate, left. The Inscription reads: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT for Caius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate (Gaius Caesar, Augustus, conqueror of the Germans, high priest, holder of tribunician power); Reverse: Legend in four lines in oak-wreath. The Inscription reads: S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS for Senatus Populusque Romanus Patri Patriae, Ob Cives Servatos (The senate and the Roman people to the father of the nation, the saviour of the citizens).

 

Next: more "bad" woman or men...

[expat]

Pretty bad

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