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[shanxi]

Antoninus Pius
Egypt, Alexandria.
Tetradrachm 141-142 (year 5)
Obv.: ΑΝΤⲰΝΙΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ ƐVϹΒ, laureate head of Antoninus Pius, r.
Rev.: Artemis advancing, r., drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder, holding bow; at feet, dog r. and in field, L-Ɛ
Ref.: Dattari-Savio Pl. 108, 2152 (this coin).
Billon, 24mm, 13.53g

Next: Artemis with dog

[Roman Collector]

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251.
Roman provincial Æ 32.5 mm, 18.74 g, 6 h.
Cilicia, Tarsus, AD 249-251.
Obv: ΑV ΚΑΙ Γ ΜЄϹ ΚVΙΝ ΔЄΚΙΟϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ, Π Π, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: ΤΑΡϹΟV ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛЄΩϹ Γ Β, Α Μ Κ. Artemis standing right, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow and arrow; at feet on either side, deer standing left and dog running right with raised paws, head left.
Refs: RPC 1346; SNG Levante 1156 ; SNG France 1754; SNG von Aulock 6065; SNG Cop 33; Ziegler 808.16.33; Lindgren III, 926.

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[Steve]

"Another coin with two animals"

 

 => here is a sweet ol' classic for ya ... 

Lydia AR Siglos

Date: 545-520 BC
Diameter: 15.6 mm
Weight: 4.9 grams
Obverse: Confronted lion and bull.
Reverse: Two incuse square punches

Ex-stevex6

 

NEXT => a cool archaic-punch (animal, or non-animal)

Edited July 2, 2022 by Steve

[shanxi]

small but cool punch

Asia Minor uncertain
Kyzikos, Mysia ??
AR Tetartemorion, 510-480 B.C.
Obv.: forepart of boar? right
Rev.: incuse punch
Ag, 0.14g, 5mm
Ref.: -

Next: Tartemorion, Hemi*, Te*, Trihemi* ... etc.

 

Edited July 2, 2022 by shanxi

[Spaniard]

6 hours....

Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. AE As (9.86 gm, 25.5mm). Rome mint. Struck 140-144 AD.
Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PI VS PP TRP COS III, laureate head right.
Reverse: ANNONA AVG, S-C, Annona standing right, holding grain ears over modius in right hand, cornucopia in left; at feet to right, prow right.
RIC III 675. VF.

Next....Antoninus Pius Dupondius.

[Steve]

sigh ... I had lots-n-lots of drachms, diobols and obols, but I never snagged myself a sweet dupondius (I'm really looking forward to somebody posting an example)

[Sulla80]

 

On 7/2/2022 at 8:54 AM, Roman Collector said:

Next: Another coin with two animals.

A dupondius of Commodus with Roma struck in 184 AD:

Roman Imperial, Commodus (AD 177-192), AE Dupondius (12.03g, 23mm), Rome

Obv: M COMM ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT, radiate head right.

Rev: P M TR P VIIII IMP VII COS IIII P P, Roma seated left on shield with spear and Victory.

Ref: RIC 443

Next: Big (>10g), Roman (imperial or republic) &  Bronze (brown and metal)

Edited July 3, 2022 by Sulla80

[JayAg47]

Trajan Dacia Capta dupondius.

Next- minty green patina.

[Curtisimo]

Minty green 

Next: a bronze coin with a nice patina (of any color)

[DonnaML]

A sestertius of Faustina II:

Next, another ancient coin with one or more children on the reverse.

[John Conduitt]

Fausta Follis, 324-325London. Bronze, 19mm, 2.93g. Mantled bust right; FLAV MAX FAVSTA AG. Fausta standing facing, looking left, head veiled, with two children (Constantine II and Constantius II) in her arms; SALVS REIPVBLICAE; mintmark PLON (RIC VI, 300).

Next: family of Constantine I

[shanxi]

Constantius II
Heraclea Mint
Obv.: CONSTANTIVS AVG, bust right
Rev.: GLORIA EXERCITVS / SMHΓ, two soldiers standing facing, flanking standard in center
Ae, 1,8g, 14mm
180° double struck
RIC VIII, 19

 

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[John Conduitt]

Brockage of a Licinia 7 Denarius, 113-112BC

Rome. Silver, 3.25g. Publius Licinius Nerva. Helmeted bust of Roma left, holding shield in left hand and spear over shoulder in right; * in left field, crescent above helmet, ROMA in right field. Original reverse: Voting scene: three citizens in the comitium; one of them placing ballot in cista. In middle field above, a tabella inscribed P; below, P·NERVA (Babelon Licinia 7).

Next: voting scene.

 

Edited July 3, 2022 by John Conduitt

[Steve]

"VOTING SCENE"

 

P. Nerva AR Denarius

113-112 BC

Rome mint

Diameter: 17 mm

Weight: 3.86 grams

Obverse: Helmeted bust of Roma left, holding shield and spear; crescent above, mark of value before

Reverse: Three citizens voting on comitium: one voter receives ballot from attendant below, another voter places ballot in cista; P on tablet above bar

Reference: Crawford 292/1; Sydenham 548; Licinia 7

Other: 6h, iridescent toning, traces of porosity, scratch at 9 o’clock on reverse under tone

Ex-stevex6 … from the Bruce R. Brace Collection

 

NEXT => mini dolphin

Edited July 3, 2022 by Steve

[shanxi]

11 minutes ago, Steve said:

NEXT => mini dolphin

two 5mm dolphins

 

Thrace, Thasos
Obol 463-411 BC
Obv.: Two dolphins swimming in opposite directions, three pellets
Rev.: Quadrapartite incuse square
Ag, 0.57g, 7.7mm
Ref.: Rosen 146

 

Next: bigger dolphin

[Ryro]

next: Sicily

[John Conduitt]

We've been down this road before 🤣

Syracuse Hemilitron, 405BC

Syracuse. Bronze, 19mm, 3.78g. Head of Arethusa left, wearing necklace, hair bound in ampyx and sphendone. Dolphin swimming right; Σ YPA and scallop bellow (SNG ANS 419).

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[TuckHard]

Srivijaya of Sumatra
c. 800-1300 AD
Issued anonymously
Tin 2 massa piloncito
Obv: Sea turtle
Rev: Anku (elephant goad) facing right, crescent moon to left
Recovered from the Musi River of Palembang

 

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[DonnaML]

1 hour ago, Steve said:

"VOTING SCENE"

 

P. Nerva AR Denarius

113-112 BC

Rome mint

Diameter: 17 mm

Weight: 3.86 grams

Obverse: Helmeted bust of Roma left, holding shield and spear; crescent above, mark of value before

Reverse: Three citizens voting on comitium: one voter receives ballot from attendant below, another voter places ballot in cista; P on tablet above bar

Reference: Crawford 292/1; Sydenham 548; Licinia 7

Other: 6h, iridescent toning, traces of porosity, scratch at 9 o’clock on reverse under tone

Ex-stevex6 … from the Bruce R. Brace Collection

 

NEXT => mini dolphin

Hey, @Steve, guess who owns this coin now? I had no idea that you were the Steve P. [I'm redacting your surname] who used to own this! Here's my write-up:

Roman Republic, P. Nerva, AR Denarius, Rome Mint, 113-112 BCE. Obv: Bust of Roma left wearing crested helmet with feather or aigrette (instead of wing) and single-drop earring, holding shield (ornamented with image of horseman galloping) against left shoulder with left hand, and spear over right shoulder with right hand, crescent moon above, star (*) [= monogrammed XVI; mark of value] before; behind, ROMA upwards / Rev. Voting scene inside Comitium in Forum: one togate voter to left of pons [bridge/walkway to place for depositing ballot tablet] receives ballot from attendant below; another togate voter to right of pons drops ballot in cista (voting basket); two lines behind voting scene and bar near top of reverse (described as “screen” by Sear) mark off voting area (denoting the barrier dividing a given tribe’s enclosure [saepta] from those allotted to different tribes), with bar or screen surmounted by marker/tabella inscribed with the initial “P” (possibly representing a particular voting tribe); P • NERVA [NE ligate] across field beneath bar (or beneath top of screen per Sear). Crawford 292/1; BMCRR II Italy 526 (at p. 274); RSC I [Babelon] Licinia 7 (ill.); Sear RCV I 169 (ill.); Sydenham 548; Yarrow 4.40 at p. 195 (ill.) [Liv Mariah Yarrow, The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources (2021)]. 17.21 mm., 3.87 g., 7 h. David R. Sear Certificate of Authenticity,  May 2, 2013, No. 811CY/RR/A/CR (issued to Steve P., noting “flan flaw on edge of reverse not affecting the type”).*  Purchased at JAZ Numismatics Auction # 186, Lot 4, June 2021; ex. J.B. DePew Collection; ex. Steve P. Collection; ex. CNG Auction 295, Jan. 30, 2013, Lot 361; ex. Bruce R. Brace Collection.**

 

*David Sear describes this issue as “[o]ne of the most celebrated types of the entire Republican coinage,” depicting “the actual voting process in the political assembly of the Roman People in the Comitium, where citizens voted on business presented to them by magistrates. The area occupied by the Comitium was consecrated ground, like a temple, and was located in front of the Senate House [Curia] in the forum.” Sear RCV I at p. 105; see also Sear Certificate; Jones, John Melville, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (Seaby, London, 1990), entry for “Comitium” at p. 64: “From coire, ‘go together,’ the name of the area on the edge of the Forum at Rome which was used as a place of public assembly and where elections took place (the plural, comitia, was used as the name of the assemblies which were held there). A denarius of 113-[11]2 BC [this issue] shows a voting scened in the Comitium, with a voter crossing a narrow walkway, the pons, to cast his vote without being observed.” See also the Sear Certificate, explaining that “[t]he pons was a bridge in the Comitium which voters had to cross in order to cast their ballots and it kept them from any potential interference”; Crawford p. 307 (“it is not clear what the purpose of the pons was if not to isolate the voters”). 

The standard view of the “P” on the marker or tablet surmounting the barrier or screen is that it represents the initial of a particular voting tribe. See Crawford Vol. I p. 307. For a different opinion, see E.E. Clain-Stefanelli, Life in Republican Rome on its Coinage (1999) at p. 16: “above to the right is a tablet inscribed with a P (provoco -- I appeal),” referring to the right of appeal in criminal proceedings; accord BMCRR II Italy p. 275 n. 2. Prof. Yarrow has yet a still different opinion: see Sec. 4.41 of her book at pp. 193-194, stating that electoral ballots as depicted on the Republican coinage (as opposed to ballots in criminal proceedings) “seem[] to be hinged-like representations of wax-writing tablets; one side of the tablet is inscribed with a P and the other has the initials (or space for the initials) of the candidate [citing, inter alia, the illustration of this coin at Fig. 4.40]. The P may resolve as pro, in the sense of a vote ‘for’ or ‘in support of’ the named candidate.” (This explanation may account for the fact that on less worn examples, the open “P” on the rectangular tablet or marker seems to be to the far left, with the remainder blank.) 

The moneyer is “presumably” Publius Licinius Nerva, Praetor in Sicily (i.e., its governor] in 104/103 BCE at the time of the Second Servile War. See Crawford I. p. 306; Sear Certificate; BMCRR II Italy p. 274 n. 2. The Sear Certificate states that “[t]he reason for Nerva’s selection of this type is not easy to establish, though it may refer back to a measure concerning enfranchisement carried by an ancestor of the moneyer’s as well as being a more contemporary reference to the Marian law of 119 BC by which the width of the pons was narrowed.” Crawford prefers the Marian explanation; see Vol I p. 307. 

** Bruce R. Brace "was a scholar and by many considered to be a dean of Roman Numismatics in Canada. Coins from his extensive collection were sold by CNG in 2012 and 2013." https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/an..._ex_bruce_r_brace_library/630746/Default.aspx . According to Google, he was the former General Chairman of the Canadian Numismatic Association, the recipient of their J.D. Ferguson Award in 1984, and the former honorary curator of the McMaster University Museum of Art coin collection, at least a portion of which is now known as the Bruce R. Brace Coin Collection.

Edited July 3, 2022 by DonnaML

[Ryro]

Next: cool shield

[Roman Collector]

This shield is cool because it has an image of the Dioscuri on it.

Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman AR denarius, 3.61 g, 19.7 mm, 1 h.
Rome, late AD 162 – early 163.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust of Faustina, right, wearing strand of pearls around her head.
Rev: VENVS GENETRIX, Venus standing left, holding Victory in extended right hand and shield depicting the Dioscuri in left hand.
Refs: RIC 734 var.; BMCRE 172; RSC 280a; RCV 5268; MIR 35-4/10b; CRE 227.

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[Curtisimo]

ex iamtiberius 

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[Spaniard]

From @Finn235

JULIA SOAEMIAS, mother of Elagabalus. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.87 gm).
Obverse..IVLIA SOEMIAS AVG, draped bust right.
Reverse..VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus standing left, holding apple and sceptre; star in left field.
RIC IV 241; BMCRE 45; RSC 8.

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[Ryro]

Ex @Curtisimo

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[Prieure de Sion]

2 minutes ago, Ryro said:

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... i have no friends 😞 so I must wait