Curtisimo Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 15 minutes ago, Prieure de Sion said: ... i have no friends 😞 so I must wait I’m sure we can fix that! 😃 Just wait until Saturnalia my friend! In the meantime here is an ex @ryro from a holiday exchange. Next: Half of an animal 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted July 3, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Wow, Donna => I'm glad to see that you snagged that awesome voting-scene coin (yah, it was one of my favs) Yah, David Sear and I were almost like equals ... ummm, except that he knew lots about coins (he signed my first-edition copy of his book ... pretty cool ... man, I'm a total Sear-groupie!! ... if he were speaking at a coin-convention, I would totally be the guy that threw my underwear onto the stage and then got dragged-out screaming "I love you David!!") Edited July 4, 2022 by Steve 7 7 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 Two halfs: Thessaly, Pharkadon Hemidrachm, circa 440-400 BC Obv.: Thessalos, petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band around head of forepart of bull right Rev.: Φ A P/K AΔ O around from upper left (K retrograde), forepart of bridled horse right; all within incuse square Ag, 2.70g, 16mm Ref.: BCD Thessaly II 603 Next: Thessaly 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, shanxi said: Next: Thessaly Thessaly, Larissa, AE 20-22 - 400-344 BC Head of the nymph Larissa facing ΛΑΡΙ - Σ - ΑΙΩΝ parly retrograde, Horse trotting right 8.88 gr Ref : Sear # 2131 Next : facing portrait Q 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, shanxi said: Next: Thessaly Thessaly, Larissa, late 4th-early 3rd century BC, dichalkon (AE, 17mm, 4.18g, 3h) Obv: Head of the nymph Larissa to right Rev: ΛAPIΣ-AIΩN Horse grazing to left Ref: BCD Thessaly II 277 Too late - next stays with @Qcumbor Next : facing portrait Edited July 3, 2022 by Sulla80 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamnaskires Posted July 3, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 3, 2022 6 minutes ago, Qcumbor said: Next : facing portrait Orodes II (Elymais) AE drachm, early to mid 2nd century AD Van’t Haaff 13.3.2-1B Next: A purchase from Frank Robinson (as this coin was). 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 Faustina II AR-Denar, Rome Obv.: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right Rev.: VENVS, Venus standing right, holding apple and sceptre. Ag, 18mm, 3.38g Ref.: RIC III 729, CRE 232 [R3] Ex Frank S. Robinson Next: Faustina II, junior or minor 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, shanxi said: Next: Faustina II, junior or minor Diva Faustina II, Sestertius - Posthumous issue, Rome mint, after AD 176 DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, draped bust right SIDERIBVS RECEPTA, Diana standing right, holding a torch, SC in field 19.76 gr Ref : Cohen # 215, RCV # 5233 v Next : A 2nd century CE empress Q 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 Sabina AR Denarius 18/19mm..3.21gr Obverse- SABINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right, hair in queue down neck Reverse- IVNONI REGINAE, Juno standing left holding patera and sceptre. RIC 395a, RSC 43. Next....More Sabina 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severus Alexander Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Sabina dupondius, Rev: Vesta seated left, holding palladium and sceptre; in exergue, S C. next: a coin whose colour shows it to be a dupondius even though it's hard to tell otherwise... Edited July 3, 2022 by Severus Alexander 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted July 3, 2022 · Patron Share Posted July 3, 2022 Were it not for the orichalcum showing through, we couldn't distinguish it from an as. Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman orichalcum dupondius, 10.26 g, 27.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 140-41. Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust, right. Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted "candelabrum-altar," left, and holding box in left hand. Refs: RIC 1192Ab; BMCRE 1472; Cohen 241; Strack 1241; RCV --. Next: Pietas. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2022 Next: Another sacrifice scene 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted July 3, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 3, 2022 Roman Republic, L. Pomponius Molo, AR Denarius, 97 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right, L• POMPON• MOLO / Rev. Numa Pompilius [legendary second king of Rome after Romulus], holding lituus in left hand, standing right before a lighted altar, at which he is about to sacrifice a goat, which is led by a victimarius standing left, NVMA•POMPIL in exergue (MA and MP in monogram). Crawford 334/1, RSC I Pomponia 6 (ill.), BMCRR Italy 733, Sydenham 607, Sear RCV I 214 (ill.). 19.7 mm., 3.86 g. * (Purchased from Marti Classical Numismatics, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2020; ex Spanish collection.) *See RSC I at p. 77: “This type is an allusion to the supposed descent of the gens [Pomponia] from Pompo, one of the sons of Numa Pompilius, who is here represented as sacrificing to Apollo.” Crawford’s interpretation is the same; see Crawford Vol. I at p. 333. Next, another goat. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted July 3, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted July 3, 2022 How about two... that levitate?! Next: a diadochi 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted July 4, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 4, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 1:46 PM, Alegandron said: Agreed! You win the Booby-Prize for spotting the Booby-Eyes! ...I need it how, on this forum, men can still be the assholes we are men!!! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted July 4, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2022 Diadochi Next: a coin that photographed well 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 4, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) Coins are so different. With some coins you get great pictures with your phone, no matter how bad the light is. On others, you can use the whole setup with perfect lighting and Photoshop and the result is crap, and in little way comparable to the coin in your hand. This one is one of the easy ones. Hadrian Egypt, Alexandria Billon Tetradrachm Obv.: AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind Rev.: CABINA CEBACTH, Draped bust of Sabina right. Billon, 13,32 g, 25.8mm Ref.: Geissen 90, 997. Dattari 1249. Kampmann-Ganschow 135, 32. 469 Next: A coin that is "impossible" to photograph. Edited July 4, 2022 by shanxi 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted July 4, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 4, 2022 I had the worse results on fourrees. Especially the ones that were in a bad shape. On a very cheap lot I bought in an auction (about 3 EUR/coin - I was happy but soon after I was wondering if I didn't overpay 😄 ) I had major issues with 2 fourrees. This was indeed impossible to photograph and what you see was a result of a lot of photoshop fiddle. This is either a limes or a core of a fourree. Another one from the same lot was this Gordian III fourree. Tried everything I know - natural/artificial light, different backgrounds, in the end I used the same old "coin on finger" method. Next - let's see a Julia Domna coin from Caracalla's reign. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted July 4, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 4, 2022 10 minutes ago, ambr0zie said: Next - let's see a Julia Domna coin from Caracalla's reign. Well done ... let me please see another Luna coin please... 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted July 4, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 4, 2022 Incoming! Gallienus AD 267. Antioch Antoninianus Æ silvered 22 mm, 3,00 g GALLIENVS AVG, bust of Gallienus, radiate, cuirassed, right / LVNA LVCIF, Diana, draped, walking right, holding torch. Exergue PXV. RIC V Gallienus 609 Next - coin without major circulation wear but weak strike 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Phil Davis Posted July 4, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 4, 2022 6 hour rule! Crawford 335/9, 96 BC. Ex Schulman 1949, ex Martini: Next: Anything with three or more riders. 15 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted July 4, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) "Anything with three or more riders" => good ol' Augustus!! NEXT => I really liked that one ... does anybody else have more than 3 riders?? Edited July 4, 2022 by Steve 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 5, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2022 6 hours Gallienus Billon-Antoninian, Antiochia Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate and cuirassed bust right. Rev.: VIRTVS AVG, Gallienus, laureate, standing right, holding transverse spear and globe right, branch in ex Billon, 4.04g, 20.8mm Ref.: RIC 670, Kamp. 90.308.3 Next: Another Gallienus 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted July 5, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 5, 2022 2.38 g 21 mm GALLIENVS AVG. Radiated and cuirassed bust of Gallienus on the right draped over the left shoulder, seen from three quarters forward (B01). LEG IIII FL VI P VI F. Lion leaping to the right. Reverse translation: “Legio quarta Flavia sextum pia, sextum fidelis”, (Fourth legion Flavia pious and faithful for the sixth time). RIC V-1, Milan 343 (Joint Reign). Next - another coin honoring a legion 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 5, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2022 Maybe this is just a legion number and not a honoring of the legion. Therefore I had to wait 6 hours. Mark Antony Denarius 32-31 BC Obv.: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Galley right. Rev.: LEG XV., Aquila between two legionary standards. Ag, 3.29g, 18.1mm Ref.: Crawford 544/30 Next: Another Mark Antony legionary denarius 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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