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Mark Antony Legionary Denarius, 32-31BCimage.png.0c277984626553e72ff23da37cbc71d7.pngTravelling mint. Silver, 16mm, 3.0g. Galley, ANT AVG above, III VIR RPC below. Aquila between two standards, LEG (Legion number) (RSC 27). From the Westbury Sub Mendip (Somerset) Hoard 2016.

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Nerva, AD 96-98.
Roman AR denarius, 3.37 g, 16.6 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 97.
Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR POT, laureate head, right.
Rev: COS III PATER PATRIAE, Priestly implements (simpulum, aspergillum, jug, lituus).
Refs: RIC 24, BMCRE 33-35; Cohen 48; RCV 3023; CBN 24.

Next: A jug as a prominent design element.
 
 
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Oenoche = vine jug

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Aiolis, Kyme
AE 15
1st - 2nd century BC
Zoilos , magistrate
Obv.: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, hair in sphendone, bow and quiver over shoulder
Rev.: Single-handled oenoechoe between two laurel branches; KY above, ΖΩΙΛΟΣ across fields.
AE, 15 mm, 3.69g
Ref.: SNG Copenhagen 108; SNG von Aulock 1642; BMC 87-9; Weber 5508-9

 

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12 minutes ago, ambr0zie said:

Next - any object as major design element (single object)

Here's a basket with grain and poppies on a 3g, 15mm coin from Hadrian, Aiolis, Elaea

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See @John Conduittwho was one step ahead of me: Next: Celtic

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"Celtic"

FRANCE. CELTIC TRIBES OF GAUL 

CORIOSOLITE CLASS IIB BILLON STATER

Date: 80-50 BC

Diameter: 20.69 mm
Weight: 6.13 grams
Obverse: Stylized Celtic head right
Reverse: Celticized rider on horseback right, below, boar right

Reference: De LaTour 6598

Ex-stevex6 … From an old French collection

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NEXT => I gotta have more cowbell ... I mean, I gotta have more CELTIC!!

 

 

 

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BCD Peloponnesos 

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Achaea. Achaea, Patras(Patrae). Sabina Æ20

Obv: SABINA AVG / Draped bust of Sabina, r., hair coiled and piled on top of head above triple stephane.
Rev: COL A A PATREN / Genius naked running l. to altar, looking back, holding box in his l. hand.
BCD Peloponnesos 552.5, Plate

 

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Here's #39 in Roman Coins and Their Values, vol. 1. Crawford 57/2, 207 BC. Ex NFA XXVII, lot 276; Roberto Russo's collection, though not named as such in the catalogue. That sale is in fact where Sear got many or most of the RR silver images in the Millennium Edition.

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Next: One more plate coin.

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Ex Lindgren:

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Annia Faustina, 3rd wife of Elagabalus, Augusta, 221 CE.
Isinda, Pisidia; AE 25.0 mm, 8.55 gm
Obv: ANNIAN FAVCTEINAN, Dr. bust of Faustina r.
Rev: Confronted heads of Serapis and Isis, in field, E-Delta (yr. 4 ).
Refs: Ex Lindgren I A1322A (Plate coin), von Aulock, Pisidia I 833.

Here is the info from Lindgren I:

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Diadumenian Caesar, AE Tetrassarion (4 Assaria), 217-218 AD, Nicopolis ad Istrum [Nikyup, Bulgaria] Mint, Moesia Inferior, Statius Longinus, Consular Legate. Obv. Bareheaded bust of Diadumenian right, draped and armored, seen from behind, M OPEL DIADOV-MENIANOC K (OV ligate) [ = Marcus Opellius Diadumenianus, Caesar] / Rev. Artemis, wearing short chiton, walking right, holding bow in left hand and drawing arrow from quiver in right hand, hound jumping behind her left foot, VΠ CTA ΛONΓINOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC I / CTPΩ in exergue [ =  Consular legate Longinus, (Governor) of the residents of Nikopolis on the (river) Istros].  AMNG I/I 1843 [Pick, Behrendt, Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I  (Berlin, 1898) at p. 467]; Varbanov I 3743 [Varbanov, Ivan, Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume I: Dacia, Moesia Superior & Moesia Inferior (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2005) at p. 308]; Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov 8.25.13.3 [Hristova, H., H.-J. Hoeft, & G. Jekov. The Coins of Moesia Inferior 1st - 3rd c. AD: Nicopolis ad Istrum (Blagoevgrad, 2015)].*

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*Obverse die is a match to the die classified as Obverse Die No. 9 in table entitled “Nicopolis ad Istrum - 4 assaria - die matches” (see http://www.diadumenian.com/Die tables nicopolis 4 assaria.html). It is an obverse die match to the two coins depicted at http://www.diadumenian.com/Nicopolis artemis longinus.html, the second of which was sold at Gorny & Mosch, Giessener Münzhandlung Auction 121, 2005 Lot number: 300. Coin is also an obverse die match to, inter alia, the coins depicted at https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=17248 and http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=28570

Next: another dog together with its person (whether human or divine). 

 

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Counter Token/Jeton
by Hans Krauwinckel, Nuremberg, AD 1586-1635
Obv.: APOLLO DIANA /in ex. H . K . - Apollo with harp to left. Diana with dog, spear, arrow and quiver to right.
Rev.: MELIAGER - Meleagros, left, giving Atlante, to the right, head of a killed boar.
AE, 4.63g, 27mm
Ref.: Stalzer Pl. 35, 307.

 

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Halsall Penny Token, 1784-1787image.png.f79307139c285d78b1cb1c3e151b6636.pngSoho, Birmingham. Copper, 34mm, 16.40g. Arms of the Earls of Peterborough with supporters. HALSALL/D. Edge: Engrailed (Lancashire D&H 1. PCGS certification: 39826797). Probably the first Conder token.

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Low countries, Cu rechenpfennig, Dordrecht, 1603. Siege of Oostende / Distrust regarding the peace promised by the archdukes.

ALLVD IN LINGUA ALIVD IN PECTORE (sic) / Fox on the ground, asking a rooster standing on a tree branch to join him

IN ADVERSVS VIRTVS CIↃ IↃ CIII / Aerial view of the besieged city of Oostende

Dugniolle 3559; van Loon II, 10

Next : a coin depicting a city (or at least several buildings/parts of a city)

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"a coin depicting a city (or at least several buildings/parts of a city)"

 

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The Library of Parliament (Ottawa)

 

Ummm, but if this doesn't count, then there's this ... 

 

 

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles II, King of West Francia, AR Denier (below)

840-877 AD

Diameter: 20 mm

Weight: 1.56 grams

Obverse: Without mint signature (Orléans). + CΛRLVS REX FR, cross pattée with pellet in each quarter

Reverse: XPISTIΛNΛ RELIGIO, temple

Reference: Coupland, Early group D, pl. 23, 43-7; M&G 1159; MEC 1, 846-9

Other: 6h … attractively toned

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NEXT => INSECT(S)

 

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AR Denarius, 143BC, Rome
Obv.: Head of Roma right with winged helmet, X behind
Rev.: Diana in biga of stags right holding torch, crescent below, ROMA in exergue
Ag, 17.9x19.5mm, 4.21g
Ref.: Crawford 222/1, Sydenham 438

 

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