shanxi Posted September 15, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2022 (edited) China, Southern Song - Complete Year Set - Year 1 (元) -14 (十四) Emperor Ning Zong 寧宗, AD 1208-1221 Legend: Jia Ding Tong Bao 嘉 定 通 寶 Next: Dated ancient coin Edited September 15, 2022 by shanxi 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted September 15, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 15, 2022 18 minutes ago, shanxi said: China, Southern Song - Complete Year Set - Year 1 (元) -14 (十四) That's an awesome set! Congrats on it all, I'd love to put together a Chinese full year set like that. Super cool. I'll also rely on the Southern Song for this one. Southern Song Dynasty of ChinaIssued in Year 11 of the Chunyou Era of Emperor Lizong's reign1251 ADAE cash | 1.57 grams | 23mm wideObv: Chun You Yuan Bao (top-right-bottom-left)Rev: Shi above, Yi below meaning 11Ref: H#17.788, Z#293903From the Musi River of Palembang Next: more dated coins 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 15, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2022 dated year 3 / ЄT Γ (AD 255/6) Gallienus Cilicia, Anemurium Æ 25mm Dated RY 3 (AD 255/6) Obv.: AV K ΠOY ΛΙKIN ΓAΛΛIHNON. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev.: ЄT Γ ANЄMOVPIЄωN. Artemis advancing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver; to left, stag standing left. AE, 25mm, 6.99 g Ref.: Ziegler 234-5 var. (obv. legend); SNG BN -; SNG Levante 522. ex Harlan J. Berk ex Dr. P. Vogl Collection ex Numismatik Naumann Next: scratches 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted September 15, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 15, 2022 For some reason, it seems most or all of these so-called 'broad fals' from Mahmud of Ghaznavid are deeply, roughly scratched. None that I have seen are double-pierced, however, so mine is especially poor (but still neat!). Ghaznavid EmpireIssued under Mahmud at the Bust Mint403AH // 1012-1013 ADAE broad fals | 5.61 grams | 30mm wideRef: Album#1614 Next: another coin series that has an unusual non-design characteristic 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 15, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2022 Countermarks ? Mexiko/China Karl III., 1759-1788 Obv: bust, CAROLUS•III•DEI•GRATIA•1787• Rev: Coat of Arms, •HISPAN•ET IND•REX•Mo•8R•F•M• Value: 8 Reales Year: 1787 AR, 26.7g,39mm Ref: Calicó/Calicó/Trigo 856 Next: Countermark 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 6 Next: Boeotian shield 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted September 16, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) "Boeotian shield" NEXT => GRAPES Edited September 16, 2022 by Steve 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2022 Faustina II Arabia, Decapolis, Abila Circa AD 147-175 Obv.: ΦΑΥСΤƐΙΝΑ СƐΒΑСΤΗ, draped bust of Faustina right Rev.: СƐΛƐΥΚ ΑΒΙΛΑ ϚΚС, bunch of grapes AE, 3.41g, 16mm Ref.: RPC IV, № 6509 (temporary), reverse die match with 6509-1, Spijkerman 6 (obverse and reverse die match), Sofaer 8 Ex Roma Numismatics E-LIVE Auction 3, Lot 432, 2018 Next: Eastern roman provincial coin 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted September 16, 2022 · Patron Share Posted September 16, 2022 Can't get much further east in the Roman empire than Nisibis. Philip II, AD 244-249. Roman provincial Æ 23.8 mm, 8.42 g, 11 h. Mesopotamia, Nisibis, AD 244-49. Obv: ΑVΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC CЄB, radiate and cuirassed bust left Rev: IOV CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI MHT, tetrastyle temple; statue of Tyche within, ram above Tyche's head, river god below. Refs: BMC 22-23*; Sear GIC 4157; SNG Cop 240*; SNG Hunterian 2. *BMC and SNG Cop erroneously attribute this coin to Philip I. Next: Tetrastyle temple. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Roman Collector said: Next: Tetrastyle temple. Gallienus PONTOS. Neocaesarea. Dated CY 199 (262/3); [visible on a die match] Obv: AVT KAI ΠO ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC. Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev: MHT NЄOKЄCAPIAC / ЄT PЧΘ. Perspective view of tetrastyle temple with annulet in pediment. AE, 23mm, 12.27g Ref.: Çizmeli 455, BMC 17. Next: anything ancient but in perspective view (temples, tables, busts, quadrigas, ....) Edited September 16, 2022 by shanxi 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanG Posted September 16, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 16, 2022 Roman Republic, C. Annius T. f. T. n. and L. Fabius Hispaniensis. Denarius, North Italy or Spain, 82-81 BC. C ANNI T F T N PRO COS EX S C, diademed and draped female bust right, winged caduceus behind, scales before, control mark below / Victory, holding reins and palm, driving galloping quadriga right; Q above, L FABI L F HISP in exergue. Crawford 366/1; BMC Spain 1; Annia 2; Sydenham 748. 3.92g, 20mm. NEXT: Diademed and draped female. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 hour ago, IanG said: NEXT: Diademed and draped female. Julia Mamaea, Sestertius - Rome mint, AD 224 IVLIA MAMA EA AVGVSTA, Draped and diademed bust right VENERI FELICI, Venus standing right, holding Cupid and a sceptre. SC in field 17.85 gr Ref : RIC # 694, RCV # 8232, Cohen # 62 Next : nice hairdo Q 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Phil Davis Posted September 16, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) Next: Unusual border (for instance, this reverse is a border of torques.) A wreath or bead & reel border would count, but extra atta-boys for something even more unusual. Triple credit for another type with an exotic border on each side. Edited September 16, 2022 by Phil Davis 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) Not sure if this counts? Phrygia, Eumeneia Circa 200-133 BC. AE 15mm (3.98 gm). Obv...Laureate head of Zeus right. Rev...EYME-NEΩN, legend in two lines within oak-wreath border. SNG Copenhagen 377-378 If it does.....Next....Zeus portrait the bigger the better.... If not carry on with the previous posts request.... Edited September 16, 2022 by Spaniard 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted September 16, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 Next; more Ptolemaic 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broucheion Posted September 16, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) Hi All, Here's a coin for the very last year Cleopatra reigned. CLEOPATRA VII PHILOPATOR THEA NEOTERA (51-31/30 BCE), EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA COREGENCY WITH CAESARION, 37/36-31/30 BCE Year 22 (31 Aug 31 - 30 Aug 30 BCE) Ar STATER (TETRADRACHM) Size: 23x25 mm Weight: 9.34 g Die Axis: 11:00 Broucheion Collection P-2018-10-12.001 Obv: Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem. Scaly aegis tied by snakes not visible. Dotted border.Rev: Eagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed with palm branch over right shoulder. To left: [ΠΤΟΛΕ]ΜAIOY, in left field: LKB above headress of Isis; to right: BA[CIΛEωC], in right field: ΠΑ. Dotted border. Refs: Svoronos 1835, pl lxi, 19 [10 listed]; SNG Copenhagen 417; Morkholm, ANS MN 20, pl vi, 6.; Sear-7953 Provenance: Based on the coin envelope this came in, this is Ex-The Reverend Willis McGill Collection. (McGill was an American missionary stationed in Egypt, who started collecting there during World War I). See https://www.cointalk.com/threads/any-numerian-coins-out-there.358905/#post-4403872 [verified 22 Jun 2020] for a similar coin envelope. Next, a coin from the LAST year of someone's rule. - Broucheion Edited September 16, 2022 by Broucheion Typo 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted September 16, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) Next, a coin from the LAST year of someone's rule. Next => an "ancient" coin, showing the last year of someone's rule 😘 Edited September 17, 2022 by Steve 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted September 16, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 16, 2022 This coin is from Hadrian's final year: Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 22 (137/138 AD), Alexandria, Egypt mint. Obv. Laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Pronoia standing facing, head left, crowned with flowers, wearing long chiton and peplum, holding in outstretched right hand a phoenix standing left, and in left hand a long scepter held obliquely; Π-Ρ-ONOIA; in left field, KB/L (Year 22). RPC III 6252 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6252), Emmett 881.22, Milne 1560 at p. 37, K&G 32.770 (ill. p. 154), BMC Alexandria 598 at p. 72, Sear RCV II 3747, Köln (Geissen) 1243, Dattari (Savio) 1450. 24 mm., 12.94 g. Ex. Economopoulos Numismatics, Holicong PA, Oct. 2021 (Nick Economopoulos, formerly of Pegasi Numismatics).* *Pronoia was a minor figure in Greek mythology representing foresight or forethought; see https://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphePronoia.html (“HESIONE PRONOIA (Pronoea) was the Okeanid-nymph wife of the Titan Prometheus. She was a minor goddess of foresight”) (noting that the name of Prometheus's wife was sometimes given as Asia). See also Jones, John Melville, A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins (London, Seaby, 1986) at p. 197 [entry for Pronoia]: “’Forethought’, the equivalent of the Roman imperial virtue Providentia, personified at Alexandria as s female figure with scepter or phoenix.” However, J.G. Milne did not agree that Providentia and Pronoia could be equated, and had a view of the significance of Pronoia’s appearance on this type that I have not seen elsewhere. See the Introduction to his Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (1971 reprint) at pp. xxxi-xxxii, discussing various personifications, including Pronoia, who were so unfamiliar in Egypt that they had to be specifically named on coins depicting them, such as this type: “The majority of the personifications that occur on Alexandrian coins are borrowed from Rome, and show little or no modification of the Roman types. {Names of various personifications omitted.] . . . . It is some evidence of their strangenss to Egyptian ideas that their meaning had to be explained by adding their names in the legends of the coins on which they first appeared . . . . There are, however, a few types which seem to be independent of Roman models [discussion of Eleutheria and Kratesis omitted.] . . . . Another special type is Pronoia, who also had to be identified by name whenever she appeared, and seems to have no relation to the Roman Providentia. The figure first appears in the last year of Hadrian, when the meaning is made clear by a phoenix placed in her hand; in the following year, under Antoninus, the poenix is used as an emblem of the completion of the Sothic cycle which took place in that year [see footnote to Antoninus Pius drachm from Zodiac Series], and so the Phoenix of the earlier year is the anticipation of this event.” Next, another Hadrian tetradrachm from Roman Alexandria. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted September 17, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) Sorry, gang ... I hate posting too often, but I also hate not posting when I know that I have a winna-winna!! => and here's a total winna!! EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. Æ Drachm AD 117-138 Dated RY 15 (AD 130/1) Diameter: 33 mm Weight: 26.84 grams Obverse: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right Reverse: Hadrian standing left, holding scepter, greeted by Alexandria, clad in elephant skin headdress, chiton, and peplos, holding two grain ears and kissing emperor’s extended hand; [L]–IE (date) across field Reference: Köln 1035; Dattari (Savio) 7545; K&G 32.508; Emmett 964.15 Other: 12h …green-brown patina with a few patches of red Ex-stevex6 Awwwww, crap ... Donna is gonna yell at me (it's not a "tetradrachm" ... it's just a stupid ol' drachm ... sigh) Next => a stupid ol' Hadrian tetradrachm Edited September 17, 2022 by Steve 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 17, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2022 Hadrian Egypt, Alexandria, Year 11 Billon Tetradrachm Obv: AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, laureate, draped bust right. Rev: L ENΔ-E-KA-TOV, eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt with wings spread. Ref.: Emmett 836; Dattari 1573 Next: Tetradrachm 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted September 17, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, shanxi said: Next: Tetradrachm Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Tetradrachm of the Roman Imperial Period 61/62 AD Material: Silver Diameter: 25mm Weight: 14.72g Mint: Antiochia ad Orontem, Syria Phoenice Reference: Prieur 82 (66 ex) Provenance: cgb.fr Numismatique Paris Obverse: Bust of Nero with aegis and laurel wreath to the right. Inscription: ΝΕΡΩΝΟΣ · ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ · ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ for Neronos Kaisaros Sebastou (Nero Caesar Augustus). Reverse: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt with open wings, palm branch to left. Inscription: H · IP for H (Eta, 8) I (Iota, 10) + P (Rho, 100) means year 8 of the regnal year (61/62 AD) and year 110 of the caesarian era. Next: Nero on a coin with one of his woman's (not a goddess - human). Edited September 17, 2022 by Prieure de Sion 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 17, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2022 Nero Alexandria Billon-Tetradrachm Obv.: NEPΩ KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP, Radiate bust right Rev.: ΠOΠΠAIA ΣEBAΣTH, L IΓ=year 13 (66/67), Draped bust of Poppaea right Billon, 12.28g, 24mm Ref.: Geissen 168 Next: emperor and empress 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted September 17, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2022 Plautilla, Augusta, 202-205. Denarius, Rome Obv: PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, draped bust of Plautilla to right Rev: PROPAGO IMPERI, Plautilla and Caracalla standing facing each other, clasping their right hands Next: emperor on the reverse 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted September 17, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Sulla80 said: Next: emperor on the reverse Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Stater of the Cimmerian Bosporus Empire Period 196/197 AD Material: Gold Elektron Diameter:19mm Weight: 7.75g Mint: Pantikapaion, Kingdom of the Bosporus Reference: MacDonald 504/1, RPC IV.1 3823 Obverse: Draped bust of Sauromates II with diadema to the right. In front of it a club (attribute of Heracles). Inscription: ΒΑϹΙΛƐⲰϹ · ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ for Basileos Sauromates (King Sauromates). Reverse: Bust of Septimius Severus with laurel wreath to the right. Inscription: ΓϞΥ for Gamma (3) + Koppa (90) + Ypsilon (400) = 493 (Dated year 493 of the Bosporan era = 196/197 AD). Next: another coin from Bosporus please. Edited September 17, 2022 by Prieure de Sion 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanG Posted September 17, 2022 · Member Share Posted September 17, 2022 Cimmerian Bosporus, Pantikapaion. Circa 310-304/3 BC. Bearded head of satyr right / Forepart of griffin left, Π-Α-Ν around; below, fish left. MacDonald 69; Anokhin 1023; HGC 7, 113; SNG BM 870; SNG Copenhagen 30. 6.83g, 20mm. NEXT: Griffin 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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