Phil Anthos Posted September 14 · Member Share Posted September 14 Persephone Syracuse, Reign of Agathokles 317-289 BC AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14g) O: Wreathed head of Kore (Persephone) right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; KOPAΣ behind. R: Nike standing right, hammer in right hand, erecting trophy; triskeles to lower left, [ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΙΟΣ] behind, all within dotted border. Struck between 313–295 BC. HGC 2, 1536; SNG ANS 670-76; SNG Cop 766ff; Sear 972v; BMC 388v ~ Peter 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 14 · Supporter Share Posted September 14 Trophy 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 14 · Supporter Share Posted September 14 Janus Cunobeline Unit, Celtic Trinovantes Tribe, 9-40 Camulodunon (Roman Camulodunum, modern Colchester). Bronze, 14mm, 2.19g. Janiform head; CVNO below. Sow seated right beneath a tree; CAMV on panel below (ABC 2981; S 346; V 2105 ‘Trinovantian W’). 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 15 · Supporter Share Posted September 15 Link: Janiform heads MYSIA. Lampsakos. Diobol (4th-3rd century BCE) Obv: Janiform female head. Rev: ΛAM, Helmeted head of Athena right; bee to right. Ref.: SNG France 1190. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 15 · Supporter Share Posted September 15 Two heads. Tasciovanus 1st Coinage Unit, 25-20BC Verlamion. Bronze, 16mm, 1.85g. Conjoined bearded heads right, elaborate hair arranged in two rows of crescents; VER(I) in front. Ram left, pellets and rosettes in front and below, rosette flanked by two pellets above; TA(SC) above (Spink 242; ABC 2655; VA 1705-01 ‘Trinovantian M’) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted September 15 · Member Share Posted September 15 Rosettes. Taras, Calabria 325-280 BC AR Diobol (12mm, 1.03g) O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with 3 rosettes; MA behind, Δ below chin. R: Herakles kneeling right, wrestling the Nemean lion, club in right hand. Vlasto 1372-73; SNG France 2117; Cote cf 254; HN Italy 976 ~ Peter 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 15 · Supporter Share Posted September 15 Rosettes. Henry VI Rosette-Mascle Groat, 1430-1431 Calais. Silver, 26mm, 3.82g. Crowned facing bust in tressure of arches, with rosettes & mascles in legend; + hЄnRIC DI GRΛ RЄX ΛnGL’ Z FRΛnC. Long cross pattee, trefoils in quarters, rosettes and mascles in legend; + POSVI DЄVm ΛDIVTORЄ mЄVm; VIL LA CALI SIE (S 1859). From the Cambridge Hoard 2001. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 16 · Supporter Share Posted September 16 Just to keep this moving. King on obverse, cross on reverse. JAIME I. (1213-1276 AD). Spanish States Obverse: ARAGON., bust of King Jaime, crowned and draped, left. Reverse: IACOBVS REX., cross of Caravaca, (Patriarchal Cross). 1 Denier (1/240th Libra), Billon. 1.09g. 18mm. Jaca mint, (1085-1340), Spain. CRU # 318. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted September 16 · Member Share Posted September 16 (edited) Same design of cross 15,7 mm, 0,59 g. Hungary. Louis II 1516-1526. AR denar. Kremnitz. 1522. Fourfold coat of arms: Hungarian Árpád stripes, Hungarian double cross, Dalmatian leopard heads, Bohemian lion; in center chest shield Polish Jagellon eagle, no inner circle. Date above shield between two dots, two rosettes between two dots each at the sides / Crowned Madonna seated, with child in her right arm, no lettering, no inner circle. ÉH.675e; Huszar 846. Edited September 16 by ambr0zie 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 16 · Supporter Share Posted September 16 Chi Rho 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted September 17 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 17 Link: bound captive. Probus, billon/AE Antoninianus [no remaining silvering], Rome Mint, 279 AD. Obv. Radiate, helmeted, & cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield, IMP PROBVS AVG/ Rev. Probus riding left, extending arm in salute & holding scepter, horse’s right front hoof raised over bound captive seated left, ADVENTVS AVG. In exergue: R - pellet in crescent - ς (digamma/stigma) [Officina 6]. RIC V-2 157(ς); Cohen 37; Pink VI/1 p. 57. 23 mm., 2.75 g. [See http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/probus/RIC_0157_digamma_dot_in_cresc_left.txt.] 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Horseman Constantius II, AE2. D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, B behind bust / FEL TEMP RE-PARATIO. Soldier helmeted, draped and cuirassed advancing left and spearing fallen horseman with right hand, and wearing a shield on left arm. Shield on ground to right of horseman wearing a Phrygean helmet and falling forward, clutching horses neck. Gamma in left field, R wreath Z in exergue. 22mm, 5.21gr. RIC VIII Rome 256. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Phrygian Ti. Cl. Phileinos Hemiassarion, Time of Vespasian, 70-73 Sardis. Bronze, 12.5mm, 2.48g. Draped bust of Mên to right, wearing Phrygian cap; crescent on his shoulders; EΠI TI KΛAY ΦIΛEINOY CTΡA (Ti. Cl. Phileinos magistrate). CAΡ/ΔIA/NΩN (Sardisian) in three lines within laurel wreath tied below (RPC II 1307). Struck over a Nero Hemiassarion from Sardis from 65, under the strategos Ti. Cl. Mnaseas (bold letters visible): Laureate head of Nero to right; NEPΩN KAICAP ("KAIC" is visible at 12h). Laureate head of Hercules to right, with lion's skin tied around his neck; EΠI TI MNACEOY CAPΔIANΩN ("CAPΔ" is just below the bust of Mên) (RPC I 3009). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted September 17 · Patron Share Posted September 17 (edited) Link: crescent on shoulders. I bought this one from Jonathan K. Kern more than 25 years ago. Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249 Roman AR antoninianus, 3.96 g, 23.1 mm, 12 h. Rome, AD 246-248. Obv: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right, on crescent. Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. Refs: RIC 125c; Cohen 14; RCV 9147; CRE 522. Edited September 17 by Roman Collector 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Concordia Sabina Denarius, 130-133 Rome. Silver, 17mm, 3.07g. Diademed and draped bust to right, wearing stephane; SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P. Concordia seated to left, holding patera and sceptre; cornucopiae below throne; CONCORDIA AVG ([RIC II.3, 2052). From the Londonthorpe II (Lincolnshire) Hoard, also known as Ropsley, found in March 2018. Portable Antiquities Scheme ID: LANCUM-F93E5B (This coin is in Image 1, first in second row). 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted September 17 · Member Share Posted September 17 Sabina 17 mm, 2,69 g. Sabina. Augusta 128-137. AR denarius. 136-138. SABINA AVGVSTA, bust of Sabina, diademed, wearing stephane with hair in queue, draped, right / VENERI GENETRICI, Venus standing right, arranging drapery and holding apple. RIC II, Part 3 (second edition) Hadrian 2576; Old RIC II Hadrian 396. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Sabina again Sabina AR Denarius, AD 128-136 Obv: SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, Diademed and draped bust right. Rev: CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and resting elbow on figure of Spes; cornucopia below chair. Ag, 3.39g, 17mm Ref.: RIC 398, CRE 40 [C] 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted September 17 · Member Share Posted September 17 Concordia 22 mm, 1,99 g. Gallienus 253-268 AD. AR antoninianus. Rome. 253. IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, bust of Gallienus, radiate, draped, right / CONCORDIA AVGG, two right hands clasped together. RIC V Gallienus (joint reign) 131; Cohen 125. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Gallienus Antoninianus, 260-268 Rome. Billon, 21mm, 2.92g. Head of Gallienus, radiate, right; GALLIENVS AVG. Stag, walking right; DIANAE CONS AVG; (X in exergue) (RIC V, 179k). Purportedly from the Hollingbourne Hoard 1959. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted September 17 · Member Share Posted September 17 Stag Ephesus, Ionia 280-258 BC AE19 (19mm, 4.51g) O: Bee with spread wings, E - Φ to either side, all within wreath. R: Stag grazing right, quiver above; ΕΥΠΟΛΙΣ in ex. cf SNG Cop 268; cf SNG München 60; Sear 4406 ~ Peter 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted September 17 · Patron Share Posted September 17 Link: grazing animal. Troas, Alexandria, 3rd-2nd c. BC. Greek Æ 13.5 mm, 2.20 g, 11 h. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo, right. Rev: AΛEΞAN above horse grazing left, monogram beneath, thunderbolt in exergue. Refs: Sear 4028; BMC 17.10,18-20; SNG Cop 81-82; SNG von Aulock 7546. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted September 17 · Member Share Posted September 17 Link - laureate Apollo on obverse 19 mm, 3,81 g. P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus. AR denarius. Rome. 42 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right; behind, lyre / P.CLODIVS – ·M·F, Diana standing facing, with bow and quiver over shoulder, holding lit torch in each hand. Crawford 494/23; BMCRR Rome 4290. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted September 17 · Supporter Share Posted September 17 Lyre Tincomarus Unit, 25BC-10 Atrebates tribe. Silver, 13mm, 1.30g. Diademed head left; TINCOMARVS around, beaded border. Curvy horse left, beaded mane, lyre and two rings above (S 90). Found Fareham, Hampshire. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted September 18 · Member Share Posted September 18 Horse 7 mm, 0,63 g. Troas, Gargara. Ӕ. Circa 400-300 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΓAΡ above horse galloping right. SNG v. Aulock 1511; SNG Ashmolean 1136 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 19 · Supporter Share Posted September 19 Troas Troas, Gergis. Circa 4th-3rd Century BC. AE12mm, 1.28 g. Head of Sibyl Herophile right, three-quarters facing / ΓEΡ, Sphinx sitting right. SNG von Aulock 1515; SNG Ashmolean 1147; SNG Cop 338. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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