ambr0zie Posted April 30 · Member Share Posted April 30 Venus on a Roman denarius with an empress portrait 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...
John Conduitt Posted April 30 · Supporter Share Posted April 30 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). 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted April 30 · Patron Share Posted April 30 Link: Sabina. Sabina, 128-137 CE. Roman provincial Æ 16.1 mm, 3.44 g, 6 h. Lydia, Mostene, 128-137 CE. Obv: ϹΑΒЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: ΜΟϹΤΗΝΩΝ, bipennis between grapes and ears of grain. Refs: RPC III, 1962; BMC 22.162,10; Sear GIC 1301; SNG Cop. 286; GRPC Lydia 45. Notes: This specimen is coin no. 5 at RPC. Ex Heidelberger Münzhandlung Herbert, Grün 75, 13–14 Nov. 2018, lot 288. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted April 30 · Member Share Posted April 30 Bipennis from Lydia 14 mm, 3,38 g. Lydia. Thyateira. Autonomous issue. Ӕ. Circa 200-100 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right (no magistrate's name) / ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, bipennis (double axe). BMC 6-7; SNG Cop 571; Duesseldorf 8410; Walcher 2714; SNG von Aulock 3199; SNG Leipzig 1267A; Weber 6921-6922; Mionnet Supp. VII, 569; Mionnet IV, 851-852; Hunter 1; SNG Tuebingen 3835-3837; Waddington 5337-5338; SNG Munich 573; GRPC Lydia 8. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted April 30 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted April 30 Links: Lydia & citations to BMC Lydia, SNG Copenhagen, SNG Von Aulock, & Mionnet. Lydia, Philadelphia, AE 17, Late 2nd/Early 1st Centuries BCE, Hermippos, son of Hermogenes, archiereus [magistrate]. Obv. Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy-wreath and band across forehead, [Φ]ΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕ[ΩΝ] vertically behind / Rev. Spotted pantheress [leopard] walking left, with head turned back to right, cradling thyrsos bound with fillet (ribbon) against left shoulder, right foreleg raised; ΑΡΧΙΕΡ-ΕΥΣ above, ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΣ in exergue. Seaby II 4720 [Sear, D., Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. II, Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979), at p. 430 (ill.)]; BMC 22 Lydia 16 [Head, B.V. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Lydia (London 1901) at p. 189]; SNG Von Aulock II 3057 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 2: Caria, Lydia, Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia (Berlin 1962)]; SNG Copenhagen 340 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 27, Lydia Part 1 (Copenhagen 1947)]; Imhoof-Blumer 8 [Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Lydische Stadtmünzen, neue Untersuchungen (Leipzig 1897) at pp. 114-115]; Mionnet IV No. 536 [Mionnet, Théodore E., Description de Médailles antiques grecques et romaines, Vol. IV, Lydie (Paris 1809) at p. 98]. 17 mm., 5.02 g. [With old collector’s envelope.] 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted April 30 · Member Share Posted April 30 Philadelphia... Nero / Hekate Philadelphia, Lydia 54-59 AD (19mm, 4.99g) O: Bare headed and draped bust right; NEPΩN ΣEBACTOC. R: Hekate standing facing, wearing polos and holding two torches; TI NEIKANOP ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN. RPC 3041 "I have done everything that I should, but the outcome is in the hand of fortune" ~ Nero 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted April 30 · Patron Share Posted April 30 Link: Nero provincial. Nero, AD 54-68. Roman provincial Æ 17 mm, 6.4 g. Pamphylia, Side, c. AD 55. Obv: ΝЄΡⲰΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, laureate and draped bust, right. Rev: ϹΙΔΗΤ, Athena advancing left, holding spear over shoulder and shield, serpent alongside her; pomegranate upper left field. Refs: RPC I, 3401; BMC 19.152,75; Mionnet Suppl. 7, p. 66,188; Sear GIC, 608; SNG France 784. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Athena. Attica Tetradrachm, 454-404BC Athens. Silver, 24mm, 17.19g. Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye. Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square (Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzerman Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 Cyprus under Ptolemaic Satraps AV Stater ND Salamis Mint Nikokreon 330-312BC 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Cyprus. Hugh IV 2nd Series Gros Petit, 1324-1359 Famagusta, Cyprus. Silver, 2.27g. King seated without cross at neck; no fieldmarks; hVGVE REI DE. Cross of Jerusalem; + IERVSAL'M E DE ChIPRE (Metcalf 572 var). Not many were struck (fewer than 40 obverse dies were used) but many survived in hoards buried during Genoese attacks in the 1370s and 1380s. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Alexander III of Macedon, AE15. Salamis Mint, Cyprus, struck c. 323 - 315 BC, Facing gorgon with lolling tongue at center of ornamented Macedonian shield with alternate 5 pellets and double crescents. / B-A to left and right of Macedonian helmet, caduceus below left. Price 3158 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 15,1 mm, 3,58 g. L. Plautius Plancus. AR denarius. Rome. 47 BC. [L · PLAVTIVS] below, head of Medusa facing, with coiled snake on either side / PLAN[CV] (or PLANCVS), Victory (or Aurora) flying right, head slightly left, holding reins and conducting four rearing horses of the sun. Crawford 453/1a or 1b (PLANCVS/PLANCV); BMC 4004/4008; Sydenham 959/959a; Plautia 15/15a; RBW 1583-4. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted May 1 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted May 1 (edited) Link: gens Plautia. Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [portion in brackets off flan] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [ = Aristobulus II of Judaea?],* in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel (dromedary - one hump) standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g. (Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183.) * See Sear RCV I at p. 148: “Aulus Plautius strikes as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by [Michael] Harlan in RRM [see Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE (2nd Revised Edition 2015), Ch. 18 at pp. 146-148] . . . who identifies the kneeling figure as Aristobulus [= Judah Aristobulus II of the Hasmonean Dynasty, d. ca. 49 BCE], the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome.” Edited May 1 by DonnaML 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Camel (somewhere). M Aemilius Scaurus and P Plautius Hypsaeus Denarius, 58BC Rome. Silver, 3.43g. Aretas of Nabataea kneeling right beside camel presenting olive-branch; M SCAVR / AED CVR above, EX - SC across fields, REX ARETAS in exergue. Jupiter in quadriga left brandishing thunderbolt, scorpion below horses; P HVPSEVS / AED CVR above, CAPTVM to right and C HVPSAE COS / PREIVER in exergue (Craw 422/1). Found Essex. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Link. Thunderbolt Antoninus Pius, AE Dupondius, Rome 140-144 CE. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TR P COS III, radiate head right PROVIDENTIAE DEORUM, S-C, winged thunderbolt upright. RIC 663; Cohen 685 Scarce. Green patina with small erosions. 11.72g. 28mm. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Green patina. Archbishop Wulfhere Phase IIc Styca, 854-900 York. Bronze, 1.06g. +VLFHEDARED. +VVLFRED retrograde (moneyer Wulfred) (S 871). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 Retrograde 15,8 mm, 3,51 g. L. Julius L.f. Caesar. AR denarius. Rome. 103 BC. CAESAR, helmeted head of Mars left, [S (retrograde) above] / [L IVLI L F], Venus driving biga of Cupids left, holding reins and sceptre; [lyre to left], S (retrograde) above. RSC Julia 4a; Crawford 320/1; BMC 1406; Syd. 593a. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Biga. Amminus ‘Biga’ Unit, 35-40 Cantii Kingdom, England. Silver, 10-12mm, 1.00g. Bust right, AMMI in front, beaded border. Facing chariot, head of charioteer between, S below, E to left of head, G to right of head, beaded border (ABC 459). Celtic Coin Index CCI 07.0015. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 2 · Member Share Posted May 2 Biga again 17 mm, 3,36 g. M. Volteius M. f. AR denarius. Rome. 75 BC. Head of Bacchus (or Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath / Ceres driving biga of snakes right, holding torch in each hand; dolphin behind. Crawford 385/3; Sydenham 776; Volteia 3. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 Biga of goats AR denarius (3,87 g. 17 mm.). Rome, 138 B.C. C Renius Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet and 5 drop earring; behind, X designating value/ C•RENI below, ROMA in exergue, Juno Caprotina, holding crook, reins and scepter, driving biga of goats right. Crawford 231/1; Sydenham 432; Renia 1. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 Macedonian helmet with goat horns. Roman Republic. L. Philippus. 113-112 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.90g, 6h). Rome mint. Obv: Head of Philip V of Macedon right, wearing diademed royal Macedonian helmet with goat horns; Roma monogram to left, Φ below chin. Rev: Equestrian statue right on tablet inscribed L•PHILIPPVS, holding laurel branch; flower below horse; mark of value in exergue. Ref: Crawford 293/1; Sydenham 551; Marcia 12; RBW 1132. Very Fine, attractive find patina on obverse, toned with remnants of find patina on reverse, a few light marks and scratches. From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.24884. Ex CNG e397 (17 May 2017), Lot 385. From the BLS Collection. Ex CNG e476 (9 Sept 2020), Lot 313. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 3 · Member Share Posted May 3 Link - a coin of his son, with the same name and with a very similar reverse 19 mm, 3,82 g. L. Marcius Philippus. AR denarius. Rome. 57 BC. ANCVS, diademed head of Ancus Marcius right; lituus behind / PHILIPPVS on left, equestrian statue standing right on top of aqueduct (five arches), inscribed AQVA MAR (last three letters ligate); flower below horse (or splash of water?). Crawford 425/1; Sydenham 919; BMC 3890; RSC 28. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted May 4 · Patron Share Posted May 4 Link: PHILIPPVS and riding a horse! Philip I, 244-249 CE. Roman AR Antoninianus, 23mm, 3.93 g, 7h. Rome mint, 5th officina, 8th emission, 248 CE. Obv: IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VIRTVS AVGG, Philip I and II on horseback galloping right; Є below. Refs: RIC IV 10; RSC 241a; RCV 8976; Hunter 43. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 4 · Member Share Posted May 4 22 mm, 3,19 g. Philip I Arab 244-249. AR antoninianus. Rome. 248 AD. IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG / I, lion standing right. RIC 12; RSC 173. Saecular Games/1000th Anniversary of Rome issue. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted May 5 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted May 5 (edited) Links: Philip I, SAECVLARES AVGG series. Philip I AR Antoninianus, 248 AD, Rome Mint, 5th Officina. Obv. Radiate, draped, & cuirassed bust right, IMP PHILIPPVS AVG/ Rev. Stag walking right, SAECVLARES AVGG; V in exergue. RIC IV-3 19, RSC IV 182, Sear RCV III 8958. 22 mm., 4.32 g. (Games commemorating 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome.) Edited May 5 by DonnaML 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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