Anyone up for a game of coin UNO?

[John Conduitt]

More 5th officina

Philip I Antoninianus, 246

Rome, 5th officina. Silver, 23mm, 4.31g. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Annona standing left, holding cornucopia and grain ears over modius to left (RIC IV, 28c). Ex Ken Bressett. From the Dorchester (Dorset) Hoard 1936. Portable Antiquities Scheme: IARCH-5E5FEF.

[Captch]

1 hour ago, John Conduitt said:

More 5th officina

How about even more 5th officina

Phocas AE Follis 607-608 CE

Robed bust of Phocas, facing. Wearing crown with cross and holding a mappa in right hand and a cross in the left. DN FOCAS PERP AV

ANNO above four large Xs followed by a lowercase zeta denoting sixth regnal year. CON and epsilon in exergue.

9.976 gr, 29.5 mm, 7h

Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Volume 2-1, #30c

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[Prieure de Sion]

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9 hours ago, Captch said:

Phocas

 

Phocas (Focas)
Solidus of the Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire Period 603/607 AD; Material: Gold; Diameter: 21.00mm; Weight: 4.50g; Mint: Constantinopolis; Reference: MIB 7, DOC 5j, SB 618; Provenance: Ex Leu Numismatic Winterthur, Switzerland; From the collection of Dr. Max Blaschegg (1930-2021, with collector’s ticket) and that of his father, Dr. Karl Blaschegg (1892-1951).

Obverse: Draped and cuirassed bust of Phocas facing, wearing crown and holding globus cruciger in his right hand. The Inscription reads: o N FOCAS PЄRP AVI for Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus (Our Lord Phocas, Eternal Emperor); Reverse: Angel standing facing, holding long linear staff surmounted by staurogram in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. The Inscription reads: VICTORIA AVGG I CONOB for Victoria Vuggi, Constantinople ([Dedicated to] the Victory of the Emperor, City of Constantinople).

 

[DonnaML]

Links: Solidus, Constantinople Mint, CONOB.

Eastern Roman Empire, Arcadius (son of Theodosius I and older brother of Honorius, Emperor 383-408 AD), AV Solidus AD 397-402, Constantinople Mint (9th Officina). Obv. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing three-quarters right, holding spear over right shoulder and shield on left arm bearing image of horseman right; D N ARCADI-VS P F AVG / Rev. Helmeted Constantinopolis seated facing on throne, head right, with right knee bare and right foot resting on prow, holding long scepter with right hand and, on left hand, Victory with wreath standing on globe; CONCORDI-A AVGG Θ [Theta, for 9th Officina]; in exergue, CONOB [CON = Constantinople Mint; OB = Obryziacum].* RIC X Arcadius 7 at. p. 240 (1994); Depeyrot II Constantinople 55/1 Arcadius at p. 246 (55th emission for city since AD 337) (30 examples of type from 9th Officina; 285 overall) [Depeyrot, George, Les Monnaies d'Or de Constantin II à Zenon (337-491) (Wetteren 1996)]; Dumberton Oaks Catalogue, Late Roman 207-217 (217 = 9th Officina) and Plate 8 [P. Griessen. & M. Mays, Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, etc. (1992)]; Sear RCV V 20706 (ill. p. 431) (1994). 20 mm., 4.44 g. Purchased from Dr. Busso Peus Nachf., Frankfurt, Germany, 1 April 2021. Ex Auktionen Münzhandlung Sonntag Auktion 33 Lot 36 (23.11. 2020); ex Auktion 116 München Münzhandlung Karl Kreß [Kress](Otto Helbing Nachfolger), Lot 729 (28.10.1960).

*See https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=CONOB (explaining “Obryziacum” as follows: “The solidus weighed 1/72 of the Roman pound. "OB" was both an abbreviation for the word obryzum, which means refined or pure gold, and is the Greek numeral 72. Thus the . . . OB . . . may be read ‘1/72 pound pure gold’”). 

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[Roman Collector]

Link: Concordia.

Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.67 g, 31.1 mm, 7 h.
Rome, mid 152- autumn 154.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG·FIL·, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: CONCORDIA S C, Concordia seated left, holding flower and resting elbow on cornucopiae set on globe under chair.
Refs: RIC 1374a; BMC 2175-76; Cohen 57; RCV 4713; Strack 1315.

 

[Prieure de Sion]

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31 minutes ago, Roman Collector said:

Faustina

 

Diva Faustina I the Elder under Antoninus Pius
Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 141 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 18mm; Weight: 3.14g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC III Antoninus Pius 362

Obverse: Bust of Faustina I, draped, right, hair elaborately waved in several loops round head and drawn up and coiled on top. The Inscription reads: DIVA FAVSTINA for Diva Faustina (The divine Faustina [the Elder]); Reverse: Ceres, veiled, draped, standing front, head left, holding long torch, vertical, in right hand and raising fold of skirt in left. The Inscription reads: AVGVSTA for Augusta (The venerable).

 

[Sulla80]

Link : Ceres

From the Roman provinces Thrace, Deultum, Æ (5.9), Philip II, 244-247

Obv: bust to right, "M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES"

Rev: standing Ceres with ears of corn and long torch left, "COL FL PAC DEVLT"

Ref: Jurukova 489

[expat]

Link; Thrace

THRACE. Apollonia Pontika. Circa 450-400 BC. AR
Drachm (14mm, 3.16 gm). Upturned anchor;
crayfish to left; A to right / Gorgoneion facing with lolling tongue and head surrounded by serpents.
 SNG Berry 391

 

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[DonnaML]

It's unusual for this thread to go 24 hours without a new post!

Since I recently posted my own Apollonia Pontika drachm, I'll post this instead.

Link: anchor.

Hadrian, AR Denarius, Rome Mint, AD 121 (late) - 123 (Group 3, see RIC II.3 p. 109). Obv. Laureate head right (no drapery, truncation with part of upper shoulder line viewed from behind), IMP CAESAR TRAIAN – HADRIANVS AVG / Rev. Oceanus with crab-claw horns, reclining left, leaning on dolphin (tail up) with head propped on left hand, holding up anchor with right hand, P M – TR P COS – III. 19 mm., 3.17 g. RIC II.3 520 (ill. Pl. 12) (2019 ed.) (“Scarce”), RSC II 1109, Sear RCV II 3518 (ill. p. 149) BMCRR III Hadrian 127. Purchased from Noonans (Noonans Mayfair Ltd., London, UK), Auction 269, 8 March 2023, Lot 628 [with old coin envelope, possibly from C.J. Martin, London UK].*

*See BMCRR III, Hadrian Introduction, p. cxxxii: “Oceanus, picturesquely defined by claws on the head, dolphin and anchor at side, clearly marks the way of Hadrian to Britain.” (Hadrian traveled from Gaul to Britain in AD 122; see Clive Foss, Roman Historical Coins (Seaby, London, 1990), p. 109.) To the best of my knowledge, after searching OCRE, this type is the first of only three Roman Imperial coins to depict Oceanus. See John Melville Jones, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (London, Seaby, 1990), entry for “Oceanus” at p. 225: “In Greek and Roman mythology this was the name of the river which was believed to encircle the earth. He was represented in art in the form of a river god with added marine attributes. Oceanus is found on a denarius of Septimius Severus of AD 209, alluding to the emperor’s crossing to Britain, and on a medallion of Constans I (see Bononia).”
 

[expat]

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Orodos II, AE Drachm, Elymais
Orodes II. Early-mid 2nd century CE. AE drachm . Bearded head right with two diadem and pearl collar. Inverted anchor and crescent with pointed dot in right field / bust of Belos facing with Aramic legend around (counter clockwise): WRWD MLK'' BRY WRWD (King Orodes, son of Orodes). van't Haaff type 13.2.1-2B; Alram 478; De Morgan type 44/5. aVF. Scarce.
15mm, 3.3g

 

[Pellinore]

41 minutes ago, DonnaML said:

It's unusual for this thread to go 24 hours without a new post!

 

Sorry, I was busy elsewhere. I hope to pay more attention from now on.

Elymais coins often are intriguing. You call it anchor, but that thing always reminds me of a bicycle pump. Well...

1411. AE drachm Elymais. Obv. King’s head looking with big eyes slightly to the left. Moon over bicycle pump right. Rev. Some vague elongated dots. 14 mm, 3.28 gr.

Edited June 12, 2023 by Pellinore
not stripes really

[expat]

Link; Elymais

Elymais, AE drachm, struck by Kamnaskires-Orodes III, 2nd century BC. Facing bust with long moustache and pointed beard, large lateral tufts, wearing a double diadem, all within border of dots / Female bust (Artemis?) left, wearing a headdress of a crest of rays terminating in pellets, necklace and pearled dress, anchor behind head, all within border of dots. 14mm, 2.70g. BMC p. 280, 2-3; De Morgan 54.

[Pellinore]

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Those Elymais coins (=Western Persia) often have poor reverses and / or poor obverses. Little dumpy blobs of copper. When I was fourteen, my headmaster at school, a Jesuit, gave me one that he had brought from his missionary times in Persia in the 1950s. It worked.

At home under the blankets at night, I used my then still fresh, active boy's brain to memorize everything about the Persian Empire (as well as the Roman Empire). When I can't sleep at night I sometimes try: can I still, after half a century, name all Roman emperors up to (say) 360 AD, complete with their dates? And the Sasanians? And how about the Parthian kings.... It's still going pretty well. Well... (grrr...snore). Anyway, that's what I try. 

1416. AE drachm Elymais. Obv. King’s profile t.l. with high cap, adorned with anchor. To the right, bicycle pump anchor. Rev. Helmeted bust t.r., flower at the left side. 14 mm, 3.52 gr.

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[expat]

Star/dot in crescent

Amisos, Pontos. AE20. Time of Mithradates VI. Ca 120-63 BC. AE 19mm. Helmeted head of Ares right / AMI-ΣOY across fields, sword in sheath, star in crescent at upper left, IB at upper right, ΦΠA monogram at lower left, no monogram at lower right.
19mm, 7.68g
Malloy 32a. Not in SNG BMC Black Sea

 

[Pellinore]

Amisos, Pontos

Rough coin, this copper of Amisos with the god Perseus and the mythical winged horse Pegasos. From a famous collection.

 

1509. Amisos, Pontos, AE20, time of Mithridates, 85-65 BC. Obv. Helmeted head of Perseus right. Rev. Pegasos grazing left; two monograms in exergue. 20.5 mm, 11.11 gr. Ex Stevex6 collection.

[Prieure de Sion]

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15 hours ago, Pellinore said:

Helmeted head

 

Publius Satrienus
Denarius of the Roman Republic Period 77 BC; Material: Silver; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 3.82g; Mint: Rome; Reference: Crawford RRC 388/1b

Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma, right. Border of dots. Controlmark; Reverse: She-wolf, left. Border of dots. The Inscription reads: ROMA P SATRIE NVS for Roma, Publius Satrienus.

 

[Pellinore]

@Prieure de Sion,what a fantastic WOLF! It inspires me:

4149. Potin, Carnutes, Gaul (near nowadays Chartres), ca. 40 BC. Obv. Head to the left with wild hair. Rev. Howling wolf to the left under text SNIA. 17 mm, 3.28 gr. Ref: D&T 2602.

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[DonnaML]

Link: wolf.

Trajan, AE Semis (or Quadrans), ca. AD 107 (Sear), Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate bust of Trajan right with slight drapery on far shoulder; IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG / Rev. She-wolf crouching left, SC in exergue. 16 mm., 2.70 g., 7 h. RIC II 694, BMCRE II Trajan 1061, Sear RCV II 3246 (ill. p. 117), Cohen 340.  Purchased from London Ancient Coins, Aug. 2022.

[Pellinore]

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3125. AE18, Traianus, Coracesium in Cilicia. Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤωΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС. Laureate and draped bust right. Rev: ΚΟΡΑΚΗСΙωΤωΝ. Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and torch. 18 mm, 4.72 gr. RPC III 2742 (14 exx.); Ziegler 96; SNG BN 612-3; SNG Levante 388. Ex Dr. P. Vogl Collection; ex Bankhaus Aufhäuser (sold 30.01.1989; with dealer's ticket). 

[expat]

Show my newest Trajan again

 

[Pellinore]

...aaand here's Fortuna again. 

2842. AE Magnus Maximus (383-388). AE Lugdunum. Obv.: Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. D N MAG MAXIMVS P F AVG. Rev.: Magnus Maximus standing left, holding crowning Victory on globus and extending hand to Fortuna kneeling right. REPARATIO REIPVB / LVGS. 23 mm, 5.02 gr. RIC 32.

[Pellinore]

All quiet on the Western front...

Link: Lugdunum

 

2785. Decentius (350-353), AE maiorina. Obv. Cuirassed bust right, DN DECENTIVS NOB CAES. Rev. Two Victories standing facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT / V / MVLT / X, supported on short column, VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE; SP between figures // RSLG. Lugdunum, 351-353. 20 mm, 4.21 gr, 6h. Reference: RIC VIII 137, p. 187. Photo John Zielinski.

[Captch]

41 minutes ago, Pellinore said:

Two Victories standing facing one another, holding between them wreath

Roman Imperial imitative AE nummus

Diademmed bust of emperor facing right. Lots of Is for lettering.

Two victories holding a shield above a cippus. Imitations of a legend and  mint mark are present.

2.62 gr, 19.0 mm

Likely minted 316-361 CE.

[Roman Collector]

LInk: cippus. I only have a few coins with cippi. There's this one. It's scarce but, alas, damaged.

Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249.
Roman Æ as, 7.18 g, 23.7 mm, 12 h.
Rome, AD 244-246.
Obv: MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: SAECVLARES AVGG S C, Cippus.
Refs: RIC 202b; Cohen 69; RCV 2644.

[Prieure de Sion]

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Titus Flavius Domitianus as Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus
Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 88 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 3.16g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC II, Part 1 (second edition) Domitian 604; Provenance: Ex Harmers of London Numismatics. 

Obverse: Head of Domitian, laureate, right. The Inscription reads: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VIII for Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Octava (Imperator, Caesar, Domitian, Augustus, conqueror of the Germans, high priest, holder of tribunician power for the eighth time); Reverse: Legend and column inscribed LVD SAEC FEC within laurel wreath with COS XIIII for Ludos saeculares fecit (He made the secular games) and Consul Quartum Decimum (Consul for the 14th time).