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J for Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea

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Julia Maesa
AR Denar
Obv.: IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right.
Rev. IVNO REG, Iuno standing left, holding patera and sceptre; to left, peacock.
Ag, 3.59g, 18.2mm
Ref.: RIC IVb, 259 var (IVNO REG not REGI), RSC 23a, CRE 480 [R]

 

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Julia Mamaea
AR-Denar
Obv.: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, Bust of Julia Mamaea, draped, right
Rev.: IVNO CONSERVATRIX, Juno, diademed, veiled, draped, standing left, holding patera in right hand and sceptre in left hand; at feet, peacock
Ag, 20mm, 3.33g
Ref.: RIC IVb, 343

 

 

 

 

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J for Johannes

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Iohannes (423 - 425)
Obv: [D]N IOHANN[ES P F AVG], Bust of Johannes, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right
Rev: VICTO[R-IA AVGG]/ Victory, winged, draped, advancing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left hand.
Mint Mark: ∈/-//RM
RIC 10, p.361, 1910
AE, 1.1g, 10 mm.

 

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J-J-Junius Brutus

D. Junius Brutus Albinus

AR (Silver) Denarius

Struck 48 BC => The year Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and becomes sole dictator of Rome, calling himself "Imperator"

Rome Mint

Diameter: 18mm

Weight: 3.60 grams

Obverse: Head of young Mars right, wearing a crested helmet

Reverse: BRVTI F ALBINVS, two gallic trumpets (carnyces) in saltire, oval shield above, round shield below

Reference: Postumia 11; Cr450/1a; Syd 941

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"K" is for Kings of *****

 

Kings of the Bosporus Sauromates II, Sept Sev c/m (below)

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prousias II Kynegos (below)

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KINGS of BOSPOROS, Sauromates II Æ 144 Units, c/m (below)

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KINGS of COMMAGENE, Antiochos IV Epiphanes (below)

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios, Fourrée Fifth Tetradrachm (below)

 

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KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas (below)

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V (below)

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Kings of Numidia Micipsa, c/m (below)

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KINGS of PARTHIA. Sinatrukes (below)

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Kings of Thrace Lysimachos (below)

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Kings of Bosporus, Sauromates I (below)

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Kalchedon

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Bithynia, Kalchedon
340-320 BCE, Silver Siglos
5.20g, 17mm
Bull standing left on grain ear. "KAΛX"
Mill scale incuse pattern.
SNG Cop 348
Ex Aegean Numismatics

 

Karystos

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EUBOIA. Karystos
Circa 350 BCE
Chalkous AE 10.5 mm, 1.31 g, 12 h
Head of bearded Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. KAPY Forepart of bull right, horns hung with fillets; behind, uncertain symbol - a club?.
BCD Euboia 582. HGC 4, 1570. Robinson, Olynthus III, p. 48, pl. IX, 151.
Ex J. Metzger Collection.
Ex Nomos

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Kore. The maiden/Persephone. Time for  our Doric genitives oh my.

The obverse shows the head of Kore, usually facing right, wearing a necklace, earrings, and a wreath made of a stalk bearing a full ear of grain. Her hair flows loosely about her neck and shoulders. This loose hairstyle is without precedent in Syracusan coinage, yet the type proved quite popular, reappearing on the coins of the Fourth Democracy, Pyrrhus, and Hieron I. Along the left edge appears the legend ΚΟΡΑΣ , the Doric genitive of Kore, "the Maiden," an epithet of Persephone. On the reverse a winged female figure stands at left, naked to the hips, with a hammer in her right hand and a nail in her left; she is preparing to nail a helmet to a freestanding trophy.

Tetradrachm. 310-305 BC AGATHOKLES. SYRACUSE. SICILY

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K is for Kelenderis and Kalpe

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Cilicia, Kelenderis, circa 425-400 BC, AR Stater,

Obv: Youthful nude rider holding the reins with his right hand and a goad in his left, seated sideways on horse prancing to left, preparing to jump off and run alongside the horse

Rev: KΕΛΕΝ Goat kneeling right, its head turned back to left; in exergue, ivy leaf

Note: The coins of Kelenderis celebrate its horse-riding elite: they show the point in the Kalpe - a race for mares - when, in the last lap, the jockey would slide off the horse and run alongside the horse until the finish.

"The trotting race was for mares, and in the last part of the course, the riders jumped off and ran beside the mares, holding on to the bridle" - Pausanias 5.9.2

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K is for Koinon!

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Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.
Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165.
Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.
Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield.
Refs: RPC IV.1 4570 (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 & 966.2.
Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin).

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Sabina, AD 117-137.
Roman provincial Æ 24.5 mm, 8.12 g, 6 h.
Bithynia, Koinon of Bithynia.
Obv: CΑΒЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, draped bust of Sabina, right, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane.
Rev: ΚΟΙ-ΝΟΝ BЄIΘΥΝΙΑϹ, octastyle temple on podium; pellet in pediment; Nikes erecting trophies (?) on raking cornices.
Refs: RPC III, 1016A; SNG von Aulock 291; cf. BMC 13.107,30.
 
 

 

 

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Dynasts of Lycia, Kherei.

Stater, c. 410 - 390 BC.

Athena on the obverse, and portrait of Kherei on the reverse, with his name written in Lycian script. 

This is one of the earliest coins to show a portrait of a living person, though it isn't as naturalistic as the portraits of the Dynasts that followed Kherei.

 

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K for Kroisosnormal_G_328_Kroisos.jpg.87517779f92c9332949b03afe5dee94e.jpg

Lydia, Kings of Lydia, Kroisos
circa 560-546 BC
Obv.: On the left, forepart of lion with open mouth to right confronting, on the right, forepart of bull to left.
Rev.: Incuse square
Ag, 7x8mm,0.87g
Ref.: Berk 26–7. Traité I 413. SNG Kayhan 1020-1. SNG Aulock 8213.

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A8.9mm K for Keramos

 

 

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Keramos
Asia Minor, Caria
400 BC
Obv.: Forepart of Bull right
Rev.. Dolphin swimming right, below the carian letter ∇ = K
AE, 0.86g, 8.90mm
Ref.: Koray Konuk, "Coin Evidence for the Carian Name of Keramos", KADMOS XXXIX, p. 164, 1

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