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Peloponnesos

Patrae

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Achaea. Achaea, Patras(Patrae). Sabina Æ20

Obv: SABINA AVG / Draped bust of Sabina, r., hair coiled and piled on top of head above triple stephane.
Rev: COL A A PATREN / Genius naked running l. to altar, looking back, holding box in his l. hand.
BCD Peloponnesos 552.5

 

Phialea

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Achaea. Arcadia, Phialea. Septimius Severus Æ22

Obv: laureate head right.
Rev: ΦIΓAΛEΩN, Dionysos wearing short chiton, standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos.
BCD 1644-1645; Pausanias 3.

 

Pylos

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Achaea. Messinia, Pylos. Caracalla AE22. Terminal figure.

Peloponnesus. Pylos, Messenia. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion 22mm.
Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: PYL[IWN] Terminal figure veiled and closely draped, holds in r. end of garment.

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Thrace, Philippopolis. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. AE As­sarion (3.94 gm, 18mm). Obv.: [ΑΥ Τ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙ] ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝ, laureate head right. Rev.: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛEΙΤΩΝ, nude Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus over panther and long filleted thyrsus. Mouchmov, Philippopolis 66–70 and 75, BMC 9: RPC Online 7441. VF.

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P for Pu Yi

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Emperor: Pu Yi 溥儀
Province: Sichuan
Obv: Text in Manchu and Chinese
top center: Manchu script
Top left and right: 己酉 (ji you), Earth Rooster, the 46th year of the 60-year Chinese calendar, 1909.
Center: Da Qing Tong Bi 大清銅幣 Great Qing Copper Coin
Mintmark 川 (chuan) for Sichuan
left and right: Du Zhi Bu 度支部
Bottom: 當制錢十文 equivalent to 10 Wen.
Rev:
Top: 宣統年造 Made in the Xuan Tong years.
Center: Dragon
Bottom: TAI-CHING-TI-KUO COPPER COIN
Value: 10 cash
Year: 1909
Material: copper, 7.19g, 28.73mm
Literature: KM Y#20t.1

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Pu Yi

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P is for Polonnaruwu

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Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Native coinage, Sahassa Malla, AD 1200-1202

Obv: Sahassa Malla (or the god Rama) standing front, head to right, smelling on a lotus flower held in his left hand; in field to right, five pellets above lotus flower; in field to left, altar.

Rev: SRIMA SAHASA MALLA (in Brahmi) Hanuman leaping across the straits to Sri Lanka to rescue Sita or Sahassa Malla seated front, head to right, holding uncertain object in his left hand.

Note: more on these coins here

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India, Post-Kushan (Jammu and Kashmir), Kidarite Successors, Vinayaditya, 5th to 6th century CE, Stater (Electrum, 20-22mm, 7.48g)

Obv: Abstract Kushan-style king standing to left

Rev: Abstract Ardoksho seated facing, DITYA (in Brahmi) to left, ŠRIVINAYA (in Brahmi) down right

Note: Ardoksho is the Khushan goddess of fertility that is analogous to the Persian Anahita

 

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P is for Potin.

Celtic. Northeast Gaul. Leuci. Circa 100-50 BC. Potin Unit (16mm, 4.82g, 9h). Boar Standard series. Boviolles (Meuse) mint(?). Obv: Celticized head left with large, round eye, band around head and three locks of hair. Rev: Celticized boar left, stylized flower below. Ref: Collection Danicourt 366; Scheers, Traite, pl. xxiii, 663; CCCBM III 409; Castelin 573. Very Fine. Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein Auction 13, 16 October 1973, Lot 562. Ex Freeman and Sear 14, 21 June 2007, Lot 14. An unusual example with intact casting sprue.

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Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. AE As (9.86 gm, 25.5mm). Rome mint. Struck 140-144 AD.
Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PI VS PP TRP COS III, laureate head right.
Reverse: ANNONA AVG, S-C, Annona standing right, holding grain ears over modius in right hand, cornucopia in left; at feet to right, prow right.
RIC III 675. VF.

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Q for Quiver

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P. Clodius Turrinus Rome mint, 42 BC; Laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to left / Diana Lucifera standing facing, head right, bow and quiver on her shoulder, holding lighted torch in each hand; M • F at left, P • CLODIVS at right 3.5 g, 19 mm Crawford 494/23; Syd 1117

Q for crescent in second quarter

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Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. AR Denier (19mm, 0.97 g, 2h). Class C, var. c. Struck circa 1163-1188. + BOAИVHDVS, helmeted and mailed head left; crescent before, star behind / + AИTI:OCHIA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter. Metcalf, Crusades 378; CCS 67d. Good VF

Q for Queen

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Q for Quarter

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Q for Quarter Rial (Saudi Arabia 1954, H 1374)

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Q is for Q 

 Denarius of L Sulla circa 81 Unknown mint BC Obv Diademed head of Venus Rv Twin cornucopia Q Below Crawford 375/2 3.85 grms 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen375-a.jpg.67b5ed46e766b96ffdbe7c6cb4a313f9.jpg

Venus is Sulla's patron deity and the double cornucopia is a symbol of Fortuna a deity claimed by Sulla as one who favored him more than others. 

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Q for Quadriga

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Republic
Anonymous Denar, 86 BC. Rome
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right, thunderbolt below
Rev: Jupiter, holding thunderbolt in right hand and reins in left, driving galloping quadriga right.
AR, 18mm, 3.66 g
Ref.: Crawford 350A/2; Sydenham 723; RSC 226; RBW 1333.

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