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  1. 1. What format do you want for the next Alphabet Game?

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S...Salus Standing, Serpent, Sceptre. 

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Caracalla 198-217 AD. AR Denarius (2.82 gm, 19mm). Laodicea mint. Struck 200/1 AD.
Obv.: ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: SAL GEN HVM, Salus standing left, holding serpent-entwined scepter, and raising kneeling figure personifying the human race. RIC 350; BMC 701; RSC 558a. gVF.

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S ... For Ptolemy I as Satrap.

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PTOLEMY I SOTER (SATRAP: 323-305/4 BCE)
EGYPT, MEMPHIS,ca 323/322 BCE

Ar STATER (TETRADRACHM)
Size: 27x29 mm
Weight: 17.03 g
Die Axis:00:00
Broucheion Collection P-2015-03-14.001


OBV: Heracles head, facing right wearing lion skin tied at neck and Ammon horn. Dotted border.
REV: Zeus Aetophoros seated on throne, feet crossed and on footrest, facing left. Holds eagle in outstreached right hand and staff in left. In left field: Amun-Ra head with double feathered plumes; To right: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ. Below throne ΔA monogram. Dotted border.
Refs: Lorber CPE-4; Price-3964; Zervos (1974), Issue 3 [94 recorded, from 8 obverse dies]; SNG Copenhagen-9; Zervos (1967), Issue III (dated 324 BCE).
Provenance: Ex Jean Elsen Sept 1984 and Auction 124 (14 Mar 2015), Lot# 139.

- Broucheion

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S for Southern Tang Dynasty

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Kingdom: Southern Tang, 南 唐
Emperor: Yuan Zu 元宗 (943-961).
Obv: 唐國通寶, Tang Guo Tong Bao, Regular Script (Tang Guo = Tang Kingdom).
Rev: blank
Year: 959
Material: AE, 2.88g, 24mm
Literature: Hartill 15.93, FD815

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S is for Stater.

Celtic Britain. Durotriges. Uninscribed series, struck circa 80-50 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 5.92g, 6h). Durotrigan A (Chute) type. Obv: Head of Apollo right, devolved to wreath and crescents. Rev: Disjointed horse left; pellets above, 'crab' below, [pellet in lozenge above tail]; below, zigzag and pellet pattern between two parallel lines. Ref: Hobbs 35-76; Van Arsdell 1205-5; ABC 746; SCBC 22. Nearly Very Fine, striking flatness on edge. Ex Stacks Coin Galleries Sale, August 2009 (18 Aug 2009), Lot 4001. Note from a CNG lot: Hoard evidence suggests that the usual attribution of these staters to the Durotriges may not be correct. The authors of ABC point out that these staters are not found in Durotrigan territory and instead attribute them the Belgae, although with some reservations.

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T for Clodius Turrinus and torch

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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

T for Clementia Temp(orum)

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Probus AE Antoninianus. Siscia, 281 AD. IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / CLEMENTIA TEMP, Probus standing right, holding sceptre, receiving Victory from Jupiter standing left, holding sceptre. Officina letter in lower centre. Mintmark XXI. Cohen 87, Ric 644.

T for Thessalonika (TESΓ )

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Julian II (360 - 363) AE1 (BI Maiorina); Thessalonika Mint; Obv: DN FL CL IVLIANUS PF AUG; Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; Rev: SECVRITAS REIPVB; Bull standing right, two stars above;*TESΓ in exergue; Ref: RIC 226; NGC Graded Ch. XF

T for Theophilus

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Michael II the Amorian (AD 820-829) with Theophilus Æ Follis; Constantinople mint; Obv: MIXAHL S ΘЄOFILOS, crowned facing busts of Michael (on left) and Theophilus (on right); cross above; Rev: Large M, X/X/X to left, cross above, N/N/N to right, Θ below; 29.12mm; 6.21 grams; Sear 1642

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Theophilus (AD 829-842) Æ Follis; Constantinople mint; AD 830-842; Obv: ΘEOFIL bASIL; Half-length figure standing facing, holding labarum and globus cruciger; Rev: ΘEO / FILE AVG / OVSTE SV / hICAS in four lines; 27.66mm; 7.46 grams; Sear 1667

T for Tournois (TVRONVS)

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Philppe IV Silver Denier Tournois, 18mm, 1285 - 1310; Obv: + PhILIPPVS REX, Rev: + TVRONVS CIVIS

T for Thing (???)

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Mittelalter Deutschland. Pfennig (1441). Leichte Prägeschwäche. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Augsburg-Bistum u. Stadt (gemeinschaftlich).

 

T for Taisho (大正) - 1 Yen 1914 & 5 Rin 1919

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T for Civil War Token, Toys, and Tackle

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T...Trajan & Thyateira

Went for this coin because of the portrait...For me it shows a man who wanted to go places and he certainly did!

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Lydia. Thyateira. Trajan. 98-117 AD. AE 25mm (9.14 gm).
Obv.: ΑΥ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΝ CΕ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙ , laureate head right.
Rev.: ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ; Athena in long chiton standing facing, head left, holding patera in her extended right hand, resting with left on shield placed on ground beside her, behind which upright spear. RPC III 1823. VF.

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Trajan

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Trajan ae dupondius AD 98-117

27mm, 13.15g, Struck Rome AD 104

IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVE GER DAC P M TRP COS V PP

radiate bust right with aegis on left shoulder

SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI SC trophy with two shields at base.

RIC 586

Cohen 573

Woytek 196cA

Natural emerald green toning with earthy hues

 

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T is for Tabaristan hemidrachms in Threes  (OK I know these all look like Sassanian Khusraw II, CE 591-628, but if you look a bit closer...).  Early eastern Islamic coinage followed Sasanian models for silver and copper coinage. Tabaristan coins are half the weight of a Sasanian drachm aka hemi-drachms of ~2.08g.

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governor's name in Pahlavi before bust & in Arabic in margin, both languages citing the patronymic (ibn al-'alâ)

Tabaristan DABWAYHID ISPAHBADS : Khurshid, CE 740-761, AR ½ drachm, according to Album the actual issuer of these coins was probably Rawh b. Hatim as ‘Abbasid governor

Tabaristan ‘ABBASID GOVERNOR: 'Umar, CE 771-780, AR ½ drachm

Tabaristan ‘ABBASID GOVERNOR: Sa'id b. Da'laj, CE 776-778, AR ½ drachm

Tabaristan ‘ABBASID GOVERNORJarir, 786-788, CE AR ½ drachm

Tabaristan ‘ABBASID GOVERNOR: Sulayman, CE 787-789, AR ½ drachm

Tabaristan (Central Asia) Anonymous (AFZUT 'may increase' or 'strong' in Pahlawi in place of name before the bust, GDH 'kingship' in Pahlawi behind head), CE 780-793, AR ½ drachm

MALEK, HODGE MEHDI. “A Hoard Group Of Drachms of the Dābūyid Ispahbads and Early ’Abbāsid Governors of Ṭabaristān.The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-), vol. 156, 1996, pp. 175–91.

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Hi All,

T ... for Tarsus under Ptolemy II.

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PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHOS (285-246 BCE)
ASIA MINOR, CILICIA, TARSUS, ca 261/0 - 259 BCE
SILVER COINAGE WITH PORTRAIT OF PTOLEMY II, c 261/0-259 BCE

Ar Drachm
Size: 15 mm
Weight: 3.39 g
Die Axis: 11:00
Broucheion Collection P-1996-12-14.001

OBV: Ptolemy II diademed head facing right, wearing aegis. Border not visible.
REV: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings spread. ΔΡΚ monogram monogram to left with Gallic shield with a thunderbolt (?) on it; to right below eagle's tail Ҥ monogram. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕ[ΜΑΙΟΥ] ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ. Dotted border.
Refs: Lorber CPE-401 (This coin); AD Philippidis coll (P-1996-12-00.001 [renumbered to P-1996-12-14.001]), ex Elsen 47, 14 Dec 1996, lot 213, & Sternberg 27, 7-8 Nov 1994, lot 46.

Note (CC Lorber CPE): "ET Newell (1941, pp 222-223) attributed this series to Tarsus during the Ptolemaic occupation of 246-243. He identified the portrait as that of Ptolemy III and pointed out control links to the Seleucid coinage of Antiochus II. The portrait was more convincingly identified as that of Ptolemy II by A Davesne (1999, pp 129-131). Davesne redated the series to the Second Syrian War, specifically to the short period from the end of 261 to 259. Davesne 's reattribution is persuasive, because there is a break in the Tarsian coinage of Antiochus II that is filled by the following series, which displays control links to both the preceding and subsequent coinage. Concerning the anomalous combination of Philadelphus' portrait and the Galatian shield with the Soter legend on the first emission of the series (CPE 400-401), Davesne suggested that the shield and the epiklesis Soter had the same function: the shield recalled an earlier military success, while the epithet glorified recent victories in Syria and Phoenicia. The pairing of the shield and epithet on CPE 399 suggests the possibility of local savior cults, an hypothesis that receives support from the Asia Minor coinage of Ptolemy III, whose portrait is associated with Soter legends at particular mints (CPE 751, 770-776, 779-780, 783-786)."

- Broucheion

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T for Trajan

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Lydia. Hierocaesaraea
Trajan
Bronze, AE 21
Obv.: ΑΥ ΝΕΡΒΑΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΝ, laureate head right
Rev: ΙΕΡΟΚΑΙСΑΡΕΩΝ, Nike standing right, holding wreath and palm.
Æ, 21mm, 7.01g
Ref.: RPC III online 1845A-3 (this coin)

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T for Thessaly

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Larissa, Thessaly
AE Dichalkon
Obv.: Head of nymph Larissa facing, head turned slightly to left, wreathed with grain, wearing double strand plain necklace
Rev: ΛAPIΣAIΩN, Cavalrymen on horse prancing right, lance in right, wearing Boiotian helmet, ∆A monogram
AE, 5.45g, 17.1mm
Ref.: BCD Thessaly I 1171.1, BCD Thessaly II 393.3, SNG Cop 140, cf. Rogers 285

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T for Thrace

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Faustina Junior
Thrace, Augusta Traiana
AE25
Obv.: ΦΑVСΤΕΙΝΑ СΕΒΑСΤΗ, draped bust of Faustina II right.
Rev.: ΑVΓΟVСΤΗС ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗС, veiled Demeter standing, facing, head, l., holding two ears of corn and long torch
Ae, 7.87g, 25 mm
Ref.: RPC Vol. 4, № 9375 (temporary)

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T.....Thrace, Thyrsus1415879170_cFo63tAjHye79sBSM2g572Zq4ftGxB(1).jpg.799b74844ba300fdc6eb74c449b56e61.jpg

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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