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I love the delicate script on this coin...

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Nero Æ 22mm of Prymnessus, Phrygia. AD 54-68. Ti. Ioulios Proklos, magistrate. NEPΩNA KAIΣAPA ΠPYMNHΣΣEIΣ, laureate head to right / ΕΠΙ • ΤΙ • ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΠΡΟΚΛΟΥ, Dikaiosyne standing facing, head to left, holding scales and grain ears. RPC I 3207; Von Aulock Phrygien II 1022-31. 6.60g, 22mm, 12h.

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A late joint reign ant of Gallienus:

IMP GALLIENVS AVG: Radiate and cuirassed bust right.
PAX AVGG: Pax standing left, holding branch and scepter.
V in left field. 
5th emission of Rome.

MIR 208d (10 ex), RIC 341.

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1 hour ago, JAZ Numismatics said:

Those Vota types are typically very well struck, and easy to find in EF grades. Sometimes it's hard to believe they're ancient coins. Great choice for a first follis!

Thanks! And their prices are Very good. A good choice for those beginning

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Gaul, Vienna. Octavian, with Divus Julius Caesar. 30 BC. Æ Dupondius (31mm, 17.46g, 12h). Obv: •IMP• above, CAESAR below, DIVI•IVLI• to left, •DIVI•F to right; Bare heads of Julius Caesar and Octavian, back-to-back. Rev: C•I• V; Prows of colliding quinquiremes at the battle of Actium. Ref: Unpublished, deserving of further research!

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Roman warship at the Battle of Actium. Mediterranean, 31BC. By Rado ...

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A snack as I missed out on a coin I was after. Didn´t have a Maximianus

Maximianus, AE radiate fraction. 295-299 AD. Cyzicus. IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS PF AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / CONCORDIA MI-LITVM, Emperor standing right, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, standing left and holding sceptre. KΔ in lower centre. RIC VI Cyzicus 16B.

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Small mail day last week 

First, is an upgrade - an unassuming coin of a major rarity in the Roman Imperial set - Commodus with his younger brother Annius Verus. Annius Verus is known only from this type (two obverse legend variants of the same type), a couple types of medallion, and *possibly* the "four seasons" series of quadrans, although I believe the last has been debunked.

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The old coin, which I suppose now I need to figure out the best way to sell....

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And secondly, a type I had my eye on for a while and finally won a middling specimen at a lowball bid

AE10 of Spithridates, Achaemenid satrap of Lydia. Best known for being the man who almost killed Alexander the Great at the Battle of Granicus - he was about to land a blow from behind when one of Alexander's generals cut his arm off, saving Alexander's life.

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My latest purchases are medieval and ancient but not a coin yet still fitting within my focus of Victory/Nike:

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Antonio Venier, 62nd Doge of Venice
1382-1400 AD
Venice
AR Grosso
Obverse: ANTO • VENERIO • S • M • VENETI, The Doge and St. Mark standing facing each other, holding together the oriflamme of the Republic; in the field, vertically D/V/X; in the field, on each side, a star
Reverse: ✠ • TIBI • LAVS • 7 • GLORIA, Christ enthroned facing front, dressed in the pallium and the columbium, blessing with the right hand and holding the Gospels with the left

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Lead Seal
19mm, 6.13g
Victory walking right, P to right

 

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A budget denarius of Aquilia Severa, former Vestal Virgin & controversial Empress. Elagabalus’s taboo marriage with Aquilia turned the Roman Senate against him, one of many factors leading to Elagabalus’s downfall.
 

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Roman Empire, Aquilia Severa 220 AD, Silver Denarius 2.45g, 19mm Draped bust of Aquilia Severa right "IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG" Concordia standing left, sacrificing out of a patera over an altar and holding double cornucopiae, star to left. "CONCORDIA" RSC 2

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I just got this little gem from JAZ a few days ago, and I've been trying to photograph it. But it's very small and very dark and I just couldn't get a decent image so I've gone with the dealer photo, just lightened a bit to show the detail...

Klazomenai, Ionia

Late 4th century BC
AE12 (12mm, 1.79g)
O: Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves, and triple pendant earring.
R: Head of ram to right; KΛΑ below.
Sear 4322
ex JAZ Numismatics

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On 4/1/2024 at 6:22 PM, Edessa said:

Gaul, Vienna. Octavian, with Divus Julius Caesar. 30 BC. Æ Dupondius (31mm, 17.46g, 12h). Obv: •IMP• above, CAESAR below, DIVI•IVLI• to left, •DIVI•F to right; Bare heads of Julius Caesar and Octavian, back-to-back. Rev: C•I• V; Prows of colliding quinquiremes at the battle of Actium. Ref: Unpublished, deserving of further research!

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I'm really jealous of this one. Pure gem , congrats !

My latest ancient is an alexandrian tetradrachm for Severus alexander

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Severe Alexandre ( 222 - 235) - Tétradrachme de l'atelier d'Alexandrie, AD 225-226 

A KAI M AYΡ CЄOΥΗΡ ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟC ЄΥCЄΒ, Buste lauré et drapé à droite vu par l'arrière
L ΠЄΜΠΤΟΥ (5° année de règne), Serapis debout, la tête à gauche, vetu de la Kalathos, levant la main droite et tenant dans sa main gauche un sceptre.
28 mm - 13.47gr - 12 h
Ref : Emmett # 3134/5 (R1), Kampmann # 62.70, RPC VI online # 10333 (temporary), Dattari (Savio) # 4357

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Picked this one up several weeks ago. Bit of a rarity so despite the Fine condition, I thought I’d grab it. Contains the main points of the readable legend, worried portrait of the emperor, and the XXX for 3/4 Follis. I believe this is a year 6 (G) as it is the only Constantinople officina B example I’ve come across.

These Phocas three quarter folli are considerably less common than the Tiberius II 3/4 folli.

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Phocas 602-610

3/4 Follis

Constantinople

SB 641

9.66g 28 x 26.5mm

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updated likely regnal year per new information
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