Apparently if you whine enough about "the lack of interesting (affordable) Roman Republican denarii" on the market, the Roman Republican coin gods eventually reward you with a a new coin....this one that I am pleased to add to my collection - might at a casual glance resemble a brockage. I have missed bidding on several of these over the last few years, there are some years where there wasn't 1 auctioned off. https://www.sullacoins.com/post/an-unusual-lucius-appuleius-saturninus In the history of the Roman Republic, this coin sits just after the end of of the Jugurthine War where Sulla made a name for himself. Jugurtha was captured in 105; Marius triumphed and Jugurtha’s execution followed early in 104, the year of this coin’s issue. See my latest post - there are very few coins that have two heads (only 2 issues that I know of) in the Roman republican denarii - ignoring the ones with two heads on the same side of the coin. Post your coins of Saturninus, coins with two heads or two tails, or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.
Postumus A.D. 269 Ӕ Antoninianus 20mm 3.6g IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; Radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right. PACATOR ORBIS, radiate and draped bust of Sol right. RIC V.4 Cologne 421; Cunetio 2465 Constantine I A.D. 311 23x24mm 4.4g IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; laureate and cuirassed bust right SOLI INVICTO COMITI; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Sol right. RIC VI London--; LMCC 6.04.001 (2) this coin; RML 276 corr.
AUGUSTUS (OCTAVIAN) AE Dupondius OBVERSE: CAESAR DIVI F, bare head of Octavian right REVERSE: DIVOS IVLIVS, wreathed head of Julius Caesar right Gallic or Italian mint 38 BC 30mm; 17.90 g CR535/v1, RPC620v or two on one side: AUGUSTUS AE Dupondius OBVERSE: IMP above, DIVI F below; back to back laureate and rostral crowned head of Agrippa left and bare head of Augustus right REVERSE: Crocodile right, chained to palm tree behind, above palm-tip; COL-NEM across fields Nemausus (Gaul) class III, dated 8 - 3 BC 26mm, 14.1g RPC 524; RIC 158 or three heads maybe better than two: AUGUSTUS AE22 Kingdom of Thrace OBVERSE: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΡOIMHTAΛKOY, jugate heads of King Rhoemetalkes and Queen Pythodoris right REVERSE: KAIΣAΡOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, bare head of Augustus right Thrace 11BC -12AD 5.4g, 22 mm SNGCop 1190, SGI 5396
MN. FONTEIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS FONTEIA AR Denarius OBVERSE: Jugate heads of the Dioscuri REVERSE: Galley under oar Struck at Rome 108-109 BC 3.9g, 20mm Cr.307/1, Fonteia 7
Nice brockage! Unfortunately I don't have an example of this mint error ancient or otherwise. But here's a Janus head, Celtic style: Eastern Celts, AR tetradrachm, Serbia, circa 4th century BCE. 12.73 grams
My two heads coins... According to the initial post, it's one head on each face. Septimius Severus, AE 19 mm of Edessa (Sanliurfa, Turkey, oops Turkiye ) Obv.: CЄYH[...] ; bust of Septimius Severus right Rev.: ABΓAPOC BACI[ΛEVC] , bust of Abgar VIII right, wearing the royal tiara ornamented with a star in a crescent, sceptre to the right. Gallienus, AE tetradrachm, Alexandria 263-264. AE 22 mm, 10.36 g Obv.: AVT. K. Π. ΛIK. ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEB. , draped, cuirassed and laureate bust right Rev. : Bust of Helios wearing chlamys of charioteers, L I/A : "year 11" . Byzantine anonymous AE follis (class G), attributed to Romanus IV, 1068-1071 (contemporaneous with the Bayeux Tapestry). Obv.: I¯C X¯C (I(esou)s Ch(risto)s), bust of Jesus nimbate facing, holding scroll. Rev.: M¯P / Θ¯V ("Mother of God"), the virgin Mary veiled, nimbate, facing, praying. Both sides are icons, this coin could be used as well as a religious medal, a double sided icon. It was acquired in Damascus and may have been found in north-western Syria, a region retaken by the Byzantines, in particular Romanus IV, in the 11th c.
