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Western Empire, 383-410:

Honorius AE3, Antioch mint, issued 395-401
(Yeah, OK, it is an eastern mint, but it is a western emperor! I have some cool new western mint stuff, courtesy @Valentinian, but no photos yet. Sorry!)

Next theme: something @dougsmit will really like so he regrets his curmudgeonly mood in which he said mean things about this thread.

 

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I plan on it, as soon as I get a pic.

 

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That's what my son calls me! How about:

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP IMP II, Laureate bust right
REVERSE: BONA SPES, Spes advancing left holding flower and lifting skirt
Struck at Laodicea, 194 AD
3.1g, 18mm
RIC 4a, SS 444, p. 151
Ex Doug Smith collection, #892; ex JAZ Numismatics

Next: Laodicea minted coin

 

Julia Domna, AD 193-211
Roman AR Denarius, 2.5 g, 18.5 mm
Laodicea, AD 196- 202
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA; bare-headed and draped bust right
Rev: CONCORDIA; Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae
Refs: RIC 637; RSC 21; BMCRE 593; RCV 6577; CRE* 303

*S.A. Temeryazev and T.P. Makarenko, The Coinage of Roman Empresses.

Next: Portrait with wavy hair

 

WAVY HAIR:


RR Makedon occupation Alexander - wavy flowing hair - Club Coin chest Quaestor Chair wreath Aesillas Quaestor AR Tet Thessalonika Mint BC 90-70

Next Theme: PIG!

 

Quadrans of Trajan, RIC 702



Next theme: bust of Hercules/Herakles

 

LOWER DANUBE CELTS
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Stylized head of Herakles with wild hair, right
REVERSE: Stylized Zeus seated left holding an eagle, kantharus to left
Struck by the Lower Danube Celts, 2d-1st Century BC
2.9g, 20mm,
CCCBM I 217, Kostial 896
ex JAZ Numismatics

Next: Celtic coin

 

Gives me a good excuse to share my latest coin:


Imitations of Roman Republic, Eravisci, AR Denarius(18.6mm, 3.31g, 6h), circa 50-20 B.C., mint in modern-day Hungary. Imitating types of C. Postumius. Bust of diana right, bow and quiver on shoulder / Hound running right, spear below. POSTVMI TA(in ligature) in exergue. Freeman 24(this coin), dies 17/P; Davis Class B, Group II Pannonian, Eraviscan E15(these dies); cf. Crawford 394/1a for prototype

Next: an Eraviscan coin

 

Sorry folks. I was simply getting tired of the number of times we had to remind people to give a 'Next'. When I posted that, one person had just posted three sequential coins of his own interests. The idea is not supposed to be to stump the rest and see how often you can evoke the 24 hour rule.

 

Woah! Great Boar!

 

nice... I think i am the only other person who has Eraviscan coins here?


Eravisci . Mid-late 1st century BC. AR Denarius
Imitating Cn. Lentulus.
Obverse: Head of Jupiter right
Reverse: Globe between rudder and thunderbolt; small X to right, RAVIS (short for eRAVISci)(S retrograde).
Freeman 4 (dies 2/C);
18.2mm 3.15g

next theme..
Coin with a tribal name on it.

 

You may be. I know yours was the only post I could find with Eraviscan coins but plenty of members here have coins they haven't shared. This is my first Eraviscan but I've got other imitatives and I'm hoping to add more Eraviscan and Geto-Dacian issues in the near future if I can find more for sale.

 

Thanks!!

@red_spork: I *could* have posted that Eraviscan, that very one... if someone hadn't outbid me on it!

 

Sorry about that

I wondered if that username was you but I had pretty well made up my mind on this coin after realizing it was part of the hoard published by Freeman in Essays Hersh. After that it was full speed ahead on the bid train(though I still just barely won it with what I thought was a safe bid)

 

Theme: tribal name


Gaul. Remi.
Three jugate heads left! /Nike driving biga left.
15 mm. REMO down the front [okay, mostly off the flan]//Nike driving biga left.
Allen plate II 53. Struck before 52 BC (Time of Julius Caesar) but in circulation until the end of the century.
De la Tour XXXII 8040
Sear Greek 137, Weber 52

Next theme: 1st C. B.C.

 

Next; die control numbers

 

1st C BCE:


RR Gaius Cassius Longinus & P Corn Lentulus Spinther AR den 42 BCE military mint Brutus Cassius Smyrna Libertas r- jug & lituus 18mm 3.3g

Conspired with Brutus to kill Caesar.

[EDIT: FALSE START! Whatever @Sallent posts]

 

Denarius of C. Naevius Balbus, 79BC (RRC 382/1b)


Next - Venus

 

I think mine is part of the same hoard as yours but wasn't the plate coin.




For Venus..
Another Eraviscan

Eravisci. 1st century B.C. AR denarius (18mm, 3.35 g). Imitating C. Naevius Balbus (obv) and L. Papius.(rev)

Obverse: Diademed head of Venus right
Referse: Griffin springing right; below, amphora.
R. Freeman, ""A group of Eraviscan denarii,"" Essays Hersh dies 14/K, pl. 29, 21 (this coin); Davis class B, grp. II, E12 . from the RBW Collection

Next theme... worn dies

 

Celts, Danube Region, Imitative of Alexander or Philip III, c. 150 B.C. - c. 50 A.D.,
Silver scyphate drachm, Dessewffy, No. 534, Group XXVIII (or similar)
Fair, 3.314g, 19.1mm, obverse head of Herakles right, wearing lion's head headdress; reverse Zeus enthroned left, holding a scepter in left and eagle in outstretched right; struck with extremely worn dies.



Next: An Imitative of Alexander or Philip III from not so worn dies