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Alexander the Great on obverse of a Tet struck under his body guard Lycimachos.
Lanz 123 Next : Augustus Provincial

 

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Augustus, Lepida Celsa, Spain, AE 27, RPC 271

Next: Spanish bull

 

IBERIA, Castulo
AE28. 11.75g, 28.2mm. IBERIA, Castulo, early 1st century BC. SNG Cop. 223; SNG BM Spain 1394; Villaronga CNH 339; Burgos 120/906. O: L Q V F Q ISC F, male head left. R: MCF, Europa, cloak billowing over her head, riding bull right.

Europa, abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to the island of Crete, where she became the island's first queen, was originally a princess of...

Next: Tyre

 

Tyre
AE Chalkous
98 to 138 AD
Obvs: Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Fortuna right; palm frond to left, murex shell to right.
Revs: IEPAL MHTPOΠO ΛEWCOOC, War galley.
20mm, 6.5g
Ref: v. BMC 262

Next: Greek bronze that has a named denomination

 

Edited

 

Hemiobol- Bronze. Ptolemy IV. Tyre Next. Greek usurper. Bronze.

 

Edited (7 Calbrey is too quick for me).

 

Seleukid Kingdom: Alexander I Balas, 152-145 BCE, AE20 Apameia mint, dated 150-149 BCE



Next: Greek coin with a date

 

SYRIA, Seleukeia Pieria
AR tetradrachm, 30 mm, 14.81 gm
Dated CY 10 (100/99 BC)
Obv: veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right
Rev: filleted thunderbolt on throne; ΣEΛEYKEΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ above; I (date) between legs of throne, A to lower right; KAI AYTONOMOY; all within wreath
Ref: Callataÿ, Production, p. 74, obv. die D16; HGC 9, 1382; DCA 697

Next: a coin whose reverse is modeled after a statue.

 

Geta, Nikopolis AE assarion / Apollo Sauroktonos

https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/apollo-sauroctonus
Next: a coin whose obverse is modeled after a statue.

 

This one depicts the statue of Apollo Philesios in Didyma, which was animated such that the god's right arm would move and the stag he is holding would rock back and forth. I acquired this coin from our very own @Ken Dorney !


Greek Ionia, Miletos.
AE Hemiobol, 3.35 g, 18.3 mm, 12 h.
Aeschylinos, magistrate, ca. 200 BC.
Obv: Apollo Didymeus standing right, holding small stag and bow; monogram below.
Rev: Lion seated right with head turned to left, star above, monogram right, ΑIΣXΥΛΙΝΟΥ in exergue.
Refs: Deppert 941-56 var; Marcellesi 56.

Next up -- eight-pointed star.

 

Pontos, Uncertain, possibly Amisos.
Struck under Mithradates VI (Circa 119-100 BC) Obverse: Head of horse right, with star of eight points on its neck.
Reverse: Comet star of eight points with trail to right (or palm branch with tainia and star).
References: BM Black Sea 984, SNG Stancomb 653 corr.
Size: 11mm, 1.5g
Note: This unusual issue has traditionally been assigned to an uncertain mint in the area of Pontos, but it has currently been suggested that it was struck in Caesarea-Eusebia (cf. Lanz 160, 15 June 2015, 249)

Next: coin from an uncertain mint

 

MACEDONIA, uncertain
c. 500 BCE
AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 5 mm, 0.26 gm
Obv: monkey squatting left
Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square
Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", Nomismatika Khronika (1998, Tzamalis), 67

Next: a coin with Phoenician letters

 

Berenike II- Marathos in Phoenicia. Next : tolemy III Husband of Berenike2

 

Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes, 246 - 222 BC
Æ Drachm, Alexandria Mint, 39mm, 48.07 grams

Obverse: Diademed head of Zeus Ammon right wearing tainia.
Reverse: BASILEWSPTOLEMAIOY, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt with head to right, cornucopia to right, E between legs.

References:
SNG Copenhagen 224 // Svoronos 974




Next up, a sestertius cut to make change (not an As, those are common).

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/halved-sestertius-1-dupondius.50033/
I did not join CT until three months after this thread but I was happy to see it.

 

I guess my 'next coin' was a bit too hard, so I will enter my own:



Next topic (and hopefully not too hard, and hopefully not already done):

A monument (buildings count) on a coin which still stands in Rome today.

 

Trajan, 98-117
Trajan's column
20-18 mm. Denarius.
SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI
Struck 116
Sear II 3151

Still in Rome (Photo from 2009):


Next: SPQR .

 

Constantine I
Rome mint
312 to 313 AD
AE Follis
Obvs: IMP CONSTANTINVS PF AVG, right laureate and draped seen from rear.
Revs: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Legionary eagle facing left between two vexilla. RS
22mm, 4.48g
RIC VI 348a

Next: Constantine from mint of Rome

 

Issued just after the battle of the Milvian bridge.

Next: Something to do with the Milvian bridge