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Reply # 1981, year Ry was born!
Nothing wears goat skins like goats!


Macedon, Amphipolis

148-32/1 BCE Æ 20 (23 mm, 6.2 g). Diademed head of Artemis Tauropolos right, bow and quiver at shoulder / ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, two goats, standing on their hind legs, butting heads. SNG ANS 114; SNG Cop 62;

Next up: Beautiful girl with a big nose

 

FULVIA (Beautiful girl with a big nose)


RImp Marc Antony 43 BCE AR Quinarius 13mm 1.67g Lugdunum Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia Lion DVNI LVGV Cr 489-5 Syd 1160

Next up: AE Quinarius

 

I'm surprised nobody posted an Allectus, but here's a Diocletian to continue on...



Next: a scarce denomination (either generally, or for its time)

 

Scarce denomination


APULIA Luceria 211-200 BCE AE Quadrunx 9.7g 24mm Hd Herakles R lion skin headdress 4 pellets behind - LOVCERI Quiver club bow SNG Cop 660
Ex: @Severus Alexander 1st Auction
Ex: @Justin Lee Collection

Next up: DiShekel or a Quincunx!

 

Well, it's been two days ... going back to "scarce denomination (for its time)."
Denarii were scarce in the days of Aurelian. The denomination was not routinely minted after AD 240, when Gordian III stopped issuing them.

Aurelian, however, revived the denomination as part of his monetary reform of AD 274, and it was -- like the new antoninianus (sometimes called the "Aurelianus") -- a silvered but heavily debased coin.

Denarii for Aurelian were struck in Rome, Mediolanum, Serdica, Siscia, and Cyzicus and come in a variety of reverse types, although the VICTORIA AVG is by far the most common of these.

In contrast, those for Severina were struck in Rome only and only with the VENVS FELIX reverse type.



Severina, AD 270-275.
Roman billon denarius, 2.52 g, 18.8 mm, 6 h.
Rome mint, officina 5, issue 11, early – September AD 275.
Obv: SEVERINA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: VENVS FELIX, Venus standing left, holding unidentified object (perfume box, apple?) and long scepter; –/–//∈.
Refs: RIC 6; MER/RIC 1861; Cohen 14; RCV 11710; CBN 285-86; La Venera 1510-11.

Next: design element that remains unidentified and puzzles modern numismatists.

 

The Procopius mushroom, of course! (To the left of his feet.)



Next: a coin that was scarcer before the opening of the Iron Curtain

 

Bulgarian imitative, resembling a late Byzantine coin.


Mico Asen, Tsar 1256-1263.
St. Nicholas/Tsar facing.
cup-shaped. 29 mm.

Dimnik and Dobrinic, MSCB page 220, 4.1.1.

These are mostly found in the Balkans and to the north, areas formerly behind the Iron Curtain. There have been great advances in determining who issued which types of various cup-shaped ("trachy") types since the fall.

Next Theme: Byzantine or Byzantine-related coin struck after 1204 when the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade conquered Constantinople.

 

Theodore I
Mint: Nicaea
Billon trachy
1208 to 1212 AD
Obvs: MP ΘV, The Virgin enthroned holding nimbate head of Christ.
Revs: Theodore and Saint Theodore holding patriarchal cross between them.
25x30mm, 2.7g
Ref: DO 4.460.5a, Sear 2061

Probably shouldn't have sold this one
Michael VIII
Constantinople
1261 to 1282 BC
AE trachy
Obvs: Patriarchal cross on floriate base
Revs: Half-length Michael holding globus within labarum
21x25mm, 2.61g
Sear 2288

Next: Byzantine after Constantinople was recovered in 1261

 

Michael VIII Palaeologus (1261-1282)

Next: Palaeologan after Michael VIII

 

Andronicus II/Michael IX
Constantinople
1295 to 1320 AD
AE Assarion
Obvs: AVTOK IC XC PωMЄON, Andronicus and Michael on either side of Christ who crowns the emperors.
Revs: Half-length figure of Archangel Michael w/scepter
18x20mm, 2.06g
Ref: DOC V.677-680, Sear 2435

Next: angel

 

I always felt this of Roman Victory to Modern Angel...


Roman Republic
Anonymous AR Didrachm. 6.55g, 18mm, 6h.
Rome, circa 265-242 BC.
Obv: Head of Roma right, wearing Phrygian helmet, cornucopiae behind
Rev: ROMANO, Victory standing right, attaching wreath to long palm, YY in right field.
Ref: Sear 25; Crawford 22/1; RSC 7.
From the Eucharius Collection

compared to:

Gold French 20 Franc lucky angel


Next up: Angel

 

FRANCE, FEUDAL, Valence, Bishops of Valence (1157-1276), Silver Denier, 0.71g., stylized angel facing, +VRBS VALENTIAI, rev., cross annulet in fourth quadrant, +S APOLLI NARS, (Boudeau 1021), fine Former Bing coin
Next up: ancient coin minted in what is now modern France

 

AUGUSTUS & AGRIPPA
AE As. 12.0g, 26.4mm. GAUL, Nemausus, circa 20-10 BC. RIC I 156. O: IMP/DIVI•F•, head of Agrippa left, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, bare head of Augustus right. R: COL-NIM, crocodile right chained to palm branch, wreath above, palm fronds below.

Next: Colony of Sparta

 

Taras, founded by the Spartans in the 8th century
Fourree stater

Next: another fourree Greek coin

 

Fourree, 21 mm. 7:30. 6.14 grams. Plating mostly intact, broken only at the edges. Excellent style.
Of Thourioi (= Thurium), Lucania, Italy.
Head of Athena right, helmet decorated with Scylla.
Bull butting right, fish in exergue. Above bull, weak ethnic.
Sear Greek 442 (400 - 350 BC). SNG Copenhagen 1435-1445 (typically c. 7.6 grams, range 6.45-7.98 grams).

Next: Coin of Thurium, Italy

 

Head of Athena right wearing Attic helmet decorated with Skylla holding trident

ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ
Bull butting right, solid exurgal line below HR monogram above

c. 420-400 BC

6.74g

SNG ANS-1041-2 var


Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7072 (Lewis Egnew Collection), ex-HJB

Next Vibo Valentia

 

Nobody has a Vibo Valentia?

Here you go then...


Bruttium Vibo Valentia Semis
Bronze semis

head of Juno (Hera) right, wearing stephane, S (mark of value) behind

VALENTIA
Double cornucopia overflowing with grain and grapes, carnyx (control symbol) and S (mark of value) on right


Vibo Valentia mint, 193 - 150 B.C.

3.57g, 18.1 mm 270o

Mensitieri Valentia 211; HN Italy 2263; SNG ANS 483, SNG Cop 1849; BMC Italy p. 361, 16 (control described as staff ending in boar's head)

Ex-Forum from the Andrew McCabe Collection

Next another Andrew McCabe coin...

 

JULIUS CAESAR
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: CAESAR IMP, laureate head right, lituus & simpulum behind.
REVERSE: M METTIVS, Venus standing left with Victory & scepter, shield resting on globe; control letter G to left
Rome January-February 44 BC
3.81g, 18mm
RSC 34
ex. Andrew McCabe
plugged and ex-mount

Next: Julius Caesar

 

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