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Philip I
Temple with a capricorn in front (does it count?)

 

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Lucilla: die match (both RPC plate coins)



double die match of:
Lydia, Hierocaesaraea
Lucilla (Augusta, 164-182)
Bronze, AE 19
Obv: ΛΟVΚΙΛΛΑ СЄΒΑС, Draped bust right.
Rev: ΙЄΡΟΚΑΙСΑΡЄΩΝ, Artemis standing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver on back.
Æ, 19.2mm, 5.34g
RPC IV online 1588-6 (this coin)
Æ, 19.3mm, 5.33g
RPC IV online 1588-9 (this coin)

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Julia Domna / Venus Rome mint die clash pair
A pair like this shows the error is damage to the die and not a restruck brockage which would be very unlikely to have exactly the same incuse placement.


Next: a die match on one side but not on both sides

 

Two coins from my own collection struck with the same obverse die but with different reverse types, even.


Gordian AD 238-244 and Tranquillina.
Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 25.1 mm, 11.78 g, 7 h.
Thrace, Mesembria, AD 241-244.
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ CΕΒ-ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ|ΛΙΝΑ, confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
Rev: ΜΕ-CΑΜΒ-ΡΙ-ΑΝΩΝ, Demeter standing facing, head left, holding ears of corn in right hand, left resting on long torch.
Refs: Varbanov 4188; Corpus Nummorum Thracorum 9283.

Same obverse die, but the die had undergone some damage:


Gordian AD 238-244 and Tranquillina.
Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 28.6 mm, 11.36 g, 7 h.
Thrace, Mesembria, AD 241-244.
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ CΕΒ-ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ|ΛΙΝΑ, confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
Rev: ΜΕCΑΜΒΡ-Ι-ΑΝΩΝ, Demeter standing left, wearing stephane, holding phiale and long torch.
Refs: Varbanov 4190, citing Karajatov 83.

Next: Mesembria

 

Maybe also a double strike. The position of the K of ΤΡΑΝΚ below the bust is not the same and there is a large gap between the Γ and Ο of ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC. Both could be explained by a second strike of the right side of the obverse.

Mesembria
Thrace
Diobol 450/350 BC
Obv.: Crested Corinthian helmet facing
Rev.: M-E-T-A in the four quarters of a wheel surrounded by border of radiating lines
Ag, 1.15g, 11.07mm
Ref.: SNG.Cop:652f, SNG Black Sea 268, Sear 1673


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Athens Owl AR Tet 17.4g 20.4mm x 7.5mm Late Classical 393-300 BC, Sear 2537, SNG Cop. 63 edge-crud


Athens Owl AR Tet 17.2g 22mm x 6.7mm thick Late Classical 393-300 BC, Sear 2537, SNG Cop. 63


Athens Owl 16.8g 22x6-5mm Late Classical 393-300 BC, Sear 2537, SNG Cop. 63

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No double strike. Just extensive die deterioration.

 

As far as ancient coin abuse goes, I kinda like this AtG tet... not content with inflicting a couple of test cuts (including one that split Zeus's head in half), the thugs also bashed it so hard on its edge that it started to fold.


SELEUKID KINGDOM, Seleukos I Nikator
AR Tetradrachm. 16.84g, 26.6mm. Uncertain mint 6A (in Babylonia), circa 311-305 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Price 3449; SC 293. O: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. R: BAΣIΛEΩΣ / AΛEΞAN∆POY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; anchor flanked by Δ-I in left field, monogram under throne.


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LOL, these bankers had ANGER issues!

 

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RI Agrippa AE As 28mm 11g Neptune-S-C Left

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Iceni Gold Quarter Stater
Obv. Large branch
Rev. Horse right, ringed-pellet below
ca 15 BC - 5 AD
1.07g / 11mm

References:

• ABC 1480
• VA 628
• BMC 3437-3438
• Spink 430

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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

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Commodus (180-192. A.D.)

Type: Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 11.06 grams

Obverse: M AVΡ KOMMO ANTΩNINOC CE, Laureate bust of Commodus right

Reverse: VΠAT OCTOΔ, Zeus seated left, holding scepter and thunderbolt, K theta in field

Reference: Emmett 2567







Next: Aphrodite

 

This is Emmett 2567 but the legend quoted is 2566 which has a Nike in place of the thunderbolt. Either works for the Zeus so:
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Diadumenian Nikopolis / Aphrodite


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