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Roman Republic - Pre-Denarius Reform
AE Aes Grave Sextans 270 BCE
37mm 55.28g
Dioscuri R and L

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coin of Vespasianus with an animal on the reverse.

 

Will two animals do?

Obv:– IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, Laureate head right
Rev:– COS VIII in exergue, yoke of oxen left.
Minted in Rome. A.D. 77 - 78
Reference:– BMC 206. RIC II 107. RSC 133a.

Weight 3.36g. 18.88mm.



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Caligula AE23 Caesaraugusta, Spain SCIPIONE ET MONTANO IIVIR

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Ephesos (Circa 50-27 BC)
Jason, magistrate
Obv.: Ε - Φ, Artemis advancing right, drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder and holding bow; hound at her feet
Rev.: ΙΑΣΩΝ, Cock standing right with palm over wing within laurel wreath.
AE, 10.88 g, 25 mm.

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EPHESOS


Iona-Ephesos AR Hemi-Drachm-TriObol Bee - Incuse Sq TIMESIANAX 335-320 BCE Seaby 4368

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France
Louis d'or 1786
Bee symbol for mintmaster/ next topic: beetle

 

Well isn't that cool!

 

I don't have A beetle... But I do have 2 Beatles!
Here's John and George:

Augustus with Divus Julius Caesar
(27 BC-14 AD) MACEDON. Thessalonica. Obv: ΘEOΣ.
Wreathed head of Julius Caesar right; uncertain c/m on neck.
Rev: ΘEΣΣAΛONIKEΩN.
Bare head of Augustus right; Δ below. RPC I 1554.
Fine. 12.3 g.21 mm.
The D has been interpreted as either a denomination mark (four assaria) or, more likely, a date - year four of the Actian era (28/7 BC). The ligate NK monogram has been generally accepted as a reference to Nero (Nerwn Kaisar). This is problematic considering that Thessalonica had abundant coinages issued under Claudius and Nero, such that countermarking these quite older coins would be unlikely. Touratsoglou(p. 105) follows Kraay's suggestion that the NK is an abbreviation for Nike (NiKh), and was applied to the coins during celebrations of the city's 50th anniversary of its grant of liberty by the Romans. All but two of the known specimens of this countermark occur on the coins of this first issue of Thessalonica, and the wear on the countermarks is nearly identical to that of the coins, suggesting that the countermarks could not have been applied very long after the coins entered circulation.

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Countermark as Tyche’s ear...


Cilicia - Tarsos turret counterstamped Bow in bowcase and quiver Pompey Pirates AE 19 164 BCE Tyche-Zeus seated

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ANTIGONOS GONATAS, King of Macedonia
AE 19
OBVERSE: Head of Athena right in crested Corinthian helmet
REVERSE: BA above, ANTI monogram below, Pan advancing right, erecting trophy
Struck at Macedonia, 277-239 BC
4.58g, 19mm
Lindgren III, 105, Sear #6786 (var)
Countermarked on obverse

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ELAGABALUS
AE27. 12.24g, 26.9mm. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum, circa 218-222. Novius Rufus, legate. Varbanov 3949 (same dies); AMNG 1933 corr. (2 specimens). O: AVT M AVP – ANTΩNINOC (NO ligate), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front. R: VΠ NOBIOV POVΦOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPO, C ICTPΩ in exergue, Pan, with goats horns and legs, standing left, head right, draped in fawn skin, fawn hooves hanging from left arm, playing pipes (?), holding pedum in right hand, and placing left hoof on chest of panther which is lying on its back on the ground and raising its head.
Ex Dr. Rainer Pudill Collection, purchased from Majestic, Großostheim, on 24 Sep 1997

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Macrinus, 217-218
Moesia Inferior, Nikopolis
struck under legate Statius Longinus
Obv.: Bust of Macrinus, cuirassed with scale armor, laureate right
[AVT] K M OΠEΛΛ CEV MAKPINOC
Rev.: River god resting l. elbow r. hand on
prow of ship, l. hand on vase from which water flows l.
VΠ CTA ΛONΓINOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOCIC
Ae, 11.26g, 26.1mm
Ref.: AMNG 1761, Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2012) No. 8.23.32.6


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CILICIA. Mallos. Obol Obv: Bearded janiform head. Rev: Forepart of MFB right. SNG Levante 137

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Lesbos, Mytilene. Hemidrachm (Circa 350-250 BC). Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev: MY / T-I. Lyre.

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THASOS ISLANDS


ISLAND OFF THRACE THASOS
AR Trihemiobol
OBVERSE: Satyr running left in three-quarter view, holding kylix
REVERSE: ΘΑΣ − ΙΩΝ Amphora
Struck at Thasos, 411-350BC
0.69g, 12 mm
SNGCop 1030
EX: The Great @Bing



Thasos, Thrace, BC 168-148
AR, tetradrachm, 16.12g, 31mm; 11h
Obv.: Portrait of Dionysos
Rev.: ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ to left, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ to right, ΘΑΣΙΩΝ below; Hercules with lion pelt in arm resting on club. M monogram left
EX: @Ancientnoob

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Mallorca
AV Ducato ND
Ferdinando II
1494

coin from Cyprus

 

Cyprus, King Evelthon, Salamis 1/6 of siglos circa 560-525, AR 12mm., 1.77g. Ram lying l. Rev. Smooth
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