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AV Solidus ND Constantinople Mint
Justinian I
Byzantine Empire
next: silly looking bust

 

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This lion as the King always struck me as rather silly

Cilician Armenia. Levon I. 1198-1219. AE tank (28.2 mm, 5,34 g, 11 h). Sis mint. Crowned lion ?? s head facing slightly right / Patriarchal cross with two stars

Next up: crusader coin

 

Sicily/ German Rulers
AV 3 Tari d'oro ND Messina Mint
Konrad II Von Hohenstaufen 1250-58
Next up: Crusader coin from Greece

 

12 hour rule​

Kingdom of France
1285-1314 CE
Issued under Philip IV
Double Tournois
0.75 grams


Next: A barely identifiable-yet-identified coin of yours with how you identified it.​

 

This is the most worn but still identifiable coin in my collection. The ID is made by recognizing the portrait as belonging to Julia Domna as she has a distinctive hairstyle. It also came down to knowing that corn ears and a long torch are attributes of Ceres.


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman Æ as, 13.49 g, 27.6 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 198.
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: CERES S C, Ceres standing left, holding corn ears and long torch; altar at feet, left.
Refs: RIC 870; BMCRE 781; Cohen 19; RCV 6636; Hill 346.

Here's the example in the British Museum for comparison:



Next: long torch

 

Hadrian
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
Obv.: ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙΣ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒ, Laureate head right
Rev.: Demeter standing l., holding grain and poppy heads in right and long torch in left, L-Κ-Α (year 21)
23mm, 12.94g
Ref.: Dattari 1335 var., Geissen 1209


Next: Demeter

 

Here's one on a nomos from metapontion...
Edit: next a coin from Sybaris

 

What's next?

 

That is a truly magnificent coin!

 

Lucania Sybaris drachm

Bull standing to left on dotted ground line, head turned back to right; all within border of dots VM in exergue

Bull standing to right, on dotted ground line; around, border of dots; all incuse.

LUCANIA, Sybaris

Circa 550-510 BC.

2.04g

HN III 1736. SNG ANS 847 ff.

Chipped. Old cabinet toning.

Ex-Londinium

Next: another chipped coin

 

GELA, SICILY
AR Litra
OBV: Naked horseman galloping left holding spear & shield
REV: Forepart of man-headed bull right
Struck at Gela, Sicily, 425BC
0.36g; 13mm
SNG Cop 275, BMC 52, Jenkins 405; HGC 2 374

Another coin from Gela

 

Gela:

SICILY, Gela
AR Tetradrachm
480 - 475 B.C.
17.18 gms, 25-26 mm
Obv: Charioteer driving walking biga
right, Nike flying above, crowning
horses.
Rev: Forepart of man-headed bull right.
C-E-Λ-AΣ (C mostly off flan)
Grade: Good Very Fine overall with
claim to a higher grade bar an old
reverse scratch and obverse radial
flow marks possibly due to a
slightly deteriorated die.

Next is coin with a horn.

 

I will give you two horns= Bull Nandi
Nest them: coin with a Bull

 

That looks more like a coin, someone mistook for a cheeseburger

 

Larissa with naked boy wrestling the Bull:

THESSALY, Larissa
AR Drachm.
440-400 B.C.
5.94 grams, 20 mm
Obv: Naked youth with short cloak
billowing out behind him wrestling
unruly bull prancing to left.
Rev: Bridled horse galloping right with
ΛAPI above and ΣAIA below all
within incuse square
Grade: A good VF coin including nice
cabinet tone. Centered strike with
minor scratches below horse.

Next is another coin from Larissa.

 

Julian II.
AD 360-363 Æ Maiorina
Antioch, AD 361-363.
Obv: D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS
P F AVG, diademed, draped
and cuirassed bust of
Julian II right.
Rev: SECVRITAS REIPVB,
bull standing right; above,
two stars (branch)ANTA
(branch). RIC 218;
LRBC 2640. (9.11 g)
Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins
& Collectibles, Inc.
Auction 112 Lot 1628

Next the Moon.

 

Mao= Moon God
AV Dinara ND Peshawar
Kanishaka I
Next: Sun

 

SELJUQ OF RUM Kaykhusraw II 1236-1245 AR dirham Siwas AH 639 A-1218 lion sunface star L

Next: Another SUN

 

AV Solidus ND Thessalonika Mint
Eastern Roman Empire
Theodosius II 402-50
Star
Next: another Sun/star

 

Cales Ae. - Campania. c. 268 BC - Minerva in Corinthian helmet / rooster with star left field.
next ..... a goat.