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Eastern Han Dynasty of China
25 - 75 CE
Issued under Emperor Guangwu or Ming
AE Cash 5 Zhu | 2.50g | 25.5mm
Obv: Wu Zhu
Rev: Plain
Ref: G&F#B4.1n or H#10.2

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Next: A first century coin

 

Agrippina I, wife of Germanicus, 14 BC - AD 33
Roman AE Sestertius 27.92 gm, 34.8 mm, 7 h
Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 42-54 AD
Obv: AGRIPPINA M F GERMANICI CAESARIS, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P around large SC.
Refs: RIC I 102 (Claudius); BMCRE 219 (Claudius); Cohen 3.

Next: Mortal woman on a first century coin.

 

Antonia dupondius by son Claudius.


Next: a coin which has a date span across 1 BC and 1 AD

 

Indo-Scythian Kingdom
Issued under Azes II (Unless?)
35 BCE - 5 CE
AE Quarter Unit | 2.27g | 16mm
Obv: Bull with monogram above, Greek script around
Rev: Lion with Kharoshthi script around
See it on Numista

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Next: Different animals as central design on both sides

 

Next up: more boar

 

One of my Favorite BOAR


Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 BCE Diana, Boar, Hannibal capital Italia, Capua in retrograde Oscan, SCARCE

Next: MORE BOARS

 

@Alegandron, you could never boar me...

Next up: boar galore

 

Edited to add:



Next, moar bores.

 

I see what you did there. And I LIKE IT!
Tell me this guy doesn't look like he's getting electrocuted:


Next up: left facing Zeus portrait

 

Epirus, Epeirote Republic. c 234-168 BC. Æ 22mm
Obv: Laureate head of Zeus left.
Rev: APEI-RWTAN & thunderbolt within oak wreath.
SNG Cop 128, BMC 46-47

Next: Ae from Epirus.

 

next: Syracuse

 

Sicily Syracuse Second democracy onkia - 450 BC.
Nymph Arethusa and the word ΣVPA (Syracuse) on the obverse and octopus on the reverse!
Next, post a Roman coin with an aquatic animal.

 

Some, not all, of the legions honored on Septimius Severus' legionary coins of 193AD used capricorns on the standards of some, not all, of their coins.

This is Legion III ITALica


Next: an animal used in small size as a minor device on a coin

 

That carpicorn example is fun and easily overlooked and prompts me to ask: why capricorn, what did capricorn represent to the Romans...Here's one that is not as easily overlooked but still "minor device": leopard's head sticking out of the right side of the snakes on this Cistophoric tetradrachm from Ephesus.

Obv: Cista mystica with half-open lid, from which a serpent issues to left; all within ivy wreath
Rev: Two coiled serpents with heads erect; between them an ornamental bow-case with strap at right, containing a strung bow. To left, EΦE, head of leopard right
Size: 12.77g 29mm
Ref: Kleiner & Noe: Series 1:1-a p.41

Next: a coin with minor devices or secondary scenes

 

Small figure...

Caracalla.

MACEDON, Thessalonica

Caracalla. 198-217 A.D. AE 26, 14.9 grams, 7h

Obverse: Laureate and cuirassed bust right

Reverse: Nike advancing left, holding a small Cabeirus and palm

Reference: Touratsoglou Em, II:a

ex: JAZ Numismatics





Next: Another small figure being held in a god's (or personification's) hand

 

Roman Empire
Maximianus | 295-296 CE
295-296 CE | 2.45g | 23mm
Heraclea Mint, Third Officina
Obv: IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, radiate draped bust right
Rev: CONCORDIA MILITVM, HΓ, emperor standing right receiving goddess Victory on a globe from Jupiter standing left.
Ref: RIC 14

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Next: A obverse legend more crammed than this