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I'd say South India, secluded from all the dramas of North India until the British came, it's the reason why the region was never famous even among the Indian hobbyists let alone international collectors, barring the Cholas! The fact that the Pandyas alone ruled from ~300 bc to all the way to the early 17th century shows their resilience.
Next, the same theme.

 

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I really like collecting half groats of Edward III, which puts me in a rather small group, maybe even the only one, on this forum.

Next: A coin from someone that can be called "The Third"

 

Gordian the Third, Æ Sestertius, Rome, AD 240-244
Obv: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Bust of Gordian III, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right
Rev: AETERNITATI AVG, Sol, nude except for cloak around shoulders, standing front, head left, raising right hand and holding globe in left hand
Ref: RIC 297a

Next: a coin at least 200 years older or more modern than this coin

 

ETRURIA, precursor to Rome


Etruria Populonia
AR 1 As
0.60g 10.0mm
after 211 BCE
Male Head Left -
Plain Rev
Vecchi 3 68-70 HN Italy 181 R

Next: an area you get excited about, that most others do not
[EDIT] Mea Culpa... never mind.

 

I have a penchant for Faustina I coins with veiled busts. This one is the middle bronze equivalent of the sestertius I have previously posted.


Faustina I, AD 138-140.
Roman orichalcum dupondius, 10.26 g, 27.4 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 140-41.
Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust, right.
Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted "candelabrum-altar," left, and holding box in left hand.
Refs: RIC 1192Ab; BMCRE 1472; Cohen 241; Strack 1241; RCV --.

Next: more areas you get excited about, that most others do not.

 

...mmmMaybe this could be good enough for both the preceding criteria.

France, Louis IX, AR gros, c. 1265-1270.
I need all of the religious rhetoric, even if I have to hold my nose about some aspects of the immediate historical context. For instance, how the reverse evokes a rose window, just as Louis' Sainte-Chapelle was nearing completion.

 

Next theme?

 

Oh, (mild expletive, except, Capitalized)! Thank you, @Roman Collector. I Always forget that part.
...Um... How about anything with any kind of religious motif, about which you might harbor some degree of ambivalence, but which you still find resonant.
....Or, maybe I've been in the house too long. What about anything 13th c. ACE? Thank you, from Anywhere.

 

Austria, Duchy of Styria. Albrecht I., AD 1282-1298. AR Pfennig (19mm, 0.73g, 2h). Graz mint. Obv: Cross between eagle wings, shield above. Rev: Crown over floral ornament. Ref: CNA D47 .



Next: Crusader.

 

Next up: cool helmet

 

Struck A.D. 319
19mm, 3.32gr
IMP CONSTAN-TINVS AVG -- high crested helmet, cuir., spear across r. shoulder, shield on left arm
VICT• LAETAE PRINC PERP -- two Victories stg., facing one another, together holding shield/wreath inscribed VOT PR on altar inscribed with I
In ex. •ASIS•
Siscia Mint

Next: cool helmet

 

Ptolemy V bronze coinage with helmet or herm - bronze weight standard 2

Helmet Series
∎ References: Svoronos 1635, pl. liv, 18-19 [10 listed]; Köln 162 (Ptolemy VI).



This issue was probably struck at a mint other than Paphos, due to the substitution of a helmet symbol or a herm for the lotus blossom mintmark. The substitution of a helmet for the lotus blossom mintmark might place these coins in the context of the Fifth Syrian War.

The Helmet Series conforms to the metrology and denominational system of Series 3-5 employed in Egypt from the latter 260s until the end of the third century, which remained the standard for Cypriote bronzes through the reign of Ptolemy VI. The discovery of a specimen of triobol size (33mm, c 36g) at Fethiye (ancient Telmessus) favors a date of issue no later than 197, when Antiochus III seized the Ptolemaic territories in southern Asia Minor.

Next: Another helmet on the reverse of a coin

 

This came during the week and has a helmet on the reverse.

Denarius of Augustus
Obv. IMP CAESAR AVGVST - Bare head left
Rev. P CARISIVS LEG PRO PR - Helmet with stag horns between dagger and bipennis
Mint: Emerita (25-23 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.11g / - / -
References:

• RIC 7b
• RSC 405
• BMCRE 282

Provenances:

• Ex. T.R. Hardaker Collection

Next - another coin with a chip taken out of it

 

next: Aurelianus

 

This is more than a chip, but less than an obvious instance of a cut fraction. And, yep, it's medieval. Hope it skates in under the wire.

Francia, Comte de Dreux (...right, sans l'inflections --humor me, for a minute, Okay?). Hugues Bardoul, c. 1035-1055. AR denier. (With endless variations on the chronology, just of the comital reign, from responsible secondary sources; outer perimeters being c. 1028-1058 or later.)
Obv. Church facade. [+H]VGO C--OMITI.
Rev. Cross. +DR[VCA]S CASTA (Castle of Dreux).
(Duplessy 430; cf. Boudeau 2, Roberts 4872.)
--Right! Next! Um, more architecture.

 

Regensburg
AV Dukat ND (1745)
Emperor Franz I Von Lothringen HRE

 

Next topic: a "dated" coin struck before the Umayyad Caliphate circa 700AD.

 

An interesting contrast with the reverse of my Francis I city thaler, also from Regensburg (= Ratisbon), dated 1754:



Carry on!

 

Why was @+VGO.DVCKS's post illegal?