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Carthage, Tanit, Horse
Carthage
1/2 Shekel, 3rd-2nd century BC
Obv: Head of Tanit left, crowned with ears of corn.
Rev.: Horse standing right, head turned left, foreleg raised, linear circle.
Billon, 5.37g, 23.3mm
Ref.: Sear 6497, SNG Cop. 396

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Carthage
c. 220-210 BC
AE Shekel
Obv: Tanit left
Rev: Horse right, head left, staff in background

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Phoenicia, Arados, AE16, 145/144 BC. Obv: head of Zeus r. Rev: prow of galley l.; above, monogram; below, Phoenician date 115. 16mm, 3.28g. Ref: BMC 134.

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Phoenicia, Sidon. AE16 time of Vespasian.
AD 69-79. Dated CY 188 (AD 77/8).
Obv: Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; before, star within crescent.
Rev: SIDWNWN QEAS Q, Galley left, HPR (date) above.
RPC II 2055.

Next: Galley or prow

 

next Roman Empire galley

 

Elagabalus
Denar, Antiochia
Obv.: ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG, Laureate bust right
Rev.: FELICIT-AS / TEMP, Galley
Ag, 3.3g, 18mm
Ref.: RIC 188, C. 27, BMC 277

Next: Roman Provincial Galley

 

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EDIT: Boo-boo

 

Bithynia, Nicomedia. Severus Alexander AE16. Galley
Obv: Laureate bust right.
Rev: ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔƐΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝƐΩΚΟΡΩΝ, Galley with three oarsmen above waves r.
Unlisted in major references.

Next: Provincial animal not horse.

 

Two for one: bull & lion

Gordian III, AE30, Viminacium, Moesia Superior, CY 3 = AD 241/2
Obv: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right
Rev: P M S COL VIM, Moesia standing facing, between bull standing to right and lion to left; AN III (date) in exergue

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Moesia, Markianopolis. Elagabalus AE17. Telesphorus
Obv: AYT K M AYΡ ANTΩNINOC /laureate head right.
Rev: MAΡKIANOΠOΛITΩN / Cloaked and hooded figure of Telesphorus standing facing.

Next: Uncommon deity.

 

"Sandan was a god in ancient Tarsus, visually represented as a mitre-wearing human form carrying a sword, a flower, or (commonly) an axe who stands on the back of a horned and winged lion. Associated primarily with war and weather, Sandon was the chief god in the Cilician pantheon from at least the beginning of the second millennium BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans equated Sandon with Herakles. A large monument to Sandon existed at Tarsus at least until the third century AD."
-Wikipedia Sandon

Maybe a bit hard to see - but if you look inside the triangle on the reverse you see Sandan standing on the back of a horned and winged lion.
Tarsos, Cilicia, AE20, c. 165-80 BC
Obv: Turreted and veiled head of Tyche right
Rev: TAPΣEΩN, monument of Sandan

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Caria, Ceramos. Antonininus Pius AE33 Zeus Chrysaoreus
Ceramus; Asia: Conventus of Alabanda; Caria. Laureate head of Antoninus Pius with traces of drapery, l. Zeus (Chrysaoreus) standing, facing, head, l., holding patera over eagle and long sceptre. BMC Caria, Pl. XII
Magistrate P. Ailios Themistokles Protoleontos, arxas (ex-archon?)
ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΝ ΣΕΒ ΕΥ (facing outward) / ΑΙΛΙ ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΛΕ ΑΡΞ ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗΤΩΝ
33 mm. 19.91 g

Next: Deity with epitet

 

Fortuna Reduci



next Hadrian Fortuna (Reduci)

 

Hadrian Fortuna:


Hadrian, AD 117-138.
Roman AR denarius, 3.44 g, 17.5 mm, 7:00.
Rome, AD 121.
Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder.
Rev: P M TR P COS III, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae and resting on column.
Refs: RIC 86b; BMCRE 170; RSC 1155; UCR 206; RCV 3521.

Next: Slight drapery on far shoulder.

 

Hadrian dupondius with drapery on far (left) shoulder.

next... Virtus.

 

Septimius Severus, Virt Augg
Next, non Roman coin from the year 200AD +/- 10 years!

 

Vologases V 191-208 AD Ae chalkous 10mm 0.98g
This was the Parthian king who fought Septimius Severus.


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Kingdom of France
King Philip IV | 1285-1314 AD
BI Double Tournois | 0.75g | 19mm

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Byzantine Empire/ Restored
AV Hyperpyron ND Constntinople Mint
Andronicus II 1282-1290
Crappy strike/ next another awfull coin

 

Well, sadly, this one probably qualifies:
C. Censorinus, 88 BC, AR denarius, Rome mint
Obv: Jugate, diademed heads right of Numa Pompilius and Ancus Marcius
Rev: Two horses galloping right; a desultor riding the nearest one, wearing conical hat and holding whip; XX below
Ref: Crawford 346/1b, as a consolation it is a reverse die match to this coin from the British Museum

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