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CRAB


Sicily Akragas AE Onkia 16mm 3.8g 425-406 BCE Eagle r fish fly - Crab conch SNG ANS 1062 var

Next: FLY or GRASSHOPPER

 

Akragas Ar Stater 495- 480/478 BC Obv Sea Eagle standing left wings folded Rv Crab. Westermark 215
HGC 95 8.11 grms 19 mm Photo by W. Hansen Not fast enough Next coin fly or grasshopper
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Roman Republic, C.. Allius Bala, AR Denarius, 92 BCE, Rome mint. Obv.: Diademed female head (Diana?)* right, wearing necklace; BALA behind, control mark "R" below chin / Rev.: Diana in biga of stags right, holding sceptre and reins in left hand and flaming torch in right, with quiver over shoulder; control-mark (grasshopper) below stags; C•ALLI in exergue; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 336/1b; RSC I Aelia [Allia] 4 (ill.), Sear RCV I 221 (ill.), Sydenham 595, BMCRR 1742-1771 [no control-letter "R"]. 17 mm., 3.88 g.**



* Varying identifications of obverse head: Crawford ("female head r., wearing diadem"); RSC I ("female head (Diana?)"); BMCRR (same); Sear RCV I ("female deity").

** Moneyer otherwise unknown. See BMCRR p. 238 n. 2: "This type may refer to the annual festival in honor of Diana held on the Aventine, where her temple stood, and at which torch races occurred. . . . C. Allius Bala was apparently the first moneyer to introduce a symbol as a mint-mark in conjunction with a letter."

Next: stag(s).

 

Good enough for an honorary first post!

 

Lydia, Hierocaesarea
Pseudo-autonomous issue
2nd century
Obv: Bee within wreath
Rev.: ΙЄΡΟΚΑΙСΑΡЄΩΝ, Stag standing left.
AE, 4.00g, 18mm
Ref.: RPC III 1868

Next: Hierocaesarea

 

ANTONINUS PIUS
AE19. 5.3g, 19mm. LYDIA Hierocaesarea, AD 138-161. RPC Online temp 1264; BMC 26; Imhoof KM 2; Weber 6827. O: ΑV ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟϹ, laureate head right. R: ΙƐΡΟΚΑΙϹΑΡƐΩΝ, River-god Glaukos reclining left, holding reed and resting left arm on an overturned urn from which waters flow; ΓΛΑVΚΟϹ in exergue.

Next: Another Roman provincial that names the deity depicted on the reverse

 

ΠΕΡCΙΚΗ: Artemis Persica

Lydia, Hierokaisareia
Pseudo-autonomous issue
First half of the second century
Obv: ΠΕΡCΙΚΗ, draped bust of Artemis Persica r., with bow and quiver at l. shoulder.
Rev.: ΙΕΡΟΚΑΙСΑΡΕΩN, legend starting at 7 o'clock, lighted altar
AE, 2.74g, 15.6mm
Ref.: RPC online, Volume 3, 1855

Next: More Hierocaesarea

 

Here's one from Hierocaesarea:


Quasi-autononymous issue, time of Nero.
Roman provincial Æ 14.6 mm, 3.24 g, 6h.
Lydia, Hierocaesarea; Magistrate Capito, AD 54-68.
Obv: ЄΠΙ ΚΑΠΙΤѠΝΟC, draped bust of Artemis Persica, right, with bow and quiver at her back.
Rev: ΙЄΡΟ-ΚΑICΑΡ-ЄΩΝ, Artemis in short chiton, right, with one knee on back of stag, which she pulls down by the antlers.
Refs: RPC I 2391; BMC v.22, p.102, 3.

Next: Artemis on a Roman provincial.

 

Why only one Artemis, when you can have two on one coin:



Trajan
Caria, Tabae
AE 24
Obv.: ΑΥ ΚΑ(Ι) ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΡΙ(Ϲ) ΓΕ(Ρ) ΔΑ, laureate head of Trajan right, with drapery on left shoulder
Rev: ΤΑΒΗΝΩΝ, two figures, side by side, of Artemis standing facing, wearing short chiton, drawing arrow from quiver with r. hand, holding bow in l.
AE, 24 mm., 9,28 g
Ref.: RPC III, 2289 (this coin)

Next: Artemis together with another deity (on one side of the coin, of course)

 

AEOLIS, KYME
AE 15
OBVERSE: K-Y across fields, Artemis standing right, holding torch and clasping hands with figure standing left, holding transverse spear
REVERSE: Two figures in quadriga right; one holding long transverse spear
Struck at Aeolis, after 190BC
3.12g, 15mm
SNG Cop 113; BMC 96

Next: Figure holding torch

 

Alexander III drachma, Artemis (some sources say Demeter) holding two torches on the reverse under the eagle.

Next, fire as the main focus!

 

On only see one torch????

 

off-centered lol

 

ILLYRIA, Apollonia
AR Hemidrachm (Half-Victoriatus). 1.5g, 14.8mm. ILLYRIA, Apollonia, circa mid-late 1st century BC. Aineas, magistrate. Maier 121; BMC 44; HGC 3.1, 7 (R2). O: AI-NEA, fires of the Nymphaeum of Apollonia. R: AΠOΛΛΩ-NIATAN, lagobolon (rabbit-bashing stick).

Next: Lagobolon

 

Looks like a rifle!

 

Next: Lagobolon

Caria, Trapezopolis. AE16.
Obv: BOYLH TRAP[H]Z.... / Head of ? r.
Rev: River-god l. holding cornucopia above in r. hand, lagobolon r.
16mm.

Not 100% certain on ID for this one.

Next: cult statue of Ares

 

Edit: Disregard! I thought it had been 12 hours

 

The 12 hours are up so this is as close as I can get to Ares. Pharnabazos Stater 380-379 BC Obv, Baal tars seated left holding sceptre Rv Head of Ares wearing crested Attic helmet SNG France 251 10.53 grms 22 mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Persian satrapal coin
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Persian Satrap


Persia Spithridates Achaemenid satrap of Sparda-Lydia and Ionia- 334 BCE AE10 1.20g wearing Persian headdress - Forepart galloping horse r Klein 367, Cop 1538

Comment: This is the Satrap that ALMOST killed Alexander III of Makedon (later the Great) at the Battle of Granicus. Instead Cleitus lopped off his arm just as Spithradates was lowering his scimitar onto Alexander:

Next: Achaemnid Fractional