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Next: Roma or "the Senate" on a Roman Provincial coin.

 

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from the Siscia mint:



sorry too late , what Outsider said

 

Aeolis, Temnos. Pseudo-autonomous Ae25. Senate/Nemeses
Obv: IERACY NKLHTOC; Bust of youthful Senate r.
Rev: THM NE ITWN; Two Nemeses standing facing each other, drawing fold of drapery from breasts.
200-250 AD.
25mm, 6.5g.

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next: another Macedonian Koinon

 

Macedonia, Koinon. Antoninus Pius AE27
KAICAP ANTWNEINOC, bare head right with waved hair / KOINON MAKEDONWN, winged thunderbolt with four wings. AMNG 259(2).

Next: Koinon not from Macedonia.

 

Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.
Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165.
Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.
Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield.
Refs: RPC IV.1 4570 (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 & 966.2.
Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin).

Next: Athena brandishing spear.

 

Cilicia, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Gallienus. Æ27. Athena/anguipede Giant Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: Athena advancing right, brandishing spear and shield at anguipede Giant, raising both hands.
27mm, 7.9 gm.
SNG Levante 789

Next: Mythical beast

 

Nextup: another myt hical beast

 

Alexandria


Next: OOOPS... I blew that!

Back to: @panzerman 's "another Mythical Beast

 

Nice coin!

 

Next up: more beasts!

 

OK....
Gandabherunda "Double Headed Eagle/ holding Elephant in @ beak"
AV 1/2 Pagoda Achyutaraya 1529-42
King of Vijayanagar
next: more beasts

 

A splattered winged horse.

Next : another coin with a blue patina or blue encrustations.

 

Sorry, have not a one with encrustations

 

next: another coin with blue patina

 

Not to ice you out or anything Panz, buuuuut...
Next up: a gnarly encrustation

 

This seems to fit. Terrible and devastated obverse on this double sestertius of Postumus. What made me buy it is the fact that the reverse is VICTORI AVG instead of VICTORIA AVG, very few examples known.

Next : another legend error

 

Encrustation and the Bronze disease - Mo Tiberius from an uncleaned lot...





Next: A better Mo

 

Sorry, @ancient coin hunter, but @Choucas beat you to it and we're on "another legend error."

This is my favorite spelling error -- VINO REGINA (wine the queen) instead of IVNO REGINA:


Salonina, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 4.64 g, 23.3 mm.
Antioch, AD 264.
Obv: SALONINA AVG, diademed draped bust right on crescent.
Rev: VINO REGINA, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; peacock at feet left; star in left field.
Refs: RIC 92 var.; Cohen 67 var.; RCV 10641 var.; Göbl 1619f var.

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