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Galla Placidia, Western Roman Empire
AE nummus
Obv: D N GALLA PLA-CIDIA P F AVG, female, pearl-diademed bust right, wearing necklace and earrings
Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICE around cross, T in left field
Mint: Rome
Mintmark: RM
Date: 425-437 AD
Ref: RIC X 2111



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I think @hotwheelsearl's request was a bronze Plautilla...

 

Bronze Plautilla. This one was sold at auction as "Faustina II"!


Plautilla, AD 202-205.
Roman provincial Æ 20 mm, 4.1 g.
Phrygia, Otrus, AD 202-205.
Obv: ΦOVΛ ΠΛ-AVTIΛΛAC, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: OTP-O-HNΩN, Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and long torch.
Refs: BMC 25.344,7; Von Aulock Phrygiens, 802-8; cf. SNG Cop 633.

Next: Coin you bought knowing it had been misidentified by the seller.

 

Coin you bought knowing it had been misidentified by the seller.


Roman Republic
Anonymous
AR Denarius
211-206 BCE
Roma
ROMA incuse Dioscuri single horn-helmet
Sear---, Craw 68-1b
SICILY ISSUE RARE
Sold as Craw 44-5 (@red_spork was kind enough to point out the correct attribution... and that it was much more difficult to find...

He did it AGAIN when I had posted this one, and corrected the attribution... so now I have TWO of these little gems!


RR AR Denarius 214-208 BCE Roma R X behind - Dioscuri R ROMA linear frame stars Sicily RARE Cr 68-1b (was sold as Crawford 44-5)

Next: Another Coin you bought knowing it had been misidentified by the seller.

 

This one came attributed as: 'Greek coin ca. 80-40 BC'.
At least they narrowed it down to 'coin'.


Next: an unpublished variety.

 

While the obverse and reverse dies of this Edward I penny from Durham are well known and recorded, they are not recorded in combination with each other on the same coin.

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12 hour rule.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher, 913-959. Miliaresion. Constantine was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the nephew of his predecessor Emperor Alexander. He was known as a scholar and the epithet "born in the purple" refers to his birthplace in the Imperial chamber adorned with the purple stone porphyry. Much of his reign was covered by regencies, first under his mother and later under Romanus I.


(AR, 25 mm, 3.15 g, 12 h), Constantinople. IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA Cross potent set on three steps; below, globe. Rev. +ROmAҺO' / XPISTOFOR' / CЄ COҺSTAҺ' / ЄҺ X'ω ЄVSЄ/b' bASIL' R' in five lines. DOC 18. SB 1754.

ex-Leu Auction April 2021



Another Miliaresion or Hexagram!

 

CONSTANS II, Hexagram
Constantinople, 647-651
S 991
5.48 g - 22 mm

Next: Another hexagram

 

I couldn’t decide which of my two to post so I went for both

Heraclius (with Heraclius Constantine), Byzantine Empire
AR hexagram
Obv: dd NN hERACLIUS Et hERA CONSt, Heraclius on left and Heraclius Constantine on right, seated facing on double-throne, each holding cross on globe in right hand, small cross above
Rev: dEUS AdIUtA ROmANIS, Cross-potent on globe above three steps; monogram to left, I in left field
Date: 615-638 AD
Mint: Constantinople
Ref: SB 801
22 mm wide, 6 gr.



Constans II with Constantine IV, Byzantine Empire
AR hexagram
Obv: D N CONSTANTINUS C CONSTANS, crowned and draped busts of Constans with long beard on the left, and Constantine IV, beardless on the right, cross between their head
Rev: dEUS AdIUtA ROmANIS, cross-potent on globe above three steps; B in right field
Date: 641-668 AD
Mint: Constantinople
Ref: SB 996
22 mm wide, 6.2 gr.
(attribution information from Wildwinds)



Ok let’s try this again. Next: misspelled words/names/legends

 

Hi All,

Misspelled reverse legend.


Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ - ΒΑΣΕΩΣ [sic]
Reference: Svoronos 974, pl xxix, 12 [over 130 listed]; SNG Copenhagen 224-226; Köln 91; HistMusFrankfurt 158, 160. Helios Numismatik (with countermark). This misspelled specimen noted in Lorber CPE.

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- Broucheion

 

spelled phonetically?
Probus, Antoninianus, BI Radiate, Lugdunum, AD 276-282
Obv: IMP C PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right
Rev: PIAETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, sacrificing over lighted altar and holding

Next: Vespasian spelled as ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ

 

An "uncertain" coin until Mark Fox identified it to be from Byzantium recently with help from this coin.

Thrace, Byzantium.
Vespasian head laureate l., OYE ... KAISAR S / Prow l., EPI[..]DIONYSI...
RPC 2.2805 = Lindgren 3.1661 (only catalogued specimen).

Next: Vespasian provincial not Alexandria

 

Obverse and reverse die match:

Vespasian
Bronze, Hierocaesarea
Obv.: OYECΠACIANOC KAICAP CEBA, laureate head of Vespasian right
Rev: IEPOKAICAPEΩN, stag standing right.
upper coin: Æ, 18mm, 5.15g (Ex Gorny&Mosch A271, 531)
RPC II, 955-9 (this coin)
second coin: Æ, 20mm, 3.85g
Ref.: RPC II, 955

Next: 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: Another quasi/pseudo-autonomous provincial.

 

next: king on horseback

 

What the Dolphin represents in Mythology.

 

Kingdom of Macedon,
Philip II
AR Tetradrachm.
Pella, lifetime issue, struck circa 353-349 BCE.
Laureate head of Zeus right /
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Philip on horseback left, wearing kausia and raising right hand; spearhead below, star below horse's raised foreleg.
Le Rider 102 (D58/R82)

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next: Macedonian king before Philip II

 

Alexander I

Next up: a coin from the time of the Peloponnesian war