Coins of yours that no one else on CT has and other hijinks;)-

The rules: YOU, yep the collective US, post coins that we believe no one else on CT has.
If someone has the same or a similar coin type, they post it and call C.T.B.S. (Coin Talk Been Scored) and then we all learn a bit more about rare and historically impactful coins... and that ours ain't as unique as we think.


I'll start with a couple MSCs that nobodies shared on here:

Seleucus I
AR Hemiobol, Antioch on the Orotnes 300-281 BCE 0.49 gr 8MM
OBV: Omphalos on Macedonian Shield.
Rev: BA έE, elephant head right. Dotted border. Left field N
Ref: SC 14


Pseudo-autonomous issue, 1st century AD. (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.97 g), Beroia. Macedonian shield. Rev. MΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ Nike standing to left on globe, holding wreath with the extended right hand and palm branch with the left. SNG Cop. 1331. SNG ANS.-. RPC -. Unusual and rare; a very interesting exampleA very interesting and scarce emission of the Macedonian Koinon
MACEDON. Koinon of Macedon. Ex: Munzzentrum

On to Magna Graecian:

LUCANIA, Thurium as Copia (193-150 BCE) AE As. 9.40g, 22mm.
Obv: Laureate head of Janus
Rev: COPIA in right field; Cornucopia, caduceus and I (mark of value) in right field.
HN Italy 1935. Very rare. Ex AMCC3


Kaulonia AR Nomos, c. 525-500 BC
Bruttium, Kaulonia. Circa 525-500 BC. AR Nomos (31 mm, 6.63 g).
Obv. Apollo advancing right, holding branch aloft in right hand, left arm extended, upon which a small daimon, holding branch in each hand, runs right; KAVΛ to left; to right, stag standing right, head reverted.
Rev. Incuse of obverse, but daimon in outline and no ethnic.
Noe, Caulonia Group A, 1 (same dies).
Rare. Cracked in three parts, otherwise, very fine/fine.

And where are my Bes people at?

CILICIA, Mint Uncertain
400-350 BC. Obol (Silver, 10 mm, 0.58 g, 1 h). Female head facing, turned slightly to left, wearing earrings, necklace and flowing hair (Arethusa?). Rev. Facing head of Bes. Göktürk 44. SNG Levante 233. SNG France 486. Fine metal and attractive on both sides. Very fine.
Ex: Leu auction 4 Ex: Nomos Obolos 14

A provincial of both historical importance and rarity:


Aurelian
Pisidia. Kremna AD 270-275.
Bronze Æ 32mm., 14,18g. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Facing statue of Artemis Ephesia, with supports. nearly very fine Cf. Von Aulock, Pisidien II 1621-3.
Ex Savoca London

And lastly, a Roman coin that I've, shockingly, not seen anybody post up:

Julia Domna
(193-217 AD). AE Sestertius (27 mm, 14,60 g), Roma (Rome), 193-194 AD.
Obv. IVLIA DOMNA AVG, draped bust right.
Rev. VENERI VICTR / S - C, Venus, naked to waist, standing right, holding apple and palm and leaning on column.
RIC IV, 1, p. 207, 842 (R). Per Curtis Clay new die comb., o400/r578



Have them, or something close, post em up. Have other coins that you think nobody here has? Let's see em!

 

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C.T.B.S.!!! Where you been, Scoob?! I've posted this here several times!


Julia Domna, AD 193-217
Roman oricalchum sestertius, 21.41 g, 28.8 mm.
Rome, AD 194, issue 4.
Obv: JULIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, r.
Rev: VENERI VICTR SC, Venus, naked to waist, standing r., holding apple and palm, resting l. elbow on column.
Refs: RIC-842; BMCRE-488; Cohen-195; Sear-6631; Hill-113.


Now here's one nobody else has:


Faustina Jr, Augusta AD 161-175
Roman AR Denarius, 3.18 g, 18.2 mm, 6 h
Rome, under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-175
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right
Rev: VENVS FELIX, Venus seated left, holding small statuary group of the three graces and scepter
Refs: RIC 732 aureus var.; BMC 170; Temeryazev & Makarenko 240; Staal p. 142, p. 169.

 

This one is by far my favorite in my collection. 100% certain nobody here owns this!


Antiochus VII, AE Quadruple Unit
Seleukeia in Pieria Year 174 (139/8 B.C.) 25mm, 14g
Obverse: bust of Antiochus VII facing right
Reverse: Zeus enthroned holding Nike and scepter, date ΔOP in exergue, legend: ‘ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ’ r.,‘ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ’ l. (“of the Seleukeians in Pieria, of the Sacred and Autonomous [city]”)
Reference: Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2074

 

I think of the few people on here with a Sisebut coin, I’m the only one with a Sisebut coin from Toledo (the Visigothic capital).

Sisebut, Visigothic Kingdom
AV tremissis
Obv: + SISEBVTVS REX, bust facing
Rev: + TOLETO PIVS, bust facing
Mint: Toledo
Date: 612-621 AD
Ref: Miles 183a

 

I can state, with near-100% certainty, that I am the only CT member who owns a coin of the Khazars:

Khazar Khaganate. AR dirham (26 mm, 3.93 g). No date, c. 880s-910s AD. Imitation of an Abbasid dirham with two "obverse" dies. Obverse: Slightly blundered first half of the Kalima, heavily blundered legend around. Reverse: Slightly blundered first half of the Kalima, heavily blundered legend around. Album K1481.1. My original write-up: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-very-rare-coin-of-the-khazars.362251/#post-4586785

 

don't have any coin that no one else on CT has

 

How about this provincial of Annia Faustina, 3rd wife of Elagabalus?



CILICIA, Flaviopolis-Flavias. Annia Faustina. Augusta, AD 221. Æ (28mm, 13.75 g, 6h). Dated CY 148 (AD 221). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Fortuna seated left on rocks, holding grain ears. Apparently unpublished. Near VF, blue-green patina. Extremely rare.

 

NASA couldn't miss that big Ole thang! How the heck did I!?
Way to be RC
And your freaking Faustina dose Venus seated left, holding small statuary group of the three graces and scepter... insane!!!


Here's A little rarity I recently bought that I don't recall seeing round these parts... though, not rare enough that I wouldn't love to see another:

Trajan, with Marciana. CILICIA, Anazarbus. 98-117 AD. Æ 24mm (10.2 gm). Dated year 132 (113/4 AD). Laureate head of Trajan right / Diademed bust of Marciana right; date across field. SNG Levante 1382=Zeigler 108.1. VF. Rare. Dated the year of Marciana's death, 114 AD. Purchased from NBS Auctions July 2021

 

I havent seen another anepigraphic obverse Byzantion here

 

Not sure if they are ancient enough ??? ...

 

CTBS
@Ryro

Yours is nicer, but this is a pretty close match. think I should get extra points for the similarly cracked flan

 

This Gaulish BI stater type is usually attributed to the Abrincatui. The obverse used to be my avatar pic - there really is no other design like it.


Armorica
BI stater
Approx 6g
Approx 20mm

I don’t see a lot of collectors of Hunnic coins on CT.. anyone else got this interesting issue from Sahi Tigin?


Nezak Huns
Sahi Tigin
2.98g
Approx 30mm
Early 8th century Drachma year 77
Obv: crowned bust in three-quarter view to the right.
Rev .: frontal bust of Anahita with nimbus flame, Göbl Em. 208, Mitchiner 1566/1569, = 2.98 g = III
Prov: Collection of Dr. Ernst Eichler

.. A scarce stater from Elis, Olympia




ELIS, Olympia. 96th Olympiad. 396 BC. AR Stater (9.31g, 25mm)
Eagle standing left, grasping coiled snake with beak and talons; all on round shield with raised rim / Flaming thunderbolt with volutes above and tendrils below; all within incuse circle. Seltman, Temple 163; BCD Olympia 89; SNG Copenhagen -; Boston MFA 1206; Weber 4045; VF, lightly toned, countermark on obverse


I would have confidently posted my Doppelkopf Tetradrachm but recently saw a wonderful example posted by @robinjojo
Here it is anyway I bet nobody else has one!



Celts in Eastern Europe
AR Tetradrachm.
Doppelkopf Type
13.47g
24mm

Doppelkopf Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Janiform bearded head of Zeus / Rider on horseback to right, wearing helmet with long crest; rosette before. Göbl, OTA pl. 19, 223/1 (same dies); Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 7, 111 (same dies); Lanz 540 (this coin).

 

Eastern Celts, Late 2nd- early 1st Century BC. AR 16.35 gm, 35 mm, 12 h. Imitation of a Thasos Tetradrachm.


Northwest Gaul. Veneti Tribe, Circa 100-50 BC. Obverse: Head of Ogmios facing right. Reverse: Charioteer holding stem with rosette on top, driving man-headed horse right, running boar below. AR Stater: 7.19 gm, 19.5 mm, 8 h. Very rare. Gruel & Morin 469.


Britain-Celtic. Trinovantes & Catnvellauni, Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43, Camulodunum Mint. Obverse: Grain ear, CA MV. Reverse: Horse prancing right, palm branch above, war shield below, 3 dots in field, CVNO in exergue. AV Stater: 5.42 gm, 18 mm, 12 h. ABC 2786. Van Arsdell 2010-1

 

I doubt I have anything that unique. I go for the more common coins because they are cheap and usually higher grade.

I think this one is at least a little less common though I could be wrong... Its a marcus servilius republican denarius from around 100BC.

 

Belgium (Liège): silver Ernestus of Ernest of Bavaria, 1582





And I'm fairly certain no other CT'er has one of these.







As a matter of fact, I have a small hoard of them.

 

C.T.B.S.


obol .61g

Levante attributes this issue to Cilicia based on hoard evidence and similarities of the female head to other Cilician issues.

 

Congratulations @Ryro for an excellent idea.
I don't think I have unique coins.
But what I find very interesting is this barbarous VRBS ROMA (photographed next to an official issue for comparison)




When buying it (in a lot) I had no idea what it is. The obverse made me think it's Athena but the reverse left me clueless, until a collector spotted it's the shewolf with twins.

I did not look for other VRBS ROMA barbarous issues specifically, but I never encountered another one.

 

Keep looking. They are out there. My favorite is facing the wrong way on both sides but the legends are correct.