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Hieron II
Sicily, Syracuse
AD 276-215
Obv.: Diademed head of Poseidon left
Rev.: IEP-ΩNOΣ, ornamented trident, at sides dolphins
AE, 8.65g, 21.4mm

Next: Sicily

 

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Æ 11 mm., 1,68 g.

CARIA. Mylasa. Ae (Circa 210-30 BC). Obv: Forepart of horse right. Rev: MYΛΑΣΕΩΝ. Ornate trident head. SNG Keckman 225.

Next - another coin with a trident

edit - too late, Sicily theme remaining

 

next: young Zeus

 

Valerian II, AR antoninianus, 23 mm 4.2 grams

Struck: 257-258, Cologne.

Obverse: VALERIANVS CAES, radiate, draped bust right

Reverse: IOVI CRESCENTI, the child Jupiter sitting right on the goat Amalthea, looking left, right hand raised, left hand holding the goat's horn.

Reference: RIC 3 (Lyons); Cohen 26 (Saloninus); Elmer 67a; Goebl 0907e; Sear 10731.





Next: Another depiction of Amalthea

 

12hrs
I don't even know what this coin is, feel free to attribute.

Next, a mystery coin.

 

.... Roman Provincial possibly from Marcus Aurelius

Puzzled me from the moment I got it.

Next - another coin with unsure attribution.

 

Still don't have a proper attribution for this one:


Elagabalus or Caracalla
Roman provincial Æ (diassarion?); 2.41 g, 14.5 mm, 1 h
Mint city:????
Obv: [...] ANTΩNIN, laureate and draped bust, right
Rev: OV[...]ЄΩN[...] or possibly OV[...]CΩN[...] (maybe OVCIЄΩN?), Hermes, nude but for chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing facing, head left, holding purse and caduceus.

Next: Hermes.

 

No Hermes?? Seriously??

 

Next up: another silly hat

 

A kettle ?


Balbinus, Denarius - Rome mint, AD 238
IMP C D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Balbinus right
PROVIDENTIA DEORVM, Providentia standing left, wearing a kettle over head, holding rod and cornucopiae, globe at feet
2.7 gr
Ref : RIC # 7, RCV # 8490

Next : providentia

Q

 

Quintillus AE Antoninianus. 270 AD. IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / PROVIDENT AVG, Providentia standing left, holding baton and sceptre, globe at foot. MintMark: -/ς//-. Cohen 61; RIC 29; Sear 11450.

Next - Quintillus

 

Here's Quintillus.


Quintillus, AD 270.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.95 g, 20 mm.
Rome, 11th officina, issue 1, end AD 270.
Obv: IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, bust right, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum, seen from the front.
Rev: SECVRIT AVG, Securitas standing left, legs crossed, holding short scepter in right hand, leaning on column with left elbow; officina mark XI in right field.
Refs: RIC 31; MER/RIC temp 1194; Cohen 63; RCV 11451; Normanby 1197; Hunter 17.

Next: Standing with legs crossed.

 

Julia Domna denarius

Obv:– IVLA (sic) DOMNA AVG, Draped bust right, hair tied in bun behind
Rev:– VENERI VICTI (sic), Venus, nude with drapery falling below hips, standing with back turned, head right, resting left arm on low column, holding an apple in extended right hand and palm, sloping upward to left in left hand: coil of drapery falls over column
Minted in Alexandria, A.D. 194
RIC -, RSC -, BMCRE -.

2.25g. 17.65mm. 0o

Next:- An Imperial denarius from Alexandria

 

How is it known that it's from Alexandria?

 

The style of the Alexandrian coinage is quite distinctive, I find it especially so around the eyes. It is in the same style as the Tetradrachms from the same period. This makes them conclusively from Alexandria.

Alexandrian denarii are also know for Commodus, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus.

 

I have this denarius listed as from the Rome mint, but the eye looks more as if its minted in Alexandria ?
If so ,next coin Caracalla denarius.

 

Caracalla denarius, a gift from my very first Secret Saturnalia.


Next: your favorite coin gift from a past Secret Saturnalia.

 

Not Alexandrian but hey ho....

 

Interesting. I had no idea that during that period, presumably at the same time that the usual Provincial coinage was being minted in Alexandria (in Greek), Imperial coinage was also being minted there in Latin.

 

I failed the prompt.

please don’t throw me in the gulag