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Nice one!

 

Next up: banker's mark

 

Crawford 472/1. Banker's mark near ear of Juno Sospita:



Next, a different RR type also depicting Juno Sospita.

 

Juno Sospita on both sides

Cr. 379/2.



Next - snake

 

Quadrans of RR with bull trampling snake...

next - bull...

Happy New Year!!!

 

next: protrusion

 

I wonder how they prepared the flan for this coin!
Sethupathis of Ramnad

 

And what's next ?

Q

 

thick flan for a tiny coin.

 

EL Hekte ND 387-25BC
Phokaia
Female Head/ Quadripartite incuse Punch

Next: coin struck on a very thin flan

 

At 11 mm and only 0.76 gm, this is a delicate flake of a coin.


SICILY, Selinos
Circa 410 BCE
AR litra, 11mm, 0.76 g, 1h
Obv: nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above
Rev: man-faced bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right
Ref: Potamikon, p. 116 figure 152 (this coin); HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare.
ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich;
ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404;
ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript

Next: an oversized flan in which the entire design, including dotted border (if the coin has or is intended to have a dotted border), is entirely on flan, both sides.

 

This coin is probably the one with the most generous flan in my collection



Probus AD 276-282. Rome.Antoninianus Æ. 22 mm, 3,59 g
RIC V Probus 187
Date Range: AD 276 - AD 282
Obverse Legend: PROBVS P F AVG
Type: Bust of Probus, radiate, wearing imperial mantle, left, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle in right hand
Reverse Legend: ROMAE AETER
Type: Hexastyle temple, Roma seated in centre, holding Victory in right hand and sceptre in left hand
Mintmark: -/-//RVA

Next - a nicely preserved coin with good details but with incomplete design caused by a small flan

 

Early Severan denarii seem to suffer from dumpy flans. This would be a fantastic coin with complete legends if the flan were thinner and broader.


Septimius Severus, AD 193-211.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.22 g, 16.5 mm, 11 h.
Rome Mint, AD 194.
Obv: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP III, laureate head, right.
Rev: LIBERO PATRI, Liber standing facing, head left, cloak over left shoulder, holding oenochoe and thyrsus; at feet left, panther standing left, catching drips from the jug.
Refs: RIC 32; BMCRE 64-65; Cohen 301; RCV 6307; Hill 84.

Next: Dionysus with panther.

 

Dionysos with partner - HERAKLES!


Thrace Thasos 146-50 BCE Roman provincial or Military mint AR Tet Dionysos Herakles Club Lion skin

Next: Dionysos with PANTHER

(uh-oh, I misread @Roman Collector ... sorry)

 

Dionysus with a dead panther:



next: Mithradates VI

 

Here's a portrait of Mithridates VI on a coin of Cappadocia - a not-so-subtle message in Regnal year 4, that Ariarathes IX (son of Mithridates VI and only 8 years old when first placed on the throne) is backed by his powerful father. For more see: A Father's Support.


Next: a coin dated by regnal year

 

next: co-rulers

 

Minted at Constantinople during the reign of Constantine VIII, Porphyrogenitus and Romanus I, Lecapenus between 20 May 921 - August 931. Obv. +IhS XPS REX REcnAntI4M*.: Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cr., pallium and colobium, and raising r. hand in benediction; in l. hand, book of Gospels. Rev.

ROmAn’ET XPISTOFO’ A4cc b’.: Facing busts of Romanus I, with short beard (on l.) and Christopher, beardless (on r.), both crowned, holding between them long patriarchal cross; Romanus wears loros, whilst his son is clad in chlamys. BCVS #1745. CBE #6 pg. 201

 

I think your coin is a RY VII (and they made funny V - fives in Nicomedia).

Next: unchanged - whatever @Jims Coins calls it