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Provincial Silver Denarius
Phillipi mint, A.D. 69-70
Obv: IMP CAES VESPAS AVG
Rev: PACI OPB TERR AVG - Turretted female bust
Φ behind bust
RIC (New) 1407
18mm, 2.8g.


Note: RIC lists this type with the mint mark below the bust rather than behind, as it is on this coin. Also, on this coin the mint mark is clearly a Φ, for Philippi. (RIC lists the mint mark as rotated 90 degrees.)

Next: Another PACI or PAX reverse.

 

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Titus

79-81 CE Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 22.76 g.)
Rome mint, struck AD 80-81.
Obv. Laureate head left.
Rev. Pax standing left, holding olive branch and cornucopia.
RIC II 155 Brown patina.

Next: brown patina on Sestertius

 

Faustina II sestertius, rev. FECVN DITAS / S C

NEXT : the largest ancient or medieval coin in your collection

 

I shared this coin not too long ago but it's a recent addition and is the largest ancient coin in my collection. It measures 9.5 grams and is 31mm wide. The coin is a local imitation of a Pyu silver coin from the city-state Halin in ancient Burma, probably c. 400-600 AD. It's not really clear where the various imitation types were minted but this example is from a Bangkok dealer. I have it compared to my smallest coin here, which is also from ancient Burma. The tiny 7mm wide coin is bracteate meaning paperthin with the single design stamped through the reverse to appear on the obverse. The coin is only 0.03 grams, making it a 1/300 unit denomination when compared to the large full unit.

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Next: Same theme

 

One of my larger bronzes…


Carthage
201-175 BCE
Æ 15 Shekels
45 mm 7.5 mm thick. 102g
Wreathed Tanit
Horse Uraeus above.
MAA 104 SNG Cop 400

Next: Same. Your largest Ancient coin

 

Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Ptolemaic Kingdom
AE drachm
Obv: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right
Rev: ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, two eagles standing left on thunderbolt, Θ between left eagle's legs
Mint: Alexandria
Date: 267-259 BC
Ref: Svoronos 463
Size: 71 gr., 42 mm



Next: very off-center obverse and/or reverse

 

Hard to get more off center than this. If this was struck the other way, there would be no mintmark and no emperor name. I'm fortunate it happened the way it did.



Next: a coin even more off center than Arcadius here.

 

I hand two of the same coin for just such an occasion.
Here's what it's supposed to look like:

Here's what the very back of Apollo's had looks like:


Next up: handsome Apollo

 

Antioch, AE3 of 310-311 AD. GENIO ANTIOCHENI / APOLLONI SANCTO

NEXT: Apollo seated

 

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson, 229-221 BCE
struck 227-225 BCE, Amphipolis mint?
AR tetradrachm, 32 mm, 17.1 gm
Obv: wreathed head of Poseidon right
Rev: Apollo seated left on prow left, holding bow; monogram below.
Ref: Panagopoulou 50–3 var. (unlisted dies); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Saroglos 933; SNG Alpha Bank 1046; SNG Ashmolean 3266

Next: someone else seated on a ship/prow

 

I think this fits fine


Euboea. Histiaia circa 338-304 BC.
Tetrobol AR,14 mm, 1,94 g

obv. head of nymph Histaia to right, wreathed with vine, hair rolled, rev. nymph Histaia seated to right on stern of galley, wing on galley around IΣTIAIEΩN (cf.S.2496, BCD Euboia 387ff, HGC 4, 1524);

Next - another coin with 2 ladies (or to be more accurate, a coin with 2 ladies, as this one has the same character on the obverse and reverse)

 

Lucilla
Augusta, A.D. 164-182/3
Silver Denarius
Rome mint, A.D. 164-169
Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA
Rev: VENVS VICTRIX - Venus, standing, facing left, holding Victory in right hand and resting left hand on shield.
RIC (Marcus Aurelius) 786
18mm, 2.8g.

Next: Another Venus

 

too late gsimolel beat me so that makes it what TIF said:
Next: winged Cupid

 

Roman Republic
moneyer L. Julius L. f. Caesar, 103 BC
AR denarius, 17mm, 3.9 gm
Obv: Helmeted head of Mars left; CAESAR; ・C (retrograde)
Rev: Venus Genetrix in chariot left, drawn by two Cupids; lyre to left; ・C (retrograde) above
Ref: Crawford 320/1
ex RBW Collection

Next: winged cupid

Edit: too late, see Doug's post for next up.

 

Volusian, AE 31 mm of Perge (Pamphylia), 19.81 g.
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1117A specimen 1.
Obv.: Α Κ Γ ΟΥ ΑΦ ΓΑΛ ΟΥΟΛΟΥϹΙΑΝΟΝ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Volusian, r., seen from rear; below, eagle, spreading wings
Rev.: ΠƐΡΓΑΙΩΝ, Tyche (?), standing r., wearing chiton facing another Tyche (?), seating l., holding cornucopia; a bull in the background

NEXT : eagle on obverse

 

I can't keep up. Sorry for the posts. I do not have a Cupid with and eagle so it is just messed up.
Trajan:


Caracalla with Cupid or is it Thanitos?:


That leaves us a certain Cupid:

 

Seleucid, Antiochus VII (138-129 BC), AE 18 mm, 5.80 g. Antioch, 137 BC.
Obv: Winged bust of Eros right.
Rev: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEPΓETOY, Isis headdress, monogram to outer left, below, crescent above EoP (175 sel. = 137 BC)

NEXT : Isis !

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian
Year 9, CE 89/90
AE diobol, 25 mm, 9.13 gm
Obv: laureate bust right
Rev: bust of Isis right
Ref: Dattari-Savio Pl 19, 6747 (this coin); Geissen 329; Emmett 296.9, R5
ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)

Next: A syncretic Isis

 

Next up: FUN hair

 

I don't know if it's fun, but I've always liked the hair on Larissa. A coup Medusa without the snakes:
Next: (almost) facing portrait.