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This Nerva is more interesting for the size of his nose than for the depiction of Libertas:


Nerva, AD 96-98.
Roman AR denarius, 2.65 g, 17.1 mm, 6 h.
Rome, 18 Sept - Dec AD 97.
Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P II COS III P P, radiate head, right.
Rev: LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Liberty standing left, holding pileus and scepter.
Refs: RIC 31; BMCRE 61; Cohen 117; RCV --; ERIC II 83.

Next: Libertas.

 

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Thanks @Ignoramus Maximus . They are nice and hefty in hand too.
My description below;

Spain, Obulco
AE28, Obulco mint, struck mid II century BC
Dia.: 28 mm
Wt.: 16.83 g
Obv.: OBVLCO; female head right
Rev.: Celtic-Iberian legend: Magistrates names "Urkailtu" and "Neseltuko" between plow and grain ear.
Ref.: CNH 17, page 344

 

Here's a republican Libertas with a liberty cap (pileus) behind

L. Farsuleius Mensor, 76 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint
Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Libertas right; XXX above pileus to left, S • C below chin
Rev: Roma in biga, holding spear and reins, assisting togate figure into chariot; scorpion below horses
Ref: Crawford 392/1a; Sydenham 789a; Farsuleia 1

Next: scorpions, crabs, lobsters, or any other member of the Phylum Anthropoda

 

One of the few coins that I've spent more than $100 dollars for. Gotta get my moneys worth.


M Aemilius Scarus & Pub Plautius Hypsaeus Denarius. 58 BC.

Next: An Entomologists favorite coin.

 

This one bugs me : grasshopper on the right


Next: Kshatrapas

 

Next up: mustache

 

12 hours, hard to see but this guy has a mustache.

Western Kshatrapas of India
Issued under Rudrasena IV
383 to 388 AD
AR Drachm | 1.46 grams

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Next: Any non-Roman fourth century coin

 

next: another 4th Century silver coin

 

Well... 4th Century BC or AD?




Athens, tetradrachm, second half of 4th c. BC

Valens (364-378 AD), siliqua of Treves.

NEXT : Vrbs Roma

 

next: Constantine the Great

 

Constantine ...


next, his wife , whom he had executed...

 

Here's a Sirmium mint one.

Fausta, AD 324-326.
Roman billon centenionalis, 2.65 g, 20.2 mm, 6 h.
Sirmius, AD 324-25.
Obv: FLAV MAX FAVSTA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, Fausta standing facing, head left, holding two children in her arms; SIRM in exergue.
Refs: RIC vii, p. 475, 55; LRBC I 810; Cohen 7; RCV 16549.

Next: Somebody holding children.

 

Gorgeous specimen !!! But @Andres2 said "Constantine the Great", and this beautiful coin is of Constantine Jr...

 

So does that error void everything that comes thereafter?

Meanwhile, here's my sestertius of Faustina II holding children:

Faustina II (wife of Marcus Aurelius & daughter of Antoninus Pius), AE Sestertius, ca. 161 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, low chignon at back of head, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA / Rev. Felicitas (or Faustina as Fecunditas) standing left, between four girls (two standing at each side), holding two infants in her arms, each with a star over its head (representing the Dioscuri?), TEMPOR FELIC [-IC almost entirely worn off], S - C across fields. RIC III 1673 (at p. 147), var. [no stars above infants’ heads]; BMCRE MA 949 var [same]; Cohen 222; Dinsdale 006760 & n. 1 [Dinsdale, Paul H., The Imperial Coinage of the Middle Antonines: Marcus Aurelius with Lucius Verus and Commodus, Ch. 4, Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04 - Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (med_res).pdf) at p. 70] (“Minor rev. variation: sometimes each infant held in arms has star above head”). 31 mm., 24 gm. Purchased from Victor’s Imperial Coins, March 2021. Ex. CNG E-Auction 476, 9/09/2020, part of Lot 762; ex. BLS Collection. [Footnotes omitted.]




Next, to bring things back: Constantine the Great.

 

I like this Constantine follis from Alexandria, the emperor looks funny

NEXT : consular bust (Roman or Byzantine)

 

next : 6 pillar temple

 

Hi All,

Antoninus Pius Alexandrian drachm with six-pillared temple.




From BMC Alexandria: "The extraordinary type of an Altar of great size, assuming the character of an edifice, the determination of which I owe to my colleague Mr. Murray, is peculiuar to the Alexandrian series. It is represented as hexastyle, except in one type (Pl. xxix. 1204), which is tetrastyle, no doubt on account of the statue. The horns are like aplustria, and at the corners beneath each is a dolphin (see esp. 882, 1200). Upon the roof is in the centre a mass of fuel from which a flame rises, strangely varied in one case (1204). One type shows the edifice hung with garlands (1255). In some there is a statue before an altar of Egyptian form: the statue cannot be determined from the museum specimens (1200, 1201). In most there is between each column a curule chair, with in some cases a wreath, usually upright but at least once flat (882, 1204, 1255). It seems probable that the altar is that of the Emperor, and that the curule chairs were intended for him and the other imperial personages, the wreaths standing for them in their absence. If this attribution be correct, no doubt the altar was part of the Kaisareion, or Caesareum."

Next: Depiction of a wheel on a coin's reverse.

- Broucheion

 

GAUL, Massalia
c. 350-150 BCE
AR obol; 0.59 gm, 10mm
Obv: youthful male head left (Apollo?)
Rev: wheel with four spokes; M A within two quarters
Ref: Depeyrot, Hellénistiques, Type 18; SNG Leipzig 13.
AMCC Auction 1, lot 1, 1 December 2018
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1-1-1-1-1-won.327885/

Next: a coin formerly owned by or sold by another CoinTalk member.

 

I believe nobody can beat the amount of CT hands one coin has been held with. 5 CT members... at least!
Sold by Joseph J Copeland (anyone recognize the name?) In 1993(!), when I was twelve, ex BCD, ex @zumbly (my first from his collection) who sold it at AMCC 1, meaning technically I get to call it ex @Severus Alexander where @TIF picked it up and then gifted it to my greedy little grubbers

Next up: more CT provenance

 

I got my first Alexander tetradrachm from Zumbly's shop!

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