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Sinope. Likely struck under the authority of Diogenes the Cynic before he fled to Athens. My collection was built around the times and towns of philosophers. I had Thales to Hypatia. This was one that I kept after I divested.

Below: Drachm (of the heavy standard) of Sinope. 415-365 BCE. 5.6 grams. Sear GCV 3692.


Note DIO under the wing of the eagle. Note also the test cut obverse.
That substantiates the story that Diogenes fled from Sinope after a problem with the coinage in his term as moneyer. (Others suggest it was with his father's term of office and he was merely complicit.) I had sent it to the ANA for a measure of absolute gravity and it came back 90% silver.

So many are so cool, but I do have a soft spot for Sicilian bronze. I have none of my own: never found the perfect girl, I guess; but I admire everyone else's.

 

Dyrrhachion (Exephron, magistrate)
AR Drachm Brockage Error
Circa 200-37 BC
Diameter: 18 mm
Weight: 2.95 grams
Obverse: Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left (club left); below, EXEΦΡΩΝ above
Reverse: Incuse of obverse (club right)

 

Nerva AR Didrachm
CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia
AD 96-98
Struck AD 98
Diameter:
Weight: 6.64 grams
Obverse: Laureate head right
Reverse: Club set on ground; date in legend




... ooops, the club is upside-down!!

 

Ummm, this may be my final club-coin ...

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Trajan AR Tetradrachm
AD 98-117
Struck AD 110/1
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 14.44 grams
Obverse: Laureate head right; below, club left and eagle standing right with wings folded
Reverse: Tyche seated right, foot set on river-god swimming to right below

 

I only had the one. You have a nice bunch lil buddy.

 

Macedonia under Roman Protectorate, First Meris, Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 B.C.)
Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of Macedonian shield.
Rev: MAKEΔONΩN / PRΩTHΣ, Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left.
Minted in Amphipolis
Reference:- SNG Copenhagen 1315.

Weight: 17.0 g.
Diameter: 28.5 mm.

 

Thasos, Thrace, Tetradrachm
Obv:– Head of a youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries
Rev:– HRAKLEOVS SWTEROS, Youthful Herakles, nude but for drapery over his shoulder and let arm, standing facing, his head to left, holding a club in his right hand and resting his left at his waist; QASIWN in exergue. MH monogram
Minted in Thasos, Thrace. After 148 B.C.
Reference:– SNG Cop.1040.

 

Abdera, Ar triobol, 352 - 323 B.C. Magistrate Romnemon.
Obv:– Griffin seated left, club beneath, HPA above (Magistrate).
Rev:– ABD-HRI-TE-WN, Laureate head of Apollo right in square.
Minted in Abdera, VIIIth period. 352 - 323 B.C. (AMNG)
Reference:– May -. AMNG II, 204, pl. III, #15
1.57g, 15.29mm, 0o

 

Maximian, Billon tetradrachm
Obv:– MAΞIMIANOΣ ΣEB, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev:– None, Herakles, standing, head to his left, right hand rests on club, left arm extended, on which is draped a lions skin, with apple in palm. Star in left field.
Minted in Alexandria (L | Z).
Reference(s) – Curtis 2086, BMC 2548v, Milne 5027

 

Maximianus
Antoninianus
Obv:– IMP C VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, Radiate draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev:– VIRTVS AVGG, Jupiter standing right, holding scepter, clasping hand of Hercules standing left holding club and lion’s skin
Minted in Lugdunum (//C). Emission 2, Officina 3. Spring to Summer A.D. 286
Reference:– Cohen 604. Bastien VII 62 (12). RIC V Pt. 2 432

 

donia, AE21, ca. 187-31 BC. Diademed head of Poseidon right / AMFIPO-LITWN above and beneath club; HD and S monogram above, AN monogram below; all within wreath. AMNG III/2 26; SNG ANS 95 var. (monograms); SNG Cop 52 var.

 

I think I only have one ancient depicting a club, but what a club this is. This is the reverse of a Commodus sestertius (who else), depicting Hercules with a club. Sorry, I do not appear to have taken a picture of the obverse.

 

Such an interesting and compelling coin!

 

I'm late to the club. Took me a while to decide what to wear. Went with lion skin.

Trajan denarius. Hercules with an itty bitty club.

 

I won't comment on why it had to be a woman to pick out a poor Hercules with a tiny little club..... I am sure this Hercules would tell you its not the SIZE of the club, but how he hits people in the head with it that counts.

 

Gallienus antoninianus from a mixed lot, also with Hercules and thus a club.

His club looks bigger. He looks quite proud.

 

True, but the shortness club also lets him conceal it better (and with the amount of clothes he has on, he really needs a concealable club).

 

A fascinating coin with a fascinating story.