Ancients => Okay, well how 'bout "Brick-Reddy/Brown" => got any?

Anoob: I like that. The "magic stick". Now that's funny.

 

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Carinus



Obv. IMP CARINVS P F AVG, Radiate and cuirassed bust right
Rev. ORIENS AVG, Sol walking left, hand raised, left holding whip

Ex. KAcrecentS

23mm, 2.9gr, Die 180.

Rome 6th emission begining 285

 

How now brown cow (with some red encrustations)

 

And a brown elephant.

 

And a brown Gallienus.



Or maybe just really scratched up bare metal.

 

70% Dark Chocolate Marcus Aurelius.

 

Brown-red-greeny Constantius Gallus with spearing horse's rump reverse.

 

Lotsa great coins!! (awesome job, gang)

=> please keep posting your "Reddy-Brick-Brown" coins

 

Ummm, this baby looks like it could be included as well? ...

Anonymous Folles, Basil II & Constantine VIII

 

How 'bout this? ... does this pass the entrance-qualifications?

Syracuse Sicily, Agathokles
(Persephone, Bull & Dolphins)




... hmmm? (close)

 

How 'bout these two Judaea coins?

A couple of AE Prutahs







=> hmmm, I think I may be bending the rules?

 

Domitian, Sestertius, 86 or 87 AD. Laureate head right, aegis at neck, rev. sc, Domitian on horseback right, about to spear fallen German warrior (RIC.284).

This coin commemorates roman victories over the Chatii, a germanic tribe
who inhabited parts of what is now the state of Hessen. His troops, stationed primarily at their base camp in Mogontiacum, are supposed to have crossed the Taunus hills (Mons Taunensium) not too far from where I live. A historically significant coin, with tan brown patina.

 

Trajan. AD 98-117. AE Sestertius. Rome, ca. AD 107-110. (IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS ….), Legend indictinct. Laureate bust of Trajan right, slight drapery on far shoulder. Reverse (S P Q R) OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C in exergue, emperor on horseback charging right, thrusting spear at Dacian enemy before. RIC 543?
mainly indistinct legends, but a nice expressive portrait, tan patina.

 

Germanicus. Died AD 19. AE Dupondius. Rome, under Gaius Caligula, AD 37-41. GERMANICVS/ CAESAR in two lines above, Germanicus, holding eagle-tipped scepter and reins, driving triumphal quadriga right.Reverse: SIGNIS RECEP/ DEVICTIS GERM/ S C in three lines across field, Germanicus standing left, extending arm and holding aquila. RIC

 

Nero As, Victoria holding shield.

 

Nero Sestertius, Roma seated.

 

Domitian (AD 81-96). Æ as. Rome, AD 88. Laureate head right / Domitian standing left, sacrificing with patera over lighted and garlanded altar; to left, lyre and flute players standing right; in background, hexastyle temple with wreath in pediment. RIC

 

Awesome coins Eduard....

We have a bull, elephant how bout a brown rhino...

Domitian AE
Quadrans Rhinoceros
Ob. Rhino facing Left, charging
Rev. S-C
16mm x 2.52g.

 

=> "Reddy-Brick-Brown" .....


*sigh*

... sure, close enough

 

Nice. Its scarcer than the right facing issue. I only have 5 lefts, but about 11 rights.