COINS BY CITY: An Alphabetical A to Z of Coinage

SARDES... maybe (see this recent discussion)


LYDIA, Sardes
Germanicus and Drusus
Struck CE 23-26?
restruck by Asinius Pollio, proconsul of Asia under Caligula, CE 37-38?
Æ 29, 15.5 gm (top coin) Æ26, 13.78 gm (bottom coin)
Obv: ΔPOYΣOΣ KAI ΓEPMANIKOΣ NEIOI ΘEOI ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOI; Germanicus and Drusus seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus.
Rev: ΓAIΩ AΣINNIΩ ΠΩΛΛIΩNI ANΘYΠATΩ; KOINOY/ AΣIAΣ within wreath
Ref: RPC 2995

 

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BURMA, Pyu City-States. Sri Ksetra.
AR Unit – 96 Rattis Third (Final) coinage. Struck circa 800-832.
35 mm x 9.53 g
Obv. Damaru (ritual hand drum of Śiva); five triangular and globular ornaments above, nine wedge-shaped ornaments; all within beaded border.
Rev. Stūpa (world-temple) containing the tree-of-life;vajra(thunderbolt symbol of Indra) to left, sankh shell (symbol of Viṣṇu) to right, the heavens (lunar and solar symbols) above, primordial ocean below.
Ref: ATEC 5749-50; HCSEA 464-5; M&P 61-5; R&S 3.5.

 

Roman Empire
Valerian I (AD 253–260)
Samosata, Turkey (Submerged by the Ataturk dam. AD 1992)
AR Antoninianus (s. AD 255/6)
22 mm x 4.22 grams.
Obverse:Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG Reverse.The Orient standing right, presenting wreath to Valerian, standing left and holding scepter. RESTITVT ORIENTIS

 

Very cool. Not sure I'd heard of that city before or seen its coins.

 

That's definitely true...and it seems I helped unleash an avalanche LOL

My modest contributions: AE-15 of Athena and Nike from Side, Pamphylia; and a AE-19 of Agathocles from Syracuse, Kore left and Bull butting...

 

Bing beat me to it with the Saloninus ant.

 

Oh. Whoops. Sorry Bing. Yours is cool too

 

And a coin Bing posted---Saloninus of the Samosata mint (Bl Antoninianus) ---Radiated portrait with Saloninus holding scepter and receiving flower from Spes on the reverse:

 

North Sea Empire
Stamford, Anglia
Cnut the Great (r. AD 1016 -1035)
AR Penny 18.2 mm x 1.00 grams (c. AD 1021-1035)
Obverse: The helmeted bust of Cnut left holding a scepter with 3 lobes.+ CNVT REX A
Reverse: Short cross with 4 pellets and 2 extra opposing pellets. + THVRSTAN ON STA
Note: EF

 

Kingdom of Harikela
Sylhet, Bangladesh
AR Tanka or 64 Ratti s. 680-730 AD
33 mm x 5.62 grams
Obverse: Reclining Brahma bull Harikela in Brahmi
Reverse: Trisula symbol all within border.
Wicks: Class A pg.91

 

Achaemenid Kings of Persia
Time of Darios I to Xerxes I c. 485-450 BC. Time of the War with Greece
AR Silver Siglos 17 mm x 5.51g
Lydia, Sardis
Persian Hero King in Kneeling -running stance right, holding spear and bow
Reverse: Incuse punch, bankers mark.
Ref: Carradice Type IIIa (pl. xi, 14); Carradice, " Two Achaemenid Hoards", in NumChron 1998, 136-7.
Note: Near VF, Good Metal.

 

Sassanian Persia
(Sijistan)Sistan, Iran
Yazdegard III (r. 632-651 AD)
AR Drachm dated ry. 3 (635 AD) mint SK.
31 mm x 3.86 g
Obverse: Bust of Juvenile Yazdegard III Pahlavi Legend- Yazdegard, Splendor, Prosperity
Reverse: Zoroastrian Fire Altar flanked by two aattendants
Ref: Gobl 234
Note: Chipped, rusty dies, very scarce. Last ruling member of the House of Sasan.

 

Persia
Shirajan, Kerman, Iran
The Great Shah of Persia
Peroz I 457 -484 AD
AR Dirham 28.0 mm x 3.77 g
Obverse: Crowned and cuirassed bust right. Stars flanking crown. KAVAT AFZVTV right field.
Reverse: Zoroastrian Fire altar with two attendants, flanking flames. SHR mint. Blundered date.
Ref: Mitchiner ACW 973ff
ex. Garth R. Drewry Collection, ex -CNG

 

That's all I can think of.

 

Great coins.... and as usual, anoob is bringing the flavour. "R" is looking so plain vanilla right now.

SYRACUSE

SICILY, Syracuse
Timoleon and the Third Democracy
Circa 336 - 317 BC
AE Dilitron
21.31g, 27mm
Calciati 80; SNG Cop 725
O: [ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ], laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left.
R: [ΣYPAKOΣIΩN], horse prancing left.

 

SMYRNA


IONIA, Smyrna
Circa 125 - 115 BC
AE Homereum
10.05g, 21.4mm
Phanokrates (magistrate). Milne, Autonomous 194a.
O: Laureate head of Apollo right.
R: ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ, ΦΑΝΟΚΡΑ-ΤΗΣ, the poet Homer seated left, holding scroll.



IONIA, Smyrna
Circa 105 - 95 BC
AE16
4.45g, 16.5mm
Milne 295; BMC 28-29; Hunter 54; Paris 4372-4373.
O: Turreted head of Tyche right.
R: ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ - MOΣXOΣ, Aphrodite Stratonikis right, elbow on short column, holding Nike.

 

SINOPE

PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope
AR Drachm
Circa 480-450 BC
6.02g, 15.5mm (max)
Sear Greek 3688; SNG Stancomb 750
O: Crude head of eagle left.
R: Quadripartite incuse square with two opposing quarters filled, the others stippled.

 

SISCIA


CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
Commemorative issued under Constantine I
AE Half-Follis
1.4g, 16.7mm
Siscia mint, 317 - 318 AD
RIC 43
O: DIVO CLAVDIO OPTIMO IMP, veiled and laureate head right.
R: REQVIES OPTIMORVM MERITORVM, emperor seated left on curule chair, right hand raised, holding short scepter in left arm; SIS in exergue.



SEVERUS II
AE Quarter Follis
1.86g, 19mm
Siscia mint, 305 - 306 AD
RIC VI Siscia 170a; Cohen 32; Sear 14645
O: FL VAL SEVERVS NOB C, laureate head right.
R: GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae. Mintmark SIS.

 

SERDICA


AURELIAN
Antoninianus
4.2g, 22mm
Serdica mint, 273-274 AD
RIC 264 var (bust)
O: IMP AVRELIANVS P AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right.
R: IOVI CONSER Emperor standing right, holding scepter, recieving globe from Jupiter standing left and holding scepter. S in ex.

 

SEVERUS II
Quarter Follis
OBVERSE: SEVERVS NOB C, laureate head right
REVERSE: GGENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, with chlamys over l. shoulder, patera & cornucopiae; SIS in ex.
Struck at Siscia 305-6 AD
2.3g, 20mm
RIC VI Siscia 171a