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Here is a slightly earlier one (I went with the nearest neighbor I could find, so that I could repeat the "next"). OCRE gives your type as 401-403, I believe, and my Theodosius to 378-383.


Theodosius I. Cyzicus. Ex Christopher J Sabine Collection.

NEXT:
Earlier yet emperor carrying spear and shield
(Emperor carrying them on the reverse is okay too!)​

 

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Mesopotamia, Carrhae (Harran, Turkey), Severus alexander, AE 23 mm
Obv.: [... AΛEΞ]ANΔP[OC...] , laureate and draped bust left, holding spear and shield
MHT. KO. KAPPHNωN, Tyche of Carrhae seated left on rock, altar to the left, small river-god swimming at her feet.

Next up : a Roman provincial coin

 

That's a category I can get behind!

I know I haven't used this coin yet because I just got it.

Pisidia, Apollonia-Mordiaeum Æ Tetrassarion (29mm, 16.34 g, 6h), Alliance w/ Koinon of Lycia, temp. Septimius Severus or Caracalla, c. 193-217 CE.
Obv: ΑΛΕΞΑ ΚΤΙΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ. Head of Alexander the Great right, wearing lionskin.
Rev: ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤ ΚΑΙ ΛΥΚΙΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ. Tyche of Apollonia & Tyche of Lycia clasping hands.
References/Provenance: This coin = Mabbot 2045 = Peck Collection = von Aulock Pisidiens II, 29. Ex NGC 4884253-014.

NEXT:
Handshake
(just the hands, Homonoia or Concordia type, etc., anything along those lines)​

 

This one is a candidate for a sole rule Severina.


Next: Powerful woman

 

That's Easy...


Julia Maesa (218 - 225 A.D.)
O: IVLIA MAESA AVG, Draped bust right.
R: IVNO, Juno standing facing, head left, holding scepter and patera.
Rome
3.3g
20mm
RIC 254 ,RSC 016

Next: Another Powerful Woman

 

Helena, Augusta AE3 from Cyzicus.

Ex Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) Collection of Late Roman Bronze Coins (a high proportion of which -- whether Antoniniani or Folles -- happen to have these red-brown toned coppery surfaces).​

NEXT:
Another coin with women, goddesses,
and/or female personifications on both sides​

 

Aelia Flacilla (wife of Theodosius I), AE2 of Constantinople. Reverse: Victory writing ☧ on shield

Next : a coin of one of her children

 

Honorius, AV solidus, Ravenna, 402-406 AD.
RIC X# 1287
4.4 grams



Next: A coin of Arcadius or his successor.

 

Arcadius' successor would be Theodosius II, I believe...

Theodosius II (402-450) AV Solidus (21 mm, 4.35 g), Constantinople c. 430-440.
Obv: D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG. Helmeted & cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear & shield.
Rev: VOT XXX MVLT XXXX B. Constantinopolis seated left with spear and globus cruciger, foot set on prow and shield at her side; to right, star; CONOB in exergue.
Ref: RIC X 257.​

NEXT:
Any 5th century coin
(either 5th cent., BCE or CE)​

 

This one falls in a time period late 6th - early 5th century BCE.

Islands off Attica, Aegina circa 525-480 BC. AR Stater
Obv: Sea turtle, head in profile, with thick collar [and row of dots down its back]
Rev: Incuse square of 'Union Jack' pattern with three sections filled

Next: a 4th century BCE coin or 4th century CE coin

 

4th century CE :

Valens, AR siliqua, Trier

Next up : another 4th c. CE silver coin

 

Nobody is playing that game any more?
I just attempt to restart it



Maximian Herculius, follis, Rome mint
Obv.: IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laur. head r.
Rev.: SACRA MON VRB [AV]GG ET CAESS NN, the imperial mint standing left, holding scales and cornucopia; exergue : club

Next up : Diocletian

 

Diocletian
Diocletian AD 284-305. Potin Tetradrachm (19.5mm, 7.38 g.)
Egypt, Alexandria mint, dated RY 6 (AD 290/1).
Obv. A K G OYA ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB, laureate, cuirassed bust right
Rev. Eirene looking left, holding branch and scepter, SL (date) across field. No reverse legend.
Attractive brown patina.
Rare variety with unusual date order,SL instead of LS
NEXT: Eirene

 

Antoninus Pius, BI tetradrachm Alexandria, RY 3 (AD 139/140), Eirene reverse.
Milne 1638.
13.42 grams; 25 mm.



Next: Quadriga or Biga.

 

Gnaeus Papirius Carbo AR silver denarius (121 BC)
RCV 154
3.8 grams; 18mm
obv: Helmeted head of Roma
rev: Jupiter riding in a quadriga


Next: Camel

 

Trajan, Drachm from Bostra with Camel: [ΔΗΜΑΡΧ] ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤ ЄArabia standing facing, head to left, holding branch over camel to left at feet, and bundle of cinnamon sticks

Next: a provincial coin of Trajan

 

Trajan, AR Tridrachm, 98-99 AD, Cappadocia-Caesarea.
9.9 grams



Next: A provincial coin of Nero.

 

Æ Hemiassarion
Lydia, Conventus of Sardis, Blaundus, 51 – 54 AD, the last years of the reign of Claudius; Magistrate Kalligenes

17 x 18 mm, 5.94 g
RPC I 3059; BMC 63; SNG Copenhagen 85; SNG von Aulock 2925;

Ob.: ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ Bare-headed and draped bust of Nero to r. Border of dots
Rev.: ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥ (Tiberius Claudius) Apollo standing r., holding plectrum and lyre ΚΑΛΛΙΓΕΝΗΣ ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ (Calligenes of Blaundus). Border of dots.
Pictures courtesy Heritage:





next: Divus Antoninus Pius, Consecratio issue

 

These drachms were surely not minted in Bostra: the Bostra mint started under Antoninus Pius and issued bronze civic coinage only. These "Arabia drachms" were first believed minted in Caesarea of Cappadocia, and later Arie Kindler thought they were minted in Bostra. But that's not more likely. First because most of these drachms have been found in South Jordan, in the West Bank and in Saudi Arabia, but relatively few in the Bostra region; and because the style is very close to the Antioch mint style. Nobody could explain why suddenly Bostra would have opened a mint for silver coinage! The present doxa is that these Arabia drachms were minted in Antioch, while the Arabia "tridrachms" (which were in fact reduced tetradrachms according to the Nabataean standard), and later the Trajanic "camel-drachms", were minted in Rome, all for circulation in Arabia only. Another more cautious attribution is "Trajan's Arabian mint", with no precise localization.

 

DIVVS ANTONINVS, sestertius. Rev. DIVO PIO / SC, altar with door closed.

Next : another emperor or empress consecratio issue