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Ptolemaic Province of Kyrenaika Gold Drachm of Ophellas (minted in Kyrene by the Magistrate Chairios sometime between 322 and 313 BCE):



This is a RR coin.

 

GREAT coin!

 

Roman Empire Silver Antoninianus of Volusian (minted in Antioch sometime between 251 and 253):

 

Another fabulous coin! You are on fire!
I have same Emperor with Temple reverse.

 

ARABIA, Adraa. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 31mm (21.72g, 12h). Dated CY 151 (AD 256/7). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, gorgoneion on breastplate; River–god reclining to left, holding reed in right hand, fish swimming upward near left arm; to left, Tyche seated facing, head right, holding uncertain object in right hand, cornucopia in left. Mule of the reverse of Valerian Spijkerman 15 (same die), and obverse of Gallienus Spijkerman 17 (same die ). Probably a unique mule but might be intentional, after all a smaller denomination featuring Tyche is known in multiple examples for both emperors.

 

Zangid Silver 1/2 Dirham of al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il (minted in Halab sometime between 1174 and 1180):



This is a RR coin.

 

The thing i hate about islamic coins, they are all script no designs, except for Mughal coins Abkar/ Jahangir have designs/ emperor even drinking wine. Also the zodiac calender mohurs.

 

Actually, my coin is of Trebonianus Gallus, the auction house misattributed it to Volusian, so I will consign this one when I go to London or Munich.

 

Under 20 known examples. Recently acquired.

 

Wow, I didn't know this sestertius is so scarce.
I happen to have a very low grade/damaged example ('working man's variety').

I also have a (working man's) Vitellius Concordia sestertius.
This one is also very rare. I have only seen 3 examples besides mine, of which one of dubious authencity.

 

Empire of the Romans Gold Semissis of Basil the Macedonian with Constantine (minted in Syracuse sometime between 868 and 878):

 

From Balzac's Eugenie Grandet :

"Dear cousin!" whispered Eugenie, throwing down the letter and running softly back to her room, carrying one of the lighted candles. A thrill of pleasure passed over her as she opened the drawer of an old oak cabinet, a fine specimen of the period called the Renaissance, on which could still be seen, partly effaced, the famous royal salamander. She took from the drawer a large purse of red velvet with gold tassels, edged with a tarnished fringe of gold wire,—a relic inherited from her grandmother. She weighed it proudly in her hand, and began with delight to count over the forgotten items of her little hoard. First she took out twenty portugaises, still new, struck in the reign of John V., 1725, worth by exchange, as her father told her, five lisbonnines, or a hundred and sixty-eight francs, sixty-four centimes each; their conventional value, however, was a hundred and eighty francs apiece, on account of the rarity and beauty of the coins, which shone like little suns. Item, five genovines, or five hundred-franc pieces of Genoa; another very rare coin worth eighty-seven francs on exchange, but a hundred francs to collectors. These had formerly belonged to old Monsieur de la Bertelliere. Item, three gold quadruples, Spanish, of Philip V., struck in 1729, given to her one by one by Madame Gentillet, who never failed to say, using the same words, when she made the gift, "This dear little canary, this little yellow-boy, is worth ninety-eight francs! Keep it, my pretty one, it will be the flower of your treasure." Item (that which her father valued most of all, the gold of these coins being twenty-three carats and a fraction), a hundred Dutch ducats, made in the year 1756, and worth thirteen francs apiece. Item, a great curiosity, a species of medal precious to the soul of misers,—three rupees with the sign of the Scales, and five rupees with the sign of the Virgin, all in pure gold of twenty-four carats; the magnificent money of the Great Mogul, each of which was worth by mere weight thirty-seven francs, forty centimes, but at least fifty francs to those connoisseurs who love to handle gold. Item, the napoleon of forty francs received the day before, which she had forgotten to put away in the velvet purse. This treasure was all in virgin coins, true works of art, which Grandet from time to time inquired after and asked to see, pointing out to his daughter their intrinsic merits,—such as the beauty of the milled edge, the clearness of the flat surface, the richness of the lettering, whose angles were not yet rubbed off.

Eugenie gave no thought to these rarities, nor to her father's mania for them, nor to the danger she incurred in depriving herself of a treasure so dear to him; no, she thought only of her cousin, and soon made out, after a few mistakes of calculation, that she possessed about five thousand eight hundred francs in actual value, which might be sold for their additional value to collectors for nearly six thousand. She looked at her wealth and clapped her hands like a happy child forced to spend its overflowing joy in artless movements of the body. Father and daughter had each counted up their fortune this night,—he, to sell his gold; Eugenie to fling hers into the ocean of affection. She put the pieces back into the old purse, took it in her hand, and ran upstairs without hesitation. The secret misery of her cousin made her forget the hour and conventional propriety; she was strong in her conscience, in her devotion, in her happiness."

 

Sultanate of Bengal Gold Tanka of Sikandar bin Ilyas (minted sometime between 1358 and 1390):





This is an extremely rare coin.

 

This coin was missing in David Fore Collection.

 

Emilia/ Duci di Modena
AV Quadrupla ND (4 Scudi d'oro)
Francesco d'Este 1629-58

The reverse features the Virgin Maria and Baby Jesus/ when the "Plague" devasted the region in 1629-31, Francesco's Mom prayed to the Virgin Mary to spare her child. He survived, and later por trayed her on his coinage.

 

Roman Empire Gold Solidus of Constans (minted in Thessalonica sometime between 337 and 350):



This is a RRRR coin.

 

Nice Constans! I have one from Treveri Mint

 

I have about 12 of these types, will see if I have what you are looking for - Blake

 

I mean the anonymous pagans - Blake