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next : facing portrait(s)

 

Theme: Facing portrait.



Justinian, Byzantine emperor 257-565. Year 14.
39.4 - 38.1 mm. 22.69 grams. Large!
Sear 163.

Next: A green coin.

 

GELA, SICILY
Æ Trias
OBV: Bull standing right, head lowered; ••• (mark of value) in exergue
REV: Head of young river god right, hair flowing; barley grain behind
Struck at Gela, Sicily, 420 - 405BC
3.55g, 17mm
Jenkins, Gela 506 and 520; CNS 17; SNG ANS
ex Agora Auctions
ex, Roma Numismatics,
ex Mark Christenson Collection

Next: River God

 

Alexandria, Antoninus Pius, AE Drachm (34mm), year 9 = 145-146.
Obv.: ΑYΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝEΙΝΟC CΕΒ ΕΥC Laureate head r.
Rev.: L EΝΑΤΟY The Nile, with crocodile beside him, reclining to left, holding, with his right hand, a cornucopia containing a Genius holding a wreath to crown him, and, in his left, a reed; above to right, Ις (= 16, the level of the Nile flood in cubits). Dattari 8631, RPC IV.4 temp. 13578

Next : African animal

 

Theme: African animal.



Hippo, exhibited at the games celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome.
Otacilia Severa, wife of Philip I (244-249).
Sestertius. SAECVLARES AVGG

Next Theme: Games, Roman or Greek.

 

Commemorates the games mentioned in the Historia Augusta that were given by Severus in mid 197 prior to his departure on his second Parthian expedition.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIIII, laureate head right
REVERSE: MVNIFICENTIA AVG, Elephant wearing cuirass walking right
Struck at Rome, 196 197 AD
3.63g, 17mm
RIC 100, RSC 349

Next: Elephant

 

Theme: Elephant



Drachm. 17 mm. 4.16 grams. Seleukos I, 312-281 BC.
Head of Zeus right
Athena in elephant quadriga.
BAΣIΛΣΩΣ
ΣEΛEYKOY, monogram in circle at 3:30, M at 12:00, anchor at 1:00.
Hoover 9.32, page 13
Sear Greek 6836.

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