Featured Follow the coin theme GAME - ancient edition - post ‘em if you got ‘em

You may already be familiar with the “Follow the Leader" threads in the World coin forum. Let’s start a similar thread here in the Ancients forum.

We will keep it simple. If you can post an item depicting the current theme, then you get to post a second item of your own to start a new theme. Post your coin & state the theme that goes along with your coin. The theme might be coins with owls, coins with COS II, or coins with severed heads. Anything goes (coin, token, medal, artifact, etc) but we should keep it to something ancient. The next poster then posts something containing that theme & then posts/declares some new theme.

Here is an example. If someone posts a coin with an owl on it, and declares the theme to be "owls", the next person has to post an ancient item with an owl on it. That person then posts another coin (or the same coin) & states the new theme. OK? Let’s try this for a few days & have some fun.

We can start this thread with my new Tarentum coin. I declare the first theme as “Dolphin”.

Now it’s your turn to play.



P.S. If nobody follows a theme within 12 hours of its being posted, then anybody is free to post a new theme. The only real rule in this game is to have fun.

P.P.S. Thanks to @lordmarcovan for the similar thread he posted in the World forum.

 

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Here's a dolphin on left reverse of this Greek silver tet. The next theme will be a star.

 

Here's the star on reverse of this coin under Diaduminian. It's an Assarion.

 

Star:

SELEUKID KINGDOM
Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos)
AR Tetradrachm
121-96 BC
16.68 grams, 29 mm.
Obv: Diademed head facing right
Rev: Zeus Standing Left holding
star & sceptre with crescent over
head; two monograms to outer
left, [IPP] (date) in exergue,
BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANTIOXOY right
EΠI.ΦANOYZ to left of Zeus,
all within laurel wreath.


Next theme is Zeus

 

Seleukis/Pieria under Roman rule
AE 20
Year 44/ 13 to 14 AD
Obvs: Laureate head of Zeus right.
Revs: EΠIΣIΛANOY † ANTIOXEΩN, Ram running r. looking back. Star above, Δ M in ex.
20mm, 7.3g.

Next is RAM

 

I have this ram on reverse of Elagabalus.

 

The next theme is a bird.

 

Bird!

New theme: Ship Prow!

 

Ah, Newbie failure.

Can't find instruction post on posting pics.

 

Prow:


New theme is: "Called 'The Great'".

 

Issued by Darius I, called The Great King

510-486 BC
Lydia, under Persian rule
Obv: The Great King kneeling r.; shooting bow Rev: Incuse punch
AR 1/6 siglos .8gm - 7 mm

New theme is: "Bow".

 

@anguru
What's the next theme ? Please.

 

Bow.


Pisidia, Selge. Lucius Verus AE19
Obv: KAI BHROS / Barehead bust of Lucius Verus.
Rev: SELGE WN / Winged thunderbolt and bow decorated w. animal heads.


Next theme is "bust on front and back".

 

LRB brockage, same bust

next theme: crown

 

Crown.


Cilicia, Tarsos. AE35. Philip I or II / Spes
Cilicia, Tarsos AE35 23.4gm.

Bronze Medallion 35mm (21.94 grams) of Tarsus in Cilicia
AVT KAI IOV ΦIΛIΠΠON ЄVT ЄVC CЄ around, Π - Π in field, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
TAPCOV THC MHTPOΠOΛEΩC AMK, Elpis (Spes) standing left, holding flower and pulling on skirt, Γ B across fields.

Philip I or Philip II as Augustus, same obv. die as Ziegler, Smaller German Collections, pl. 42, 799 ("Philip II"); SNG Paris 1730 ("Philip I"); and SNG Aulock 6062 ("Philip I").

The light beard would speak for Philip I, yet the features look different and younger than other portrait dies at Tarsus that are definitely Philip I. -Curtis Clay


Next theme: flower.

 

Flower; Rose of Rhodes:


Caria, Rhodes. 229-205 BC. AR Didrachm. Ameinias, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose, POΔION above; bud to right; ship’s stern to left, AMEINI-AΣ flanking stem. Ashton 217; SNG Keckman 543; SNG Copenhagen 759

19.7mm
6.72g

Next theme: Forward Facing Greek

 

Forward facing Greek

Next: pig

 

Oink.


Epirus, Nikopolis, AE18. Augustus / Head of boar
Obv: AVGOVCTO CKTICTHC, Head of Augustus r., bare.
Rev: NΕIΚΟΠΟ(Λ) ΕW(C), Head of boar r.

Next theme: Augustus

 

AUGUSTUS
AV Aureus (7.90 g.) Lugdunum circa 11 - 10 B.C. RIC 196
AVGVSTVS - DIVI-f Laureate head right. Rev. IMP - XII Diana, wearing polos and long drapery, advancing r., holding bow and taking arrow from quiver. In exergue, SICIL

From the Biaggi collection, ex Gilhofer & Ranschburg and Hess 22 May 1935

Next theme: Roman construction (can include sewers, hint hint)

 

The reverse of this coin under Elagabalus has a pillar to right field surmounted by Nike who is crowning Astarte. There's also a trophy to left field.

Next theme Trophy