Western ancients are out of my league...

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by TypeCoin971793, Aug 15, 2018.

  1. TypeCoin971793

    TypeCoin971793 Just a random guy on the internet

    Of the 48 coins that I bought for $5 each, I have 4 left to attribute. I’ve tried with WildWinds, ACSearch, and Google, but none have helped me with these coins. Could you all help? :)

    A Roman provincial. Philip II? Victory on the reverse. My searches did not reveal a match.

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    Greek bronze. Obverse is Apollo. Reverse figure is unknown.

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    Obverse is Pegasus with a club (?) below, and the reverse has a head in a box. I could not find an example on ACSearch.

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    Obverse has a horse, and I don’t know what the reverse is. It looks like a box of some kind.

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  3. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    I wanna say that is Elagabalus with the ANTΩ on the right. Does victory have a faint altar on the left?

    Edit: Obverse seems to be AVT K M AVPH ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head of Elagabalus right.... My first inclination for location was Trajanopolis based on the appearance of the reverse legend staying with a TR, but just a guess.

    Edit 2: I'm seeing the reverse legend end with ΠOλITΩN. An example legend that ends with that is MAPKIANOΠOλITΩN which is Marcianopolis.

    Edit 3: maybe this one? https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=152940
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  4. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    That's correct. I have one issued by this same legate (Seleucus) but with Homonoia on the reverse. The inscriptions are similar to @TypeCoin971793 's:

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    Elagabalus, AD 218-222.
    Roman provincial tetrassarion, 8.53 g, 24.2 mm, 7 h.
    Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Legate Julius Antonius Seleucus, AD 218-222.
    Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC, laureate head, right.
    Rev: VΠ Ιȣ ΑΝΤ CΕΛΕVΚȣ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Homonoia standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae.
    Refs: BMC 3.34, 47; AMNG (Pick) 856; Moushmov 633.
     
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  5. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    Here's what I could make out on the reverse: ΩN on left, ΛTΔ on top (or could be Γ/gamma not T?). It initially makes me think of Corinth because of the Pegasus. Could that be a dolphin below the Pegasus?
     
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  6. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    #2 : THESSALY, Phalanna or Perrhaiboi
    #3 : THRACE, Abdera (it's a griffin)
    #4 : THRACE, Maroneia
     
  7. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

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  8. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Can't let @TIF-mione answer them all, can we? Yeah, I can see her now...

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  9. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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  10. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Second is from Phalanna, last coin is from Maroneia.
     
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  11. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Whoops, just saw Zumbly’s post.
     
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  12. TypeCoin971793

    TypeCoin971793 Just a random guy on the internet

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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