Nero as Apollo

Here's my latest acquisition. Still trying to replace the coin types I had in my previous collection. Please feel free to post your Apollo coins.
Ruler: Nero (Augustus)
Coin: VF Bronze AS
NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERMANIC - Radiate head of Nero right
PONTIF MAX TR POT IMP P P - Nero, as Apollo Citharoedus, advancing right in billowing robes, playing lyre; mark of value I in ex.
Exergue:


Mint: Rome (64 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 6.87g / 23.01mm / 5 h
References:

• RIC 211
• BMCRE 256.
• WCN 272
• Sear 1978

Provenances:

• The D. Thomas Collection
• Agora Auctions

Acquisition/Sale: Agora Auctions Internet Numismatic Sale #77 #087 $0.00 10/18

 

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Nice touch with the lyre on the reverse, issued the same year Nero supposedly "Played the lyre while Rome burned."

 

Are you compelled more to replace ones you had or add 'new' interesting types?


Seleucus III
Mint: Antioch
AR Tetradrachm
226 to 223 BC
Obvs: Diademed head of Seleucus III r., with long sideburn, dotted border.
Revs: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on r., ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ on l., Apollo, slight drapery on r. thigh, seated l. on omphalos, testing arrow and resting l. hand on grounded bow. Control marks in outer left and right fields
25mm, 16.82g
Ref: SC 921.1
Note: Graffiti A inscribed in left field below control.


Anonymous under Maximinus II
305 to 313 AD
Antioch mint
Obvs: GENIO CIVITATIS, Draped veiled and turreted bust right of Tyche of Antioch.
Revs: APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing left holding lyre and patera. B in right field, SMA in ex.
AE 16mm, 2.02g
Ref: Vagi 2956; Van Heesch 4; McAlee 172

 

I assume you know that your Anonymous Apollo is quite a special type. Mine is the ordinary one with the swimmer on the obverse.

 

Nero and his lyre, people went crazy after his hours long recitals:

 

Nice pick up Gary, The only Apollo in my collection is this Sestertius of AP.

 

Yes. Besides the one sold at Roma and the one in the current CNG sale I never seen them offered. I am in the process of researching and tying in all the types such as your nice example. I have been finding some interesting results which I plan to share.

 

Pretty coins, I can hear the tunes!: here is an Apollo very chill resting his elbow on the tripod:
Bronze AE 20, references: RPC I 4056, SNG Levante 1324, SNG PfPS 925, SNG Hunterian 2362; SNG BnF -, SNGvA -, BMC Lycaonia -, Lindgren -; condition: F, green patina, light marks and corrosion, mint: Mopsus (Yakapinar, Turkey), weight: 4.801g, maximum diameter: 19.5mm, die axis: 0o, date struck: time of Claudius, 50 - 51 A.D.; obverse turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right; reverse MOΨEATΩN THΣ IEPAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, Apollo standing left, laurel branch in right hand, resting left elbow on tripod lebes behind, HIP (year 118) upper right; additional comments: from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; rare

Another unusual bronze: Checking his arrow

 

i dig that one Gary!...very kool~!..i want one!.. my only lyre coin to date is of Antiochus ll and i got it out of spite for loosing out on one like @Andres2, along with this SPQR (and i believe yours is a dupondius)Nero

 

Nice coins. By the way, there is a "Nero playing the lyre" in the current CNG auction which closes tomorrow. And concerning this denomination, according to Wildwinds and the seller on Agora Auctions, this is an AS, even though Nero is radiate. The mark of value in the exergue, 1, specifies it as an AS.

 

welp now that's polly correct then and i stand corrected... i have a dupondius that @dougsmit ided for me by having the mark there also..

 

@Gary R. Wilson, I like they lyrist's pose on your coin.

@dougsmit yours may be the "ordinary" issue but it has great eye appeal.

@Andres2, what a grand flourish of Apollo's plucking arm. He must've been quite the showman .

Wow! What a super coin

Yours has "II" in exergue which denotes dupondius.

Here's an Apollo reverse I'm very fond of:


TROAS, Alexandria. Trebonianus Gallus
CE 251-253
AE 21 mm, 4.76 gm
Obv: IMP VIB TREB GALVS AV; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: COL AV / TROA; Apollo, head right and holding kithara, seated facing on griffin springing right, head left
Ref: RPC IX 407; Bellinger A403
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-interesting-depiction-of-apollo.290702/

 

I dared not clean this coin which has Nero as Apollo on obverse, as well as a laurel branch on reverse. RPC 4301.

 

Why don't you want to clean it? Nice coin as is but cleaning might reveal more detail.

 

Shall I start with soaking the coin in distilled water, or rub it with the adequate brush. ?

 

I'd start with distilled water. It might take a long soak. Then, yes I would use a toothbrush and see what happens. If that proves inadequate then I would try olive oil. Either way, I'd be real patient with it.

 

idk...i wouldn't clean it..

 

You don't want to get rid of the dirt on the obverse? I don't think it is encrustation. If he uses distilled water or olive oil, he won't harm the coin.

 

That's a great looking Apollog @Gary R. Wilson ! Looks like he is really getting into a killer lyre solo. Kind of looks like Jimmy Page lighting up that double neck he used to play!






Here is a ugly Thracian provincial of Caracalla, but I like the Apollo reverse.