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This barbarous coin imitates the Fallen Horseman series.

 

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Next : Roman coin with Hut. FTR.

 

@randygeki

 

I could barely pick up this hut-coin from my old folders. It was struck at Alexandria.

 

Next : FTR on a Julian II coin.

 

Julian II . D N IVLIA-NVS NOB C, draped and cuirassed bust right / FEL TEMP-REPARATIO, soldier spearing fallen horseman who is wearing a Phrygian helmet, reaching backwards, M in left field, mintmark Delta SISL.
Siscia
RIC VIII 382




Next: Phrygian helmet

 

JULIAN II
AE3
OBVERSE: FL C L IVLIANVS NOB C, bare-headed, draped & cuirassed bust right, M behind bust
REVERSE: FEL TEMP REPARATIO, soldier spearing fallen horseman wearing pointed cap & reaching backwards, MSLG in ex.
Struck at Lyons 360-3AD
2.3g, 16mm
RIC 200

Next: Coin from Lyons (Lugdunum)

 

Look at the mintmark again.

 

Both

Next: A coin with special interest for two unrelated reasons.

 

1. Horned portrait for an issue noted as having reverted to hornless
2. Die clash produced mirror image of bust on reverse


ELAGABALUS
AR Denarius. 3.02g, 20.8mm. Rome mint, 1 Jan - 11 Mar AD 222. RIC 52 var. (laureate, draped bust, hornless). O: IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right wearing "horn". R: P M TR P V COS IIII P P, Elagabalus, in Syrian priestly robes, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted altar, and holding club in left hand; star in left field.

Next: Coin of one of Elagabalus’s wives (bonus points for an Annia Faustina)

 

Aquilia Severa, dichalkon of Tyre, rev: Victory walking left holding palm and placing wreath on palm tree; murex shell between.

Next: a shell

 

Shell:

Sicily, Syracuse Æ Hemilitron – Reign of Tyrant Dionysius I (Ca. 405-367 B.C.)
Obverse: Head of Arethusa left with elaborate hair bound in ampyx and sphendone, behind head two olive leaves.
Reverse: Σ Y - P A in middle, dolphin swimming or jumping right, clam shell below in middle field

Next: Dolphin

 

Taras Nomos 465-455 B.C. Next stop Nomos

 

BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia
AR Stater (or “Nomos”). 7.97g, 21.8mm. BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia, circa 475-425 BC. SNG ANS 180; Noe, Caulonia 93; HN Italy 2046. O: KAVΛ, Apollo, naked, advancing right, holding a branch in uplifted right hand; small daimon running left on Apollo's outstretched left arm; stag standing right, head turned back. R: KAVΛ (retrograde), Stag standing right; laurel branch to right.

Next: Bruttium

 

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion


Circa 415/0-387 BCE. Æ 11mm (1.76 gm). Lion's head facing / PHΓIN[...], laureate head of Apollo right. Cf. SNG ANS 702; HN Italy 2524. Good VF, dark green patina.

Next erp: Dark Green Patina

 

Divvs Avgvstvs


Next: Swan?

 

There is a small swan on the obverse, under Nike!
(Kamarina Obol - SG757, SNG ANS 1212)



Next - standing Athena.

 

Athena standing:


Gordian and Tranquillina AD 238-244
Roman provincial Æ pentassarion; 26 mm., 11.98 g
Thrace, Odessos, AD 241-244
Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC AVΓ TPANKVΛ-ΛЄΙΝ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III right, vis-a-vis diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina left
Rev: ΟΔΗCCЄΙΤΩΝ, Athena wearing crested helmet, standing facing, head left, holding shield and grounded spear, E to left
Refs: Varbanov 4555; AMNG 2382; Moushmov 1684; Lindgren III 814; SNG Cop 685; Mionnet Suppl II 951. 11.94.

Next up: Confronted busts.

 

Kings of the Bosphorus
Marcus Aurelius/ Lucius Verus
Eupator
Next theme: Kings of the Bosphorus

 

Thothorses year 593 (296-297 AD) with Diocletian


Next: Another foreign ruler who placed his portrait and the Roman emperor on his coins.