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VALERIAN
AE27. 13.98g, 27.3mm. PHOENICIA, Tyre, circa AD 253-260. Rouvier 2500. O: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: TVRIORVM, Cadmus standing left, holding patera and spear; at feet to left, cow reclining right; in left field, city gate of Thebes above ΘH/BЄ; murex shell to right.

Next: Thebes

 

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Boeotia, Thebes. Stater. Boeotian shield / Amphora, two ivy leaves on each handle, AP-KA across central field. 12.26g, 20mm. ca. 368-364 BC. BCD Boiotia 537.


Next - amphora

 

Island of Epeiros, Korkyra Æ Bronze (400 B.C. - 338 B.C)
Obverse: K - O. Amphora.
Reverse: Σ – Ω. Grape bunch on vine.
Reference: HGC 6, 89.
4.49g; 17mm.

Next: Coin minted on an island.

 

IBERIA, Islands off, Ebusus (Ibiza)
AE Quarter Unit. 3.33g, 17.3mm. Circa 2nd century BC. ACIP 719; SNG BM Spain 318-21. O: Squatting Kabeiros (Bes) holding club and serpent. R: Bull butting left.
Ex stevex6 Collection

Next: Bull right

 

JULIAN II
Majorina
OBVERSE: D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: SECVRITAS REIPVB• dot, bull right, two stars above, •palm branch-CONSPA-palm branch in ex.
Struck at Constantinople 3 Nov 361 - 26 June 363 A.D
7.95g, 29.48mm
RIC VIII 164

Next: Palm branch in ex.

 

Gallienus


Next: a Roman coin with an animal in exergue

 

Philip II, AD 244-249 (or 247-249).
Roman provincial Æ 28.0 mm, 14.93 g, 12 h.
Syria: Commagene, Zeugma.
Obv: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: ZЄYΓMATЄΩN, tetrastyle temple, before which is a grove; colonnade on right and left; portico in front. Capricorn right in exergue.
Refs: Sear 4142; BMC 40; Butcher 31c; SNC 60-62.

Next: tetrastyle temple

 

Julia Domna / Smyrna

Next: dekastyle temple

 

ANTONINUS PIUS
Scarce. AE Sestertius. 24.09g, 32.3mm. Rome mint, AD 141-143. RIC 622. O: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P [P TR P COS III], laureate head right. R: [ROMAE AETERN]AE, Temple of Venus and Roma: Decastyle temple, decorated with statues on roof and in pediment; S C below.

Next: ROMAE AETERNAE

 

ROMAE AETERNAE


RI Clodius Albinus 193-197 CE AR Denarius ROMAE AETERNAE Roma seated

Next: coin from Corinth

 

CORINTHIA, Corinth
AR Stater. 8.43g, 21.1mm. CORINTHIA, Corinth, circa 400-375 BC. Calciati, Pegasi 297. O: Pegasos with curled wing walking left, qoppa below. R: Helmeted head of Athena right; uncertain statuette behind, dolphin above.

Next: Coin of Athens

 

Tetradrachm of Athens Starr Group 5a Circa 465 B.C. Next Coin Sikyon

 

What's the next theme?

 

Next Coin Sikyon

 

Thanks. Didn't see it. I'm used to seeing it below the photo of the coin.

 

SIKYONIA SIKYON
AR Hemidrachm
OBVERSE: Chimaera standing left, with heads of snake, lion & goat, raising forepaw, ΣΙ below
REVERSE: Dove flying left
Struck at Skyon, Fourth Century BC
2.6g, 17mm
SNGCop 57, BMC 111
Ex Doug Smith

Next: AR Hemidrachm

 

Thessaly, Larissa. Ca. 356-342 B.C.
AR hemidrachm. Ex BCD, Ex C.C., May 1993.
(15.58 mm, 2.32 g, 10 h).
Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left
ΛAPIΣ-AIΩN, Horse standing right, preparing to roll.
BCD Thessaly II 333; SNG Copenhagen 132. VF.
Ex BCD,
Ex C.C., May 1993.

Next up: Another coin depicting a wild horse....ie, a horse not being ridden.

 

Maroneia, Thrace
AE 14
Obv: Horse prancing right, PNK monogram below
Rev: MAΡ-ΩNI-TΩN around linear square containing vine, VE-monogram below
Mint: Maroneia
Date: 400-350 BC
Ref: BMC 66



Next theme: clipped siliqua/solidus

 

To revive the thread, I will choose a similar theme as the last coin, a Thracian coin:


Alexander III the Great AR Tetradrachm. Mesembria mint. Struck 125-65 BC. (33mm; 16.10g)
Obverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress.
Reverse: ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY / ΔIO / MEΣAM. Zeus seated left with eagle and sceptre.
Reference: Price 1128

Next: Alexander imitation coinage

 

Here's another version of Alexander. His coins were really a dime a dozen back 2,300+ years ago as 2/3 of the known world struck his coins.

My new one:



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