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Here's a runner - Cr. 396/1a denarius.



Next - Another Athlete

 

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Pamphylia. Aspendos


370-330 BCE Stater AR22mm., 10,17g.Two wrestlers grappling; AΦ between / EΣTFEΔIIVΣ, slinger to right, triskeles in right field.very fineSNG France 83

Next up: Greek boxing

 

IONIA, Smyrna
AE Dichalkon. 4.11g, 13mm. IONIA, Smyrna, circa 170-145 BC. Pytheos, magistrate. CNG E-Auction 379 (2016), 142; Milne, Autonomous, Period 9, type L var. (unlisted magistrate). O: Laureate head of Apollo to right. R: [ΣMYPNAIΩN] – ΠYΘEOΣ, Boxer's hands in himantes between two palm branches.

Next: Continuing the sports theme - acrobatics on animals

 

Continuing the sports theme - acrobatics on animals

Apparently the Thessalians adopted some practices from Minoan Crete that eventually gave rise to modern day bull fighting. This included acrobatic feats such as approaching the bull from the front, grabing the horns, and somersaulting backwards. Not sure what Thessalos is going to do next on this coin, but it looks pretty acrobatic to me:

Thessaly, Larissa, circa 450-420 BC, AR Drachm
Obv: The hero Thessalos, naked but for chlamys over his shoulders, petasos on the back of his head, pulling with both hands a band around the forehead of a bull trying to leap right
Rev: ΛΑΡ-IΣAIA, horse prancing right within incuse square

Next up: a coin celebrating the building of the great drain of Rome

 

Next, the other obverse with this reverse

 

Description
L. Mussidius Longus AR Denarius, 42 BC, Rome
Obv: CONCORDIA behind, diademed, veiled and draped bust of Concordia right; in lower right field, star.
Rev: L MVSSIDIVS LONGVS, platform inscribed CLOACIN upon which two statues of Venus Cloacina
Ref: Crawford 494/42b; Sydenham 1093a; Mussidia 6

Next: an AE that is at least 10g

 

Aes premonetale. Aes formatum,
6th-4th century BC. AE. g. 64.72 mm. 40.00. Former Artemide Kunstauktionen

Next coin: non Roman proto currency

 

Next: A coin with a fish that's not a dolphin.

 

Electrum stater of Kyzicus Obv Winged dog stg on Tunny fish Weber 1568 500-450 B.C. Next Coin Mysia View attachment 937581

 

Gorgoneion

ΠA PI
Bull standing left, head turned to look back; kerykeion below

Mysia, Parion
350-300 BC

SNG BN -. Symbol not recorded in the standard reference.


2.20g

Next Oscan lettering

 

OSCAN


Campania CAPUA AE 14-5mm 216-211 Hera Oscan Grain ear Hannibal capital Italia SNG Fr 517 SNG ANS 219 HN Italy 500 EE Clain Stefanelli



Campania Capua 216-214 BC Æ Uncia 20.5mm 6.1g Laur hd Jupiter r star value l Victory trophy star value r Monete 21 HN Italy 493



Campania CAPUA AE Semuncia 216-211 BCE Juno Xoanon Hannibal capital Italia SCARCE

Next up: MAGNA GRAECIA

 

Stater of Metapontion 290 B.C. Obv Head of Herakles Next coin Herakles

 

Yay! One I can do! Herakles on a provincial of Caracalla:


Caracalla, AD 198-217.
Roman provincial Æ 28.3 mm, 13.70 g, 8 h.
Thrace, Serdica, AD 198-217.
Obv: AVT K M AVP CEVH ANTΩNEINOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust, right, seen from behind.
Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC CΕPΔΙΚΗC, Hercules standing right, forearm draped with lion skin, holding club set on ground and bow.
Refs: Ruzicka Serdica 266; Moushmov Serdica 397; Moushmov 4912; Varbanov 2355; cf. BMC 3.173,15.

Next: Big provincial of Caracalla.

 

Caracalla. Dium. Reverse : Altar within Temple. Next : Big Hadrian Provincial

 

Here's a Caracalla from Antioch, Pisidia - BMC 46. At 27.19g and 33mm, I hope it's big enough



Never mind - looks like I've been beaten to the draw by 7calbrey.

Next is "Big Hadrian Provincial"

 

Rome under Theodoric, Ostrogothic Kingdom
AE follis
Obv: IMVIC-TA ROMA, Roma helmeted, facing right
Rev: She-wolf standing left, suckling Romulus and Remus, XL (40) above, dot V dot in ex
Mint: Rome (struck 498-526 AD)
Ref: BMC 24



Next theme: Roma on obverse that isn’t a city commemorative

 

Hadrian. Drachm of EGYPT, Alexandria. 35mm, 22.36grams.

Roman Republic. Flaminius Chilo denarius. Uniface error strike.


Next: Mint error on a Roman Provincial

 

Here's a brockage of a Faustina II provincial:


Faustina Jr. AD 147-175
Uncertain provincial mint.
7.93 gm; 23.9 mm
Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust, r.
Rev: Brockage of obverse.

Unfortunately, it is darkly patinated and has rough surfaces, so it was a bear to photograph.

Next: ancient or medieval brockage!

 

1981A MANUEL AE HALF TETARTERON S-1981 DOC 24 CLBC 4.4.12 BROCKAGE
OBV Bust of Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scrolls in l. hand. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.
REV Full length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing uncertain dress (stemma, short military tunic, breastplate and sagion?) holds in r. hand scepter cruciger and in l. Globus cruciger.
Size 17.37 mm Weight 1.9 gm


Next Coin with the Sun or planets in it.

 

ISLAMIC, Seljuks. Rum. Ghiyath al-Din Kay Khusraw II bin Kay Qubadh.
AR Dirham. 2.98g, 23mm. Qunya (Konya) mint, Dated AH 639 (AD 1241/2). Broome 166; Izmirlier 403; Album 1218. O: “Name of the Caliph”, Lion walking to right; above, radiant sun with human face; to left and below lion, star. R: “Titles of Kay Khusraw, mint and date”, inscription in central square and around.

Next: Turkoman figural bronze