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ANTONINUS PIUS AS
ANTONINUS AVG PI-VS PPTRP COS III
IMPERA-TOR II SC
Rome RIC 728

Bought this coin, tried to attribuate it with the help of Wildwind, and finally found out it was THE coin example on Wildwind !!

 

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Maybe...post a Wildwinds plate coin?

 

Oups! Sorry. I didn’t see your reply @Sallent while I was posting. So let's go with your idea :
Up next: a coin that still has some original hoard patina

 

Tang Dynasty, Imperial China
AE 1 Cash coin
Obv: 開 元 通 寶 , Kai Yuan Tong Bao ("The Currency of the K'ai-yuan Period" or "The Inaugural Currency") , top-beneath-right-left of central square hole
Rev: Central square hole
Mint: (unknown)
Date: 718-732 AD ("middle period")
Ref: Hartill 14.3
Size: 24 mm wide, 3.30 gr



Next theme: coin with more than one hole.

 

PAVLLVS LEPIDVS CONCORDIA

Veiled and diad. head of Concordia right

Rev. Togate figure of L. Aemilius Paullus standing left touching trophy to left of which stand King Perseus of Macedon and his two sons as captives
TER above, PAVLLVS in ex.

Rome 62 BC

Sear 366

3.80g

Holed in antiquity

This moneyer was the elder brother of the triumvir M. Aemillius Lepidus

Next a coin provenanced to a collection before the 1920's

 

This coin was part of the Bement Collection, formed primarily from 1870-1910. Bement died on January 27, 1923. The Roman portion of his collection was sold by Naville & Cie (Ars Classica) VIII, 1924.







Next: Fecunditas

 

Julia Domna
AR denarius, 19.5mm, 3.17 gm, 6h. Rome mint
Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 207-211
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA; draped bust right
Rev: Fecunditas or Tellus (Earth) reclining left under tree, resting arm on basket of fruit and placing hand on celestial orb; standing before her are four children representing the Four Seasons
Ref: RIC IV 549 (Septimius Severus); RSC 35

Next: Emesa stone

 

What an interesting reverse! Love it TIF!

 

Denarius of Elagabalus Antioch rv. Chariot carrying sacred stone. RIC 195 Next coin antoninianus from Antioch

 

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. 3.29g, 20.5mm. Antioch mint, circa early – mid AD 270. New RIC Online Temp #1053; RIC 221; Cohen 273. O: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate head right. R: SOL AVG, Sol with whip and upraised arm standing left.

Next: Leftie portrait of another 3rd century barracks emperor.

 

Ant from Ant


RI MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS 286-305 CE antoninianus Antioch 292-295 CE Pre-Reform CONCORDIA MILITVM Jupiter RIC V 621 H-officina 8

Next up: Quadrunx

NOPE! @zumbly beat me by seconds from the other side of the world! (Cool!)

Next up: Zumbly’s

 

. I'm going to bed now, please carry on...

 

Constantius I 293-305 A.D. Ae Follis Lugdunum RIC 147 Bust left with club and lions skin Next coin Lugdunum

 

next: triumphal arch

 

Alright Septimius Severus Denarius Rv. Arch of Severus RIC 259 206 A.D.
Next coin denarius of Septimius Severus

 

Septimius Severus
Rome, CE 206
AR denarius, 3.41 gm, 20 mm, 12h
Obv: SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right
Rev: LAETITIA TEMPORVM, the spina of the Circus Maximus decorated as a ship facing left, with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina's other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing left; below, seven animals: an ostrich at left and a bear at right; between them a lion and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a panther attacking a bison
Ref: RIC 274; BMC 343.
ex Colosseo Collection

Next: Circus Maximus

 

Circus Maximus...


ANTONINVS PIVS AVG
Laureate head of Caracalla right

LAETITIA TEMPORVM
The spina of the Circus Maximus decorated as a ship facing l., with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina's other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing l.; below, seven animals: an ostrich at l. and bear at r.; between them a lion and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a panther attacking a bison.

Rome 206 AD

3.34g

Ex-Londinium coins, Ex Professor K.D. White with original envelope.

Sear 6813, RIC 157, BMCRE 257, CSS 793

Very rare! Only 2 examples in the Reka Devnia hoard

Next up overstuck 1st Jewish war coin

 

Not my coin:

AE prutah, "Year two," amphora with broad rim and two handles / grape leaf on branch with tendril; overstruck on a Seleukid bronze of Antiochos IV.

Next: a ragged flan
(note that the above coin was also serrate in the first place)

 

Here's my raggedy flan and Andy:


Gallienus
253-268 CE AE-Antoninianus(3.13g), Roma 267-268 AD Av.: GALLIENVS AVG, Head with Radiation Crown No.r.: NEPTVNO CONS AVG/N (in the Section), Hippocampus No.r.--. RIC 245, C 667, MIR 743b.

Next up: mythical creature