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I'm not sure if a centaur anthropomorphic, but....

M. AURELIUS COTTA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Roma, COTA below, X behind
REVERSE: Hercules holding club in biga of centaurs holding branches. M.AVRELI below, ROMA in ex
Struck at Rome 139 BC
4.29g, 16mm
Aurelia 16, BMC.914, Craw.229/1
ex. Pliego Numismatics

Next: Any coin where someone/something is holding branches in hand

 

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MOESIA INFERIOR. Nikopolis ad Istrum
Elagabalus , CE 218-222
AE 26 mm, 11.1 gm
Obv: AYT K M AYP ANTΩNEINOC. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: VΠ NOBIOV POVΦOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠPOC ICTPON. River-god reclining right, holding branch; prow at side
Ref: Varbanov 4055
ex Falter Collection, Nature Gods

Next: a river god

 

IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI CENS POT PP
Laureate head of Domitian right

SC
Domitian standing left holding spear and parazonium, right foot on a reclining figure of Rhenus (The Rhine)

Rome 85 AD

25.47g

RIC 356 (C)

From the Enrico collection
This is the Wildwinds example
Listed as common it doesn't come on the market that often.

Next a Cistophoric tetradrachm minted in Rome for the East

 

Nobody?

 

Not in my collection sorry to say.

 

Alright, here we go...


IMP CAES DOMITIANVS
Laureate head of Domitian right

AVG GERM
Six ears of corn; P in exergue

Possibly minted in Rome for circulation in Asia

circa 95 AD

10.17g

RPC 874/1, RIC 853 (R)

RPC lists 9 examples but only one with the P in exergue

Ex-Pars Coins
Ex-Calgary Coins

Wildwinds example

I'll be a bit cheeky, next up a genuine coin someone said was too good to be real

 

To be clear: the suspicion was not voiced by a person who knows anything!



next: a visible bellybutton

 

I think this is an innie.
next up, a baby.

 

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I'm not even sure if I still have this coin or if I gave it away. I still have a few coins sitting in a drawer that need to be processed, so I'm assuming I still have this one...maybe!

Up next: off centered coin

 

Off-center enough for you?



Next up: Pax standing.

 

HELENA
AE4. 1.48g, 15mm, Constantinople mint, AD 337-340. RIC VIII Constantinople 35 (S). O: FL IVL HELE-NAE AVG, diademed and mantled bust right, wearing necklace. R: PAX PV-BLICA •, Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse sceptre; CONSЄ in exergue.

Next: One for crazy cat lady St Helena, a coin with a cat

 

Unconventional Beasts used in Transportation

Stags (Reindeer - Christmas in summer!)

RR Allius Bala 92 BCE AR Den Diana Biga Stags Sear 221 Craw336-1 scarce

Next up: War Beasts (NOT Elephants)

 

I once read a proposal identifying the animal attacking the man with a spear as a large breed dog of war rather than the traditional ID of lion attacking a gladiator. I never saw any authoritative follow up on the matter which was proposed mainly to remove this coin from the list of types showing a gladiator. I am not a Republican specialist and do not know the current best guesses in that crowd.

Failing that, the coin shows horses which really were the only animals of war worth mentioning.


Next: A coin which has controversy in ID

 

Alexander III Tetradrachm Amphipolis Price 78 Troxell E 2 17.200 grms 24 mm diameter. Price had this coin dated from 336 -323 B.C Troxell circa 329-325 B.C. and now Le Rider believes the group to be posthumous.
Next coin Civic tetradrachm of Alexander type

 

Alexander III the Great AR Tetradrachm. Mesembria mint. Struck circa 100-72/1 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: Thracian coin (not Roman provincial)

 

Thasos, Thrace
AR trihemiobol
Obv: Satyr kneeling left, holding kantharos
Rev: ΘAΣ-IΩN, volute-krater
Mint: Thasos
Date:411-350 BC
Size: 0.82 gr
Ref: SG1755v



Next theme: Thasos

 

THRACE:

Thrace Thasos 146-50 BCE AR Tet Dionysos Herakles Club Lion skin

Next up: Spain