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VESPASIAN:

RI Vespasian 69-79 CE AR Quinarius VICTORIA AVGVST Victory std L Rare

Next up: Raven

 

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Wallachia Mircea cel Bătrân (grandfather of Vlad "The impaler" Sepis AKA DRACULA),
1386-1418 ss Ducat 1386-1418 Romania

Next up: coin of someone related to someone inherently like @Alegandron ... Ya know, EVIL

 

LOL

 

A coin of someone related to someone inherently like @Alegandron ... Ya know, EVIL

L. Cornelius Sulla Felix, as Dictator, AR Denarius
Italy, 81 BC
Obv: Diademed head of Venus right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace
Rev: Filleted double cornucopiae; Q below
Ref: Crawford 375/2; Sydenham 755; Cornelia
Marius claimed Apollo as his divine patron, Sulla invoked the goddess Venus and this is why she appears on the obverse of this coin.

Here's one from his son too as I think you were looking for a relative:
Faustus was the son of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his fourth wife Caecilia Metella.


Sulla was known as Felix...
Next up: a coin of the Himyarite Kingdom, also called by the Romans Arabia Felix.

 

Himyarite


Arabia Felix, Himyarite Kings, Tha’ Ran Ya’ NB
Ar Unit (Quinarius), 14mm, 1.5g, 5h; Raidan mint, 2nd Century AD.
Obv.: Head right, within circular torque, monogram behind.
Rev.: Head right, scepter before, kings name and mint in South Arabian Script around.
Reference: Munro-Hay 3.25

Next up: Flight / Flying

 

Flying cupids, although I question their aerodynamicity .


Roman Republic
moneyer L. Julius L. f. Caesar, 103 BC
AR denarius, 17mm, 3.9 gm
Obv: Helmeted head of Mars left; CAESAR; ・C (retrograde)
Rev: Venus Genetrix in chariot left, drawn by two Cupids; lyre to left; ・C (retrograde) above
Ref: Crawford 320/1
ex RBW Collection



Next: a biga or quadriga of something other than horses

 

Stater of Sikyon 335-320 B.C. Obv. Chimeara prowling l. Rv Dove flying left within wreath. 12.20 grms 24 mm
Out of order sorry

 

M. Volteius M.f., denarius

Obv:– Laureate, helmeted, and draped bust of Attis right; ladder behind
Rev:– Cybele, wearing turreted crown and veil, in biga of lions right, holding patera, M. VOLTEI. M. F in exergue, control numeral OZ above
Minted in Rome 75 B.C.
Reference:– RSC Volteia 4. RRC 385/4. Sydenham 777.

Weight 4.24g. 18.52mm. 180 degrees



Next:- Lion/Lions

 

Nice one! I love my Cybele in a lion quadriga coin. Here's my favorite lion coin, though, which I purchased from @Ken Dorney :



Greek Ionia, Miletos.
AE Hemiobol, 3.35 g, 18.3 mm, 12 h.
Aeschylinos, magistrate, ca. 200 BC.
Obv: Apollo Didymeus standing right, holding small stag and bow; monogram below.
Rev: Lion seated right with head turned to left, star above, monogram right, ΑIΣXΥΛΙΝΟΥ in exergue.
Refs: Deppert 941-56 var; Marcellesi 56.

Next up: coin acquired from @Ken Dorney

 

Purchased from Ken Dorney:


Pisidia, Termessos Major, Time of Gallienus, 253 - 268 AD
AE 9 Assaria, 29mm, 14.17 grams
Obv.: TEΡMHCCEΩN AVTONOMΩN Θ; aureate head of Zeus right.
Rev.: TΩN MEIZONΩN / Θ in left field; Tyche standing left wearing kalathos and holding rudder and cornucopia.

Next another provincial from Gallienus' reign.

 

Gallienus Ex: Dattari



Next: Probus

 

Part of my Gallienus "jungle":

Gallienus,
Troas, Alexandreia.
AD 253-268. AE (21mm, 5.18g). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gallienus to right / COL AVG TRO, horse grazing to right. Bellinger A451 var

Next up: I was toooo sloooow....

 

Probus
AD276-282.Antioch Antoninianus Æ silvered 20mm., 3,42g. IMP C M AVR PROVBS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / RESTITVT ORBIS, female personification of Orbis Terrarumstanding, facing right, holding wreath, emperor standing, facing left, holding globe and scepter, ЄΔ between, XXI in exergue. very fine RIC 925.

Next up: coin with silvering

 

Florian Aurelianus Lugdunum Rv Felicitas stg RIC 11 4.03 grms Next coin Aurelian

 

Aurelian:


Aurelian AD 270-275.
Roman silvered billon Antoninianus, 3.60 gm, 21.7 mm, 6 h.
Rome mint, officina 9, issue 11, early – September AD 275.
Obv: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: ORIE-N-S AVG, Sol walking r., holding olive branch in r. hand and bow in l. hand, l. foot resting on a captive in oriental dress kneeling on the ground to r., head turned l., r. hand raised; * in left field, XXIR in exergue.
Refs: RIC 64; MER/RIC temp 1834; RCV 11569; Hunter 23; Cohen 159; La Venera 1321-32.

Note: In the exergue, the initial R(oma) follows the mark of the reform XXI. Normally, a Greek officina letter appears before the XXIR on this issue; however, on this coin from the 9th officina, a star in the left field allows the letter Θ (= the Greek numeral for 9) to be circumvented. The letter was considered a bad omen, being the first letter of thanatos, the word for death, and which was used in funerary epigraphy.

Next: a roundabout way officina 9 was indicated so as to avoid using the bad-luck theta.

 

Diocletian
CE 302-303, Antioch
AE follis, 27 mm, 9.57 gm
Obv: IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right
Rev: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, naked but for chlamis covering shoulders and modius on head, holding cornucopia and pouring from a patera; K in left field, Δ/V in right field; ANT in exergue
Ref: RIC VI 56a
A fabulous gift from my no-longer-secret-Santa 2016, @Pishpash

Next: Regnal year 9

 

Please explain how this avoids theta.
Diocletian spelled out L ENNATOV to avoid it on this Alexandria tetradrachm.



Next: show another different way to express 9

 

Hmm, perhaps I've misunderstood but I thought the Δ/V (4 + 5) in right field was an alternative way to indicate officina 9?

 

I have never seen a mixed language one but can not explain the meaning of every letter here. Mine below is officina E but still K-V which I have seen explained with various guesses.

 

The obvious one...

Anonymous Pagan “Persecution” Issue
Time of Maximinus II Daia, 310-313 AD
AE 1/4 Follis, Struck 312 AD, Antioch Mint
Obverse: GENIO AN-TIOCHENI, Tyche seated facing on rock, river-god Orontes swimming below.
Reverse: APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing facing, pouring libation from patera and holding lyre, Є / Δ in field right.
Exergue: SMA
References: McAlee 170i, Vagi 2954
Size: 16mm, 1.11g

Next: a regnal year higher than 20