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This was my first roman denarius acquisition - a rather young looking Trajan..


NEXT: Another Adoptive Emperor with a Mars reverse...

 

This one fits the theme if by "another" you mean "another of the same type"!



Trajan, AD 98-117
Roman AR denarius; 2.95 gm, 20 mm
Rome, AD 114-117
Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC, laureate and draped bust, right
Rev: P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Mars walking right with spear and trophy
Refs: RIC 337; BMCRE 536-40; Cohen 270; RCV --; Woytek 520v; Strack 230; BN 819.

Next: Another Trajan denarius

 

next: another one

 

Trajan Denarius


RI Trajan AR Denarius 98-117 Riding Horse

Next: Trajan Drachm

 

@Ryro, Is that a "faked" test cut on obverse of your fouree? I think I see silver in it making me think it was part of the design to fool merchants...

 

TRAJAN
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: AYT KAIC NEΡ TΡAIANO CEB ΓEΡM, laureate head right
REVERSE: ΔHMAΡX EΞ UΠAT Γ, Arabia standing left holding branch and cinnamon sticks, camel to left at feet.
Struck at Caesaria, Cappadocia, or Bostra, Arabia, 100 AD
3.45g 18mm
Sydenham183
ex Ken Dorney

Next: Camel

 

Wouldn’t that be wild?!! I see where you are talking about. I don’t know for sure.
That darn bd that you can see in the picture came back again. You just don't think about it affecting fourees but I've a couple sadly.

 

Kujula Kadphises, Kushan, dichalkon, bull/camel


Next: a coin of the successor to Kujula Kadphises

 

The purple glow is interesting on Kujula Kadphises?
India, Kushan, Vima Taktu (Soter Megas), Circa 80-90 AD, Æ Tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed bust right, holding sceptre; Tamgha of Soter Megas behind
Rev: King on horseback right; Tamgha of Soter Megas before
Ref: MACW 2928
Notes: The Kushan Empire was founded by Kujulu Kadphises, of @dougsmit's coin, his son was Vima Taktu. The Rabatak inscription written in both Greek and Bactrian language was found in Afghanistan in 1993 and changed Kushan history by providing evidence to verify the 'Soter Megas' as Vima Takto. The first translation was published in 1996 by Nicholas Sims-Williams. Partial inscription below:

"And he gave orders to make images of the same, (namely) of these gods who are inscribed hereupon, and he gave orders to make (images of) these kings: King Kujula Kadphises (his) great grandfather and King Vima Taktu (his) grandfather and King Vima Kadphises (his) father, and himself, King Kanishka. Then, as the king of kings, the son of the gods Kanishka had given orders to do, so Shafar the lord of the marches made this sanctuary, and Pyash the lord of the marches, and Shafar the lord of the marches, and Nukunzuk the ašto-wa[lgo carried out] the king’s command. May these gods who are inscribed here [keep] the [king] of kings, Kanishka the Kushan, for ever healthy, fortunate (and) victorious!"
- Nicholas Sims-Williams 2012​

Next: a coin with two languages

 

Two languages... Greek and Punic...



Carthage-LIBYAN UPRISING - Mercenaries issue
Mercenary War 241-238 BCE
7.36g AR DiShekel
Herakles Head in Lion's Head-
Lion walking; Punic M above; LIBYA below
R SNG Cop 240f

Coins were struck in the name of Libya and "M", which has been taken as either "machanat" - the Camp (of the mercenaries), or perhaps Matho, their leader

Next: another 2 languages

 

Latin and Greek



Juba II and Cleopatra Selene
REX IVBA
Diademed head right

BACIΛICCA KΛEOΠATPA
Star and crescent.

Caesarea; 25 B.C.-23 A.D
17 mm, 2.62 gm

MAA 85; SNG Copenhagen 590; Mazard 300.
VF, toned
Scarce

Next: Another dual language

 

Baktrian-Greek


Baktria Apollodotos I 180-160 BCE Square AR Drachm 20mm 2.4g Elephant Zebu SNG ANS 324-327
Ex: @Sallent

Next: more dual languages

 

Hermaios and Calliope, 90-70 BC.
Indo-Greek AR drachm, 16.2 mm, 1.80 gm.
Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗΣ, jugate busts, right.
Rev: Kharoshthi legend: maharajasa tratarasa heramayasa / kaliyapaya, king on prancing horse, right; monogram below.
Refs: BMC 66, 1-2; Forrer 53; SNG ANS 1319-25; Mitch 2003-2004; MIG 408b; Bopearachchi 2B.

Next up: Prancing horse.

 

AEOLIS, KYME
AE 18
OBVERSE: Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia
REVERSE: Horse advancing right; KY above, jug below raised leg; ΠΥΘΙΩΝ (Phytas(?) in ex. Magistrate
Struck at Aeolis, 250-200BC
7.39g, 18mm
SNG Cop 101

Next: Another from Kyme

 

Aiolis, Kyme
Tetradrachm
ca. 165-140 BC
Euktemon, magistrate
Obv.: Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing tainia
Rev.: Horse prancing right, one-handled cup below, KYMAIΩN to right, EYKTHMΩN in exergue; all within laurel wreath.
AR, 16.24g, 31mm, 1h.
Ref.: SNG Copenhagen -, BMC 77

Next: another Amazon

 

She's been fighting...look at that cheek scar. The sequence of Oakley is wrong but I have not seen the corrected chronology of Kinns, Mattingly etc. For an overview of the stenaphaphores see Andrew Meadows's The Great Transformation available on academia.edu

 

Next theme???

 

Theme: A king of Bithynia.
This one is dated 88/7 so is Nicomedes lV whilst he had be supplanted by Socrates Christo a friend of...Mithradates Vl and was in Rome pleading for his country back. Obviously there must have been a unconquered loyal city for this coin to be minted in. He was the "friend" referred to by the critics of Julius Caesar when he stayed a little too long in his company.
All these coins have the titles of Nicomedes ll and portrait, some are a bit weird like this!
Anyway when he died he did a mad Attalus and "gave" his country to Rome, precipitating the 3rd and final Mithradatic war.

 

But what is next theme? So we can play too