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AV Mohur AH 1038/2= 1628
Surat Mint
Shah Jahan I 1627-58 / Mughal Empire
Akola Hoard 1974 / these coins where sent to pay troops fighting enemy near Golkonda. Story goes, a sudden monsoon storm flooded out the roads, and the shipment was lost in the choas.
Next theme: another one of your hoard coins...

 

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Sri Lanka, excavated in Anuradhapura
Anonymous, 1st C. BCE
PB 1/8 Lakshmi
1.1g, 14.1mm x 7.8mm
RARE
OBV: Hindu Goddess Lakshmi facing. She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. She was a beauty and the wife of Vishnu
REV: (blank)

Next: Go for it! Another Hoard

 

AV Stater ND struck 44-42BC
Kotison (Koson) Sc ythian King?
Brutus/ Lictors
Roman Eagle
Olbia Mint
From Romanian Hoard / most now in private collections
Next: more hoard coins

 

Nero Av Aureus 66-67 A.D. Rv. Juppiter enthroned left holding staff. RIC 63 7.33 grms 22 mm Boscoreale Hoard Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Nero

 

Nero from the bargain bin.


NERO
Alexandria, Egypt
Billon Tetradrachm
A.D. 62-65
Obv: Nero right
Rev: Personification of Alexandia right.
Sear Greek Imperial Coins #633.

Next, another personification of a place.

 

Place personified


RI Hanniballianus Rex Regum of Pontos 335-337 CE BI reduced centenionalis 337 17mm Euphrates reclining

Next: another Hanniballianus

 

Hannibalianus
335-337BCE. Follis (Bronze, 15mm, 1.19 g 6), Constantinople, 336-337. FL HANNIBALLIANO REGI Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Hannibalianus to right. Rev. SECVRITAS PVBLICA / CONSS Euphrates reclining right, leaning on scepter; urn at side and reed in background. RIC 147. Sharply struck and with a most attractive dark patina. Appears to have filled hole, otherwise , good very fine.



another holed coin that someone filled in

 

Augustus / comet - The nail that made the hole filled it and has remained in the hole.

Next: A coin that has been used in jewelry

 

Got this one on Etsy from an art dealer. Was in a pendant, freed up and sold. Severus II, Siscia





Not sure why, but there it is. Next: another ex-pendant coin.

 

Here is a Severus Alexander that I let free.


Next up A coin of the short time ruled Florian.

 

I always think of mma fighter Kenny Florian...

next up: coins with ruler name that sounds like someone that is a current personality or celebrity

 

12 hour rule. I am going to say Commodus because he was a star in Gladiator. OK, not that current. He was the emperor strangled by a wrestler. Next, a wrestler or wrestlers.

 

Selge AR stater


Next: An athlete performing in a sport not currently popular among modern athletes

 

Jousting
AV Ducato ND
Milano Mint
Filippo Maria Visconti Duke of Milan 1416-53
These nobles would have competed in jousting tournaments.
Next theme: coin that depicts an "axe"

 

Ax / Labrys Double Ax

LABRYS


Troas Tenedos late 5th-early 4th C BCE AR Obol 8mm 0.60g Janiform hd female-male - Labrys within incuse square SNG Ash 1235 HGC 6 387

next: more axes

 

NERO
AE
OBVERSE: NERWN KLAYDIOS KAISAR GER, draped bust right
REVERSE: QYAT-EIRH/NW-N, labrys (double axe)
Struck at Thyateira, Lydia, 55AD
2.97g, 17mm
RPC 2381; SNG von Aulock 3216; BMC 58; SNG Copenhagen 595;
SNG Munich 612; Weber 6931; Mionnet VII 596; Lindgren I 834

Next: Axe

 

Well, a poleaxe/ good for long range head trauma
AV Dukat 1531 K-B Kremnitz Mint/ Kingdom of Hungary
Ferdinand I of Habsburg
Next: Club

 

Trajan as / club with lionskin

Next: a club that does not have a lionskin in the image

 

Lydia, Sardes, Circa 133 BC-AD 14, AE15
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo to right
Rev: ΣAPΔIANΩN Club; all within laurel wreath; to right, monogram

Next: another coin from western Anatolia

 

Satraps of Karia
Halikarnassus Mint
AV 1/8 Daric ND
Pixadorus 341-338BC
Next up: Western Anatolian coin