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I guess this sad excuse for a Siliqua fits your bill.
Obv- D N VALENS P F AVG
Rev- VRBS ROMA / TRPS
Next, post a coin that looks like it has been run over by a bulldozer, yet you're happy to have it !

 

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Bulldozer


RI Flavius Victor: Roman Emperor: 384-388 A.D.
Bronze AE4 (14mm,1.83 grams) Aquileia: 384-388 A.D.
Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Camp gate with two turrets; star above.
Reference: SMAQS. RIC IX 55b.2; LRBC 1104

Next: Provincial from Roman Republic

 

@zumbly, gotta like the picture sequence. ...Used to correspond with a British collector --an Absolute Maven in English hammered-- effectively until I'd bought him out of his culls, after which it seemed best to leave him alone. I'll never forget his utter, total bemusement at the whole concept of slabs. Always struck me along the lines of going to a tavern where you didn't like the music. ...So why pay for the overhead?
Oh, yeah, the coin is cool, too. It's very interesting to see the Egyptian religious motifs being perpetuated, and morphing, past the Ptolemaic era.

 

Don't mind if I do as this fella had his own thread and just arrived this week:
My pic

Zeus pic

Cilicia, Soli-Pompeiopolis. Pompey the Great. 1st century B.C. Æ (19 mm, 7.20 g, 12 h). Bare head of Pompey right / [ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟ]ΠΟΛЄΤΩΝ, Nike advancing right, holding wreath and palm; in right field, ΔΙ monogram. Cf. SNG BN 1213-7 (control); cf. SNG Levante 880-2 (same). Dark patina. Very fine.

Next up: a coin type you didn't know existed... but you bought as soon as you did!

 

It's the only time I've had the pleasure of taking a hammer to a slab. I have to wonder about all the ancients that have been slabbed and then cracked out of their coffins... how many will eventually be sold off and possibly re-slabbed by their new owners? All that unnecessary plastic...

Until @chrsmat71 posted his, I didn't know this type existed, and I then promptly went and bought one.


PISIDIA, Etenna
AE18. 2.78g, 17.6mm. SNG Cop 146. O: Naked nymph standing to front, legs crossed, entwined by serpent; at her feet to left, a vase. R: E-T, sickle-shaped knife.

Next: Something snakey

 

The ancient version of "Snakes On a Plane"...



I know the obverse leaves a lot to be desired but I do like that the bust of Domitian looks a lot like George Washington ( to me anyway)..



NEXT: a ancient bust that reminds you of a more modern personage...

 

This particular bust of Trajan always reminds me of Putin!
IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P
S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI (Genie)-114 AD
Next, continue the theme.

 

Antoninus Pius's bare-headed imperial portraits have always reminded me of Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont in GoT.




Next: Bareheaded imperial portrait of an Augustus (not a Caesar)

 

Hadrian Denarius
Obv:- HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, Bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the rear
Rev:- COS III, Mars walking right holding spear and trophy
Eastern Mint.
Reference:- RIC -. BMCRE -.



Next:- Another Hadrian

 

Hadrian:


Hadrian, AD 117-138.
Roman Æ dupondius, 13.78 g, , 26.1 mm, 7 h.
Rome, ca. AD 119-124.
Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG P M TR P COS III, radiate and draped bust, right.
Rev: PIETAS AVGVSTI, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing facing right before a lighted altar, raising her right hand and holding a box of incense in her left.
Refs: RIC 601c; BMCRE 1233-34; Cohen 1044; Strack 542; RCV 3665; Hill 257.

Next: lighted altar.

 

Lol I just read that as a coin of Bare-headed Augustus when he was no longer a Caesar

 

Gadhaiya Paisa, Paramara (950-1050 AD) with a stylised fire altar.
Next, post a coin from the 10th century!

 

Next: Jesus Christ

 

A little bitty Jesus


BYZANTINE EMPIRE, Constantine VII Porphrogenitus
AV Solidus, clipped and ex-jewelry. 1.22g, 9.6mm. Constantinople mint, AD 945-959. Sear 1751; DOC 15. O: [+IhS XPS RЄX RЄGNANƮIUM], bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in left hand. R: [CONSƮANƮ CЄ ROMAN AVGG], facing busts of of Constantine VII, with short beard and wearing loros on left, and Romanus II, beardless and wearing chlamys on right, both crowned and holding between them long patriarchal cross.

Next: Clipped coin

 

Republic of Venice
c. 1275-1325 CE
AR Grosso clipped to weight of a denaro | 1.07 grams
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Next: A coin you bought without knowing anything about the series or issuer

 

Athens New Style Tetradrachm 109/8 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos in tri-form helmet
30mm 16.64gm Thompson issue 56
Thompson catalogue: Obs 724 : Rev ? (altered)
Rev : AΘE ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which month mark Δ/Γ control ΠΕ below
3 magistrates : DAMON SOSIKRATES KRITON
RF symbol : Quiver & Bow
All within a surrounding olive wreath


Saw this loved it and bought it.

Athens New Style Tetradrachm 135/4 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
16.63g 29.2mm Thompson issue 30
Thompson catalogue: Obs 354 : Rev NEW
Rev : AΘE ethnic
Owl standing on overturned Panathenaic amphora on
which month mark Ν control ΗΡ below
3 magistrates : MENED EPIGENO ARISTE
LF symbol : Asklepios clutching stick with snake entwined
All within a surrounding olive wreath


Bought this one next, but noted that dates for other examples were different. I asked for help and then CNG's Colin Bostock introduced me to Thompson NSSCA.

Athens New Style Tetradrachm 149/8 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
34mm 16.64g Thompson issue 16
Thompson catalogue: Obs 109 : Rev (not in plates)/ NEW?
Rev : AΘE ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which 2 control letters Ε ? : RF month mark Ι
ΠOΛΥ , TI - MPΔ monogram
2 magistrates : ΠΟΛΥ TIMARCHIDES
Symbol : Palm Leaf (oblique behind owl)
All within a surrounding olive wreath



Sometime later I bought this and research then kicked in about the dating controversies,then the Rome-Pontic arguments and then I was hooked...some 55 coins more.......
I love the research, just parroting others is not good enough, and with the NewStyles I am lucky. Also the interesting hoards started appearing and I was lucky to almost complete my interests in the early coinage quite easily.
Now I have almost done the same with the Rome-Pontic era and some post-Sullan examples.

 

What is the next theme?

 

Flower?

Elpis Holding Flower and Hitching Skirt...

Marcus Aurelius as Caesar:

Type: AE Drachm, 33mm, 22.95 grams of Alexandria

Obverse: Bare headed and draped bust of Aurelius right
M AVPHLIOC KAICAP

Reverse: Elpis Standing left holding flower and hitching skirt
LEND EKATOV

Reference: BMC 1238 listed as "rare" by R.A. Numismatics



Another flower

 

Islands off Caria. Rhodos, Rhodes. Circa 305-275 BC. AR Didrachm (18mm, 6.61g, 1h). Obv: Head of Helios facing slightly right. Rev: ΡΟΔΙOΝ above; Rose with bud to right; grape bunch on tendril to left; E-Y flanking stem. Ref: Ashton 158; Hoover HGC 6, 1435.

A Rose, of course! Next, a Horse.

 

That's a mighty attractive didrachm, @Edessa ! I love the toning.

Here is a horse:

Kings of Numidia, Massinissas or Micipsa, ca. 203–118 BC, AE31. Obv: head of king (?), laureate, l. Rev: horse galloping l.; below, pellet. 31mm, 20.15g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen 505–7; MAA 18a.

Next: Numidia