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Next up: broken silver coin that still has most of the details

 

GELA, SICILY
AR Litra
OBV: Naked horseman galloping left holding spear & shield
REV: Forepart of man-headed bull right
Struck at Gela, Sicily, 425BC
0.36g; 13mm
SNG Cop 275, BMC 52, Jenkins 405; HGC 2 374

Next: Man-headed bull

 

next Greece - Akarnia

 

I believe this is what is called for Akarnanian Confederacy Ar Stater 191-189 BC Mint of Leukas
Obv Taurine head of beardless Acheloos right Rv. Apollo seated on a throne left. HGC 722 9.76 grms 25 mm Ex BCD Collection Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Something you have had for a very long time but have never posted ( at least for a year)

 

Here's a follis of Justinian I, Nicomedia, year 13 (539-40 AD), officina B. DO-117b.
40mm, 23.8 grams

I purchased this coin from Harlan Berk back in the early 90's, during a buy/bid sale.



Next: How about a coin that you just received over the past week - a very late 2020 purchase - something that caps the year for you.

 

Just got this in past 5 days from/CNG "Coin shop". One of my few non auction coins/ looks like "Granny" on Beverly Hillbillies"
Next: another old biddie on coin

 

A nice reverse on this coin.

 

Livia was born in January, 58 BC and would have been 67 or 68 at the time this coin was struck, so she's the oldest woman on a coin in my collection. Whether that makes her an "old biddy" or not depends on one's definition of the term.

Livia, under Augustus, 27 BC - AD 13.
Roman Æ diobol, 7.41 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, 6th series, AD 10-11.
Obv: Bare head right with Nodus hairstyle.
Rev: Date (LM=40) within oak wreath.
Refs: BMC 16.4, 31; SGI 209; Emmett 57; RPC 5054.
Notes: Antioch Associates (Lindgren) Mail Bid Sale 38, 25 February, 2002, lot 110.

Next: Alexandrian bronze.

 

Mamaea, Alexandria tetradrachm - AD 231-232 (year 11),
IOY MAMAIA CE MHTE CEB K CT , Diademed and draped bust of Mamaea right
Radiate and draped bust of Helios right. in front, palm-branch and behind LIA.
12.67gr.- 23.5mm
Ref : Emmett # 3205 (R4)
From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.

Next : another coin from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection

Q

 

as in an Alexander’s bronze or a bronze from Alexandria?

 

Since the idea of the game is to form a thematic chain from one post to the next, it would be a bronze coin of Alexandria, because the one I posted is such a coin.

See how Panzerman posted a coin with an old woman and requested another? See how Cucumbor posted one with a Clain-Stefanelli provenance and asked for another? That's the thematic chain.

 

Here's a bronze drachm under Ptolemy II. Alexandria mint. SV 463.
Next : Another from Alexandria too.

 

A great coin, but cucumbor's request is pending.

 

I think the next topic is something from the Clain-Stefanelli collection, so here's a rare one.

Gens: Numonia
Moneyer: C. Numonius Vaala
Obv. C·NVMONIVS – VAALA - Male head right
Rev. Soldier rushing left, attacking wall defended by two soldiers
Exergue: VAALA
Mint: Rome (43 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.17g / 21mm / -
References:

• RSC 2 (Numonia)
• Sydenham 1087
• Crawford 514/2
• RBW 1792

Provenances:

• Ex. E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

Künker have suggested that the head on the obverse is actually that of Gaius Cassius Longinus, though without much evidence (https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2391242).


Next - some coin more likely related to Cassius Longinus, with his name!

 

Well, this coin was actually issued by Cassius Longinus, so it's certainly related to him, but it doesn't bear his portrait. Although there's actually a controversy as to whether the obverse of this pro-Pompey coin depicts Genius Populi Romani or Bonus Eventus.

Roman Republic, Q. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius, 55 BCE [Crawford] or 53 BCE [Harlan], Rome Mint. Obv. Young male head of Genius Populi Romani [Crawford & RCV] or Bonus Eventus [RSC & RRM II] right, with flowing hair, scepter behind, border of dots / Rev. Eagle, with wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt, lituus [curved augural staff used in reading auspices] to left and capis [jug used in same rituals] to right, border of dots; Q • CASSIVS in exergue. Crawford 428/3, RSC I Cassia 7 (ill.), Sydenham 916, Sear RCV I 391 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 23 at pp. 180-187, BMCRR Rome 3868. 19 mm., 3.77 g., 6 h.*



* According to Crawford (Vol. I at p. 452), the eagle, lituus, and capis together symbolized imperium. He suggests that they refer to the Lex Cassia of 104 BCE, introduced by L. Cassius Longinus, under which individuals who had been deprived of imperium by popular vote, or had been convicted of a crime in a popular assembly, were excluded from the Senate. This coin is also discussed in Roberta Stewart, The Jug and Lituus on Roman Republican Coin Types: Ritual Symbols and Political Power, in Phoenix Vol. 51, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 170-189 at pp. 181-182 (DOI: 10.2307/1088493, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1088493). The author notes that the eagle and thunderbolt were “auspical signs associated with Jupiter, the god of the auspices,” and that both moneyers in 55 BCE were adherents of Pompey, “whose position in 56-55 was problematical.” Thus, the coin’s allusion to these traditional symbols of political power -- reading auspices was a predicate to the conduct of public business -- “identif[ied] Pompey’s desire for political and military prestige with the political and religious values of Rome.”

A coin like this probably wasn't what you had in mind, but it does fulfill your request!

Next: another Roman Republican coin with an eagle as a major part of the design.

 

I should have specified *Gaius*, but hey - this Quintus was his brother or cousin

Nice coin

ATB,
Aidan.

 

It is too late to go back but the 'Alexandrian bronze' Q posted is a billon tetradrachm which can tone to look quite bronze but that term is reserved for the drachms and under that did not have silver content. I wish I had a Mamaea Alexandrian bronze to sho but my latest is a Caracalla. Emmett lists 27 bronzes for her but I do not recall seeing one in person. CNG has sold several.
https://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS..._TYPE_ID=3&VIEW_TYPE=0&MAX_COUNT=10000&PAGE=1

An eagle on a RR:


Next: a RR denarius with a bird that is not an eagle

 

ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denarius. 3.97g, 18.8mm. Rome mint, 90 BC. L. Piso Frugi, moneyer. Crawford 340/1. O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: Naked horseman galloping right, holding palm branch; above, swan, and below, L PISO FRVGI / ROMA.
Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

Next: RR denarius with a bird that is not an eagle or a swan

 

Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS CAECILIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Diademed head of Pietas right; stork standing right before
REVERSE: Q C M P I beneath elephant walking left w/bell hanging from neck
Northern Italy, 79 BC-77 BC
3.75g; 18mm
Caecilia 43; Crawford 374/1; Syd 750; Sear 301

Next: Another stork