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  1. NewStyleKing

    NewStyleKing Beware of Greeks bearing wreaths

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    Mithridates Vl Eupator. Killed his mom who was in charge of Pontus at the time and then killed Ariarathes Vlll of Cappadocia whilst talking to him man to man and it wasn't bad breath. He then placed his son, also called Mithradates, rather than himself on the Cappadocian throne as Ariarathes lX.
    Next someone else despicable too!
     
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  3. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

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    I’d say this guy was pretty despicable.

    Next: Someone too naive for his/her own good.
     
  4. shanxi

    shanxi Well-Known Member

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    Huizong, 徽宗
    Av: Da Guan Tong Bao, 大観通寳
    Slender Gold Script (Hand writing of the emperor)
    Rv: -
    Value: 10
    Year: 1107-1110
    AE, 40.5mm, 13.8g
    Ref: Hartill 16.426

    Huizhong, well known for his beautiful paintings, caligraphy and poems, but also for loosing his empire

    One of his paintings (from Wikipedia)

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    Next: another artist or poet on the throne
     
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  5. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Shah Jahan I/Mughal Empire
    AV Mohur 1640 Surat Mint
    He built the Taj Mahal to honour his wife.
    Another artistic Ruler. IMG_0030.JPG
     
  6. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

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    His last words were: «Qualis artifex pereo»: «What an artist the world loses in me».

    Next: Someone that considered him/herself unlucky to have to rule.
     
  7. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    affairs of state didn't interest him, government was ruled by ministers and his wife Aelia Eudoxia , died young at age 31:

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    next: another inept ruler
     
  8. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

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    Will his brother do?

    Next: The power behind the throne
     
  9. shanxi

    shanxi Well-Known Member

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    Julia Mamaea
    AR-Denar
    Obv.: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, Bust of Julia Mamaea, draped, right
    Rev.: IVNO CONSERVATRIX, Juno, diademed, veiled, draped, standing left, holding patera in right hand and sceptre in left hand; at feet, peacock
    Ag, 20mm, 3.33g
    Ref.: RIC IVb, 343

    next: Another powerful woman behind the throne
     
  10. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    Julia Domna, AE23 of Antioch, Pisidia. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / ANTIOCH GEN COL, Tyche standing left, in kalathos, holding branch and cornucopiae. BMC 36.

    Next - another Antioch Pisidia coin
     
  11. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next : changed to female Wolf , thanks Doug
     
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  12. dougsmit

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  13. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

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    Next up: RR Romy and Reemy suckling
     
  14. Terence Cheesman

    Terence Cheesman Well-Known Member

    Caracalla Ae 36 Tarsus in Cilicia 215-217 AD Obv Bust right laureate draped and Cuirassed Rv, Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf right SNG France 1503 32.48 grms 36 mm Photo by W. Hansen tarsuscar5.JPG Next coin Roman colonial or provincial
    There are a number of articles on ancient and other coins herePlanchet archives at: https://edmontoncoinclub.com/the-planchet/the-planchet-archived/
     
  15. happy_collector

    happy_collector Well-Known Member

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    Thrace, Augusta Traiana. Faustina Junior.
    AE (26mm, 9.97g)
    Obv: Draped bust right
    Rev: Tyche standing left, wearing mural crown, holding phiale and scepter.
    Minkova 208-13. Augusta Traiana 63 (V23/R53). RPC IV.1 Online 9378.


    Next: More Roman Provincial please.
     
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  16. Broucheion

    Broucheion Well-Known Member

    Hi All,

    Augustus from Cyprus. Uncertain mint. References: RPC I-3904, BMC-0001, FITA 80-1, Amandry 1a (Paphos?); ANS 1952.142.248 & ANS 1952.142.249; Parks 2004, 1.

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    - Broucheion

    Next: Another coin from Cyprus, any year.
     
  17. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    cyprusAugustus.jpg Cyprus, Paphos. Augustus AE16 Hemiobol
    Obv: DIVI F IMP CAESAR, head right.
    Rev: A PLAVTIVS PRO COS, temple of Aphrodite at Paphos, containing conical xoanon, semicircular courtyard.
    RPC 3906

    Next: Aphrodite
     
  18. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Nagidos_in_Cilicia.jpg
    NAGIDOS in CILICIA
    AR Stater
    OBVERSE: Aphrodite seated left, holding patera over altar, crowned by Eros flying right above, rose and bud in left field, mouse under chair
    REVERSE: NAΓIΔIKON, Dionysos, loins draped (long), standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos. EY ΔIO in left field.
    Struck at Nagidos in Cilicia 356-333 BC
    9.93g, 23 mm.
    Lederer 64; Paris 809; Babelon Traite II-2 1524.8; SNG France II, 34
    ex. Warren Esty

    Next: Dionysos
     
  19. shanxi

    shanxi Well-Known Member

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    Valerian I
    Cilicia, Anazarbus
    Æ 30mm
    Dated CY 272 (253/4).
    Obv.: AVT K Π ΛIK OVAΛЄPIANOC CЄ, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
    Rev.: ANASAPBOV MHTPO / Γ - Γ / ЄT BOC A M K, Dionysos, raising hand over head and holding filleted thyrsus, reclining on recumbent ram right, head left.
    AE, 30mm, 18.34g
    Ref.: Ziegler, Anazarbos, 829.1 [dies Vs2/Rs4] (this coin cited), SNG BN 2158

    Next: Another Dionysos
     
  20. Spaniard

    Spaniard Well-Known Member

    Pontos, Amisos. temp. Mithradates VI, c. 105-85 or 85-65 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.98g, 12h). Struck under Mithradates VI.
    Obverse..Ivy wreathed head of Dionysos right.
    Reverse..Filleted thyrsos, bell attached with fillet, AMI-ΣOY flanking across field, monogram lower right.
    Mint..Amisos (Samsun, Turkey)
    SNG Black Sea 1192-5; HGC 7, 251. Good VF
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    Next......Demeter portrait
     
  21. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    normal_Elaea~0.jpg Aeolis, Elaea. AE16
    Obv: Head of Demeter right, wreathed with grain.
    Rev: EΛ-AI/T-ΩN, torch within grain wreath.
    BMC Aeolis p. 127, 20

    Next: Persephone.
     
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