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Denarius of Octavian - obv Apollo , rx plowing field with oxen.

next - cow or ox...

 

@octavius - beautiful coin!!


AE unit of Augustus 27 BC. - 14 AD., Philippi, Macedonia - bare head of Augustus right, AVG behind / two colonists (or priests?) ploughing right with yoke of oxen (3.12 grams, 16/15 mm)

NEXT: AUGUSTUS

 

This one of Augustus is a favorite ...


Augustus, 27 BC - AD 14.
Roman provincial AE 23.
Macedon, Amphipolis, 10.25 g, 23.3 mm, 1 h.
Obv: ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ, bare-head, right.
Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛΙΕΙΤΩΝ, Artemis Tauropolos with inflated veil, riding on bull galloping right.
Refs: BMC 5, p. 52, 73; Sear Greek Imperial 29.

Next: Coin using the epigraphic form of sigma (Σ) instead of the lunate sigma (C).

 

Bronze Æ 11 mm., 1,68 g.

CARIA. Mylasa. Ae (Circa 210-30 BC). Obv: Forepart of horse right. Rev: MYΛΑΣΕΩΝ. Ornate trident head. SNG Keckman 225.

Next - another forepart of animal.

 

How about 2 foreparts on one coin....

L Papius Denarius Serratus
Obv:– Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin tied under chin. Behind head, forepart of lion.
Rev:– Gryphon running right; in ex., L. PAPI.; in field, forepart of bull
Minted in Rome from . B.C. 79.
Reference(s) – RSC Papia 1. RRC 384/1. RCTV 311.
Symbol variety – RRC 64. Babelon 77. BMCRR 64. CNR unknown



Next:- Forepart of a Lion

 

Alexander tetradrachm, forepart of a lion next to Zeus's knee.
Price 879

Next, another big cat

 

Removed. Shanxi has a better coin....

 

Gallienus
Antoninian Rom
Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, Bust right
Rev.: LIBERO P CONS AVG, Tigress walking left
3.11g, 20 mm
Ref.: RIC 230, MIR 713b

Next: too late > Maridvnvms Next: Bucranium

 

Gallienus
Obv:– GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate bust right
Rev:– IOVI CONS AVG, Goat walking right
Minted in Rome (//S) . A.D. 257-259
Reference:– RIC 207



Next:- Goat

 

Valerian II Antoninianus

Obverse:
VALERIANVS CAES
Radiate, draped bust right

Reverse:
IOVI CRESCENTI
Jupiter as child riding goat right



Next: God depicted by child

 

Baby Krishna dancing on a demon snake, he is the incarnation of the god Vishnu.

Next, dancing

 

Leto holding her children, Artemis and Apollo


Valerian I (AD 253-260).
Asia Minor, Ionia, Ephesos.
Obv: AYT K ΠO ΛIKINI BAΛEPIANOC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: EΦECIΩN Γ NEΩKOPΩN, Leto advancing right, head left, holding her children, Artemis (right) and Apollo (left); Apollo holding branch; Artemis holding bow and drawing arrow.
AE, 27mm, 7.21 g
Ref.: Karwiese 1057 (V/R); SNG von Aulock 1921; BMC -

Next: Again too late. I'm so slow today

 

ILLYRIA, Apollonia
AR Denarius. 3.26g, 20.4mm, ILLYRIA, Apollonia, circa 47-27 BC. Maier 135; SNG Copenhagen 405 var. (magistrate); HGC 3.1, 8. O: Laureate head of Apollo left; APXHN to left. R: Three nymphs holding hands and dancing around the Fire of the Nymphaeum of Apollonia; NIKANΩP in exergue.

Next: Nymphs

 

Nymph 1:

Euboia, Histiaia, AR tetrobol, ca. 196–146 BC. Obv: head of Maenad wearing wreath of grapes r.; Rev: [IΣTI]-AIEΩN; nymph Histiaia seated right on prow decorated with wing, holding stylis; below, labrys and unclear monogram. 16mm, 2.34g. Ref: BMC 59–64.

Nymph 2:

Thessaly, Larissa, AR obol, ca. 344–337 BC (?). Obv: head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly l., hair in ampyx, with necklace. Rev: [ΛΑΡΙΣ]-ΑΙΩΝ; horse grazing r. 11mm, 0.79g. Ref: BCD Thessaly I (2011), no. 1163; BCD Thessaly II (2013), no. 328, 342–344; SNG Copenhagen 135.
Ex FSR, auction 106, lot 59; ex CNG, e-auction 395, lot 94; ex BCD collection.

Nymph 3:

Thessaly, Pherai, hemidrachm, ca. 302–286 BC. Obv: Head of Ennodia left, torch behind. Rev: ΦΕΡΑΙΟΥΝ, the nymph Hypereia left, touching the top of lion's head fountain right, from which water pours forth, ΑΣ/TΟ within wreath to lower left. 15mm, 2.72g. Ref: BCD Thessaly I, 1321; BCD Thessaly II, 714; SNG Copenhagen 239; BMC 20. Ex CNG, e-auction 432, lot 27; ex BCD collection.

Next: more nymphs

 

Nymphs R Us!


Lucius Verus, AD 161-169.
Roman Provincial Æ assarion, 4.23 g, 18 mm.
Thrace, Augusta Trajana, AD 161-169.
Obv: ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑV-ΡΗ ΟVΗΡΟϹ, bare head, right.
Rev: ΑV-Γ-ΟV-ϹΤΗϹ | ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗϹ, three nymphs, stolate, standing facing, arms draped on each other's shoulders and holding unknown objects (thymiatera? tripods?) at sides.
Refs: RPC IV 10343 (temporary); Schonert-Geiss 89; Varbanov II 909; Moushmov (1912) --; Moushmov Online 2987A; Staal, pl. 2, fig. 12.

Next: Objects that numismatists are unable to identify with certainty.

 

Showed it before, nobody has any idear

Next: Zeus

 

Zeus

Mint of Alexandria, Egypt.

Commodus (180-192. A.D.)

Type: Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 11.06 grams

Obverse: M AVΡ KOMMO ANTΩNINOC CE, Laureate bust of Commodus right

Reverse: VΠAT OCTOΔ, Zeus seated left, holding scepter and thunderbolt, K theta in field

Reference: Emmett 2567





Next: Another thunderbolt

 

Thunderbolt


RR fourée mule anon Q Fabius Labeo denarius 18mm 2.9g after 124 BC Roma X Jupiter Quadriga thunderbolt scepter Cr 159 obv Cr 273-1 rev

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