I have picked up this small group amongst many other Roman coins that I have already identified. Can someone please point me to the right cities or regions to look in? Top left I assume is Roman provincial, and the rest Greek cities - but which ones? Thank you. The "Roman" one is about 18mm across for scale.
The two coins in the middle have bad bronze disease, I wouldn't let these coins touch any other bronze coin, and start with cleaning asap. Left Top: Some Roman provincial from Egypt, not my specialty. Left bottom: Syria, Seleukis and Pieria. Antiochia ad Orontem. Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus. Legate, A.D. 11-17. AE 21. Quasi-autonomous City-issue under Roman Rule. Antioch mint, struck A.D. 13/14. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4055400 Middle top: Cilicia, Aegeae. Cilicia, Aegeae; 2nd-1st cent. BC, AE https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5156762 Middle bottom:Syria, Coele-Syria. Chalkis ad Libanon. Ptolemaios, tetrarch, circa 85-40 BC. AE https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6915014 Right top: Looks Phoenician? Right bottom: Cyprus, Roman Administration. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Late 1st century B.C. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3262185
That is brilliant - thanks @Pavlos ! Sadly verdicare is not available in the UK, so cleaning is somewhat hit and miss. I suspect the Cyprus coin has already been wrecked by over cleaning by a previous owner. Anyone able to tell me more about the Roman Alexandrian coin? Even just the emperor would help enormously.
Hi Paddy, I believe it's Diocletian. It's quite hard to make out the legend but his name in Greek would be ∆ΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟC which seems to be there (although the O's have been reduced essentially to dots). Probably the same type as here: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/lo...a_bi_tetradrachm__year_5/1290693/Default.aspx http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=26654
Upper left is an Alexandrian tetradrachm of Diocletian, year 5. The one with the scorpion is probably from Commagene, Syria.
I "think" the Alexandrian Tet is of Diocletian. I absolutely love these chunky coins but I'm terrible with identification. A K Γ OYA Λ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB