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Ptolemy IV ae Dichalkon Alexandria 221=214 BC Obv Head of Zeus Ammon right. Rv Eagle standing left wings folded Sv 994 CPE 513 This coin illustrated 2.29 grms 15 mm Photo by W. Hansen
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PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE

EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA.

Ptolemy IV 221-205 BC AE Drachma. (75.52g, 41mm, 12h)

Obverse: Bust of Zeus Ammon right

Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, cornucopiae in front, ΛΙ between legs

Reference: SNG Cop 199.





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Here's a sweet little rarity:

Cleopatra Thea and Antiochos VIII Epiphanes
125-121 BCE Ake-Ptolemaïs mint, Dated S.E. 188 (125/4 B.C.) Jugate heads of the Dioscuri right, star above each / ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΠΑΣ KAI ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, cornucopia. SC -; SNG Spaer -; Kadman 17. Very Rare.
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Rare as in it was found among the hoards from Sri Lanka!
Constans?
Heraclea mint
Alexander Fishman collections

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QUINTILLUS
AE Follis
OBVERSE: IMP CM AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG , radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: MARTI PACIL, Mars walking left, holding olive branch, reversed spear and shield. X in left field
Struck at Rome, 270 AD
2.8g, 19mm
RIC V-1 Rome 25 corr
Llanedeyrn Hoard (Cardiff, Wales)

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Sestertius of Alexander Severus with Mars the avenger reverse...

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Titus as Caesar
COS VI

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Mount Vesuvius as seen from the ruins of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of AD 79. The active cone is the high peak on the left side; the smaller one on the right is part of the Somma caldera wall.



Titus AE As. AD 80. IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P COS VIII, laureate head left / PAX AVGVST S-C, Pax standing left, holding branch and caduceus.

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24 g 33 mm Sestertius
Obverse IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII
Type: Head of Titus, laureate, right; Portrait: Titus
Reverse Legend: FELICIT PVBLIC S C
Type: Felicitas standing left, holding sceptre and cornucopiae
Deity: Felicitas
From Date: AD 80
To Date: AD 81
RIC 143

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1st century sestertius:


Agrippina I, wife of Germanicus, 14 BC - AD 33
Roman AE Sestertius 27.92 gm, 34.8 mm, 7 h
Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 42-54 AD
Obv: AGRIPPINA M F GERMANICI CAESARIS, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P around large SC.
Refs: RIC I 102 (Claudius); BMCRE 219 (Claudius); Cohen 3.

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Dupondius of Nero , with GERM in inscription.

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AUGUSTUS
Æ 31 Dupondius
OBVERSE: PERMISSV CAESARIS AVGVSTI, bare head left
REVERSE: COLONIA PATRICIA, aquila between legionary standards
Colonia Patricia (Cordoba - spain) 15-14 BC
18g, 31 mm
RPC 128, SNG Cop 464

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1st Century Dupondius


RI Nerva AE Dupondius 96-98 CE LIBERTAS PVBLICA -pileus TIF


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Julia Titi Flavia (daughter of Titus), AE Dupondius 80-81 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right with hair bundled high in front and coiled in chignon high in back, IVLIA IMP T AVG F AVGVSTA/ Rev. Vesta seated left, holding palladium in right hand and long transverse scepter in left arm, VESTA below, S C across fields. RIC II-1 398 at. p. 223 (Titus) (2007 ed.), old RIC II 180 (Titus) (1926 ed.), Sear RCV I 2617 (ill.), BMCRE Titus 257. 26 mm., 12.23 g., 6 h.



If it's supposed to be 1st century BCE, then this one:

Augustus AE (Brass) Dupondius, 9-3 BCE, Colonia Augusta Nemausus [Nîmes] (Galla Narbonensis province) Mint. Obv. Heads of Agrippa left and Augustus right, back to back, with Agrippa wearing combined laurel wreath and rostral crown, and Augustus wearing oak wreath, IMP above heads and DIVI F below [Imperator Divi Filius] / Rev. Crocodile right standing on two palm branches, chained to palm-shoot standing behind it, with tip of shoot leaning to right; wreath above and to left of palm-shoot, with long ties extending behind shoot to right, COL - NEM to left and right of palm-shoot. “Type III” of Augustus & Agrippa/Crocodile coin (see https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04). RIC I 158 (p. 52), RPC I 524 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&number=524), Sear Greek Imperial Coins 157 (D. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values (1982)], Sear RCV I 1730 (ill.). [See Sear RCV I at p. 337: Commemorates conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE; influenced by Augustus’s settlement of veterans of Egyptian campaign in Nemausus after colony was founded in 27 BCE.] 28 mm., 12.09 g.



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