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I'm afraid my Lycian League coin is much the same as yours, though not as nice!
I got it and a lot of coins at the time from Agoracoins, Andy Metz - I wonder what he's doing now?

Lycian League, Masicytus
Coin: Silver Hemidrachm
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo right
Rev.: ΜΑ - Cithara; small star above; divides mint initials
Mint: (Period IV)
Wt./Size/Axis: 1.90g / - / -
References:

• Troxell 86

Acquisition: Agoracoins eBay 5-Nov-2006


Next - another coin from Agoracoins/Andy Metz - hopefully, someone has one!

 

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12 hour rule...

Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067.

AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTҺIm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on square-backed throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +KωN RAC Λ O ΔOVKAC Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1847.



Next: another nomisma

 

From one twelve hour wait right back to another...

 

I've several coins from Nomisma - in fact, one arrived this week.

Only bad 'phone camera shots so far and here's the auctioneer's description:

C. Marcius Censorinus - Asse (88 a.C.) Busti a d. - Due archi - Cr. 346/3 AE (g 10.34)

Ex. Nomisma asta 24 E-Live, lot 33, 27-Sep-2021.




Next... a coin with an arch (or two) OR - a coin which has arrived in the last week.

 

Finally a request that isn't too obscure for the likes of me!

The Triumvirs, Octavian, AR Denarius, Autumn 30-Summer 29 BC, Italian (Rome?) Mint. Obv. Bare head right, anepigraphic / Rev. Octavian’s Actian arch (arcus Octaviani), showing a single span surmounted by statute of Octavian in facing triumphal quadriga; IMP • CAESAR on the architrave. CRI 422 (ill. p. 257) [D. Sear, The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC (1998)]; RIC I 267 (Augustus); RSC 123 (Augustus); Sear RCV I 1558, BMCRR 4348 (= BMCRE 624). Toned, scratches, some scrapes, and banker's marks. Fine. 21mm, 3.25 g, 3 h. From the Lampasas Collection. Ex. Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 487, Lot 474 (10 March 2021); ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 390, Lot 456 (1 February 2017).*



*See CRI pp. 257-258: “Prior to excavations in the Roman Forum in 1950-53 the size of the arch depicted on the second of the architectural denarii in the IMP CAESAR series [see also No. 421, RIC 266] remained uncertain. It is known that the Senate had decreed arches at Rome and Brundisium to commemorate Octavian's victory at Actium, but the remains discovered in 1888 near the temple of Divus Julius were of a triple arch which did not accord well with the appearance of the coin type. Further investigation on the site eventually revealed traces of an earlier single span structure which may be identified as Octavian's Actium arch. This had evidently been demolished little more than a decade after its erection when the much larger triple span arcus Augusti was constructed in 19 BC in honour of Augustus' recovery from the Parthians of the legionary standards lost by Crassus and Antony.” [Footnotes omitted.]

Next: another Octavian with an anepigraphic obverse.

 

anepigraphic denarius of Octavian...

next, any coin of Octavian with DIVI F.

 

Masterful coin @octavius .I always enjoy your taste in coin

Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. Denarius (Silver, 20mm, 3.58 g), Lugdunum, 2 BC-AD 12. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE Laureate head of Augustus to right. Rev. AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT / C L CAESARES Gaius and Lucius Caesar, on left and right, standing facing, each togate and resting a hand on one of two shields set on the ground between them; behind the shields, two crossed spears; above, on left, simpulum right, and on right, lituus left. BMC 519-533. BN 1651-1657. Cohen 43. Lyon 82. RIC 207. VF

Next up: a bent coin

 

Obv.: CAESAR AVGVSTVS - Bare head of Augustus left
Rev.: Round shield inscribed S Q P R / CL V. C
Mint: Colonia Caesaraugusta (ca. 19-18 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.72g / 20mm / 6h
References:

• RIC 42b
• RSC 293

Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 58 #485 14-Jun-2020



Next - something else from a Spanish mint

 

Hi All,

My only Spanish coin.

Ptolemy of Numidia, Minted In Spain, Carthago Nova, after 21 CE (see comments)



Æ SEMIS
Size: 20x21 mm
Weight: 5.51 g
Die Axis: 10:00

OBV: Augustus bare head facing right. Legend reading counter clockwise from 5:00 position: AVGVSTVS - DIVI F. Border not visible.
REV: Legend reading counter clockwise from 5:00 position: C LAETILIVS APALVS II V Q. Within diadem (without crescent and lotus): REX/PTOL in two lines within diadem. Diadem without lotus and crescent. Dotted border. C Laetilius Apalus was duovir quinquennalis.

References: RPC I 172; SNG Copenhagen 494; Mazard-0514; Burgos 590; NAH 996; Vives 131-135, Beltrán 30, GMI 167

Note about the dating .... if anyone can comment further on the note below please do.

Robert Kokotailo (16 Sep 2017) in a post to MONETA-L wrote:
"In all the listings I can find the bronze coins from Spain that have Augustus on the obverse and name Ptolemy as King on the reverse, at [sic] attributed to the time of Augustus, and simply dated to his reign of 27 BC to AD 14. I can [sic] across one of those coins recently and while writing up it, it occurred to me that currently accepted date of these coins has to be incorrect.

The one thing that does make sense is they were probably minted at Carthega Nova in Spain as they are found in some numbers in Spain.

The dating of them to the time of Augustus has to be incorrect in spite of the portrait showing Augustus because Ptolemy of Numidia were [sic] not appointed as King until AD 21. The coins clearly name him as King to [sic] these coins have to date to the time of Tiberius. Ptolemy's father had business interests in Spain importing the purple dye made from the Murex shell, which must have something to do with why these coins were minted there, and as those business concessions were given to the family by Augustus, that might explain why Augustus is commemorated on the coins.

I plan to look into these coins further in case there is something I have missed that would make them from the time of Augustus, but at this point I think the time of Tiberius is more likely.

Any comments or further information on these would be appreciated."

Next: A coin from North Africa, any mint or time period.

- Broucheion

 

Well, Egypt was in North Africa the last time I checked, so here's a coin I like to post when I can:

Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (127/128 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris* standing right, wearing solar disk as headdress, holding was scepter tipped with jackal head, L ΔWΔƐ-ΚΑΤΟΥ [= Year 12 spelled out]. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5713 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713, Emmett 883.12 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 637 & Pl. XXIII [Poole, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)]; Sear RCV II 3732; Köln 982 [Geissen, A., Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen, Köln, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1445 [Savio, A. ed., Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini (Trieste, 2007)]; Milne 1259 [Milne, J., A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); K&G 32.458. 24 mm., 13.85 g., 11 h.



*From the description in the CNG Triton XXI Catalog (Staffieri Collection, Jan 9. 2018) of the example from the Dattari Collection (No. 1445), sold in the Triton XXI auction as Lot 61: The image of the Ptah-Sokar-Osiris divinity belongs to Egyptian theology, and in particular to funeral worship. It brings together three famous members of the Pharaonic Pantheon through their respective symbols: the headdress and scepter for Ptah, the solar disk for Osiris, and the mummiform wrappings for Sokar – the "Lord of the Necropolis." These three associated divinities call upon the concepts of "mourning" and "life", evoking at the same time the pain associated with death and the hope of resurrection. The main sanctuaries of Ptah, Sokar, and Osiris were at Memphis and Abydos.

Next: another Alexandrian tetradrachm issued under Hadrian.

 

Yay, back to provincials


EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian
year 11, CE 126/7
billon tetradrachm, 26 mm, 12.6 gm
Obv: AVTKAITPAI AΔPIACEB; laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind
Rev: L ENΔ EKATOV: Canopus of Osiris right
Ref: Emmett 827.11, R3; Milne 1205

Next: another Egypt-specific deity or theme

 

Next: More Bes

 

I love that coin, @Ryro, but wonder how "Egypt-specific" a coin from Cilicia is, whether or not the deity was revered in both places.

(I don't have a Bes to add. )

 

I would consider Bes an Egypt-specific deity. After all, that's where he came from!

I have no Bes coin either. I do have this ancient Egyptian amulet of Bes, but I don't think it counts:

 

But if Ryro accepts my Bes, then my "next" would be another Roman Alexandrian coin, depicting Isis.

 

So what's next, @Ryro?

 

I think Ryros "Like" for your "Next: Isis" means that he accepted your Bes.


Faustina II
Alexandria
Billon-Tetradrachm
Obv.: ΦAVCTINA CEBACTH, draped bust right
Rev.: Isis Pharia standing, r., holding sail and sistrum, L - I - Z = year 17 of Antoninus Pius (AD 153/154).
Billon, 11.75g, 22mm
Ref.: Dattari 3250

Next: Empress from Alexandria

 

How about another Faustina II from Alexandria?


Faustina Jr, AD 161-175.
Billon Tetradrachm, 13.82 g, 23.2 mm.
Alexandria, AD 148/9.
Obv: ΦΑΥCΤΙΝΑ CЄΒΑCΤΗ, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: L ΔѠΔЄΚΑΤΟΥ (regnal year 12 of Antoninus Pius), Dikaiosyne seated left, holding scales and cornucopiae.
Refs: Köln 1944; Dattari 3238; BMC 1317; Emmett 1938.

Next: Dikaiosyne/Justitia.

 

Phrygia, Prymnessus. Nero. Æ 20mm. Ti. Julius Proclus, magistrate.
Obv: Laureate head right; NEPO NA KAISAP A - PRYMNHSSHS.
Rev: Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and grain ears; TI IOYLIOY PPKLOY in legend.
RPC I 3207; von Aulock, Phrygiens 1031.
Ti. Julius Proclus, magistrate.

Next: Phrygia Ae

 

PHRYGIA AE


RI Augustus 27BC-AD14 Æ20 5.5g 12h Apameia Phrygia Magistrate Attalos c 15BC Two corn-ears above maeander pattern RPC I, 3125 SCARCE

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