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Here's a new, slightly used, Perdikkas II

Next up: archaic

 

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Here's a dearly loved hemiobol of Colchis /Kolchis, c. 5th c. BCE into the 4th. ...I'm skeptical about the late side of the chronology, but with Colchis being way up there on the west coast of the Caucasus, who can say?
...Yes. Now it's time to get some Medieval love up in here. Post Anything, from Anywhere.

 

Islamic, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk), Artuqids (Mardin), Najm al-Din Ghazi I (AH 637-658 / 1239-1260), AR Dirham
Obv: referencing Ghazi I in center and kalima around in angles
Rev: referencing Ayyubid overlord al-Salih Ayyub in center and date and mint around in angles
Ref: Album 1834.1

Next: more Medieval

 

@Sulla80, that's truly great. Making me wish that I was as literate in Islamic stuff of the period as I wish I was. ...Um, just starting with the language. But only going back to Ayyubid prototypes, this is brilliant.

 

Next up: severed head

 

NOT MY COIN !!! (it's in the British Museum, I think) but I could not resist...

Next : a coin defaced on purpose.

 

First, I will add another head to the plate, this is a severed head minted in 115 or 116 BC.

Here's a one handed horseman, fighting with his left hand only, riding with a severed Gallic head in hand. The horseman is the tough, fighting praetor in 197 BC, and grandfather of moneyer M. Sergius Silus.

And to answer the "Next" of @GinoLR - here is a coin that appears to have been defaced intent. A little grafitt added to convey a simple message about the state of concord (Concordia on the obverse) between Mark Antony and Octavian. Note: the dagger slashing one of the wrists on the reverse.

Two bloody images to recall the times in ancient rome. For more on the Triumvirate:Coins of the Second Triumvirate

Next: a coin that celebrates peace, harmony or anything joyful

 

Next up: another beautiful woman

 

I rather like this portrait of Salonina:

EGYPT, Alexandria

Billon Tetradrachm, 23mm, 9.8 grams, 12h

Dated RY 15 (A.D. 267-268)

Obverse: KOPNHALA CAAONEINA CEB;
Diademed and draped bust right.

Reverse: Eagle standing right, holding wreath in beak; palm in left field, L IE to right

Reference: Koln 2983; Dattari 5346; Milne 4189; Curtis 1642; Emmett 3854





Next: Another attractive woman portrait

 

next: Cupid

 

Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.
Roman AR denarius, 3.36 g, 20.1 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 223, third emission.
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, draped bust, right, wearing stephane.
Rev: VENVS GENETRIX SC, Venus standing left, holding apple in extended right hand and vertical scepter in left hand; at feet, Cupid standing right, reaching upwards.
Refs: RIC 355; BMCRE 152-3; Cohen 72; RCV 8215; CRE 509.

Next: More Severan women.

 

Next up: more Severan bossy Bs

 

Julia Maesa, Augusta, AR Denarius (19mm, 2.27 g), Rome mint. Struck under Elagabalus, AD 218-220. Draped bust right / Pietas standing left, holding acerrum and extending hand over lighted altar to left. RIC IV 263

Next: Any Empress from after the Severan dynasty

 

next: Pudicitia

 

Salonina, AE antoninianus

Next : a barbarous radiate

 

Barbarous Radiate, imitating Tetricus I
Obv: …ICVS M / radiate head right
Rev: soldier standing, holding spear, C
AE, 1.96g, 17mm
Ref.: Cf. RIC 5b, p.411,148 ?

Next: Tetricus

 

TETRICUS I
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate draped bust right
REVERSE: VIRTVS AVGG, Virtus standing left with shield & spear
Struck at Southern mint, 273-4 AD
3.3 gr., 19mm
RIC 148

Next: Tetricus II

 

Tetricus II, as Caesar AD 273-274. Treveri
Antoninianus Æ
19 mm, 2,19 g
RIC V Tetricus I 258
Date Range: AD 273 - AD 274
Obverse Legend: C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES
Type: Bust of Tetricus II, radiate, draped, right
Reverse Legend: PIETAS AVGVSTOR
Type: Pontifical implements

Next - another coin with pontifical implements

 

They even have a roof over their heads! Two soldiers with standard in between.

 

here's a pair that belong together

Caracalla as Caesar, AD 196-198, AR denarius, Rome mint, struck AD 196-198
Obv: M AVR ANTON-CAES PONTIF, bare headed, draped bust of Caracalla right, seen from behind
Rev: [DESTINATO IMPERAT], priestly implements: lituus, apex, bucranium, simpulum
Ref: RIC IV 6

Caracalla as Caesar, AD 196-198, AR denarius, Rome mint, struck AD 196
Obv: M AVR ANTONINVS CAES, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: SEVERI AVG PII FIL, Priestly implements: lituus, cultellus, capis, simpulum, and aspergillum
Ref: RIC IV 4


Next: another pair that belong together