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I’ve got CRABs


Sicily Akragas AE Onkia 16mm 3.8g 425-406 BCE Eagle r fish (TUNNY???) fly - Crab conch SNG ANS 1062 var


Apollonia Pontika, Thrace.
AR diobol
1.3g
410/404-341/323 BCE
Obv: Full-face laureate Apollo with short hair.
Rev: Magistrate's initals around the images. Upright anchor with thick flukes and a rectangular stock. The letter A on one side and the additional symbol of a crab viewed from above on the other side between flukes and the stock.
Topalov 56
Ex: @red_spork


Next: Raven

 

LLYRIA, Dyrrhachion. Circa 250-200 BC. AR Drachm Meniskos and Dionysios, magistrates. Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left below; above, raven standing right above MENIΣΚΟΣ / Double stellate pattern; ΔYP-ΔΙΟ-ΝΥ-ΣΟΥ around; all within linear circle border. Ceka –; Maier 201; SNG Copenhagen 467.

Next - cow

 

another Iilyria Drachma:



next: torch

 

Plautilla, Denarius - Rome mint, AD 205
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, hair waved & drawn down on neck
DIANA LVCIFERA, Diana standing left, holding torch in both hands.
3.3 gr
Ref : RIC IV # 366, Cohen # 13, RCV #7070
See G&M auction # 170/2507, same dies
Provenance : Ex. @arizonarobin collection

Next another Plautilla, preferably provincial

Q

 

next: Diana Lucifera

 

Diana Lucifera.


Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 25.68 g, 32.3 mm, 1 h.
Rome, AD 170-175.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Bust of Faustina II, draped and wearing stephane, right.
Rev: DIANA LVCIFERA S C, Diana standing right, holding lighted torch in both hands.
Refs: RIC 1631; BMCRE 901; Cohen 91; RCV 5272 var. (no stephane); MIR 8-6/10c diad.
Notes: Obverse die-match to the British Museum specimen.

Next: another goddess with a torch.

 

next: Ceres

 

Here is a similar denarius:



Faustina I (100-140) – struck 141
Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA, Bust of Faustina I, draped, right, hair elaborately waved in several loops round head and drawn up and coiled on top. Reverse: AVGVSTA. Ceres, veiled, draped, standing left, stretching out right hand and holding torch, nearly vertical, in left
RIC III 361

Next - Diva Faustina I

 

Faustina Senior
Denarius after 141
Obv.: DIVA FAVSTINA, bust right
Rev.: AVGVSTA, Ceres standing left, raising hand and holding torch
Ag, 3.43g, 17.4mm
Ref.: RIC 361a [C], CRE 83 [ S]

Next: Ceres

 

Dupondius of Claudius

Next : sestertius of Claudius

 

Sestertius of Claudius.

next, another OB CIVES SERVATOS....

 

*Edit:another OB CIVES SERVATOS....

 

AUGUSTUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: CAESAR AVGVSTVS - Bare head right
REVERSE: OB/CIVIS/ SERVATOS - Legend in three lines within oak-wreath, ties inward
Colonia Patricia mint 19 BC
3.3g, 17mm
RIC 77A, C208

Next: Oak wreath

 

Galba AR Denarius, Aug-Oct 68 AD Rome Mint. Obv. Bare head right, IMP SER GALBA AVG / Rev. S P Q R/ O • B/ C S [OB CS = OB CIVES SERVATOS (For Saving the Citizens)] in three lines within oak wreath. RIC I 167, RSC II 287, Sear RCV I 2109 (ill.). 18.33 mm., 3.29 g.



Next: a Galba Imperial coin.

 

GALBA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG P M - Laureate head right
REVERSE: VICTORIA P R - Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm
Struck at Rome, Oct/Nov 68AD
3.2g, 18mm
RIC 234

Next: Galba bronze

 

next: Vitellius bronze

 

12 hour rule....

Nero from Alexandria:

Type: Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm 12.73 grams

Obverse: NERW KLAY KAIS SEB GER, Radiate crowned head facing right.

Reverse: AVTO-KRA, Draped bust of Egyptian god Serapis facing right, wearing Kalathos (basket) on head, date LI (year 10)

Reference: Milne 222, Koln 160, RPC 5274, BMCGr 156: Sear 2001.



Another Nero Tet, ship on reverse

 

12 hrs
Aelius AS

Next, a surprise find in an unattributed lot.

 

Next up: medieval with cool toning... or a man faced bull