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  1. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    5.70 g 19.04 mm
    Campania, Suessa Aurunca
    268 – 240 BC
    OBV:Laureate head of Apollo, L, O at right
    REV: SVESANO, Man-headed bull, Nike flying above, crowning bull with laurel branch or wreath. SNG Cop 586; SNG ANS 606

    A surprise from a "Roman bronze lot"


    Next - man faced bull

    EDIT - @Ryro stole my cookie so please proceed with his request.
     
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  3. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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    SICILY, Selinos
    Circa 410 BCE
    AR litra, 11mm, 0.76 g, 1h
    Obv: nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above
    Rev: man-faced bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right
    Ref: Potamikon, p. 116 figure 152 (this coin); HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare.
    ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich;
    ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404;
    ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript


    Next: nymph
     
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  4. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

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    Next up: *edit let's see them nymphs
     
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  5. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Nymphs you say? I got THREE of 'em!!

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    Lucius Verus, AD 161-169.
    Roman Provincial Æ assarion, 4.23 g, 18 mm.
    Thrace, Augusta Trajana, AD 161-169.
    Obv: ΑV ΚΑΙ Λ ΑV-ΡΗ ΟVΗΡΟϹ, bare head, right.
    Rev: ΑV-Γ-ΟV-ϹΤΗϹ | ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗϹ, three nymphs, stolate, standing facing, arms draped on each other's shoulders and holding unknown objects (thymiatera? tripods?) at sides.
    Refs: RPC IV 10343 (temporary); Schonert-Geiss 89; Varbanov II 909; Moushmov (1912) --; Moushmov Online 2987A; Staal, pl. 2, fig. 12.[1]

    Next: Lucius Verus
     
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  6. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    LUCIUS VERUS AR

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    RI Lucius Verus 161-169 CE AR Denarius Providentia globe cornucopiae RIC 253

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    Next: Cato
     
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  7. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

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    Next up: another RR Quinarius
     
  8. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

    Here is my very first RR coin
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    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus 88 BC. Rome
    Quinarius AR
    Laureate head of Jupiter r.
    Victory r. crowning trophy; in exergue, CN LENT
    Crawford 345/2, RSC I Cornelia 51a (ill.), BMCRR 2443-2444, Sear RCV I 255 (ill.), Sydenham 703, RBW Collection 1313
    14 mm., 1,65 g.

    Next - another Victory on a Republican coin.
     
  9. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: Roman republic biga
     
  10. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Here's one of my favorites (it was in my Top 10 last year):

    Roman Republic, Ti. Claudius Ti.f. Ap.n. Nero [Tiberius Claudius Nero, son of Tiberius and grandson of Appius], AR Serrate Denarius, 78 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Diana right with hair in topknot, bow and quiver over shoulder, figure of stag’s head at end of bow (horns to left), S • C [Senatus Consulto] before / Rev. Winged Victory driving galloping biga right, with horses’ heads straining forward, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond and reins in left hand, control number CXXXIIII beneath horses; in exergue, TI•CLAVD•TI•F [VD ligate] / [A]P•N [AP ligate] in two lines. Crawford 383/1, RSC Claudia 5, Sear RCV I 310 (ill.), Sydenham 770, BMCRR 3096-3113 [Control number CXXXIIII not included], Harlan, RRM I Ch. 8, pp. 36-39 [Harlan, Michael, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012)]. 18 mm., 4.01 g., 6 h.*

    Ti. Claudius Nero 79 BCE Diana-Victory in biga jpg version.jpg

    *The moneyer belonged to the patrician Nerones branch of the Claudii, and was the paternal grandfather of the Emperor Tiberius. Harlan, supra at p. 36. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Nero_(grandfather_of_Tiberius_Caesar). Later on, according to Harlan, he served under Pompey in the pirate wars of 67 BCE, with his area of command the Spanish waters as far as the Pillar of Hercules. This coin was part of a large issue in two series, with control numbers in the first series running from I to CLXV, and in the second series using the letter A coupled with numbers 1 to CLXXXII. It is believed that this issue (like the large issue of Naevius Balbus in the previous year (Crawford 382/1, also showing Victory at the reins of a chariot, albeit a triga) represents money minted for the use of Quintus Caecilius Metullus Pius (the issuer of Crawford 374/1 in 81 BCE, with an elephant reverse) in Sulla’s Spanish war against Sertorius in 79 BCE. Id. Sear agrees; see Sear RCV I at p. 130.

    In 1904, Grueber posited in BMCRR that Diana’s appearance on the obverse of this coin was a reference to the Sabine origin of the gens Claudia, given Diana’s own Sabine origin. Crawford rejected this view, but Harlan agrees with Grueber; see RRM 1 at p. 37. He also notes that the inspiration for Diana’s portrayal on this coin must have been her depiction on the obverse of the coin of Aulus Postumius in 81 BCE (Crawford 372/1, with a reverse showing a heifer about to be sacrificed by a priest to Diana on the Aventine Hill): “the goddess is depicted in the very same style on both coins: her hair is tied in a knot on top of her head and the unmistakable attributes of bow and quiver are over her shoulder making the identity of the goddess certain. Claudius’ coin continues the theme of caput orbis terrarum [Rome as head of the world] so clearly expressed by Postumius. Diana, whose appearance on Roman coinage during the 70s was far more common than any other decade of Republican coinage, was emblematic of the extension of Roman imperium.” Id.

    Next: another coin from a Roman Republican moneyer part of whose name matches that of one or more Roman emperors. (I know there are at least a couple of other such moneyers.)
     
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  11. Sulla80

    Sulla80 Well-Known Member

    Next: another coin from a Roman Republican moneyer part of whose name matches that of one or more Roman emperors. (I know there are at least a couple of other such moneyers.)

    here’s a C. Fabius Hadrianus -
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    Next: a bird other than eagle
     
  12. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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    MACEDON, Eion
    460-400 BCE
    AR trihemiobol; 0.74g, 12mm
    Obv: goose standing right, head reverted; lizard above
    Rev: quadripartite incuse square
    Ref: Cf. SNG ANS 287

    Next: lizard or reptile
     
  13. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 3 (118/119 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder, AYT KAIC TPAIANOC -AΔΡΙΑNOC ϹƐΒ (clockwise from 5:00) / Rev. Serpent Agathodaemon standing erect right, crowned with pschent/skhent [the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt] , tongue protruding, with coils enfolding caduceus to left and stalks of corn to right; L - Γ (Year 3) across fields. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5149 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5149; Emmett 803.3; BMC 16 Alexandria 665 (at p. 79) (1892) [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 2]; K&G 32.68 (at p. 118); Dattari (Savio) 1541; Milne 918 at p. 25 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 13] [Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)]; Geissen 764 [ill. as RPC Vol. III 5149, specimen 18]. 24 mm., 13.81 g., 12 h. Purchased from http://www.cgb.fr July 2021, ex. Collection of Aymé Cornu (1926-2020) (Engineer. - Head of the mass spectrometry laboratory at the Center for Nuclear Studies in Grenoble, France; see https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/).
    [Footnote omitted]

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    Next: another coin with one or more snakes or serpents. (Whatever the difference between the two may be -- I have no idea!)
     
  14. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: Aesclepios
     
  15. Shea19

    Shea19 Well-Known Member

    76F89F34-786D-4FDC-A8DD-A5B835CCD8F3.jpeg Caracalla, Thrace, Philippopolis, AE Tetrassarion (32 mm, 21.70 g), 209-211 A.D., AΥT K M AΥΡ ANTΩNEINOC Laureate head of Caracalla to right./ Rev. ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛEITΩN Asklepios standing facing, head turned to the left, resting right hand on grounded serpent-entwined staff and holding left arm over which hang folds of drapery before him

    Next: provincial bronze from Thrace
     
  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    I'll add a Thracian provincial of Faustina II to the mix:
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    Faustina II, AD 147-175.
    Roman provincial Æ triassarion, 6.57 g, 21.7 mm, 8 h.
    Thrace, Pautalia, AD 161-175.
    Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝΑ-CΕΒΑCΤΗ, draped bust of Faustina II, right; band of pearls around head.
    Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC-ΠΑV-ΤΑΛΙΑC, Roma (or Athena Nikephoros?) enthroned left, wearing a Corinthian helmet, holding Nike in outstretched right hand and spear in left arm.
    Refs: RPC IV 8814; Ruzicka 142.

    Next: someone wearing a Corinthian helmet.
     
    Last edited: Nov 28, 2021
  17. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    ASIA MINOR.
    Mysia. Lampsakos circa 500-450 BC.
    Male head (of Apollo?) to left, wearing taenia.
    Rev: Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet, within incuse square.
    Asia Minor Coins, #12762; similar to CNG E-Auction 378 (2016), 161; Pecunem Online Auctions Auction 39 3 January 2016, lot 257; otherwise unpublished in the standard references
    Tetartemorion 0,14 g, 7 mm

    Next - tetartemorion
     
  18. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

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    MYLASA, CARIA
    AR Tetartemorion
    OBVERSE: Lion's head left with reversed foreleg below
    REVERSE: Lion's scalp facing, flanked by leg on both sides, in incuse circle
    Struck at Mylasa, 392-376 BC
    .2g, 6mm
    SNG Keckman I 837-846 (lion left)

    Struck by Hecatomnus of Mylasa or Hekatomnos (Greek: Ἑκατόμνος) was an early 4th-century BC ruler of Caria. He was the satrap (governor) of Caria for the Persian Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II (404–358 BC). However, the basis for Hecatomnus' political power was twofold: he was both a high appointed Persian official and a powerful local dynast, who founded the hereditary dynasty of the Hecatomnids.


    Next: Lion's scalp
     
  19. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Erythrai
    AL Hekte ND circa 550-500BC
    10mm. 2.61g
    Herakles wearing Lion Headdress
    Quadripartite Punch
    Next: Herakles f502feb400c6a872935933278b2e5c06.jpg
     
  20. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

  21. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

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    Agrippa, as minted under Caligula
    Obv.: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa wearing rostral crown, left
    Rev.: S C, Neptune standing left holding trident and dolphin

    NEXT : another different coin with Agrippa!
     
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