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Phrygia


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

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next: ptolemaic

 

AV 1/10 Stater ND
Cyrene Mint
Magas/ Ptolemaic Governor of Cyrene
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Next: Worn Greek silver

 

Pamphylia, Aspendos, AR Stater, Circa 465-430 BC
Obv: Warrior advancing to right, holding shield and spear
Rev: Triskeles within incuse square

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Worn, battered, countermarked, banker's marks and graffiti: it has it all.
next: more worn silver.

 

Next: triskeles

 

Triskeles


LYCIA
Dynast Perikles 380-360 BCE
AR 1/3 Stater
20x14mm 2.8g
Facing lion's scalp
Triskeles
BMC 157

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Numidia, Massinissa or Micipsa (208-118 BC), AE 29 mm, 15.88 g
Obv.: laureate head of king (?) left
Rev.: horse galloping left, over globule

NEXT : Nabataea

 

Arabia Petraea, Petra. Aretas IV Ae15
Kings of the Nabataeans
Obv: Aretas IV stands between palm branch and monogram.
Rev: His wife Shaqilat standing left, raising hand; wreath to left.
9 B.C.-A.D. 40
Meshorer 97, SNG Cop. -

Next: Arabia

 

Well Yemen is on Arabian peninsula....
Next:Umayyad Caliphate coin.

 

Arab-Byzantine fals - Emesa (Homs, Syria)
KAΛON / b-Homs (in Arabic) , bust of a Byzantine emperor holding globe with cross.
EMI CHC around large m ; tayyib (= "good", like καλον in Greek) in exergue.

NEXT : Standing caliph

 

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Next: Another imitative coin

 

Next: BIG NOSE

 

I can’t pass this one up for big nose! (Sorry those of you expecting Nerva )


Next: More big noses!

 

Not as big as the one Curtisimo mentioned, (who can beat that!) but he got his nickname Grypos (hook-nose) because of its respectable size and shape:

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Edit: Cool coin, @Curtisimo. I haven't come across that one before. Where is it from? I need to get one!

 

Next: more with the big schnozes

 

ATTICA ATHENS
AR Tetradrachm
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Athena right, in crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor & a spiral palmette on the bowl; eye in profile
REVERSE: AQE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig & crescent behind
Struck at Athens 350-300 BC
16.9g, 22mm
Sg2537

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