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How often do you see someone wearing not only a crapass hat, but a crab as a hat?


Bruttium, The Brettii, AE ¼ unit, ca. 211–208 BC. Obv: head of Amphitrite l., wearing crab headdress. Rev: BRET-TIΩN; crab; racing torch above. 13mm, 1.73g. Ref: HN Italy 1990; SNG ANS 123–125; Scheu (1962), no. 51.

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Next: Sicily

 

You didn't say minted in Sicily, so instead here's a portrayal of Sicily:

Roman Republic, Mn. Aquillius Mn.f. Mn.n. [Manius Aquillius, son of Manius and grandson of Manius], AR Serrate Denarius, 71 BCE [Harlan: 67 BCE], Rome Mint. Obv. Helmeted and draped bust of Virtus right; III VIR downwards behind, VIRTVS upwards in front / Rev. Manius Aquillius [the moneyer’s grandfather, Consul 101 BCE] standing facing, head right, bearing shield on his left side, raising with his right hand a prostrate Sicilia [personification of Sicily], kneeling left at his feet; MN. AQVIL. upwards to right, MN. F. MN. N. [each MN in monogram] downwards to left; SICIL in exergue. Crawford 401/1, RSC I Aquillia 2 (ill.), Sear RCV I 336 (ill.), Sydenham 798, Harlan RRM I Ch. 31, pp. 183-188 [Harlan, Michael, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012)]. 18x20 mm., 3.76 g.*



*See Sear RCV I at p. 135, noting that this coin has the “first appearance on the coinage of the triumviral title of a moneyer (III VIR = tresvir).” This is also one of only two Republican coins to depict Virtus on the obverse. The reverse design on the coin commemorates the moneyer’s grandfather, Manius Aquillius (identified in the legend), and his successful suppression in 101 BCE of a slave revolt in Sicily that had begun in 104 BCE. Sicily is portrayed as an under-nourished, helpless girl shielded and uplifted by Mn Aquillius and the military might of Rome. See Harlan at pp. 183-188. Harlan notes that although the moneyer’s grandfather was awarded an ovation in 100 BCE after his victory (a lesser form of triumph, awarded for defeating slaves, pirates, etc.), he was later charged with having engaged in extortion and bribe-taking in Sicily (although he was acquitted because of his bravery in the war), and ultimately, while serving as ambassador on a mission to Asia, was defeated and captured by Mithridates VI of Pontus, who ordered his execution in 88 BCE by the method of having molten gold poured down his throat. In issuing this coin, the moneyer obviously chose to focus on his grandfather’s earlier successes in Sicily rather than his unfortunate end, perhaps (according to Harlan) trying to equate his grandfather’s successes with the recent suppression of the Spartacus slave revolt -- ironically enough by Crassus, given his supposed execution by the Parthians after Carrhae by exactly the same method.

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Next: another man-headed bull.

 

next: Eagle(s) with prey

too late

 

next: Victory/Niké flying around

 

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Next up : consular portrait

 

Probus, AD 276-282.
Roman billon antoninianus, 4.15 g, 22.05 mm, 6 h.
Serdica, 4th officina, 4th emission, AD 277.
Obv: IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate bust, left, in imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped scepter.
Rev: SOLI INVICTO, Sol, in spread quadriga, raising right hand and holding whip in left hand; -/-//KAΔ.
Refs: RIC 861 H; RCV 12040 var. (bust).

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AURELIAN
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: ORIENS AVG, Sol standing left with hand raised, foot on one of two bound captives, XXIP in ex.
Struck at Serdica, 274 AD
3.4g, 23mm
RIC 63f, Venera 1008, C 145

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next: coin minted between the Euphraat and the Tigris

 

Mesopotamia, Carrhae. Gordian III AE29.
Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, r., seen from rear.
Rev: ΜΗΤΡ ΚΟΛ ΚΑΡΡΗΝⲰΝ, crescent and star.

Next: provincial Mesopotamia.

 

Trajan Decius (249-251), Rhesaina (Ras al-'Ayn, Syria - presently occupied by Turkish forces, and they're not going to give it back to Syria soon).

AYT. KAI. ΓAI. MEC. KY. [ΔEKIOC ? TPAI]ANOC CEB. , radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
[CEΠ.] PHCAINHCIωN L. III P. , Temple seen in perspective, eagle inside ; beneath, the River-god Aborrhas (the Khabur) swimming left.

Next : building (temple or any other building) seen in perspective!

 

COMMAGENE, Zeugma.

Philip I the Arab or Philip II. 247-249 AD.

Æ31, 19.2g; 6h

Obv.: AYTOK K M IOYΛI ФIΛIΠΠOC CЄB; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.

Rev.: ZЄYGM-ATЄΩN; Peribolos containing grove of trees, seen in perspective; tetrastyle temple in distance, draped figure within (Zeus?); in exergue, capricorn to right.

Reference: Butcher 31c; BMC 35.





Another perspective architectural type

 

I don't stray from ancient to often so...


Nürnberg, Rechenpfennig. Dietzel, Johann Jakob
Obv: Ludwig XV. (1701-1748)
Rev: Park with fountain. Rv: AD.NVTVM.ASSVRGVNT RECH•PF/I.I.D.

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I dont collect them , but will pick up a nice one,
next: Heracles with an animal

 

Diobol AR
10 mm, 0,90 g
CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 380-325 BC. AR Diobol Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp/ Herakles crouching right, holding club and strangling the Nemean Lion to right. Vlasto 1303–5; HN Italy 911.

Next - Athena portrait

 

Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left. Control-symbols behind head: Retrograde N and Ares standing left holding shield and spear. Pegasi 376 var. [“N” not retrograde] [Calciati, R., Pegasi Vol. I (Mortara, 1990)]; Ravel 1056 var. [“N” not retrograde] [Ravel, O.E., Les "Poulains" de Corinthe, I - II (Basel, 1936; London, 1948)]; BCD Corinth 121 [Numismatik Lanz, Münzen von Korinth: Sammlung B, Auction 105 (Munich, 26 Nov. 2001)]; SNG Copenhagen 121 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 15, Corinth (Copenhagen 1944)]. 21mm, 8.46 g., 6h. Ex. Roma Numismatics Ltd. Auction IX, 22 March 2015, Lot 168.


Next, Pegasus.

 

Celtic Tribes. Geto-Dacian, Danube Region. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.66g, 7h). Contemporary Geto-Dacian imitation of a Roman Republican denarius. Imitates Q. Titius (circa 90 BC). Obv: Head of Liber (or Bacchus) right, wearing ivy wreath, linear border. Rev: ΘΠIΠ, Pegasus springing right from pedestal, linear border. Ref: Davis Class A, Group Ib, C28; Cf. prototype Crawford 341/2. Sydenham 692. Titia 2. Same dies as CNG 103, Lot 423 and NN Auction 3, Lot 4. Good Very Fine, nice toning. Ex N Naumann Auction 86 (2 Feb 2020), Lot 451.

Next: Another RR Imitation.

 

I LOVE Celtic RR imitations! I assume many of them were coming out of Spain but haven't read up on them much. Here's one:

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