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Denarius of Vespasian.
next - coin of one of his sons (or daughter)...

 

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Ae sestertius of Titus.

next, provincial coin of Titus from Judea....

 

Judaea, Askalon. Titus AE24
Obv: ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head right.
Rev: AΣKAΛΩ, Tyche standing left on prow, holding standard and aphlaston, altar to left, dove standing left over ΔΠΡ (year 184) in right field.

Next: Askalon

 

Fantastic example of that type, much better than the vast majority! I'm curious, does anyone know why it's identified as a "dove" not eagle? Is it simply because the wings are closed? Other objects depicted?

When I see identification of doves, it's usually justified (if at all) only by closed wings, but there were lots of Roman era depictions of eagles with closed wings (as in the Hellenistic period), especially in that part of the world. (Though more so by the 3rd cent. CE.)

I haven't seen Tyche associated with doves elsewhere, though she often appears with eagles on Hellenistic & Roman coins.

I'd love to be able to recognize which birds are doves on Roman Provincial coins and RPC countermarks (or at least know when the scholars aren't really sure that they're doves instead of eagles)...

 

Ascalon, Trajan. It's the same reverse but with the date ΔIC : year 214 = 110-111 AD.
The bird in the right field is considered a dove because several ancient sources (I don't remember which ones right now) mention the goddess Derketo, goddess of Ascalon, associated with doves.

Next up : Gaza.

 

Judaea, Gaza. Hadrian AE22
Obv: laureate & draped bust right.
Rev: Tyche standing left, holding sceptre & cornucopiae; lowing heifer standing at feet left; Marnas symbol in right field.

Next: Aelia Capitolina

 

Thank you!!

 

12 hrs
Trajan Decius, Abundantia

Next, a Divus issue under Trajan Decius.

 

People wonder why the game keeps getting held up and has to keep resetting with the 12 hour rule, but at the same time keep requesting rarities instead of a fun theme. Personally, I like playing the game and not staring at the clock...

 

You still have a few hours. Cool your jets.

I tend to agree though. I love playing and seeing all the cool coins. It is a bit of a bummer when it gets hung up.

 

Here's a Divo Trajan under Trajan Decius.

Obv.: DIVO TRAIANO - Radiate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder
Rev.: CONSECRATIO - Large altar
Mint: Rome (250-251 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.10g / - / 6h
References:

• RIC 86b (Trajan Decius)
• RSC 665

Acquisition/Sale: HJB eBay 29-Aug-2013


Next - an altar.

 

@Ryro, I agree with you that the repeated 12-hour gaps are frustrating. As well as very predictable; I can almost always tell immediately that nobody is going to be able to post anything in response to an obscure prompt. Even when there are, in fact, members who have something they could post, not everybody looks at the game more than once every 12 hours like some of us!

Altar:

Roman Republic, A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus (Aulus Postumius Albinus, son of Aulus [mint magistrate ca. 96 BCE], and grandson of Spurius [Consul 110 BCE]), AR Serrate Denarius, 81 BCE. Obv. Draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder, figure of stag’s head at end of bow (horns to left), bucranium above [off flan] / Rev. Roman priest standing facing on rocky ground (on Aventine Hill), head left, with right arm extended holding aspergillum, sprinkling heifer [Harlan, RRM I*], bull [Crawford & Sear], or ox [RSC] which he is about to sacrifice, a lighted altar between them, A POST - AF - SN • ALBIN [AL in monogram] around. RSC I Postumia 7, Crawford 372/1, Sydenham 745, Sear RCV I 296 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 1 at pp. 1-7, BMCRR 2836. 18.54 mm., 3.85 g. Ex. Spink & Sons Ltd. (before 2000 because of address on Spink coin tag; probably before 1974 given citation to Sydenham but not Crawford.)



* See Michael Harlan, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012) (“RRM I”) (using this coin-type as the cover illustration for his book). At pp. 3-4, Harlan argues that in the legend which, as Crawford acknowledges, is the basis for the reverse of this coin -- namely, the sacrifice to Diana on the Aventine Hill founding her temple there ca. 500 BCE, establishing Rome as the caput rerum for all of Italy [and symbolizing the victory of Sulla over the rebel Italians in 82 BCE] -- the sacrificed animal was a heifer with wondrous horns, not a bull or an ox. (Citing Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, ch. 45 [available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0145:book=1:chapter=45].)

Next, another animal sacrifice scene.

 

fully agree with Ryro and Donna

next: Ares

 

I remember someone one time asked for an obscure, very rare 5th century Roman woman or something (Pulcheria? Eudocia?), and me thinking “good luck with someone posting one”. Naturally, the 12-hour rule was later invoked .

 

Pontos, Amisos. 100-85 BC. (AE 21 mm, 7.20 g). Head of Ares to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet. Rev. AMI-ΣOY Sword in sheath; star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge) and IB across upper field; to lower left and right, monograms

Next: Sword

 

Late Srivijaya/Singapura/Malacca
Palembang, Sumatra
c. 1200-1400 AD
Tin unit | 3.48 grams | 18mm wide
Obv: Lion standing right with its paw raised
Rev: Sword or kris center
Reported from the Musi River​

Next: Another coinage that is from a "late period" from east of the Levant

 

Burma
Pyu Kings
Tanka silver unit of 80 ratti
250-600 AD
9.5 grams




Next: A coin that was demonitzed or a coin that was reminted.

 

Just received in the mail this very interesting coin that fits the reminted theme.

Umayyad Caliphate
AE fals (overstruck on a Roman follis of Honorius, Virtvs Exerciti type)
Obv: The Kalima, in Arabic (D N HONORI [VS P F AVG], bust right)
Rev: Transformed cross(?)
Mint: Unknown mint in the Levant (Constantinople for undertype)
Mintmark: None (CON in ex. for undertype)
Date: 697-750 AD (post-coin reform; undertype struck 395-401 AD)



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