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Lucius Verus AR Denarius. Fouree?
Obv: IMP L AVREL VERVS AVG, bare-headed, cuirassed bust right.
Rev: PROV DEOR TR P II COS II, Providentia standing left, holding globe and cornucopiae.

 

Are we on to "M"?

I guess "K" could've been a provincial of Commodus (or Caracalla, etc.) with a Greek legend! (Kinda stretching it.)
Μ Α ΚΟΜ(MODO) ΑΝΤ:


Here's my Maximian Quies / Retirement Follis (second retirement (!), after Carnutum, November 308, possibly late 307).

Maximianus Herculius (second reign 306-308) AE Follis (26mm, 6.16g). Treviri 307-308 CE.
Obv: MAXIMIANVS PF AVG. Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: QVIES AVG / S–A / PTR. Quies standing facing, head left, holding branch in her right hand and sceptre in her left.
Ref: RIC VI, p. 218, 788; C 494; Sear IV, p. 176, 13417; Vagi 2770; OCRE (RIC 788, 4 specs., 2 ill.).
Prov: Reportedly ex-E. A. Sydenham (1873-1948) Collection (Glendining & Co, 24 November 1948, Lot 826 part, no. 5 of 32). Ex-Naville Numismatics 67 (1 August 2021), Lot 554.​

NEXT: "N"

 

Numerian (Ticinum Mint, 6th Officina, RIC V-2 447, ex. Pegasi Numismatics):



Next, "O"

 

Next: p

 

My first thought was to post a coin of OYЄCΠACIANOC - but then was beaten to the buzzer with OTHO so here is a Probus:



Next: Q - brother of Claudius II comes to mind...

 

Postumus


RI Postumus struck by Aureolus 268 CE Revolt of Milan Concordia

Next: Q

 

Oops, this is @Sulla80 ’s request

This Usurper did not go quietly...



Roman Imperial
Quietus (Usurper, 260-261).
AR Antoninianus (21mm, 4.55g, 5h).
Antioch mint
Obv: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r.
Rev: Fortuna seated l. On wheel, holding cornucopia and rudder; star in l. field.
Ref: RIC V 4; RSC 5.
R2 VF

Next: R

 

Romanus II

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with son Romanus II. 913-959, AR Miliaresion, Constantinople mint. Struck 945-959
Obv: IESuS xRIStVS nIcA, Cross-crosslet set on three steps; globus below
Rev:+ COҺST’ τ’/ ΠORFVROG,/ CЄ ROmAҺO/ ЄҺ X’ω EVSEЬ’/ Ь’ RωmEOҺ in five lines
Obv Translation: Jesus Christ Victor
Rev Translation: Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Romanus, by the grace of Christ, Pius, Emperors of the Romans

next : S

 

Septimius Severus, tetradrachm, Loadicea ad Mare, 209-211 AD



Next: T

 

Tiberius, AD 14-37.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.87 g, 18.5 mm, 5 h.
Lugdunum, AD 16-37.
Obv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head, right.
Rev: PONTIF MAXIM, Female figure seated right, holding long olive branch and inverted spear; legs of chair ornate, triple line below.
Refs: RIC 28; BMCRE 42-44; RSC 16b; RCV 1763 var.

Next: Looks like we're on "U," a letter not in the Roman alphabet. So we'll also have to accept "V."

 

next: W ? X ?

 

I do not live online anymore so I can't participate on threads like this efficiently. For the record, there are antoniniani (more than one reverse type) from Ticinum for Carus spelled KARVS. I always wanted one but never got it. acsearch has many.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=200706
Of course all his Greek language provincials will be with K but the Ticinum coins are Latin language.

 

As for X -- closest fit I can think of is Constantine X Ducas (AD 1059-1067), though the X was not a contemporary "name," and Rome was long lost to the Roman Empire by then.... I may be able to dig up an ugly anonymous follis of his time in the next 3h 50m if someone else can't find it first. Otherwise, Z has a few possibilities.

(We've been doing better on the scarcer letters, those with only a couple options, than I expected early on!)

 

Not Roman - but he was King of Sicily: REX W

Sicily: William II 1166-1189 A.D.
Mint: Messina
Obv: o REX W / SCYS in 2 lines in center + OPERATA IN VRBE MESSANE around
Rev: In Arabic الملك غليوم الثاني (al-malik/Ghulyalim/al-thani) "the King William the second" in center and further inscription around "duriba bi-amr al-malik al-mu'azzam al-musta'izz bi-llah" translated "struck by the order of the king the great and strong by the grace of God".

Next: Emperor or King with "Z" name

 

Zeno


RI Zeno 476-491 CE 2nd reign AE 10mm Monogram

Next: another Z Leader

 

Zoilos:



Pseudo-Rhodian Drachm, struck under Perseus, to pay Cretan mercenaries.
CNG once wrote of this type (in EA 470 [17 June 2020], Lot 62, quoting their own Sale XXVII [29 September 1993], Lot 456):

"Price has suggested that the Zo... which replaces the Rhodian ethnic on this issue may be the patronymic of the named issuer, Hermias, and indeed we know of a Hermias son of Zoilos at exactly this period, a man who came from Oropos and was Hieromnemon at Delphi in 178 BC. Zoilos himself may also be the same man whose name appears below the portrait of Perseus on his early tetradrachms, and whose monogram continues to appear on Perseus' coinage for much of the period of the full weight issues."​

NEXT: Another Wartime Issue

 

ThessalianLeague, Thessaly,Greece, c. 170 B.C. GB84862. Bronze chalkous, Warren, "Two Notes," NC 1961, pl. I, 11; BCD Thessaly II 24.2; HGC 4 236; Rogers 4 var., VF, dark green patina, cleaning scratches, earthen deposits, Demetrias(?) mint, weight 2.535g, maximum diameter 14.7mm, c. 170 B.C.; obverse Macedonian shield with star in central boss; reverse kestrosphendone (dart sling) with dart inside, ΘEΣΣA/ΛΩN divided in two lines, the first above, ending below; ex John Jencek;
Next up: out of the usual weapon

 

This coin is from Jani Beg (son of Öz Beg/Uzbek), the year of his siege of Genoese city of Caffa AD 1343. An account from Gabriele de’ Mussi (writing circa AD 1348/9), tells of Jani Beg's siege of Caffa and the "out of the usual weapon" of catapulted plague infected bodies used to attack the city.

Golden Horde, Jani Beg, 1341-1357, AR dirham (1.54g), struck only at Saray al-Jadida (“New Saray”), AH743 (AD 1342/3), ruler's name in Uighur together with his titles in Arabic
Obv: Sultan, the Just, Jani Beg, Jalal al-din Mahmud خلد الله ملكه [...] السلطان العادل
Rev: minted in Saray al-Jadida 743 ضرب سراي الجديد في سنة ٧۴۳
Ref: Sagdeeva 217, Album A-2027
Notes: More on this story with additional references "Coins of the Silk Road"

Next: WILD*CARD (anything you want to post as next)

 

Next up: good looking portrait