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I guess I'll slip it in here then. Thanks Ryro!



Next: another coin of biblical significance.

 

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My pleasure. Here's mine:

Next: anther coin of someone known as evil

 

Caligula - considered evil - by most standards anyway.

next, another emperor considered to be evil.

 

Next: Herakles

 

Aes grave quadrans of Hercules (Herakles Gr.) / prow of ship.

next , another of Hercules...

 

Hercules strangling a lion.

Maximianus; A.D. 289
Silvered Antoninianus
21x23mm 3.0gm
Obv: IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG; Helmeted & cuirassed bust right.
Rev: VIRTVTI AVGG; Victory flying right, crowning Hercules, who is strangling lion. Club thrown behind him.
RIC Vii Lyons 462

Next: lion

 

Denarius of Caracalla with lion reverse , with lightening bolt in his mouth.

next , another lion...

 

Next: Phoenicia

 

Macrinus, Phoenicia (Tyre), BI tetradrachm, (25 mm, 12.52 g). ΑΥΤ•ΚΑΙ•Μ•ΟΠ•CЄ• ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟC•CЄ• Laureate head of Macrinus to right./ Rev. Eagle with spread wings standing facing on club, head to left and holding wreath in beak; between the eagle's legs, murex shell. Prieur 1554.

Next: Macrinus

 

Macrinus Augustus and Diadumenian Caesar, AE Pentassarion [5 Assaria], 217-218 AD, Marcianopolis Mint, Moesia Inferior [now Devnya, Bulgaria] (Pontianus, consular legate). Obv. Confronted heads of Macrinus, laureate, right, and Diadumenian, bareheaded, left, [AVT K OΠE]Λ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC [bracketed portion off flan][ = Imperator, Caesar, Opellius Augustus Macrinus, Caesar Marcus Opellius Antoninus ] / Rev. Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in extended right hand and caduceus in left hand; chlamys hanging over left arm; E [mark of value for “5”] in right field, VΠ Macrinus ΠONTIANOV MAP-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN (ΩN ligate) [ = Consular Legate Pontianus, (coin) of the people of Markianopolis]. AMNG I/I 740 [Pick, Behrendt, Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 240-241]; BMC 3 Thrace 35 [R.S. Poole, ed. A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. (London, 1877) at p. 32]; Hristova & Jekov 6.24.10.3 [Nina Hristova & Gospodin Jekov, The Local Coinage of the Roman Empire - Moesia Inferior, I - III c. A.D., MARCIANOPOLIS (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 2006)]; Diadumenian.com /marcianopolis5.html, No. Mar5.33d. 25 mm, 12.89 g. Purchased from Kirk Davis, Cat # 75, Fall 2020, Lot 62; ex.: Dr. Paul Rynearson (ca. 2003). (Coin is double die match to Lot 696, CNG Triton XII Auction, Jan. 5, 2009.)



Next, another pair of confronted heads from a location in today's Bulgaria.

 

GORDIAN III and TRANQUILLINA
AE25, Mesembria, 241-244
AYT K M AN ΓOPΔIANOC AYT CEB - TPANKYΛΛ-INA, Busts of Gordian and Tranquillina, facing one another.
MECAMBRIANΩN, Homonoia std left.

Next: Tranquillina

 

Gordian and Tranq, confronted.



NEXT: coin from Mesopotamia

 

Not a beauty, but I wanted an Alexander from Babylon:
Next: a silver coin, west of Babylon, but east of Tarsos.

 

Phoenicia, Sidon. AR 1/16 shekel. ca 342-332 BC.
Obv: Galley left.
Rev: Persian king standing right, about to slay erect lion whose mane he seizes; Phoenician letters between.

Next: AR (Phoenicia or galley).

 

Phoenician and a galley. It looks a lot better in hand, but the date over the galley is forever doomed to remain a mystery.

The figure on the obverse has been identified as a bearded deity, bearded marine deity, Melqart, Ba'al Arwad, or Dagon. Have your pick.

Next: silver with an oddly shaped flan.

 

next: Siglos

 

Lydia warrior type / incuse (silver despite color of photo)

 

NEXT????

 

no response, so I throw in another siglos.



Next someone with a bow

 

Here's a Diana with a bow on a RR sestertius.

Moneyer: T. Carisius
Obv.: Diademed bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder
Rev.: T. CAR - Hound running right
Mint: Rome (46 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 0.95g / 10mm / 10h
References:

• RSC 7 (Carisia)
• Sydenham 989
• Crawford 464/8a
• HCRI 76
• RBW 1621

Provenances:

• Ex. Gemini Sale X, 2013, lot 227
• Ex. Randy Haviland Collection

Acquisition: NAC Online auction Spring Sale 2020 #660 25-May-2020



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