That's what I have to figure out - I've just been too lazy to go through RIC mint-by-mint. But I can't avoid it any longer.
I've mentioned before that I'm collecting a mint set of Constans GLORIA EXERCITVS types with two standards. These are some of the scarcest...
But the OP "coin" has Athena on the obverse. The only Macedonian type that comes to mind with Athena/Bow/Club is an issue of Kassander, but on...
These were followed by the even smaller, crappier SPES REIPVBLICE types. Most of those are in the same condition as your FH, or worse. Finding a...
RIC cites it as common, most examples coming from the BM. These are at the tail end of the FH emission.
I read it as R wreath Q, Rome mint 4th officina. RIC VIII Rome 309, p. 278.
Yes, I meant to say Zeus-Hadad, not Zeus-Ammon. The local deities were appropriated by the Romans into their pantheon, so on Roman provincial...
The coin doesn't look ancient to me - maybe it's the pic, but the fabric just isn't right. For one thing, it doesn't look like bronze or silver,...
Now that I take a second look at it, whether it's an A or an H, the engraver seems to have drawn it rotated 90 degrees to the rest of the mint...
Roman A's look like H's. They're not typically connected at the top, so A.
I use a Nikon Coolpix L22. I think I paid around $80 for it, about 5 years ago.
Scanners aren't good for imaging coins. Even a simple, inexpensive camera with macro focusing is a thousand times better than a scanner.
Huh. Very interesting! I've never seen the type. I assume Atargatis is one of the gods on the thrones. Is the other Zeus-ammon?
Yeah Steve, I forgot you had that coin. It's a beauty!
Where are these coins from? I've seen Atargatis riding a lion on bronzes of Hieropolis and Cyrrhestica in general, but I'm not familiar with the...
I like it! Don't make me pull out my Nabataean tesserae!
Thank you very much Cyrrhus!
Thanks Cyrrhus. Do you mind checking if the attribution in Spijkerman is correct? I only have SNG ANS, but I trust Tom Vossen's attributions...
Coins of the Levant comprise a substantial part of my collecting interests, so I'll be posting all my new acquisitions in this thread. Here is the...
Hard to tell from the pic, but is it a Rome mint mark? Because that would give it some interest on account of scarcity.
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