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@Sallent, that's a nice OP coin! You can read an introduction to the argenteus denomination at my site: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/argenteus/...
Acheloos is going to be a tough one! @Alegandron , if you can do it, you may have to do it yourself!
Oliver Hoover is the author of the multi-volume series "Handbook of the Coins of ..." where "Sicily" is one volume among 8 already published among...
Here is a silver drachm of Lydia [ATTACH] Trajan, 98-117. 19-18 mm. 3.29 grams. ΔHMEΞ YΠATB [second consulship] two lyres, owl above Sear Greek...
@Andres2, that example is wonderful--except for the Hoover coin it is far better than the published SNG examples I cited.
Here is a remarkable coin with four [EDIT: five] types of seafood! [ATTACH] 27 mm. Thick (5 mm). 23.84 grams. A hemilitra. Akragas in Sicily, c....
Oops! @Bing beat me by "a moment ago". We'll go with his choice, Lydia.
Here is a thunderbolt as a type, not just an adjunct. [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius (138-161). Denarius. 18 mm. 3.08 grams Sear II 4103. RIC 80...
Here is a coin of Ariarathes IV, 220-163 of the Kingdom of Cappadocia. [ATTACH] Drachm. Silver 20 mm. 4.12 grams. His diademed head right Athena...
[ATTACH] Viminacium, Gordian III, 238-244 30 mm. 18.91 grams. Latin legend: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FELIX AVG Provincia Moesia (as a female figure)...
[ATTACH] Zeugma, Commagene, Syria Otacilia Severa (wife of Philip I, 244-249) 29 mm. 16.65 grams. Butcher, CRS Zeugma 31b. Sear Greek Imperial 4056.
@GerardV, welcome to ancient-coin collecting. I bought my first ancient over 45 years ago and I still find them fascinating. Every coin type has a...
Judging from the lack of responses to this thread, there must not really be very many. I know wolf-and-twins were minted by several emperors at...
Here is a wolf-and-twins provincial coin of Gordian III (238-244) from Antioch in Pisidia: [ATTACH] A sestertius-sized 34 mm coin. 25.9 grams....
We had a nice thread on wolf-and-twins coins which emphasized Roman Republican and imperial pieces....
@Ed Snible gave a good answer. I would add that Caracalla and Septimius Severus minted at many provincial mints. Caracalla's listings in Sear's...
Here is one from Tripolis, Phoenicia. [ATTACH] 23 mm. 9.44 grams. Caracalla. 198-217. Astarte standing right, foot on prow, one either side the...
The original would be silver, not gold. The photo does not make it look like 24 caret gold, but if it is, it is not an ancient coin.
Almost any quoted pedigree can be invented unless the catalog had a photo, and photos were not common in sales before about 1950. Any criminal can...
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