I think the kalima on obv. reads "la ilah ila Allah, Muhammad rasul Allah" (there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the prophet of Allah".
The reverse legend is IOVI STATORI (Jupiter Stator in the dative form)
These four figures are Tyches, they all wear a mural crown, as one can see on well-preserved specimens like this one (Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins &...
Maximilian Heinrich Archbishop of Cologne, 2 albus, 1667 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=13377236
There is another large bronze of Antioch, a 8 assaria coin: see the H in exergue, H means 8 in Greek. [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, Antioch on...
Very interesting coin, yes, and of course scarce like most of the large city-coins. The Tyche of Damascus seems to have been designed after the...
[ATTACH] Two years ago I visited the British Museum in London and took this picture. These four gilded silver statuettes were part of the...
Some reflexions on your interesting sestertii of Elagabalus. You wrote . The Adventus is not about the emperor leaving rome but entering Rome....
[ATTACH] This dupondius of Galba cannot be cleaned, but what a portrait!
[ATTACH] Athens, AE 12 mm, late 3rd c. BC Obv.: head of Athena right, wearing corinthian helmet rev.: ΑΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing, in wreath
very eclectic the 1st one (hercules' head right / prow of ship right) must be a Roman quadrans of the Republican period (1st c. BC) the 2nd one (3...
Funny to see it here ! This follis is in my collection...
I can recognize a Kushan AE tetradrachm, a Judean prutah of Agrippa I, a Kashmiri AE coin of the 11th c., a small Hellenistic coin (3rd or 2nd c....
yes of course it's twice AΘH. There is no Greek name beginning with AЄH, but more than one beginning with AΘH...
Superb tetradrachm ! Because this coin is dated from the "Victory era" the corn-ears in the Tyche's hand have been replaced by a palm, symbol of...
[ATTACH] Here is the Vatican statue. It has been found in Rome, I don't know where precisely. The inscription on the base is modern, it says it...
This pentanummion (a 5 nummia coin) circulated in Antioch under Justin I (518-527). It represents the centuries-old statue of the Tyche of...
[ATTACH] I don't have 12 Caesars but I have 1 Augustus
[ATTACH] This sestertius of Gordien III was a birthday present from my wife. [ATTACH] Another gift, from friends : this Gaulish ЄΛKЄSOOYIX /...
Nice coin ! Here is [ATTACH] rev. IOVI CON[s. aug.], the Amalthea goat. and [ATTACH] SOLI CONS AVG / H in exergue.
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