Alphabet game

Thanks, @expat, I like that portrait also- and the fact that his tiny eye made it though the millennia intact helps with the overall impression. Thank you for hosting the alphabet game!

@The Meat man, the Bar Kokhba coin is one of my favorites. Thanks for the compliment on it.


Leaving a Little Lepton:



Judaea, Herodians. Herod Archelaus. 4 BC-6 AD. AE Lepton (1.62 gm, 15mm). Obv.: Galley prow, 'Herod' in Greek. Rev.: 'Ethnarch' in wreath.

 

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Thank you for joining in. Thought it might be a good way to involve those of us left here with something we all have in common (love of old coins) and can participate in with even a tenuous link to the subject letter.

 

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP IMP II, Laureate bust right
REVERSE: BONA SPES, Spes advancing left holding flower and lifting skirt
Struck at Laodicea, 194 AD
3.1g, 18mm
RIC 4a, SS 444, p. 151
Ex Doug Smith collection, #892; ex JAZ Numismatics

 

Will try to join too

Licinus, AE3 Follis
Ostia, 312-313 AD, mint mark MOSTQ

After the death of Maxentius, Constantine, Licinius and Maximianus continued to use the mint at Ostia for a short period along with Rome and Aquileia, and the coins became more and more like those struck in Rome.

19 x 21 mm, 4.756 g
RIC VI 95b;

Ob.: IMP LICINIVS PF AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. with beard
Rev.: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, legionary eagle, standing left, between two vexilla; vexilla to left surmounted by right hand; vexilla to right surmounted by wreath; eagle on flag on one vexillum. Mintmark: MOSTQ

Licinius sported the usual beard of the tetrarchs. Constantine broke with the norm by minting coins with a portrait without beard, but only at his own mints.

 

Gorz, Lienz mint
.85g. M-T 540

 

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Saxony, Leipzig mint
2.65g. Krug 1443-51

 

Liege, Hasselt mint
1.38g. CH. 423
This is one of a few Early Dated copper pieces.

 

Emperor Licinius has already been posted so here his son Licinianus Licinius Junior:

Licinius (II.) Caesar - Nummus - Antioch mint
Also its time for all those french Kings named Louis, like this unfortunate man history knows as King Louis XVI.

King Louis XVI. - 2 Sols - 1792 - Paris mint

 

LICINIUS I
AE2 Follis
OBVERSE: IMP LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate, cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: GENIO POP ROM S-F, Genius standing left, modius on head, loins draped, holding patera & cornucopia, PLN in ex.
Struck at London 313-4 AD
3.2g, 22mm
RIC VII 3

 

L for LEO I


D N LEO P F AVG

pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed r.

LION CROUNCHING L., HEAD R. WITHIN WREATH // CON

A.D.473 – 474 , 1.02 gr , 10.18 mm , Ae4

RIC X 674 variant B , Constantinopel

 

@Bing That's a really nice Licinius. The obverse really pops. Has to be FDC.

 

Thanks. I've had it for quite some time. Perhaps 20 years. I paid premium at the time. Twenty ($20) bucks after shipping.

 

L for Liberalitas
(Sestertius of Philip II)

 

Meander majestically through multiple memories of minted and hammered purchases. Mint marks, minting cities, many and marvelous makers of historical moments. Mix them up, make them known and meditate on what might have been. It is M time

 

M for Maximinus

IMP MAXIMINUS PIUS AVG
bust r., laur., draped, cuirased
SALVS AUGUSTI
A.D. 235 – 238 , 3.28 gr , 21.09 mm
Denarius, Rome , RIC IVb 141

Maximus

IVL VERUS MAXIMVS CAES
bust r., bare headed, draped
PIETAS AVG
Jug between litvvs and knife to left, simpulum and sprinkler to r.
A.D. 235 – 236 , 2.75 gr , 18.54 mm
Plated Denarius
RIC: plated Denarius in L.A. Lawrence Coll.
RIC IVb 154

Magnus Maximus

D N MAG MA XIMUS P F AVG
pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed r.
SPES RO MA NORUM // SMTR
camp-gate with star between 2 turrets
A.D. 383 – 388 , 1.12 gr , 13.40 mm , Aes4
RIC IX 87 , Trier

 

Great start, love those

 

Mighty Macedonian Military Member’s Must-haves​

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Cyprus, Salamis. Nikokreon. Ca. 331-310 B.C. Æ Half Unit (16 mm, 2.91 g).
In the type of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck ca. 323-317 B.C.
Macedonian shield with facing gorgoneion in the center, forming central boss. Ornamented with five double crescents with sets of five pellets between, and outside ring of single pellets. / B-A, crested Macedonian helmet with cheek guards; kerykeion to lower left, ΣI monogram to lower right​

 

M for Maximianus

Emperor Maximianus - Antoninianus - Ticinum mint

and here a good one: Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel of Bavaria

Duchy of Bavaria - 30 Kreuzer - 1719 - Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel

 

GALLIENUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG - Radiate head right.
REVERSE: VIRTVS AVG, Virtus standing left, resting hand on shield & holding spear
Struck at Mediolanum, 260-8 AD
4.10 gm., 22 mm
RIC 534

MACRINUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate & cuirassed bust with short beard right
REVERSE: PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P, Securitas standing left, holding scepter & leaning on column
Struck at Rome, 217 AD
3.15, 20mm
RIC 24, RSC 62, BMC 40