I attended the TNA coin show in Arlington yesterday and found a few coins. They are open Sunday 6/6, so hurry on down for a few bargains. The best seller is Toady Coins, A Kid Buisness. I picked up a few well worn English pennies there. Now for the goodies. I picked up a large, 20.6 gram, Faustina Sr. bronze and a larger, 114.6 gram, Medusa. I am not good at Roman Imperial attribution, so I will take Doug's advice and call it Faustina with a hair bun right / someone standing left holding Victory. The coin below covers 3 and a half of the fingers on my hand. It is big. CNG notes the patina was removed. That is not obvious at first glance, but is glaring when I take pics. I think Medusa sticking out her tongue is neat. The coin was sold twice by CNG and I used their description below. SKYTHIA, Olbia. Circa 400-350 BC. Cast Æ As Obv - Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue Rev - A-[P]-I-X, eagle flying right, holding dolphin. I can see the top of the P in hand if not in the pictures. 114.6 grams 32 mm dia X 4 mm thick 1 h Good VF, brown surfaces (patina removed). Ex CNG 69 lot 222; Triton XI lot 85 SNG BM Black Sea 380; SNG Stancomb 343; Thurlow & Vecchi pl. 1.
Though, I don't have pictures of my English pennies of Victoria (great score, btw. And the one on the far left looks like she's blowing chunks). I do of those other beauties; Here's mine as a Denarius: SKYTHIA Olbia - Face Proto Money 437-410 BC Obv: facing gorgon's head. Rev: sea eagle flying right. 65.4 mm, 89.7 grams. Poor. Scarce. Provenance Property of a European collector; acquired in 2007; previously in a Dutch collection formed in the 1980s-1990s. Literature Sear 1682. Purchased from Timeline Auctions Feb 2021
How fun! That Medusa is massive! Here's my example of your Faustina sestertius. Faustina Senior, AD 138-141. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm. Rome, AD 145-147. Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter. Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617. Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): "Concordia? standing l., holding statuette and wand," (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.
Would a pic with the coin on David Sear's Greek Coins vol 1 work. Sear lists two coins on this page: #1682, AE 70 (cast) and #1683 with wheel instead of eagle, AE 33 (cast). He makes no mention of denomination.
That works just fine. Holy crap! I can't imagine ever having something like that in our collection. That is absolutely amazing!
oops, you are right. My grandson helped me measure and weigh my haul today. I copied the wrong numbers. They should be - 68 mm dia X 10 mm thick The Faustina is - 32 mm dia X 4 mm thick
