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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancient Aussie, post: 3265029, member: 80147&quot;]Well I don&#039;t look like buying anymore coins this year, it&#039;s Xmas and I&#039;m broke so I might as well slip my ten in now.</p><p>I had a lot more buying opportunities this year than last, resulting in purchasing twice as many coins this year than last, some were bargains and others I probably paid too much but all balanced out to be a good buying year although the exchange rate for Aussie dollars was a huge handicap. As you can probably guess all architecture with some that I have been after for quite some time. No particular order as these ten favorites picked out of twenty-two or so coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859810[/ATTACH]</p><p>1. Tranquillina.</p><p>MACEDON THESSALONICA</p><p>Tranquillina</p><p>Bronze. AD 238-244.</p><p>26 mm. 12,11 g.</p><p>Obv: CABINIA TPANKYΛΛΙΝΑ ΑΥΓ.</p><p>Diademed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: ΘΕCCΑΛΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ NEΩKOPΩN.</p><p>Tetrastyle temple seen in perspective to left ΠΥΘΙΑ below.</p><p>Cf. Varbanov 4657.</p><p>Rare</p><p>The Pythian Games (Greek: Πύθια) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honour of Apollo every four years at his sanctuary at Delphi. They were held two years after each Olympic Games, and between each Nemean and Isthmian games [ATTACH=full]859812[/ATTACH]</p><p>2.Gordian III</p><p>Roman Provincial, Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Gordian III (238-244 AD) Æ 27 (12.43g) Sabinius Modestus, legatus consularis., City Gate, Obv.: Laureate and draped bust right. Rev.: Arched gate flanked by two roofed towers with arched windows in uppermost story. Varbanov 4182. Rare! NGC XF.</p><p>The towers are actually rounded, raised off the face of the coin. Interesting details on top of the towers and along the top of the wall.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Ex. Lanz 97, Munich 2000, Lot. 847</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859813[/ATTACH]</p><p>3.Septimius Severus</p><p>Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. AE29 (29 mm, 15,1 g). Pontus, Neocaesarea. AY K Λ CEΠ CEOYHPOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / KOI ΠON NЄO-KAI MHTPO, ЄT PMR, tetrastyle temple with wall visible in background, flaming altar within; date below. Rec Gen 13; SNG von Aulock 100. Very Fine with beautiful patina.</p><p>Temple of Zeus (Jupiter) at Neocaesarea In the 3rd century It is clear from the coins that the city of Neocesarea assumed considerable importance as a center for the cities of Pontus. The focal point of cult of the Pontic League was the monument that is found on numerous coins of the Severiana family. Each engraver gives us different details and so it is necessary to consider each variety in the search for real reconstruction. No other building has attracted such different details. With a few exceptions, the coins show a tetrastyle façade with carefully rendered Corinthian capitals. The statue standing in the center of the coins is probably that of a pontic deity identified with the Iranian Ahura-Mazda, whom the Greeks called Zeus Stratios, the dynastic god of the Mithridatis. Zeus, who, as a great god of the sky.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859816[/ATTACH]</p><p>4.Augustus.</p><p>Augustus 27-14 BC. Spanish mint (Colonia Partica?)</p><p>Denarius AR</p><p>17mm., 3,48g. RIC 119. Ex Savoca silver auction.</p><p>CAESAR AVGVSTO, laureate head right / S P -Q R, temple of Mars Ultor: round-domed, tetrastyle temple set on podium of three steps, within which is a chariot right, carrying an aquila and miniature galloping horses.</p><p>It was built for two reasons: to fulfill a vow made by Augustus before the Battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.; and to celebrate the return, in 19 B.C., of the Roman legionary standards taken by the Parthians as booty after the disastrous defeat of Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 B.C.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859818[/ATTACH]</p><p>5. Maximian. Temple of Roma.</p><p>RIC 118; Coh. 64 Weight: 7.11 g</p><p>Maximianus I. Herculius, 2nd Government 307-310 AD</p><p>RIC 118; Coh. 64 Aquileia, 1st Officina, 307 AD</p><p>Vs .: IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG, head with laurel wreath on the</p><p>reverse: CONSERV VRB SVAE / AQP, six columnar Temple with cult image of the Roma</p><p>ex Münzzentrum Müller, auction 72, 1992, lot 533</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859819[/ATTACH]</p><p>6. Nero. Triumphal Arch.</p><p>Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 21.62 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head left, globe at point of neck / Triumphal arch, showing the front, with a wreath hung across it, surmounted by the emperor in facing quadriga accompanied by Pax and Victory, flanked by two soldiers; statue of Mars in side niche; the faces and plinths of the arch are ornamented with elaborate reliefs. RIC I 500; WCN 452; Lyon 191. Near VF, brown patina.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859820[/ATTACH]</p><p>7. Nero. Galley</p><p>Egypt. Alexandria under Nero (AD 54-68). Billon tetradrachm (23mm, 13.09g). Struck in reginal year 13 (AD 66/7). Radiate bust of Nero l., wearing aegis; date below chin / Galley sailing r. with dolphins below. Köln 186; Dattari 264; RPC I 5296; Emmett 121.13.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859821[/ATTACH]</p><p>8. Romulus.</p><p>DIVUS ROMULUS (Died 309). Follis. Ostia.</p><p>Obv: IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO ROMVLON V FILIO.</p><p>Bare head right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNA MEMORIA / MOSTT.</p><p>Domed hexastyle temple; on roof, eagle standing right, head left.</p><p>Weight: 6.0 g. Diameter: 25 mm.</p><p>RIC 33.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859822[/ATTACH]</p><p>9.Alexander the Great. Macedon</p><p>Roman Provincial. MACEDON. Koinon of Macedonia. Pseudo-autonomous 222 AD to 249 AD</p><p>. Æ (27mm, 11.19 g, 6h). Beroea mint.</p><p>OBV: AΛEΞANΔPOC bust of Alexander the Great right, flowing hair.</p><p>REV: KOINMA KE ΔONΩN.B.NE Two tetrastyle temple façades; in field between, column surmounted by statue.</p><p>Unpublished in the standard references. VF, green surfaces, ragged edge, some smoothing and roughness.</p><p>From the Belgica Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 242 (13 October 2010), lot 100</p><p>[ATTACH=full]859823[/ATTACH]</p><p>10. Maxentius. Temple of Roma.</p><p>Maxentius follis. Quite scarce with Dioscuri in pediment.</p><p>6.79 g, 23.1 x 25.2 mm.</p><p>RIC VI:208 for Rome. Struck 308-310 AD.</p><p>OBV.: Maxentius right, IMP C MAXENTIVS PF AVG.</p><p>REV.: Roma seated facing, head left, in hexastyle temple, holding globe and scepter, shield at side; Dioscuri in pediment and Victories as acroteria, CONSERV VRB SVAE, REP in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you like the ten as much as I do, thanks for looking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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