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Nice work!!

Ok, #4... 30mm, 19.4g

 

Philip I, 244–249 AD
Arabia Petraea, Philipopolis.
AΥTTOKKMIOΥΛIΦIΛIΠΠOCCEB, Laureate and draped bust of Philip I r.
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΚΟΛΟΝΙΑC, Roma seated l. on shield, holding spear and eagle supporting two figures; across fields: S C.
Spijkerman 1978, 2.

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Great HOARD @Justin Lee !! That may be more coins than I bought all of last year. I definitely want to add some provincials to the collection this year.

 

Sweet, @Roman Collector !!

Thanks, Doug! Hoard is a pretty appropriate term!

 

If you're up for a 3rd, @Roman Collector, do you want to do #12?

19mm x 20mm, 5.0g

 

What I thought it was. I have one:


Claudia Neronis, AD 63, daughter of Nero and Poppaea
Syria, Caesarea Panias
Struck AD 65
DIVA POPPAEA, distyle temple of Diva Poppaea, female figure within.
DIVA CLAVD NER F, round hexastyle temple of Diva Claudia, female figure within.
RPC I 4846; Hendin 578; RCV 2058; Vagi 746.

 

Quick work! It's a fascinating little coin.

If you're interested in another, how about the lil #17?

17mm, 3.0g

 

Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch
Pseudo-autonomous issue under Nero (54-68).
Ae Dichalkon.
Obv: Laureate and draped bust of Apollo right.
Rev: ANTIOXE ET ?, Lyre.
RPC 4293.

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Nice haul! Those will be a lot of fun.

That #6 looks familiar... can we see the other side of it?

 

Great work!!! I had recognized the ANTIOXE legend.

Do I see AIP at the top of the lyre? Does the ET and the AIP represent the date?

 

Here's #6:

22mm, 9.7g

 

Hmm, that's what I was afraid of... sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Valerian Tetradrachm is likely a forgery. See my coin below. I posted about it last year on Forvm because I was having trouble attributing it.

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=112762.msg686508#msg686508

It turns out it was an unknown type until recently when a bunch of similar coins showed up that are thought to be fake. This was over a year ago so I don't remember all of the details. I left this coin needing to do more research.



http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=92140.0

 

ET for ETOYC, meaning "year" in Greek. AIP would be 111 of the Caesarean era = AD 61/62.

 

Well, shucks! Now that you say it, it looks soft.

And looking at a few other of the tets, they are soft too, have a different color/fabric, and have smooth sides...

 

I didn't look too deeply into it because I'd bought the coin many months before cheaply and had only just gotten around to attributing it...

I wasn't totally convinced it was fake at the time because the flan shapes were different on coins even if the devices on the obverses and reverses were identical.

In my searching before posting on Forvm... I couldn't find any year 2 "over the shoulder" Eagle tetradrachms for Valerian other than the suspected forgeries. Anyway, it's worth some more research... using previous posts as a starting point.

Sorry I feel like I derailed a good party...

Edit: After refreshing my memory a bit... it seems there was never a definitive condemnation in either thread but everyone felt there was a likelihood they were modern.

 

Great thread @Justin Lee - right now I've got a bunch of unattributed coins I'm going through from my last hoard - you've got some real nice ones in there.

 

Hmm, yeah... the edges do not look right for the era and all four have various other features of casts . Now I'm wondering about the very unusual (huge) flan for the Philip I. .

 

I'll take some more photos of it/them when I get home tonight. It does have a large flan crack that does go all the way through. But maybe because it is a large crack it was captured in the cast?
Bummer...