Famous Rulers Alphabetically, Let's do our ABC's!

Hey, let's have a fun thread where we post ANCIENT Rulers or noted people by alphabetical order (ABC's). This can be any language / alphabet as long as it represents the letter / sound intended for the day.

We can build this like Sesame Street with a Letter of the Day (Yeah, I know, it is an American child's educational show, but it is a fun theme...) please feel free to post YOUR country's childrens educational show letters also!

TODAY the famous person's letter is brought to you by the letter A:


Post your A's

I will start with:

Alexander or AESILLAS the Quaestor of Makedon:


RR Macedon occupation Alexander- Club Coin chest Quaestor Chair wreath Aesillas Quaestor AR Tet Thessalonika Mint BC 90-70

Post as many of your Ancient Coins featuring any person starting with the letter A !

PILE THEM ON!

 

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Since yours was technically Aesillas, I'll do a lifetime Alexander the Great


KINGS OF MACEDON, Alexander III
AR tetradrachm, 17.14 gm
late lifetime issue, struck in Aradus c. 324/3 BCE
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; I in left field; AP monogram below throne
Ref: Price 3325
ex Colosseo Collection (images by Colosseo Collection)

 

Agathokles

 

Aretas IV


NABATAEA, Aretas IV with Queen Shuqailat
9 BCE - CE 40, Petra
AE18
Obv: jugate busts of Aretas IV and Shuqailat right,
Rev: crossed cornucopia; Nabataean Aramaic letters between and below
Ref: Meshorer 112-114?

 

Agathokles


SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles (317-289 BCE)
struck 310-305 BCE
AR tetradrachm, 17.40 g, 24 mm
Obv: head of the nymph Arethusa left, wearing grain wreath, earring and necklace; around, three dolphins; under, monogram (NK?)
Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, fast chariot charioteer leads to left, holding reins and kentron; above, triskeles; in exergue, monogram
Ref: Ierardi 12 (O2-R8); SNG Copenhagen 573 var., SNG ANS 637
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-adventures-in-bidland-agathokles-tetradrachm.243930/

 

Ardashar


Persian Sassanian Ardashir III 628-629 CE AR Drachm 36mm 3.85g Zoroastrian Fire Alter Gobl II-1 yr 2 Delta RARE

 

Antoninus Pius


EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
Regnal year 8, CE 144/5
AE drachm, 33 mm, 23.2 gm
Obv: [legend]; laureate draped bust right
Rev: Serapis, wearing modius, standing facing; flanked by the Dioscuri who are also standing facing, heads turned towards Serapis, and each holding a flagellum ; [L] H in exergue
Ref: Dattari 2864 (RY2); Dattari-Savio plate 148 coins 2864 and 8724; Emmett 1670.8; Not listed in Milne.
ex Stevex6 Collection

 

Agrippa:


Agrippa, 18-12 BC
Roman Æ as, 10.36 g, 27 mm
Rome, AD 37-41
Obv: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head left, wearing rostral crown.
Rev: S - C, Neptune standing left, holding small dolphin and trident
Refs: RIC 58 (Caligula); BMCRE 161 (Tiberius); RCV 1812; Cohen 3 (Agrippa); CBN 77.

 

Aquilia Severa


EGYPT, Alexandria. Aquilia Severa
year 5, CE 221/2
tetradrachm, 23.5 mm, 11.57 gm
Obv: draped bust right
Rev: head of Zeus Ammon right; L-E
Ref: Emmett 3025.5, R3; Geissen 2376; Dattari 4186


EGYPT, Alexandria. Elagabalus
tetradrachm, 24 mm, 13.27 gm
regnal year 4
Obv: laureate head right
Rev: Elagabalus standing right and empress (Aquilia Severa, supposedly... although it could be a different wife. He had a few that year, albeit sequentially.) standing left, each holding scepter, clasping right hands; L ∆ across field
Ref: Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4098; K&G 56.43; Emmett 2929.4 (R4)

 

Alexander Jannaeus:


Alexander Jannaeus
AE Prutah 13 x 14 mm; 1.90 g
103-76 BC Sear 6087; Hendin 1150

 

Great idea @Alegandron this should provide for some great coins being posted. I'll add a couple of my Seleukids, father and son.

Antiochus I

Antiochus I Soter AR Tetradrachm.
281-261 BC Seleucia on the Tigris
Obv: Diademed head of Antiochus I r.
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and resting w/ hand on grounded bow; monograms in outer l. and r. fields.

Antiochus II Theos

Antiochus II Theos AR Tetradracm
261-246 BC Seleucia on the Tigris mint. 29mm 17.05g
Obv: diademed head of Antiochus right.
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANTI−OXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, examining arrow with right, resting left hand on grounded bow, monogram outer left, monogram outer right.
Houghton-Lorber 587

 

Aurelian

A couple of Alexandrian tetradrachms



This one was from the group lot that had makeup on many, apparently an attempt at mimicking a sandy patina. Pre-cleaning picture.

 

Antigonus I Monophthalmus AR Drachm, c. 310 - 301 B.C., Troas, Abydos mint, 4.375g 17.2mm, 0o
Obv: head of Herakles right, clad in Nemean Lion scalp headdress tied at neck;
Rev: ALEXANDROU, Zeus enthroned left, eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, right leg drawn back, monogram left, I below throne.
Price 1534

 

Agrippina I:


Agrippina I, wife of Germanicus, 14 BC - AD 33
Roman AE Sestertius 27.92 gm, 34.8 mm, 7 h
Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 42-54 AD
Obv: AGRIPPINA M F GERMANICI CAESARIS, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P around large SC.
Refs: RIC I 102 (Claudius); BMCRE 219 (Claudius); Cohen 3.

 

Augustus and Agrippa


Augustus & Agrippa
struck c. 10 BCE - CE 10, Nemausus
AE dupondius
Obv: IMP/DIVI F, back-to-back heads of Agrippa, in combined rostral crown & laurel wreath, and Augustus, laureate
Rev: COL - NEM; palm tree, top bent top right with a wreath above; crocodile chained to palm tree
Ref: RIC 158; AMC 425; Cohen 10; RPC 524
From the collection of a Man of the Cloth, now giving up the pursuit; acquired in the 1990s

 

Agrippina II:


Claudius and Agrippina II
Roman provincial Æ 12 Nummia; 9.30 gm; 25.0 mm
Bosporos, under King Kotys I, AD 50-54
Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΚΑΙCΑΡΟC, laureate head of Claudius, right
Rev: ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ CΕΒΑCΤΗΝ, head of Agrippina II, left, in loop ponytail; BAK before
Refs: SGI 5438; RPC 1925; BMC 13.52,7; Anokhin Bosporus 348; SNG Copenhagen 31.

 

Antigonos II Gonatas


KINGS OF MACEDON, Antigonos II Gonatas
277/6-239 BCE, struck after 270 BCE, Amphipolis mint
AR tetradrachm, 31mm, 17.06 g
Obv: head of Pan in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with stars within crescents
Rev: BASILEWS ANTIGONOU, Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield; helmet left, EMP monogram right
Ref: SNGCop 1200v, EMP (maybe); R. Martin, "A Third-Century B.C. Hoard from Thessaly at the ANS," ANSMN 26, 536 (same obv. die).
ex Demetrios Armounta Collection

 

Antonia:


Antonia, wife of Nero Claudius Drusus, Augusta AD 37 and 41
Roman orichalcum Dupondius, 12.10 gm, 28.3 mm
Rome, under son, Claudius, AD 41-50
Obv: ANTONIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right
Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR, Claudius, veiled and togate, standing left, holding simpulum
Refs: RIC 92; Sear 1902; BMC 166.

 

Antigonos III Doson


KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson, 229-221 BCE
struck 227-225 BCE, Amphipolis mint?
AR tetradrachm, 32 mm, 17.1 gm
Obv: wreathed head of Poseidon right
Rev: Apollo seated left on prow left, holding bow; monogram below.
Ref: Panagopoulou 50–3 var. (unlisted dies); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Saroglos 933; SNG Alpha Bank 1046; SNG Ashmolean 3266

 

Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander III of Scotland AR Penny 1280-286 AD 2nd coinage class E2
18mm 1.42g
Obv: +ALEXANDER DEI GRA; bust of king facing left w/ scepter.
Rev: REX SCO TOR VM+; long cross pattée; star of five points in first quarter, stars of six points in remaining quarters.
SCBC.5056