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

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  1. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    Surprised nobody posted Antony

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    Antony & Octavia tetradrachm
    M ANTONIVS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT
    Conjoined heads of Antony and Octavia right, Antony wearing an ivy wreath

    VIR RPC
    Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes

    Ephesus, summer-autumn 39 BC

    11.22g

    Imperators 263, RPC 2202, Babelon Antonia 61, Syndenham 1198, BMCRR east 135

    Punch mark on the obverse protrudes onto the reverse
     
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  3. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Of course no one ruled ancient Athens coinage like this daughter of Zeus...
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    "A" for Athena!
     
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  4. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Athena ALEA:

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    ARKADIA Tegea AR Tetartemorion 0.2g 6mm 423-400 BCE Helmeted hd Athena Alea T within incuse BCD Peloponnesos 1721 HGC 5
     
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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Agrippina:

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    RI Agrippina II 50-59 CE AE Diobol 22mm 8.7g Egypt Alexandria Bust of Euthenia w Corn Wreath in Hair RPC 5188
     
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  6. philologus_1

    philologus_1 Supporter! Supporter

    And another!

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  7. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    And since I have not dropped one of my Alexanders...

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    Makedon Alexander - Alexandrine Babylon Di-Shekel Tet 24mm 16.3g LIFETIME-Gamma 328-311 Baal-Lion Nicolet-Pierre p291
     
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  8. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    Not the best example but how about Aelia Flaccilla
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    AEL FLAC-CILLA, draped bust with elaborate headdress, necklace and mantle / SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, Victory seated right, inscribing a chi-rho on shield set on narrow column.
     
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  9. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

    Augustus

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  10. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Amyntas:

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    Makedon Amyntas II 395-393 BCE Æ12 2.0g Aigai or Pella mint Hd Pan - Forepart wolf chewing bone SNG Alpha Bank 179-80 Very Rare
    Grandfather of Alexander III the Great
     
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  11. philologus_1

    philologus_1 Supporter! Supporter

    I never realized there were so many "A's". One last group from me... promise!

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  12. TheRed

    TheRed Well-Known Member

    A sad pseudo sybarite from the late Seleucids:
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    Antiochus VIII Grypus AR Tetradrachm 128-113 BC
     
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  13. David@PCC

    David@PCC allcoinage.com

    To finish out most of the Seleucids.
    Alexander I Balas
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    Antiochus VII
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    Antiochus Hierax
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    Antiochus son of Seleucus IV
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    Alexius III
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    Andronicus II
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  14. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Since you're admitting deities, here's ASTARTE The Phoenician goddess of LOVE.
    That's ancient charm. AstartePhoe Arados O.JPG Astarte EU R.JPG
     
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  15. dougsmit

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    Aemilian, AE23 Antioch
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  16. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Antonio Venero, Doge (Chief- Magistrate) of Venice 1382.

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  17. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Marc Antony - Quinarius:

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    RImp Lepidus Mark Antony 43 BC AR quinarius 13.9m 1.82g Military mint TransAl Gaul pontificate Cr 489-3 Syd 1158a RSC 3 RARE
     
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  18. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    Do these count? :woot:;)

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  19. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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  20. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    LOL, yeah, my database search kept pulling "al-"something... But, I am not gonna cheat!

    :D
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    AYYUBID Caliphate - Saladin al-Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf AH564-589 1169-1193 CE AR Dirham RARE mint
     
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  21. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Well, how 'bout him! :D

    Aelius Caesar:

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    RI Aelius Caesar 138 CE AE As 26mm Rome mint Fortuna-Spes cornucopia and rudder
     
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