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You sure that's not Aesculapius? He has a snake staff and everything.

 

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Sometimes called Pluto, but actually Serapis "in his cthonic aspect" (sounds like Lovecraft):


(And here's a third century imitative, which I asked for a while back :

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Next: a cool throne

 

Wow, my God you are right. I think I just had a dad moment there. I'm getting old. LOL.

I stand corrected. My apologies to everyone. And a happy father's day to all dads.



Here's a cool throne gracing the rear end of the ruler of all Greek gods.

Next: Zeus

 

Philip II Tetradrachm Amphipolis Le Rider 104 355-348 B.C.
Next coin Apollo

 

TROAS, Alexandria. Trebonianus Gallus
CE 251-253
AE 21 mm, 4.76 gm
Obv: IMP VIB TREB GALVS AV; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: COL AV / TROA; Apollo, head right and holding , seated facing on griffin springing right, head left
Ref: RPC IX 407; Bellinger A403

Next: griffin

 

IONIA, Teos
AR Tetartemorion. 0.14g, 4.7mm, IONIA, Teos, circa 540-478 BC. Cf. CNG 63, lot 506. O: Head of griffin left. R: Quadripartite incuse square with raised central pellet.

Next: Another tetartemorion

 

Ionia, Kolophon
AR Tetartemorion.
Late 6th Century BCE.
Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo facing.
Reverse: TE monogram within incuse square.
References: SNG Cop 133; SNG Kayhan 356.
Size: 7mm, 0.25g.

Next: Another coin 7mm or smaller.

 

Mysia, Kyzikos. C. 450-400 BC. 6mm., 0.38g. Forepart of boar right; to left, tunny upward. Head of lion left; retrograde K to upper left; all within incuse square.

Next: Another animal with it's tongue out

 

CARIA, Halikarnassos
AR Tetrobol (Samian standard). 1.93g, 11.7mm. CARIA, Halikarnassos (previously attributed to Kindya), circa 510-480 BC. Kagan & Kritt 1; SNG Ashmolean 295–315 (uncertain mint); SNG von Aulock 2340 (uncertain mint); SNG Keckman 920 (uncertain mint); SNG Kayhan 810. O: Head of Ketos left. R: Incuse geometric pattern

Next: Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!

 

Not the biggest and nastiest teeth but Z already posted a ketos...


Augustus & Agrippa
Gaul, Nemausus, c. 10 BCE - CE 10
AE dupondius
Obv: IMP/DIVI; heads of Agrippa to left, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, and of Augustus to right, wearing oak wreath, back to back
Rev: COL-NEM; long, vertical palm with crocodile chained below, wreath to left of palm tip with ties trailing to right; two palm fronds below
Ref: RIC 158; AMC 425; Cohen 10; RPC 524

Eh... I'm going to post my ketos anyway


CARIA, Kindya
500-496 BCE
AR tetrobol, 2.18 gm, 11 mm, Samian standard
Obv: head of ketos right
Rev: geometric pattern within incuse square
Ref: Kagan and Kritt, 'The Coinage of Kindya,' NC 1995, 1 var. (head left); SNG Keckman 920 var. (same); SNG Kayhan 815; "Asyut Hoard" 688

Next: rostral crown

 

Rostral Crown


RI Augustus oak crown Agrippa rostral crown L AE Dupondius 26mm 12.6g 10-14CE Nemausus chained Croc snake wreaths RIC I 158


Next up: Mercury

 

MARCUS AURELIUS
AE Sestertius. 29.44g, 31mm. Rome mint, AD 173. RIC 1075; Cohen 535. O: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII, laureate head right. R: IMP VI - COS III, Mercury standing left on pedestal, holding caduceus and purse, within a tetrastyle temple with telamons as columns; semicircular pediment containing, from left to right, tortoise, cockerel, ram, winged helmet, caduceus, and purse; S-C in field, RELIG AVG in exergue.

Next: Tortoise, rooster, or ram.

 

ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina.
456/45-431 BCE
AR stater; 20mm, 12.32 g
Obv: land tortoise, head in profile, with segmented shell
Rev: large square incuse with skew pattern
Ref: SNG Delepierre 1774ff; BMC Taf. 24.11

Next: sea turtle

 

Stater of Aegina 525-500 B.C. HGC 428 11.86 grams
Next Coin Korinth

 

CORINTHIA, Corinth
345-307 BCE
AR stater, 8.65 gm
Obv Pegasus flying left, qoppa below
Rev: helmeted head of Athena left wearing necklace; mask of Silenus behind
Ref: Ravel 1046. Calciati 408. Scarce variety.
from Heritage Auctions, June 2013

Next: Silenus

 

MACEDON (Roman Protectorate)
AE. 8.61g, 21.1mm. Transitional bronze issue, circa 166-165 BC. SNG Copenhagen 1324-6; BMC 55; HGC 3.1, 1117. O: Facing mask of Silenus, wearing ivy wreath. R: MAKE/DONON, legend in two lines; D above; all within ivy wreath.


Next: Coin that makes you think of another CoinTalk member.

 

Well, as long as we're on that member subject...

Postumus = Doug Smith


Postumus
CE 260-269
antoninianus, 20 x 22 mm, 3.0 gm
struck CE 263
Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, leaning on a column, holding a scepter in her right hand and a cornucopiae in her left; at her feet to left, globe
Ref: RIC VII 81, Cologne [supposedly; I certainly don't know this for a fact]; AGK (corr.) 70. Cunetio -. Elmer 334. Gilljam -

Next: yet another coin which resembles any CoinTalk member .

 

David Atherton!

Next provincial Judea Capta

 

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