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L.CORNELIUS LENTULUS & C.CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS CORNELIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Facing head of Medusa in center of triskeles, ear of corn between each leg
REVERSE: Jupiter standing right, holding thunderbolt and eagle; LENT MAR to left, COS to right
Rome 49 BC
3.08g, 18-16mm
Crawford 445/1b; Sear 4; Sydenham 1029; Cornelia 64a

Next: Facing portrait

 

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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: coin with monogram

 

Pyrrhos of Epiros
as King of Macedon (287-285 and 274-273 BC). AE17 (4.81 g), Macedonian mint.
Obv. Macedonian shield with king´s monogram on boss.
Rev: BAΣI, Macedonian helmet within oak wreath, star below.
SNG Alpha Bank 971.

Next up: a different coin of Pyrrhos

 

Someone needs to study goat anatomy.

 

Because someone has to be the one to post this clip....

 

SICILY, Syracuse. Pyrrhos of Epeiros
AE24. 8.67g, 23.6mm. SICILY, Syracuse, Pyrrhos of Epeiros, circa 278-276 BC. CNS 178; HGC 2, 1451. O: Head of young Herakles in lion skin headdress left. R: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, Athena Promachos standing right, brandishing thunderbolt and shield.

Next: Flan split, the more split the better (size matters)

 

Byzantine is of course a rich source of flan splits and other Kevin material.


Justin II half siliqua from Carthage


Constans II follis from Syracuse


John III Doukas Vatatzes (1222-1254) trachy

Next: a Kevin product

 

Kevin Production


RR M Furius ERROR DOUBLE-STRIKE AR Den119 BC Janus Trophy Carnyx S 156 Cr 281-1

Next up: celt

 

CELTIC, Gaul (Armorica). Circa 75-56 BC.
Curiosolitae tribe
Billon Stater, 21mm, 6.6g, 3h; Class II.
Obv.: Crude head right, anchor-shaped nose.
Rev.: Celticized chariot right; Celticized boar below.
Reference: P. de Jersey, Coinage in IronAgeArmorica, fig. 51, class II; SCBC 15

Up next: Post whatever you want.

 

If no one is gonna take advantage of this, well then,

Anonymous after 276 BC. Mint in southern Italy
Bronze Æ
22 mm., 7.25 g.
nearly very fine

Next up: something you weren't looking for, but bought cause it spoke to you

 

I had regularly been picking up coins from this old collection, all of which were Roman Egypt, except this one, and I couldn't pass it up.


Maximianus, First Reign 286-305 AD
AE Antoninianus, Struck 293 AD, Antioch Mint
Obverse: IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, bust of Maximian, radiate, cuirassed, right.
Reverse: CONCORDIA MILITVM, Maximian, draped, cuirassed, standing right, holding sceptre in right hand and receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter; Jupiter, standing left, holding scepter; ЄΔ below; •XXI in exergue.
References: RIC V 621, Cohen 54
Size: 21.8mm, 3.4g
Ex: The Reverend Willis McGill Collection (McGill was an American missionary stationed in Egypt, who started collecting there during World War I)
Notes: This coin is from the 9th workshop, but rather than use Θ (theta), which is Greek for nine, the engraver used delta (Greek for 4) and epsilon (Greek for 5) which add up to nine. Theta was the first letter of the word death in Greek and was considered by some to also be the symbol of death, so it was best to avoid using it.

 

Spake at me


The Mamertini, Sicily, c. 288 - 278 B.C.
Mamertini or "children of Mars," was the name taken by a band of Campanian (or Samnite) freebooters who about 289 B.C. seized the Greek colony of Messana at the north-east corner of Sicily, after having been hired by Agathocles to defend it (Polyb. 1. 7. 2).
Bronze pentonkion, Calciati I p. 93, 3/1; SNG ANS 402; BMC Sicily p. 109, 3; SNG Cop 434 var (on reverse Φ left), gF, some corrosion and pitting, Messana mint, weight 16.288g, maximum diameter27.5mm, die axis 270o, c. 288 - 278 B.C.; obverse APEΣ, laureate head of Ares right, Macedonian helmet behind; reverse MAMEPTINΩN, eagle standing left on a thunderbolt, head left, wings open

Next up: frustration coin you bought after you lost at an auction

 

I ended up buying him through vcoins after losing out on a coin of him at auction and getting frustrated at my failure

Up Next: Victoria on a Gallic Empire coin.

 

I like it, @Alegandron!!! I bought mine having no clue what it was until it was delivered. I had a doggone hard time finding similar ones to narrow down what I was looking at. Your's is the cooler, bigger sibling, eh?

Sicily, Messana, The Mamertinoi
AE Double Unit, Circa 288-278 BC
Obverse: APEOΣ, Laureate head of Ares right; spear head behind.
Reverse: MAME-P-TINΩN, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt.
References: SNG ANS 401; Calciati I pg. 91, 2
Size: 22mm, 8.0g

 

POSTUMUS
AE Double Sestertius. 9.85g, 27mm. Atelier II, AD 261-263. RIC 166; Sear 11069; C 407. O: IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: VIC[TORIAE A]VG, two Victories standing face to face, attaching shield to palm tree, captives seated left and right below, S C in exergue.

Next: Struck over an earlier coin issue with an identifiable undertype

 

Here's a little sextans, overstruck on a Carthaginian coin (remnants of horse on obverse). From a lot of three overstruck coins - the seller's description was: Æ Sextans (17mm, 2.78g, 7h). Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus; • • (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; •• (mark of value) below. Crawford 69/6 var. (with corn-ear and KA); Sydenham 310d var. (same); RBW 293 var. (same).
And "The obverse of the sextans shows a bent horse’s leg and is likely a bronze assigned to the mint of Carthage of similar Tanit/Horse type, but with a bent foreleg".




If that wasn't completely identifiable, this quadrans is definitely overstruck on a Carthaginian coin with Tanit & horse (the wavy lines on the reverse being from the horse's mane):




Next - another Roman Republican bronze.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
AE Medallion. 22.95g, 36.4mm x 30.5mm. SYRIA, Decapolis, Gadara, CY 262 (AD 198/9). Spijkerman 69; Rosenberger 69; Sofaer 70. O: AYT K Λ CEΠΤ CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery. R: Galley sailing left, with nine rowers, navigator at stern and a lookout on prow; above, ΠΟΜΠ / HIEWN ΓΑ / ∆ΑΡEWN / ET ΒΞC (of the people of Pompiean Gabinius, year 262).
Ex Shlomo Moussaieff Collection

Next: Ancient air travel

 

The prestigious gods flew on winged serpents


THRACE, Pautalia. Caracalla
CE 198-217
AE29, 16.4 gm
Obv: AYT K M AY CEY ANTΩNEINOC; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC; Asklepios seated right on back of winged serpent
Ref: Varbanov 5007

Next: something anthropomorphic