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Marcius Philippus
ROMA monogram
Head of King Philip V of Macedon right, wearing helmet decorated with goat's horns, Φ below chin

L PHILIPPVS
Equestrian statue right on tablet with inscription. Horseman carrying laurel-branch flower at horses feet. (XVI monogram) below tablet.

Rome 113/112 BC

3.96g

Crawford 293/1. Sydenham 551. Marcia 12.

Ex Calgary-Coin

This is the first Roman coin to depict an historical person instead of a personification or deity. The money’s ancestor L. Marcius Q.f. Philippus negotiated a treaty between Rome and Philip V of Macedon.

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L CALPURNIUS PISO FRUGI ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Laureate head of Apollo right, number LV behind
REVERSE: Horseman galloping right, holding palm L PISO FRVGI below, ROMA monogram, number LXXII above
Struck at Rome 90 BC
3.75g, 18.4mm
Cr340/1, Calpurnia 12

Next: Another L CALPURNIUS PISO FRUGI

 

Next: Control mark in the form of Roman numerals

 

Censorinus et al. denarius (82 BCE)
-- a Secret Saturn present from @ValiantKnight

next: Secret Saturn present

 

A present from @Cucumbor

Next: Philip I provincial

 

PHILIP THE ARAB
Very Rare. AE. 9.62g, 25.7mm. PISIDIA, Apollonia Mordiaeum, circa AD 244-249. SNG Cop -; BMC -; Von Aulock, Pisidiens, 146. O: AVT K M IOVΛIOC ΦIΛIΠΠOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: AΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ AV / ΘΡΑΚΟ, River god Hippophoras reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia, resting elbow on inverted vase from which water flows.

Next: River god on a Roman Imperial

 

Here's just such a river god:


Postumus, AD 260-269.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.54 g, 22.4 mm, 12 h.
Trier (some attribute to Cologne), 1st emission, 2nd phase, AD 260-261.
Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: SALVS PROVINCIARVM, river god Rhinus, bearded and horned, reclining left, resting right hand on boat and holding anchor in left, left arm resting on urn.
Refs: RIC 87; RSC 355b; Mairat 1-5; RCV 10991; AGK 88c; De Witte 290; Hunter p. lxxxviii.

Next up: Coin publicizing Salus but not depicting the goddess Salus/Hygieia.

 

CLAUDIUS GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. 2.23g, 19.6mm. Antioch mint, AD 269-270. RIC 217. O:
O: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right. R: SALVS AVG, Isis standing left holding sistrum and situla; [e in exergue].

Next: Providentia type, but not depicting Providentia

 

This dupondius of SA depicts Annona.

Next: radiate crown plus a modius

 

I'm sure this isn't at all what you intended but I'm going to play it anyway :


EGYPT, Alexandria. Lucius Verus
year 4, CE 163/4
tetradrachm, 24 mm, 13.51 gm
Obv: ΛAVPHΛI OVHPOCCEB; bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust left
Rev: Radiate and draped bust of Serapis-Pantheos right, wearing modius and horn of Ammon; trident behind shoulder; ∆/L in right field
Ref: Emmett 2360 (4), R1; Köln 2148; Dattari (Savio) 9420; K&G 39.77

Next: another syncretic deity

 

Syncretic deity...Serapis


Silver tetradrachm

AYTOK TITOY KAIΣO YEΣΠAΣIANOY ΣEB
laureate head of Titus right

ΣAPAΠIΣ
bust of Serapis right, wearing taenia, modius on head ornamented with branches of laurel, date LB (year 2) right

Alexandria mint, 29 Aug 79 - 28 Aug 80 A.D
12.254g, 25.4mm

Milne 456 - 457; Geissen 319; Dattari 426; cf. BMC Alexandria p. 34, 281 (year 3); Emmett 235

Ex-Forum

2011 Forum Best of Type winner

This is the Wildwinds example

Ptolemy Soter, wanting to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their Hellenic rulers, by promoted worship of Serapis as a deity that would win the reverence of both groups alike. This was despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alexander the Great had attempted to use Amun for this purpose, but Amum was more prominent in Upper Egypt, and not as popular in Lower Egypt, where the Greeks had stronger influence. The Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so an anthropomorphic statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as the equivalent of the highly popular Apis. It was named Aser-hapi (i.e. Osiris-Apis), which became Serapis, and was said to be Osiris in full, rather than just his Ka (life force). Ptolemy's efforts were successful - in time Serapis was held by the Egyptians in the highest reverence above all other deities, and he was adored in Athens and other Greek cities.

Next: Cleopatra VII

 

Theme: Cleopatra VII



26 mm. 80 drachma
Minted at Alexandria, Egypt.
This type is famous for showing her nose which does not make it seem like she was a great beauty.
Sear Greek 7955.

Next theme: Powerful woman

 

Tetradrachm of Cleopatra Thea with Antiochos VIII.Rv Zeus seated Ptolemais Ace MintSC 2271 16,51 grms 25 MM Her position on the coin said it all
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issued by Antiochos IX

The coin design is unusual here in that Eros's wing goes outside the dotted border.

Next: a coin with something unusual about its design

 

Features both raised and incuse lettering.

ROMAN REPUBLIC
3.83g, 20mm. Rome mint, 112 - 111 BC. Ti. Quinctius, moneyer. Crawford 297/1b; Sydenham 563; Quinctia 6. O: Laureate bust of Hercules left, seen from behind, wearing lion skin across shoulders, club over right shoulder. R: Two horses galloping left; a desultor riding the nearest one; •/X above, rat below; TI and Q; D.S.S incuse on tablet in exergue.
Ex Demetrios Armounta Collection, with old Seaby ticket indicating 12 Sep 1963 purchase date

Next: Carrying club over shoulder

 

PISIDIA, Selge
2nd - 1st century BCE
AE; 1.89 gm, 13.4 mm.
Obv: Three-quarter facing head of Herakles wreathed with styrax, head turned slightly right, lion-skin around neck, club over shoulder
Rev: ΣΕ-Λ, stag kneeling right, head left, K below
Ref: SNG Cop 257
ex Zumbly? (Z-- I don't remember... was this once yours?)

Next: kneeling stag

 

Yep.

LYDIA, Hierocaesarea. Pseudo-autonomous.
AE17. 3.45g, 16.6mm. LYDIA, Hierocaesarea. Pseudo-autonomous, circa 1st century AD. SNG von Aulock 2955; SNG Cop 178. O: Draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder. R: IEPOKAICAPEΩN, forepart of stag kneeling right.

Next: Forepart of another animal

 

This little Greek coin has the foreparts of both a boar and a lion!


Mysia, Kyzikos (c.480 BC)
AR Trihemiobol, 10 mm, 1.16 g
Obv: Forepart of boar left ; Tunny upward
Rev: Head of roaring lion left, outstretched tongue, all within incuse square
Ref: Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Group II, 9 / Table V, 10-11.

Next: coin in your collection that is far outside of your own collecting field.

 

This is about as far away from what I collect as I can get 8 Reales Mexico 1742
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