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Cool! I have the sestertius version:

 

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Roman Republic, Second Punic War, 215 - 212 BC
AE Sextans, Sardinia (?) Mint, 17mm, 2.37 grams
Obverse: Head of Mercury right wearing winged petasus.
Reverse: Prow of galley left, ROMA above, two pellets below.
Crawford56/6

Next: A coin from the era of the Second Punic War.

 

As Grave Janus/ Prow series Crawford 35/1 225-217 B.C. 272.48 grams 65mm alias Tiny
I am out of turn Next coin era of the Second Punic War

 

Syracuse Ar 12 Litrai 214-212 B.C. HGC 1412 9.93 grams 22mm
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Second Punic War... where it started...


Carthage Iberia 218-208 BC 2nd Punic War AE 13 1-4 Calco Barcid Military Mint 2nd Punic War Tanit Helmet

Next up: First Punic War

 

Carthaginian Sardinia
AE Unit, 264-241 BC
During First Punic War before Sardinian Revolt from Carthage
Obverse: Wreathed head of Tanit.
Reverse: Horse standing right, palm tree in background center, caduceus before.
References: SNG COP 222, Müller 174, MAA 25 var (caduceus) (http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Punic_map/Sardinia_map/descrA025.html)
Size: 17.5mm, 2.47g

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Carthage - Sicily AR Litra 4th C BCE 9.5mm 0.65g Palm Tree Horse Head SNG Cop 74 EE Clain-Safanelli RARE

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Just standing there, grazing ...


Time of Valerian I to Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman provincial Æ 20.1 mm, 4.49 g, 1 h.
Troas, Alexandria Troas, AD 253-268.
Obv: CO-L TROAD, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, right, with vexillium inscribed AV/CO over shoulder.
Rev: COL AVG, Horse grazing right, TRO in exergue.
Refs: Bellinger A486; SNG Copenhagen 108-113; SNG von Aulock 1466; SNG Tübingen 2533; BMC 48 var.

Next up: Alexandria Troas.

 

SEVERUS ALEXANDER
AE25. 6.37g, 25mm. TROAS, Alexandria Troas, circa AD 222-235. RPC Online temp #3987 var. (obv legend); Bellinger A335. O: IM AR ƧE AΛEXANDROS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: COL AV-G TROA, drunken Herakles stumbling right, an arm around the shoulder of Pan to his right, a satyr on his left holding his hand and another behind him supporting (or restraining) him with both arms.

Next: Deities behaving badly

 

Worse than rape....?
Mars descending on Rhea Silvia.
RIC 694

 

Aaaaaannd... next coin?

 

Okay I will bite. Seems like it is open season Thyrriheion Ar stater of Corinthian type. HGC 919 320-280 B.C. 7.98 grams
Next coin one that you have never posted before

 

MOESIA. Kallatis. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 21 mm, 7 g), Poly..., magistrate. Head of Dionysos right, wearing wreath of ivy; on neck, countermark: head of Artemis to right, with bow and quiver over her shoulder. Rev. ΠΟ/ΛY within wreath; above, KAΛΛA. AMNG I 221.

Next up: counter mark that you really had to search to identify

 

I never found most c/m's I have looked for at least beyond someone assigning it a number but no information on who, what, when, where or why. One favorite is the owl (obverse left)on this siglos.

Next: a coin with a c/m that improves the look of the coin without erasing important detail

 

The countermark on this coin matches the moon crescent that's part of the obverse, and it is in such a place that it doesn't erase any important details. I think it really adds to the overall look of the coin.

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Over $900 USD


ETRURIA, Arretium (?). The Chiana Valley. Circa 208-207 BC. Æ Quartunica . Head of African right; monogram to left / Indian elephant standing right, bell around neck; monogram below. HN Italy 69; SNG ANS 41 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 48 var. (no monogram on obv.). rare.

This enigmatic issue has been much discussed. It was Sestini in 1816 who first indicated their area of circulation in and around the Chiana (Clanis) valley and lake Trasimeno, dominated by the cities of Arezzo, Chiusi and Cortona. The traditional attribution of the issue to 217 BC, as representing the propaganda of Hannibal’s approach to Etruria, was modified by Robinson (op. cit.), who saw it as a provocative seditious type of Arretium, which was in a state of high tension with Rome in 209/8, in the hoped for arrival of Hasdrubal from Spain with reinforcements. However, the reverse depicts an Indian rather than African elephant with a bell around its neck reminiscent of the elephant/saw aes signatum issue (Crawford 9/1) of about 250-240 BC and associated with the battle of Maleventum (soon to be called Beneventum) in 275 BC when the captured elephants of Pyrrhus were brought to Rome in triumph. A similar Indian elephant is also depicted as a symbol on the Tarantine nomos issue (Vlasto 710-712), indicating the presence of Pyrrhus in the city in 282-276. The Barcid coinage of New Carthage (Villaronga CNH, pg. 65, 12-15) and that of Hannibal in Sicily (SNG Cop. 382) clearly depict African elephants belonging to the elephant corps from about 220 BC. As Maria Baglione points out in "Su alcune parallele di bronzo coniato," Atti Napoli 1975, pg.153-180, the African/elephant issue shares control marks with other cast and struck Etruscan coins of the region, she quotes Panvini Rosati in ‘ Annuario dell’accademia Etrusca di Cortona XII’, 1964, pg. 167ff., who suggests the type is to be seen as a moneyer’s badge or commemorative issue in the style of Caesar’s elephant/sacrificial implements issue of 49/48 BC (Crawford 443/1). The elephant, an attribute of Mercury/Turms, is an emblem of wisdom and is also a symbol of strength and of the overcoming of evil

Next Up: Sicily

 

It is what @Sallent posted...

 

From Sicily

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