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HONORIUS
AE2
OBVERSE: D N HONORIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: GLORIA ROMANORVM, emperor standing, head right, holding labarum & globe, star in right field, SMNA in ex
Struck at Nicomedia, 392-95 AD
4.9g, 22mm
RIC 46c

Next: Emperor holding globe

 

Constantine I
Arles mint
337 to 340 AD
AE 4
Obvs: DIVO CONSTANTINO P, Constantine veiled right.
Revs: AETERNA PIETAS, Emperor holding globe and spear. X to right, PCONST
14x15mm, 1.41g
RIC VIII 17, Vagi 3150

Next: posthumous

 

Postumus
Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Irregular mint – "Mint II". 2nd bronze phase, first period, AD 264-266. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pax advancing left, holding branch and scepter

Next up: Not this guy!

 

Is that a posthumous Postumus Ryro

 

Derp. Me, just after posting

 

Augustus with Divus Julius Caesar
(27 BC-14 AD) MACEDON. Thessalonica. Obv: ΘEOΣ.
Wreathed head of Julius Caesar right; uncertain c/m on neck.
Rev: ΘEΣΣAΛONIKEΩN.
Bare head of Augustus right; Δ below. RPC I 1554.
Fine. 12.3 g.21 mm.

The D has been interpreted as either a denomination mark (four assaria) or, more likely, a date - year four of the Actian era (28/7 BC). The ligate NK monogram has been generally accepted as a reference to Nero (Nerwn Kaisar). This is problematic considering that Thessalonica had abundant coinages issued under Claudius and Nero, such that countermarking these quite older coins would be unlikely. Touratsoglou(p. 105) follows Kraay's suggestion that the NK is an abbreviation for Nike (NiKh), and was applied to the coins during celebrations of the city's 50th anniversary of its grant of liberty by the Romans. All but two of the known specimens of this countermark occur on the coins of this first issue of Thessalonica, and the wear on the countermarks is nearly identical to that of the coins, suggesting that the countermarks could not have been applied very long after the coins entered circulation.

Next up: A different posthumous Julius Caesar

 

Next: another Julius Caesar portrait

 

JC Portrait

Struck last two weeks of Caesar’s life...

Roman Imperiatorial
Julius Caesar Lifetime
P Sepullius Macer
AR Denarius, 1st 2 weeks-Mar 44 BCE, 19 mm, 4.03g.
Obv: CAESAR – DICT PERPETVO Veiled and wreathed head of Caesar R.
Rev: P·SEPVLLIVS – MACER Venus standing l., holding Victory and sceptre resting on star.
Ref: Syd 1074a Sear Imperators 107e Cr 480-14 Rare

Next: Coins of Consul Marius... celebrating his victories, during his Consulship, etc.

 

Coin of another Caesar. The moneyer, L. Julius Caesar, was probably the same who was governor of Macedonia in 94 BC, consul of 90 BC, and censor in 89 BC. He was killed by Marian supporters in 87 BC. This coin was struck during Marius's 3rd consulship.

ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denarius. 3.91g, 16.8mm. Rome mint, 103 BC. L. Julius Caesar, moneyer. Crawford 320/1; Sydenham 593. O: Helmeted head of Mars left; above visor, Q and pellet, and behind, CAESAR. R: Venus in biga of Cupids left; Q and pellet above, lyre below, L•IVLI•L•F in in exergue.

Next: Venus

 

next: another Venus

 

Septimius Severus / Venus Alexandria denarius


Next: Aphtodite

 

Laodikeia
Asia Minor, Phrygia
after 133 BC, roman rule
Obv.: Head of Aphrodite right, long curl hanging down her neck, wearing stephane
Rev.: ΛAOΔI-KEΩN, double cornucopiae left, fillet hanging down on left
AE, 7.33g, 21mm
Ref.: BMC 39, SNG von Aulock 3803, SNG Munich 344

Next: two female busts or heads, no male

 

Livia, wife of Augustus, and Julia, daughter of Augustus.
Roman provincial AE 17.2 mm, 3.44 g.
Mysia, Pergamon, 10 - 2 BC.
Obv: ΛΙΒΙΑΝ ΗΡΑΝ ΧΑΡΙΝΟΣ, draped bust of Livia as Hera, right.
Rev: ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΝ, draped bust of Julia as Aphrodite, right.
Refs: RPC I 2359; BMC 15.139, 249; SGI 213; SNG Copenhagen-467; Vagi 370.

Next: Pergamon

 

Mysia, Pergamon
Cistophoric Tetradrachm
Obv.: Serpent emerging from cista mystica with raised lid, all within ivy wreath with fruits.
Rev.: Bow case between two coiled serpents; to left, monogram of Pergamon; MH above; to right; serpent-entwined club with lion’s skin to right.
Ag, 28mm, 12.57g
Ref.: Kleiner-Noe, Series 31b, 102-5

Next: more than one serpent, not Pergamon

 

Apameia - I haven't been able to definitively establish the reverse with the double strike obscuring the device on the right (my guesses: capricorn, bee, human ear?).

Phrygia, Apameia, circa 150-140 BC, AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm
Obv: Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath
Rev: Bow-case with two serpents entwined; (?device) to the right
Ref: I think it falls in Kleiner-Noe Series 17-25?

The monogram for Apameia is clear enough

Next: any coin with some sort of 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: Pyrrhos

 

another Pyrrhos

 

Pyrrhos


Syracuse Sicily Pyrrhus Epirus 278-276 BCE AE Litra 11.4g 23.3mm Herakles Nemaean Lion scalp - Athena Promachos thunderbolt shield SNG Cop 813, SNG ANS 852

Next: Hannibal or Agathokles

 

Agathocles of Syracuse
Bronze litra,
weight 8.501g, maximum diameter 26.1mm, die axis 315o, 305 - 295 B.C.; obverse ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, head of young Herakles left, wearing taenia, star (control symbol) behind neck; reverse lion walking right, right foreleg raised, club right above, arrow right (control symbol) in exergue; Calciati II p. 287, 150 Ds 14 Rs 63; BMC Sicily p. 196, 391; SNG ANS 740; SNG Cop 767; HGC 2 1465 var. (R1, 4th Democracy, different controls)


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