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CONCORDIA? Yeah, whatever...
Octavian and Marc Antony???


RImp Marc Antony & Octavian AR Quinarius 1.58g Military Mint Gaul 39BCE Concordia r Hands clasped caduceus Cr-529-4b Sear 1575 Syd-1195

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Perhaps it's because on this coin Lucilla looks like a doll and dolls are freakin' scary and weird? (My mom and grandmothers collected dolls and were very disappointed that I didn't like them.)

 

Balbinus Orichalcum Sestertius, 238 A.D.





Next: Sagittarius

 

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Theme: Sagittarius



29-27 mm. 8.50 grams.
Artuqids of Mardin (Mardin is a city in eastern Turkey very close to the border with Syria)
Nasir al-din Artuq-Arslan, as vassal of the Ayyubid al-'Abil Abu Bakr AH 592-615 with Caliph al-Nasir AH 575-622, struck year 599 = 1201 AD.

Centaur-archer running right, human trunk turned 3/4 to rear stretching bow with arrow aimed at the wide-open jaws of a dragon(?) emerging from the centaur's tail.
This represents the zodiac "day house" of Sagittarius.
The reverse has a 5-line legend with four short lines in the quadrants.

Spengler/Sayles 38 (scarcer variety mentioned with 5-line legend instead of 4). Wilkes 1212v (his has centaur left). Sayles thinks many Turkoman coin types have astrological references. He illustrates artifacts with the whole zodiac which have precisely this representation (including the dragon tail) of Sagittarius, so this one is certainly Sagittarius.

Next theme: Turkoman bronze.

 

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk)
ZANGIDS OF MOSUL. 'Izz al-Din Mas'ud I (AH 576-589 / AD 1180-1193)
AE Dirhem. 13.81g, 27.8mm. al-Mawsil mint, dated AH 585 (AD 1189/90). Spenger & Sayles Type 63.1; Album 1863.2; Whelan Type II. O: Crowned Turkish female figure, holding crescent-circle, seated facing between two stars; mint formula and AH date around. R: Kalima and name and titles of Abbasid caliph and Abbasid heir presumptive in five lines; name and titles of Ayyubid overlord (al-Nasr Yusuf bin Ayyub [Saladin]) and 'Izz al-Din Mas'ud I in margins.
Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

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Constantine X and Eudocia, AD 1059-1067.
Byzantine Æ Follis, 5.58 g, 25.7 mm, 5 h.
Constantinople, AD 1059-1067.
Obvs: +ЄMMANOVHΛ IC XC, Christ on footstool holding gospels.
Revs: ЄVΔK AVΓO +KѠN T ΔK, Eudocia and Constantine holding labarum.
Ref: Sear 1853; DOC 8.

Next: Anyone named Constantine on a coin minted in Constantinople.

 

The easy one is Constantine I.

Next: Constantine X or higher

 

Constantin X
Dukas, 1059-1067
AE Follis 26 MM 4,4 gr, Constantinople. Christ frontal standing with Codex. Rs. Eudokia L. and Constantin R. Keep together a Labarum. Sear in 1853.

Next up: a coin over 26 MM with 3 or more people on it

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
Regnal year 8, CE 144/5
AE drachm, 33 mm, 23.2 gm
Obv: [legend]; laureate draped bust right
Rev: Serapis, wearing modius, standing facing; flanked by the Dioscuri who are also standing facing, heads turned towards Serapis, and each holding a flagellum ; [L] H in exergue
Ref: Dattari 2864 (RY2); Dattari-Savio plate 148 coins 2864 and 8724; Emmett 1670.8; Not listed in Milne.
Ex X6 Collection

Next: a coin with 5 or more people total

 

Here's one I found...



Next: hippo

 

Egypt, Alexandria. Dattari. Tiberius, 14-37 Obol circa 19-20 (year 6), Æ 20.1mm., 5.67g. Laureate head r. Rev. TIBEPIOY Hippopotamus standing r.; in exergue, L Geissen -. RPC 5087 (this coin cited). Dattari-Savio Pl. 4, 103 (this coin).
Brown tone, About Very Fine.
From the Dattari collection.
Naville Numismatics Aution 43, Lot 250 September 23, 2018



Next: Marcus Aurelius as Augustus

 

Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180.
Roman AR denarius, 3.53 g, 17.4 mm, 1 h.
Rome, AD 169.
Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIII, laureate head right.
Rev: LIBERAL AVG V COS III, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 206; BMCRE 492; Cohen 412; RCV 4914; MIR 181.

Next: Liberalitas

 

next: Libertas

 

Galba. 68-69 AD. Denarius, 3.50gg. (5h). Tarraco. Obv: GALBA - IM[PERATOR] Head laureate right on globe. Rx: LIB - [ERTAS] - RESTITVTA Libertas standing left, apparently emptying a cup and holding scepter. BM 198, pl. 54.3. RIC 9 (R2), pl. 24 (the BM spec.). Cf. Paris 12, pl.III (apparently no globe below bust). Cohen 133 (120 Fr.). VF.
Ex Jyrki Muona Collection.
Ex Gemini XIV April 2018 Lot 475.
Coin depicted in the Wildwinds.com database.


“On the Paris specimen of this coin the scepter on reverse has a thickened upper end, so Cohen thought it was a thyrsus and called the figure Ariadne. On the BM specimen the scepter has no bulge at the end, but Mattingly still followed Cohen in calling it a "thyrsus(?)", and suggested that the figure was a Bacchante, the type perhaps referring to "some kindness that Galba rendered to Spain in the form of removal of restrictions on the culture of vines" (Introduction, p. ccix). It seems more probable that the deity is just Libertas, as named in the legend, and that the cup she apparently empties on several dies, replacing her normal cap of liberty, is merely an engraver's whim or error.” Curtis Clay



Next: Another Galba denarius

 

LIBERTAS


RI Claudius 41-54 Ae As 28mm LIBERTAS AVGVSTA S-C RIC 100

Next: Non-Roman Lydia [EDIT] Orfew WINS! Galba Denarius

 

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Next up: more Galba!

 

Galba sestertius /Libertas reverse.

next up, coin of Otho.

 

Otho


RI Otho 69 CE BI AR Tet 23mm Egypt Helmeted Roma

Next: 68-69 CE Civil War Issues

 

another Vitellius