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CALABRIA, Tarentum
circa 344-340 BCE per CNG's cataloger; 380-345 BCE per Cote/Ratto;
AR nomos (didrachm); 21 mm, 7.72 gm, 9h
Obv: Warrior, holding small shield in left hand, dismounting from horse galloping left; horizontal T below
Rev: Phalanthos (Taras?), holding helmet in right hand, riding dolphin left; TAPAΣ to upper right, I and waves below
Ref: Fischer-Bossert group 47, 657 (V252/R509); Vlasto 437 (same dies); HN Italy 876; Côte 152
Ex Dr. Spencer Paterson Collection of Ancient Coins, Sept 2019
Slabbed prior to its most recent sale to me and quickly de-slabbed upon arrival; NGC XF, 5/5, 4/5, Fine Style.
Prior sales: CNG's Coin shop (date unknown); Roma Auction 6 lot 327 (Sept 2013)


Next: waves

 

Waves

Tough to see...


Tyre, 1/16 shekel. 10 mm. 0.47 grams.
hippocamp left over waves/owl with crook and flail behind
Sear Greek 5916. BMC Tyre 43, page 233
SNG Danish 302

Next: More Waves

 

They're stylized as zigzags but they are waves...


PHOENICIA, Byblos. Uzzibaal. 350-335 BCE
AR dishekel, 13.3 gm
Obv: Three hoplites with shields in war galley left, roaring lion's head on prow, waves below galley; hippocamp left below, with murex shell below it; Z O (N O?) in field
Rev: Phoenician inscription; lion attacking bull left
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 132, BMC 26.95, 4.
acquired August 2014

Next: a dead language

 

That coin though...

 

Dead Language

OSCAN


Campania CAPUA AE 14-5mm 216-211 Hera Oscan (Capua) Grain ear Hannibal capital Italia SNG Fr 517 SNG ANS 219 HN Italy 500 EE Clain Stefanelli

Next: More dead language

 

Aren't all the languages on our ancients now dead? Nobody's native language is Latin; it's only learned in school because it's dead. So here's one in Latin:


Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251.
Roman AR antoninianus, 3.83 g, 22.4 mm, 11 h.
Rome, 5th emission, early AD 151.
Obv: Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C, radiate and draped bust, right.
Rev: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting left elbow on lyre.
Refs: RIC 146; RSC 24a; Cohen --; RCV 9522; Hunter 9; ERIC II 40.

Next: Somebody resting their left elbow on something.

 

ANTONINUS PIUS
AE Drachm. 27.11g, 33.9mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 8 (AD 144/5). RPC Online temp #15717; Dattari 2891; Emmett 1687.8. O: AYT K T AIL ADP ANTWNEI NOC CEB EYC, laureate head right. R: Tyche wearing kalathos reclining left on garlanded lectisternium, resting left elbow on cushion, holding a rudder in right hand.
Ex Stevex6 Collection

Next: Resting elbow on something else.

 

next: coin minted in Babylon

 

BABYLON 311-280 B.C. FO DRACHM BAAL STD. LEFT LION L. & ANCHOR 3.60g 11H FOURREE-SCATTERED CORE EXP.ON OBV & EDGE

Next: another Ba'al

 

Baaltars - the Ba'al of Tarsos

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames), Satrap
AR Stater. 10.7g, 24.5mm. CILICIA, Tarsos, circa 375 BC. Tarkumuwa (Datames), as Satrap. SNG Levante 85 (this coin); Casabonne Type 2; Moysey Issue 6; SNG France 282 = de Luynes 2839 = Traité II 609. O: Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear, grape-bunch, and eagle-tipped scepter; lotus below throne; all within crenelated wall. R: Satrap, wearing Persian dress, seated right, holding arrow; winged solar disk to upper right, bow to lower right; c/m: bull standing right within incuse square.
Ex CNG 100 (7 October 2015), lot 1553; ex CNG 96 (14 May 2014), lot 516; ex Eduardo Levante Collection (CNG 64, 24 September 2003), lot 337

Next: Coin of another Cilician satrap

 

NAGIDOS in CILICIA
AR Stater
OBVERSE: Aphrodite seated left, holding patera over altar, crowned by Eros flying right above, rose and bud in left field, mouse under chair
REVERSE: NAΓIΔIKON, Dionysos, loins draped (long), standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos. EY ΔIO in left field.
Struck at Nagidos in Cilicia 356-333 BC
9.93g, 23 mm.
Lederer 64; Paris 809; Babelon Traite II-2 1524.8; SNG France II, 34
ex. Warren Esty

Next: Rodent on coin

 

next: another rodent

 

another mouse
Antigonos Monophthalmos 320-301 BC AR drachm
types of Alexander


Next: a smaller than horse mammal used as the major type on the coin

 

Doggy!


RR Aes Grave AE Quadrans Dog 3 pellets Six spoked wheel 59.8g Craw 26/6a Th-Vecchi 34

Next: More Doggies!

 

Doggie!


Gallienus, AD 153-268.
Roman billon antoninianus.
Mediolanum, AD 264-265.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, Narrow radiate head right, both ribbons behind.
Rev: DIANA FELIX, Diana standing right, holding spear and bow; at foot, hound.
Refs: RIC 473K; Göbl 1146m(2): Cohen/RSC 173; RCV 10197; Hunter pl. lxvi.

Next: Somebody described as "Felix."

 

IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG... because apparently the period after your husband dies and one of your sons kills the other is some kind of sweet spot for a wife and mother?


JULIA DOMNA
AR Denarius. 2.93g, 20.3mm. Rome mint, AD 211 (under Caracalla). RIC IV (Caracalla) 381. O: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, draped bust right; hair waved vertically and fastened in large bun on back; five ridges. R: MAT AVGG MAT SEN M PATR, Julia Domna seated left, holding branch extended in right hand, sceptre transverse, pointing up to right, in left.
Ex A.K. Collection (Triton XX, 9 Jan 17, Part of Lot 614); ex stock Münzen und Medaillen Basel 1969

Next: Imperial or Provincial bronze of Julia Domna

 

AE Domna


RI Julia Domna 196-211 CE AE As Hilaritascornuc RIC IVa 877
Ex: Douglas Smith Collection

Next: Fractional Achaemenid

 

AV 1/8 Daric ND struck circa 341-39BC
obv: Trident
rev : Axe
Pixadorus Satrap of Caria under Persian King of King Artaxerxes III
Halicarnassus Mint
ex: Roma
next: another example from Caria

 

MYLASA, CARIA
AR Tetartemorion
OBVERSE: Lion's head left with reversed foreleg below
REVERSE: Lion's scalp facing, flanked by leg on both sides, in incuse circle
Struck at Mylasa, 392-376 BC
.2g, 6mm
SNG Keckman I 837-846 (lion left)

Next: Example smaller than 6mm