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Requiescat in pace

 

How 'bout chocolate with sprinkles

Next up: Julia Augusta (Livia)

 

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

 

PERGAMON MYSIA
AE15
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Athena right
REVERSE: Head and neck of a bull right "A" above
Struck at Mysia, Pergamon 310-283 BC
3.09g, 15mm
SNG France 1571.
Ex Malloy Auction LXVII,93
Ex Aegean Numismatics

Next: Bull

 

Tetradrachm of Philetairos of Pergamon. Obv. Head of king right Rv. Athena std holding shield.Westermark O III Rv 2 269-263 B.C. 16.99 grms Too late again Next coin Bull

 

Sometimes, ya just gotta be quick.

 

Tetradrachm of Samos Obv Scalp of lion facing Rv Forepart of Bull running right Barron 134 393-388 B.C. 15.19 grms 24 mm Next coin a Fake

 

Fake
NERO
AE Sestertius
OBVERSE: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right with aegis
REVERSE: S-C, triumphal arch surmounted by quadriga, statue of Mars between column
Struck at Rome, 64 AD
27.7g, 34mm
RIC 143
Identified as possible 18th century cast forgery by David Sear.

Next: The same example not a fake

 

12 hour rule.

Gallienus, 253-268 A.D. 23mm 3.7 grams
Obverse: GALLIENVS AVG
Reverse: SOLI CONS AVG, Sol's horse prancing right





Next up: Black stone of Elagabal

 

Bummer, I do not have the Black Stone.

Here's my Black Shark Tooth.


Fossil - Great White Shark Tooth 43x29mm

Well, next, back to:

 

Denarius of Elagabalus 218-219 A.D. Antioch Rv Slow quadriga carrying stone of Elagabal right 2.97 grms 19 mm Next coin Elagabalus

 

next Providentia

 

Providentia:


Maximian, post-abdication, AD 305-306
Roman billon follis, 8.26 g, 25 mm, 1 h.
Antioch, AD 305-306.
Obv: D N MAXIMIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG, laureate bust, right, wearing consular robes and holding branch and mappa.
Rev: PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG, Providentia standing right, extending right hand to Quies standing left, holding down-facing branch and resting on scepter; I in field between them, ANT: in exergue.
Refs: RIC 77b, Cohen 489, RCV 13414.

Next: somebody holding mappa.

 

LICINIUS I
AE3 Follis
OBVERSE: IMP LICI-NIVS AVG, laureate bust right, wearing imperial mantle, holding globe, sceptre & mappa
REVERSE: PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG, campgate with three turrets, no door, delta in right field SMHA in ex.
Struck at Heraclea 318-320 AD
3.0g, 18mm
RIC VII 48

Next: Campgate

 

next Constantius II

 

Next grandpa Constantius I the tetrarch

 

Inventor off Clorox wipes, Constantius Clorox!

Next up: another tetrarch

 

next Thessaloniki mint

 

Maximinus II as FIL AVGG Thessalonika


Next: another FIL AVG(G) either not Maxminus II or not Thessalonkia