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Thanks Doug!


A Thracian Cherronesos hemidrachm with a cute little lizard.

Next: Any coin with a reptile.

Erin

 

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Next: a coin with a frog

 

Ok, I have posted this a few times, and I was averse to posting it again. I searched through the threads, and saw the only FROG posted as their coin, was several years back by a person that is no longer on the Forum. (His frog was similar to mine... a little different corn ear reverse.)

@Ed Snible helped point to some Seriphos Frog Staters (very cool, and I guess pretty hard to get.)

So that we do not get hung up with more 12 hour timeouts, here is my Frog:


LUCERIA
Anonymous, ca. 217-212 BC,
AES Grave
AE uncia, 7.36g, approx 22mm
Obv: Frog viewed from above
Rev: corn-ear, pellet left & retrograde letter L left,
Ref: Therow & Vecchi-285.
Comments: crudely cast as always, Fine to VF, R.
Ex: Stephen Album Auction
CNG calls these Rare

Hmmm... Why did I get it? History? NO! I got the FROG!

Next: Single Corn-Ear / Grain

 

Yes! Finally a coin to join in!

Here it is:

Bruttium, the Brettii. Double unit. 214-203 BC. 13,56 gr. 26 mm
Head of Ares, crested helmet with a griffin.
Below: a SINGLE grain-ear.

Not a god I would usually associate with an ear of grain, but there you have it...

Next: a nice countermark

 

Fantastic debut! Gorgeous coin. As the Second Punic War is ending...

 

Struck at Antioch under Domitian, the obverse of this bronze coin has a rectangular counter mark figuring Athena. Next : Phoenician Temple

 

EDIT: wrong theme

 

Twelve hour rule. None from Phoenicia with a temple, I guess. It's important that the themes suggested for the next coin in the thread not be so narrow that only one member might be able to satisfy the suggestion. Broader themes allow for greater participation.

I'll play off the last coin by showing another one from Antioch with a countermark:


Trajan, AD 98-117.
Roman Provincial Æ 29 mm, 15.86 g, 12 h.
Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch, AD 115-116.
Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΡΙϹΤ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head, right. Countermark: laurel branch in incuse rectangle, Howgego 378 (69 sp.).
Rev: S·C in laurel wreath; Є below.
Refs: RPC III 3616; cf. BMC 20, p. 185, 286 (with same countermark); Wruck 196; McAlee 489(e).

That's a lot of laurel! Laureate head, laurel countermark, laurel wreath on the reverse.

Next: More laurel, but not worn on the head.

 

Next: Domitian Sestertius

 

Well this is certainly not the best example you will see.. but she is a hefty and satisfying piece in hand..


Domitian, 81 - 96 AD
AE Sestertius, Rome Mint, 35mm, 30.75 grams
Obverse: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GER M COS XIII CENS PER P P, Laureate head of Domitian right.
Reverse: IOVI VICTORI S C, Jupiter seated left holding Victory and scepter.
RIC526

Next: Jupiter

 

Careful @Bing


Still JUPITER....

 

Civil war AD 68-69 denarius , obv Jupiter Capitolinus, reverse Vesta.
next - another coin with Vesta.

 

Vesta:


Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.
Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.3 mm, 5 h.
Rome mint, 7th emission, AD 227.
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: VESTA, Vesta standing left, holding patera and transverse scepter.
Refs: RIC 362; BMCRE 440; Cohen 85; RCV 8218.

Next diademed with a stephane.

 

Next: Sabina bronze coin

 

Nice! Here's a provincial bronze:


Sabina, AD 128-137.
Roman provincial Æ hemiassarion, 3.83 g, 17 mm.
Phrygia, Ancyra.
Obv: CABЄINA CЄBACTH, draped bust, right.
Rev: ΑΝΚVΡ-ΑΝΩΝ, cultus-statue of Ephesian Artemis facing, flanked by stags.
Refs: RPC III 2541; Sear GIC 1308; BMC 25. 62, 23-24; SNG von Aulock 3433; Lindgren 885; Mionnet 4. 221, 159; SNG Cop --; Wiczay --.

Next: Another from Ancyra.

 

I guess nobody has one from Ancyra. I'll choose a new theme: stag.

 

Great! Mine has a great rack....
AV Dukat 1818 Stolberg Mint
Christian Friedrich Graf Zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Next topic: Wild Boar

 

Roman Republic, C. Hosidius C. f. Geta, 64 BC, AR Denarius, Rome
Obv: GETA before, III VIR behind, diademed and draped bust of Diana right, bow and quiver at shoulder
Rev: C HOSIDI C F , the wild boar of Calydon charging right, side pierced by arrow, harried by hound below
Ref: Crawford 407/2

and to illustrate the next theme:
Saitta, Lydia, Pseudo-autonomous, AE17, 1/3 Assarion, time of Septimius Severus, 193-211 AD
Obv: Bust of Mēn Axiottenos on crescent right, wearing Phrygian cap
Rev: CAITTHNΩN, Apollo standing facing, head to left, legs crossed, holding branch in his right hand and leaning left on bow set on ground
Size: 2.26g, 16.3mm
Ref: SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 17; Lindgren I 789; Asia Minor Coins Online AMCO #6106
Next: funny looking headgear

 

I guess wearing a lion's head on top of one's own head could be construed as "funny looking headgear" as Hercules is doing on this coin of Tiate - modern Chieti.
next ,,, Hercules holding club.

 

Islands off Thrace, Thasos, circa 90-75 BC, AR Tetradrachm
Obv: Wreathed head of young Dionysos right
Rev: HRAKLEOUS SWTHROS QASIWN, nude Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club and lion skin; M left
Next: Another Hercules (with or without club)