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Couple of them...


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Spain Osca Æ Semis 25mm 8.0g 1st C BCE Bearded male hd R Horseman galloping R holding spear star SNG Cop 325 Burgos 1918

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@Alegandron said a couple of them above so:
Here are two of the same semis.
Asido
Ancient Spain 110 BC.
Present day Medina Sidonia.
Phonecian and Punic.
Obv: Melkart head facing
forward.
Rev: Two tunny fish right
Libio-Phoenician legend
( B B L ) Semis

Next up Two semis that are the same.

 

I got a bunch of "Semissis" but no "Semis"

 

These look a bit different, but I've got them both down as Cr. 114/3 Rostrum prow semisses:



And, #2... in need of a non-reflective picture, but you can make out the prow on the reverse.




Next... something else with the prow of a galley.

 

Phoenicia, Arados (2nd century BC), Æ16
Date: Aradian era date 116 below == 144-143 B.C
Obv: Braided, bearded head of Zeus right, border of dots
Rev: Ram of prow left; Phoenician letters nun and aleph above
Size: 3.93g, 14.90mm
Ref: BMC Phoenicia Pg.18, No.135

Next: another prow

 

Prow


RImp Sextus Pompey 42-38 BC AE As Janus Pompey Magnus - Prow Sear 1394 Craw 479-1

Next: Bronze BCE

 

I would if I knew what a BCE was.

 

Next up: more siscilian bronze

 

BCE = Before the Common Era = BC.

I don't want that "Modern Schtuff" from Augustus and later.

 

Here's an Akragas bronze - HGC 2, 139.



Next - an eagle

 

Philip I Ar Tetradrachm Likely minted at Rome 244 A. D. Prieur 310. Rv.Eagle standing facing head left.10.58 grms 24mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Another eastern Roman coin

 

East? You want East? This Tiberius copy was found in India.

Next: Another eastern Roman coin but from a recognized official Roman mint before mintmarks were added to coins

 

Next: an Otho bronze coin

 

I'm going to invoke the 12 hour rule and post something similar:


Diadumenian, Caesar AD 217-218.
Roman provincial Æ 16.5 mm, 4.63 g, 11:00.
Syria: Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch ad Orontem.
Obv: ΚΑΙ Μ Ο ΔΙA ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟC CЄ, bare-headed and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: Large SC, Δ/Є above and beneath; all within laurel wreath interrupted by star above.
Refs: SGI 3017; BMC 20. 201,408; SNG Cop. 235; McAlee 745a.
Notes: Reverse die match to McAlee plate coin.

Next: A child on the obverse.

 

next another child on the obverse

 

Geta Caesar (son of Septimius Severus) AR Denarius 202 AD. Obv. As young boy, bare-headed, draped & cuirassed bust right, P SEPT GETA CAES PONT/ Rev. Securitas seated left on throne with globe, SECVRIT IMPERII. RIC IV-1 20b, RSC III 183A, Sear RCV II 7200. 18 mm., 3.17 g.



Next: an obverse portrait of someone who looks elderly.

 

Antoninus Pius (Reg. 138-161 AD)
Posthumous Denarius,161 AD
Obv.: Divus Antoninus Pius / Laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder.
Rv: CONSECRATIO, Funeral pyre
Ag, 3.30g, 16.6x17.5mm
Ref.: RIC 438 (Aurelius), RSC 164a
Ex Pristina Hoard

Next: Someone who looks happy

 

Gordie with a half-smile. Next, another happy person

 

ATTICA ATHENS
AR Tetradrachm
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Athena right, in crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor & a spiral palmette on the bowl; eye in profile
REVERSE: AQE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig & crescent behind
Struck at Athens 350-300 BC
16.9g, 22mm
Sg2537

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