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TRANQUILLINA
AE23
OBVERSE: CAB TPANKVLLEINA CEB, diademed & draped bust right
REVERSE: ADRIANOPOLEITWN, Artemis running right, holding bow, drawing arrow from quiver behind shoulder, dog running at her feet
Struck at Hadrianopolis, 241-43 AD
6.1g, 23mm
Moushmov 2764

Next: Artemis

 

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Syracuse Ar 12 litrai Obv Helmeted head of Athena left. Rv. Artemis standing left drawing bow.At foot hound springing forward. HGC 1412 214-212 B.C. 9.93 grms 24mm Photo by W. Hansen Net coin Athena

 

Athena:

Diocletian, AD 284-305.
Roman billon tetradrachm, 19.2 mm, 7.24 g, 12 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, AD 285-6.
Obv: Α Κ Γ ΟVΑΛ ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: Athena seated left, holding Nike and resting on scepter, shield at side; L B (= regnal year 2) in field.
Refs: Dattari 5638; BMCG 2485; Milne 4765; Cologne 3211; RCV 12856.

Next: Alexandrian tetradrachm minted after 250 CE.

 

RI Carinus 282-285 CE BI Potin Tet 19mm 8.1g Alexandria Egypt 19mm Athena Seated holding Nike

Next: Alexandria Tet from BEFORE 250 BCE

 

Does this count?

Ptolemy II, Ptolemaic Kingdom
AR tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis
Rev: ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monogram in left field, shield in front of eagle
Mint: Alexandria
Date: 285-246 BC
Ref: Svoronos 574



If so, then next theme: coin minted under Ptolemy I

 

Yer guuud!

 

next: coin with an elephantscalp

 

Julia Domna, AE24, Augusta Traiana, Thrace / Nemesis


too late

 

Geta, Nikopolis-ad-Istrum, Nemesis and wheel





Next: another Nemesis reverse

 

I wonder where the elephant scalp is ?



next: coin with someone wearing an elephant scalp

 

Otho Billon Tetradrachm of Alexandria . YEAR 1
C. 69 AD
13.44g
25mm
obv. Otho laureate head right, LA before / rev. bust of Alexandria right in elephant skin headdress. RPC 5358. Dattari 324
Grey tone with good metal and detail. SCARCE
Ex John Casey Collection

Next: A dated year 1 coin

 

The easy answer here is to pick a reign that did not last long enough to have a year two:
Otho, AR tetradrachm, Antioch, ETOVC A


Next: A reign dated coin thirty or higher

 

Justinian I, Byzantine Empire
AE decanummium
Obv: D N IVSTINI-ANVS PP AVG, helmeted, cuirassed just facing, holding cross
Rev: Large I, ANNO (year) to left, XXXV (35) to right
Mint: Ravenna mint
Date: 561 AD



Next theme: non-Byzantine coin contemporaneous to Justinian’s reign (527-565 AD)

 

Sasanian Empire. AR drachm Xusro I (531-579). Year 22 (= 552). Mint Ardashir Khurra (Firuzabad). Obv. Bust right. Rev. Fire altar with assistants. Göbl 196.

Next: Another coin contemporary with Xusro I, not Sasanian and not Byzantine. Please.

 

You can bet Poseidon had some nice watercraft.

 

Theodahad, Ostrogothic Kingdom
AE decanummium
Obv: INVICT-A ROMA, Roma helmeted, facing right
Rev: D N / THEODA / HATHVS / REX within wreath, X below
Mint: Rome
Date: 534-536 AD
Ref: COI 90



Next theme: Text-only reverse that isn’t a VOT type

 

Text only reverse AND obverse!

Mongols-Ghazna mnt Khwarezm Genghis Khan 1206-1227 CE AE Jital Islamic RARE - only The Just Kahn in title Album 1969 Tye 329

Next: Silk Road Beauties

 

12 hour rule.

Aelia Eudoxia AE 18mm. AEL EVDO-XIA AVG, diademed draped bust right being crowned by hand of god / Victory seated right, supporting shield on column inscribed with chi-rho.

Next: Empress from Theodosian dynasty or later.

 

Galla Placidia, Western Roman Empire
AE nummus
Obv: D N GALLA PLA-CIDIA P F AVG, female, pearl-diademed bust right, wearing necklace and earrings
Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICE around cross, T in left field
Mint: Rome
Mintmark: RM
Date: 425-437 AD
Ref: RIC X 2111



Next theme: siliqua

 

SILIQUA


RI Valentinian II AD 375-392 AR Siliqua 18mm 1.8g Trier Victory wreath palm RIC IX 43

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