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Interesting reverse type, @dougsmit !

I love it!This one was struck to commemorate Tacitus' "Victory over the Goths":
Tacitus, AD 275-276.
Roman billon antoninianus, 3.57 gm, 21.1 mm.
Ticinum, AD 276.
Obv: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: VICTORIA GOTTHI, Victoria standing left, holding wreath and palm; P in exergue.
Refs: RIC 172; Cohen 158; Sear 11821; Hunter 59; CBN 1676.

Next: Another of Tacitus.

 

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Tacitus 275 - 276

Ӕ silvered Antoninianus, Rome, 275

21 x 23 mm - 4.07 g

IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG

Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.

R/ LAETITIA FVND

Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and anchor.
XXIB in exergue.

RIC Vi Rome 89b

large, grey silvering patina, XF



Next: Quintillus

 

QUINTILLUS:

RI Quintillus 270 CE Ant - Rome mint - Radiate-Victoria RIC Vi 33

Next: Another Quintillus

 

Next up: non Roman radiate crown

 

Caria, Rhodes AR Plinthophoric Drachm
Magistrate Antigenes circa 190-170 BC.
Obv: Radiate head of Helios right.
Rev: ΑΝΤΙΓΕΝΗΣ, Rose with bud, prow in left field.

Next: Rhodes

 

next: another Rhodos

 

Rhodes Ar Stater 340-320 B.C. Obv. Head of helios 3/4 facing right. Rv Rose. Ashton 98 HGC 1433 6.88 grms 27 mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Helios or Sol

 

Also Rhodes but AE27 167-88 BC


Next: an AE coin of a type more common in silver

 

I think this qualifies, as you are more likely to see on CT a Seleucid tetradrachm, that looks like this coin than this AE:
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochos III Megas, 223-187 BC, Antioch
Obv: diademed head right
Rev: [AN]TIOXOY - [ΒΑ]ΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Apollo on omphalos seated left
Size: 16mm, 2.45g

Next: another bronze that isn't often seen on CT

 

Although there are many around and fairly cheap to acquire, you dont see many on Cointalk:



next: Jesus Christ coin

 

Please pardon this brief digression from the game for a comment on a coin posted earlier today:

@Terence Cheesman, your very beautiful coin has the same catalog numbers that my example supposedly has, so if the seller's description of my coin is correct, I now know what mine might look like if so much of the design weren't off the flan (leaving aside the fact that yours is also considerably less worn)!

Islands of Caria, Rhodos, Rhodes, AR Didrachm, ca. 340-316 BCE. Obv. Head of Helios facing slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side / Rev. Rose with bud to right and grape bunch to left [stem connecting bud to rose on right is off flan, as is “E” beneath grape bunch on left], POΔION [RODION] above, all within incuse square. Ashton 98 [Ashton, R., "The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC" in Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World (Oxford, 2001), pp. 79 - 115, pls. 6.1 - 6.6.], HGC 6, 1433 [Hoover, Oliver D., Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus), 6th to 1st Centuries BC, Vol 6 (Lancaster/London, 2010)]. 16 mm., 6.55 g., 12 h.


If my seller was correct in identifying my coin, I guess this is what happens when you try to strike a coin on a 16 mm. flan with a 27 mm. die.

Again, please excuse the interruption, and I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

Here's an anonymous follis, Class A2, of Basil II and Constantine VIII, 976 - 1025 A.D.
17.3 grams
32.5 mm, 6 h.



Next: I've been reading up today on the Justinian Plague, (541-549), the first plague pandemic, that killed an estimated 25,000,000 – 100,000,000 people.

So, how about any coin from that period.

 

Justinian I (527-565 A.D.)

AE Follis, Constantinople Mint, 10 grams, 28mm

Obverse: Diademed, Draped and Cuirassed Bust Right, DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVG

Reverse: Large M, cross above, star to left and right, officina letter below

Reference: SB 160, Dumbarton Oaks Collection 30.





Next: Another coin of that period!

 

Justinian I(AD 527-565) Æ Follis (40 Nummi) Constantinople Year 30 = AD 556/7
O: DN IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVC, Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing forward, holding globus cruciger and shield with figure on horseback riding right; cross to right
R: Large M (mark of value); A/N/N/O to left, cross above, X/X/X(date) to right; officina Γ below; CON in exergue.
Sear 163

NEXT: Emporer holding globe w/out cross affixed.

 

next; Theodosius II

 

RI Theodosius II 402-450 CE AE4 11mm Cross in Wreath

Next: Roman Republic before 180 BCE

 

With pleasure, my man!

ANONYMOUS. RR Denarius (206-195 BCE). Mint: Rome.
Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left.
Rev: ROMA.
The Dioscuri on horses rearing right, each holding spear; prow below.
Crawford 114/1.
3.7 g. 19 mm.

Next up: any lovely RR denarius

 

ANONYMOUS ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Didrachm
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Mars left, oak-sprig behind
REVERSE: ROMANO on tablet below head of bridled horse right, ear of wheat behind
Struck at Metapontum, 280-276 BC
19 mm, 6.55g
Cr13/1, Syd 1

Next: Ear of wheat

 

Sestertius of Titus with reverse Annona , Modius with wheat.

next, another Annona.

 

An Annona sitting and an Annona standing:

Titus Caesar (son of Vespasian) AR Denarius 77-79 AD, Obv.: Laureate bust right, T CAESAR VESPASIANVS / Rev. Annona seated left, leaning elbow on seat and raising drapery, ANNONA AVG. RIC II-1 972V (2007 ed.), old RIC II 218 (1926 ed.), RSC II 17 (ill.), Sear RCV I 2436 (ill.), BMCRE 319. 18.55 mm., 3.01 g.



Philip I AR Antoninianus, 246 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Radiate, draped, & cuirassed bust right, IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG/ Rev. Annona standing left, holding grain ears over modius & cornucopiae, ANNONA AVGG. RIC IV-3 28c, RSC IV 25. 23 mm., 3.8 g.



Next: another Philip I, or his wife Otacilia Severa. Your choice.