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Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.
Roman AR antoninianus, 3.49 g, 20.3 mm, 7 h.
Antioch, AD 251-252, second officina.
Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust (viewed from back) of Trebonianus Gallus, right.
Rev: VICTORIA AVG, Victory standing right, on globe, holding a wreath and a palm..
Refs: RIC 94; Cohen --; RSC 127b; RCV 9654; Hunter p. cvi.


Next: Antioch mint but with Latin language inscription.

 

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Another Antioch with Latin...

 

Edit: Never mind!

 

ANTIOCH LATIN


RI Aelia Flacilla w Theodosius I 373-388 CE 21mm 5.7g Victory Christogram shield Antioch RIC IX 61

Next: Another ANTIOCH with LATIN...

 

Pescennius Niger denarius

Obv:– IMP CAE PESCEN NIGER IVST A, laureate head right
Rev:– ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma in military attire seated left on cuirass, no shield at side or feet, Victory offering wreath in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand
Minted in Antioch. Apr 193 - May 194 A.D
Reference:– Unpublished in primary references, cf. RIC IV 70d, RSC III 62b, BMCRE V p. 80 note, SRCV II 6121, Hunter III -,

Scratches and scrapes, small edge test cut, hard edge bump on reverse resulting in crack on obverse, slightly off center cutting off parts of legends

2.690g, maximum diameter 17.1mm, die axis 15o

Numerous varieties of Pescennius Niger denarii with Roma Aeternae reverses are published in the standard references, but none describe Roma as seated on a cuirass. A few have been seen with dealers though.



Next:- Pescennius Niger

 

Pescennius Niger VICTOR IVST AVG

Next: Victory with a longer legend than just VICTORIA AVG

 

Septimius Severus denarius

Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG, Laureate head right
Rev:– VICTOR IVST AVG II COS, Victory walking left, holding wreath in right hand, palm in left
Minted in Emesa. A.D. 193
Ref:– BMCRE W338 note. RIC 362a (Rated R2). RSC 740a

2.96g, 18.79mm, 180o

Only one other example known – “reported by Bickford-Smith from Dura Europus 942”
All references cite the same coin from the 3rd Dura Hoard, Num. Notes and Monographs, 55, Pg 46. No. 216



Next:- Septimius Severus from and mint but datable to A.D. 193

 

Any? The best SS examples from the earliest months may be the Legionaries of Rome. This is a Legion XIIII with relatively straight hair. Does that make it earlier? IDK


Next: A coin showing at least one capricorn

 

As I easily imagine all of the coins I don't own, that sounds like an impossibly high bar to meet...so I will offer this to what was requested, as close as I can get, a coin that I find exceptional for this type:

Julia Mamaea, Issued by Severus Alexander, 222 - 235 AD, AR Denarius, Rome Mint
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, Bust of Julia Mamaea, diademed, draped, right
Rev: FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas, draped, seated left, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand
Ref: RIC IV Severus Alexander 338

Next: any coin that you find exceptional

 

Off center, poor strike, cracked flan but almost no wear, amazing detail and style IMO:


Next: the most "FDC" coin you have

 

Far from FDC but since you said the closest any of us have here is my best Roman piece.

328-329 CE
Constantine I
Siscia Mint
AE Follis | 3.08g
Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG, Diademed head right
Rev: PROVIDENTIAE AVGG BSIS, Camp gate
RIC VII 214B

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Next: Your nicest coin from any kingdom or issuer

 

My nicest Philip II of Macedon - it is a contemporary imitation, but I think it has great expression and artistic quality. Under the influence of this interesting thread, I was moved to believe this coin dates from the late 4th century BC and precedes the arrival of the Celts in Northern Greece (that happened in the 280s BC). So it is not - what I used to believe, just like the seller and many other numismatists, a Celtic imitation. It would be a Thracian or Illyrian coin.



Early imitation of a Philip II tetradrachm of Amphipolis. Fourrée (at the edge some giveaway spots). Obv. Laureate head of Zeus t.r., behind it, a leaf. Rev. Jockey and horse riding t.r. Under it, labda over a bucranium. Under the prancing leg of the horse, an A. 24.5 mm, 13.85 gr.

Next: Your nicest 'barbarous imitation'.

 

Thanks, glad you found the thread and paper interesting. Here's a coin that I had mis-identified as Geto-Dacian and now recognize as Eravisci thanks to @red_spork's help, the Freeman paper, and this thread - opening line:
"The Eravisci were an iron-age Celtic tribe who lived in Transdanubia, what would, under the Romans, become Pannonia, and which today is the eastern portion of modern-day Hungary."

Eravisci Imitative denarius on the left
Cn. Lentulus; 76-75 BC, Denarius, on the right
Obv: Genius of the Roman people right, GPR above
Rev: EX SC divided by globe, rudder and scepter, CN LEN Q below
Note: Other examples here; and another interesting paper on finds in Belarus and Ukraine.

Next: another "barbarous", "imitative", or "counterfeit" (ancient, not modern) coins

 

This denarius is previously undescribed in the literature, so we don't know much about it. It is an imitative or unofficial issue, as @dougsmit and @curtislclay have opined:


Faustina I, AD 138-140.
Unofficial imitative issue, 3.19 g, 17.6 mm, 6 h.
Ca. AD 140-160?
Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: PIETATI(?) AVG, Pietas, veiled and draped, standing left, dropping incense from right hand onto lighted altar and holding box in left hand.
Refs: Cf. BMC p. 67, † note, RSC 234b, CRE 113 and Strack 462 (Budapest), all of which read PIETAS AVG.

Next: yet another imitative or ancient counterfeit.

 

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c 80/9 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
29mm 16.04gm Thompson (new) issue 85
Thompson catalogue: IMITATION 1419ba
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on
which month mark Α control ΔΙ below
2 magistrates : EUMELOS THEOXENID(E)S
RF symbol : Ares
All within a surrounding olive wreath




The obverse of this coin is paired with THREE different issue reverses! This Ares,Headdress of Isis and Stag.
The Headdress of Isis is an issue of about 10 years previous but after Mithridates failure and Isis's epiphany at Rhodes in 88 BC I believe ( like Ashton) that the Headdress of Isis symbol now can be viewed as a pro-Roman symbol. Ares and Stag official issues seem to be contemporaneously close in time.
There are 3 types of IMITATION Ares reverses, the last coin appeared in the last Stacks auction in a slab but wrongly attributed as an official example. I informed Stacks and Colin Bostock replied that they will alter their description for the auction. It went for a nice price too: whilst it is gorgeously toned compared to my example my strike is far better.
My views on the Headdress of Isis symbol as a pro-Roman symbol on other coinages of the post-Rhodian siege see my academia.edu page under my real name-John Arnold Nisbet.

 

From Thompson IMITATIONS.
One obverse 3 differing reverse types.

 

Stacks Ares T 1419bc


CNG T 1419bb

 

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1859 Indian head penny, no shield reverse.
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