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Aeolis, Aigai. AE10.
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev: AIΓAE / Head of goat right.
3rd century BC.

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Just wanted to share this coin from the Buddhist/Hindu period of Sumatra, circa 650-1300 CE, that was probably issued during the Srivijaya Empire. It's amazing how similar the geometric designs are despite almost surely being uninspired by the Ionian type.

City of Palembang, Sumatra
Recovered from the Musi River
Present-day Indonesia
Probably issued by the Srivijaya Empire
c. 670-1270 CE
Tin Coin | 0.25g | 5.5mm wide | 2mm thick
Obv: Three concentric circles
Rev: Five dots forming a cross
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Ionia, Miletos, late 6th-early 5th century BC, AR Obol, Hemihekte
Obv: Forepart of lion right, head reverted
Rev: Stellate pattern within incuse square

sticking with small...

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Forgot where this is from. I guess I'll be ID'ing today.

Obv: Athena.
Rev: Gorgon facing sticking out tongue.
10mm. and 0.9gm.

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Wow, yeah. I doubt if they saw the Ionian design. Very cool coincidence, and you have a great coin.

 

Thank you! I saw you post it one time before but I forgot to mark down what it was or anything so I'm glad you posted yours.

Srivijaya Empire of Sumatra
Recovered from the Musi River of Palembang
c. 800-1300 CE
AV 1/16 Massa | 0.16g | 5mm wide | Slightly cup-shaped
Obv: Incused sandalwood flower
Rev: Nagari script ma in Sumatran form

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AEOLIS, KYME
AR Hemiobol
OBVERSE: Eagle's head left, KY to left (M beneath the head, nearly off flan)
REVERSE: Quadrapartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern
Struck at Aeolis, 450BC
.46g, 7mm
SNG Cop 32

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China stopped producing the cash coins in the early twentieth century but they were still produced in parts of Vietnam until after WWII and even in Bali until the present-day, although they're primarily used for religious and aesthetic purposes now.

14-23 CE
Issued under Wang Mang of the Xin Dynasty
AE 5 Zhu | 1.19g | 19mm
Obv: Huo Quan
Rev: Plain
Ref: Hartill#9.32


1890-1895 CE
Issued under Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty
AE Cash (Machine struck) | 2.84g | 24mm
Guangzhou Mint
Obv: Guang Xu Tong Bao
Rev: Boo Guang
Ref: Hartill#22.1335

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Pre-1500 East of India


China ANCIENT
Cowrie -
Shang Dynasty (1600 BCE - 1046 BCE)
BONE
2 holes for clothing or funeral bier
20mm
Hartill 1-2v Coole 51-66
Ex: Scott Semans CoinCoin

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Indian Yaudheya coin around 3-4th century AD, minted in a republican confederacy as opposed to a monarchy. There's Kartikeya (Hindu god of war), holding spear and rooster with the Bramhi script saying 'Yaudheya Ganasya Jaya' meaning 'Victory to the people of Yaudheya'. Reverse has a goddess and a conch shell.

 

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Kingdom of Kashmir
Issued under Harsha of Utpala
1089-1102 CE
AE Stater | 5.43g | 16x18mm

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This coin is about half red-toned, and the rest green:

Anonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. RPC IX 505 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505); Bellinger A486 [Alfred A. Bellinger, Troy, The Coins (Princeton 1961)]; BMC 17 Troas, 46 var. [diff. legends]; see also id. 45, 47-50 var. [Warwick Wroth, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 17, Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos (London 1894)]; SNG Copenhagen 108-113 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 20, Troas (1945)]. 23 mm., 5.80 g. Ex: Pars Coins; Ex: Kenneth W. Dorney.



* See BMC 17 Troas at xviii, citing Cavedoni (Spicil., p. 151) for the suggestion that the grazing horse, first depicted on the coins of Alexandria Troas ca. 300 BCE, is one of the horses of Erichthonius, father of Tros, after whom Troas was named.

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Alexandria Troas, time of Gallienus, c. AD 253-268
Autonomous civic issue, Æ23, 5.9g, 6h
Obv: ALEX TRO CO, turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; to left, vexillum inscribed CO/AV in two lines
Rev: COL AVG TROA, Marsyas standing right on pedestal, holding wineskin
Refs: Bellinger A497; SNG Copenhagen 103; SNG von Aulock 1463.

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Roman Republic, Lucius Marcius Censorinus, AR Denarius, 82 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right, traces of control mark (unidentifiable) behind / Rev. The satyr Marsyas standing left, gazing upwards, raising right hand and holding wineskin over left shoulder; tall column behind him, surmounted by statue of draped figure (Minerva [RSC] or Victory [Crawford]); L. CENSOR downwards before him. Crawford 363/1d, RSC I Marcia 24d, Sear RCV I 281 (ill.), BMCRR 2657. 18 mm, 3.80 g, 5 h. [The coin refers to the legend of the satyr Marsyas challenging Apollo to a flute-playing contest. As the winner, Apollo got to choose the punishment for the loser -- namely, skinning Marsyas alive. Traditionally, the gens Marcia was descended from Marsyas; hence the reference.]



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Pantikapaion, Cimmerian Bosporos (340-325 BC)
AE, 20mm, 7.6gm
Obv: Bearded head of Pan/Satyr facing right with ass's ear
Rev: Π-A-N, forepart of griffin crouching left, right front paw raised, sturgeon swimming left below.

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I just posted my two coins with gryphons (my preferred fancy spelling!) yesterday in the Mythical Creatures thread, so I won't post them here -- I'd rather see something new.