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Three crowned kings, aka the Tamil kings of Chera, Chola, and Pandya.
The Southernmost coin is Pandya's minted around the 'Sangam age' of 300 BCE- 300AD. Korkai was their harbour, which traded with the Greeks, Rome and China, the Madurai coin was minted after gaining independence from the Cholas. The Chola gold denotes the subjugation Cheras (bow behind tiger), and twin fishes for Pandyas, minted in the city of Thanjavur (not in this map, coz it's a much older map, but the city is around 60 kms East of Uraiyur). And finally, The Cheras are Kongu Chera clan from Karur, depicting bow and arrow.
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Coin and map in one:
Ionia, Achaemenid period, uncertain Satrap ca. 350-334 BC. 13mm, 2,06 gr.
Obv: Persian king in kneeling/running stance holding spear and bow, c/m sun.
Rev: Irregular incuse in the form of a map of the hinterland of Ephesos. (?)


From CNG on the type:

'Johnston has interpreted this remarkable reverse design as a relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos, which would make it the earliest Greek map and first physical relief map known. On the right (north) are the mountains Tmolos and Messogis between the river valleys of the Caÿster and Maeander, to the left of which are three mountain ridges (Madranbaba Dagi, Karincali Dagi, and Akaba Tepesi). Johnston follows Six in suggesting that the coins were probably struck under the Persian general Memnon at Ephesos, circa 336-334 BC, in order to pay his army after he had captured the city, but before his defeat by Alexander at the Battle of Granicus in 334. However, Johnston’s theory has been the subject of some doubt, most recently by Leo Mildenberg'.

To 'read' the map the pic of the reverse should be turned 90 degrees counterclockwise. (Oops...my bad)

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Calabria(Southern Apulia), Tarentum, c. 275-200 BC. Æ
O: Cockle shell
R: Phalanthos, holding kantharos and cornucopia, astride dolphin left
Vlasto 1824; HNItaly 1087

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Next up: *edit, to slow. Seashells it is

 

Seashell


Oscan-Latin
Aes Formatum
scallop shell with Ribs
4th BCE
(Early Italia money)

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Do we need a rule limiting the number of repetitions of the same 'Next:'? I am running out of seashells but:
Sagutum, Spain, AE16 shell / dolphin Iberian legend


Next: A coin for which the map below (big green part) is appropriate:

 

Here you go, @dougsmit , one from Thrace! This coin used to be unlisted in RPC, but not anymore!


Gordian AD 238-244 and Tranquillina.
Roman provincial Æ 28.6 mm, 11.36 g, 7 h.
Thrace, Mesembria, AD 241-244.
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ CΕΒ-ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ|ΛΙΝΑ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian and draped bust of Tranquillina, wearing stephane, confronted.
Rev: ΜΕCΑΜΒΡ-Ι-ΑΝΩΝ, Demeter standing left, wearing stephane, holding phiale and long torch.
Refs: RPC VII.2, — (unassigned; ID 48421); Varbanov 4190, citing Karayatov 87; Corpus Nummorum 425 (citing Varbanov); SNG Copenhagen --; BMC --; Moushmov --; Lindgren --; Mionnet suppl 2 --; Sear --; Wiczay --.

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Honestly, I was hoping someone would post a Slavei or Lippanoff fake but Mesembria certainly is a city in what is now Bulgaria. Nice coin!
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12 hour rule

Zengid Dynasty as vassals of the Seljuk Empire
Issued by As-Salih Ismail al-Malik
574 AH / 1178 CE
AE Fals | 3.85g | 23mm

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Next: Some hard edges along a coin or other poor flan qualities

 

I believe this is flan warpage / deformation as it was pounded. Still, I like the curls / rolls.


Thasos, Thrace, (146 - 50 B.C.)
AR Tetradrachm
O: Young head of Dionysos wearing wreath of leaves and grapes and band across forehead.
R: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, Hercules naked standing left holding club, lion skin draped over arm; monogram.
33mm 16.1g
SNG Copenhagen 1040; SG-1759; SNG Ashmolean 3689; Le Rider, Thasos 51Thasos
Ex: @Ancientnoob

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Here's a flan split for you!


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Split!

CASSIUS


RR Gaius Cassius Longinus & P Corn Lentulus Spinther AR den 42 BCE military mint Brutus Cassius Smyrna Libertas r- jug & lituus 18mm 3.3g

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Edit: Too late

 

How about Nerva for his iconic nose?!
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Sestertius nose!

Nerva AE33 Sestertius

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Nerva:


Nerva, AD 96-98.
Roman Æ as, 11.96 g, 26.3 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 97.
Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, radiate head, right.
Rev: LIBERTAS PVBLICA S C, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter.
Refs: RIC 86; BMCRE 131; Cohen 115; RCV --; ERIC II 152.

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