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Antioch
Year 117/ 68 AD
AE 19
Obvs: ANTIOX EΩN, Head of Zeus laureate.
Revs: ЄTZIP, Lighted altar garlanded.
19mm, 6.7g

Next 1st century AD Syria

 

LONDON


RI Allectus 293-296 AE Quinarius London Virtus Galley AE17 2-3g S 13870 RIC 55

Next Theme: QUINARIUS

 

SYRIA 1st C BCE:


RImp Antony-Octavian AR Denarius 41 BCE 3.65g 18.7mm Military mint Syria star Craw 528-2a Sear 1507

Next Theme: QUINARIUS

 

T CLOULIS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS CLOULIA
AR Quinarius
OBVERSE: Laureate head of Jupiter right
REVERSE: T CLOVLI, Victory crowning trophy on top of Gaulish captive
Struck at Rome 98 BC
2.1g, 13mm
Cr332/1, Syd 586, Cloulia 2

Next: Gaulish captive(s)

 

AV Solidus ND/ Rome Mint 4.51g./ struck 361AD
Julian II
Next theme: Julian II

 

Next up, portrait of ruler with shield and helmet

 

LICINIUS II
AE Follis
OBVERSE: DN VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, helmeted & cuirassed bust left, holding spear & shield
REVERSE: IOVI CONS-ERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, chlamys across left shoulder, holding Victory on globe & leaning on sceptre, eagle with wreath left, captive right; X over II Mu in right field; SMNB in ex.
Struck at Nicomedia 321-324 AD
3.0g, 19mm
RIC VII 49

Next: Coin struck at Nicomedia

 

Valens, 364-378 Solidus Nicomedia circa 364-367, AV

(20.5mm., 3.93g.)

Obv: Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust r.

Rev. Emperor standing facing, head right, holding labarum and Victory on globe. In exergue, SMNS.

RIC IX Nicomedia 2c; Sear 19556; Dep. 18/2; Cohen 32.

Naville Numismatics Auction 31 Lot 559

Coin depicted in the Wildwinds.com database.

Next: Semissis or Tremissis

 

More than 22 hours and nobody has any semisses or tremisses, so I'll post this to keep the thread alive.

Coin struck at Nicomedia:


Galeria Valeria, daughter of Diocletian, wife of Galerius, Augusta, 293(?)-311 CE
Roman Æ Follis; 26 mm, 6.64 gm
Nicomedia mint, 308-310 CE
Obv: GAL VAL-ERIA AVG, diademed and draped bust right
Rev: VENERI VI-CTRICI CMH, Venus standing facing, head left, holding apple and drapery; in exergue, SMNA
Refs: RIC VI 57; Sear 14595.

Next: Venus Victrix

 

Not because I have one, but Julius Caesar's Venus Victrix reverse on his denarii really rocks.

And since we have the Darling of Venus himself depicted here, let's go with a theme responsible for Caesar's success as a politician, and his eventual domination of Roman politics.

Next, a coin minted under the authority of one of the members of the First Triumvirate.

 

JULIUS CAESAR
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Diademed head of Venus right.
REVERSE: CAESAR - Aeneas advancing left, carrying Anchises and palladium
Carthage 47 to 46 BC
4.0g, 17mm
CRI 55, Sydenham 1013, RRC 458/1, S 1402

Next: Aeneas carrying Anchises

 

I'll try and resuscitate this thread with another coin minted in Carthage, just a few years after the coin @Bing posted.

Justinian AE Follis, Carthage mint, 534 - 539 A.D., 12.942g 28.5mm, 135o, 2nd officina.
Obv: D N IVSTINIANVS PP AG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: large M (40 nummi), cross above, star left, cross right, B below, KART in exergue.
SDCV 259

Next Coin: A King/Monarch/Emperor being with the letter "J"

 

Julius Caesar


Next: Elephant

 

AV Pagoda ND Western Gangas of Deccan (next seated Gods)
3.50g./ 18mm.
Issued 1080-1140AD

 

Is Roma sitting on a throne holding a winged Victory enough?

Next, another siliqua

 

Jovinus, Western Roman Empire
AR siliqua
Obv: D N IOVIN-VS P F AVG, Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: VICTOR-IA AVGG, Roma seated left on stylized cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear
Mint: Lugdunum
Mintmark: SMLDV
Date: 411-413 AD
Ref: RIC X 1717



Next theme: A Roman ruler/person higher than 150 on the ERIC relative rarity scale

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=eric - rarity tables

 

Here is a Domitius Domitianus, #153



I wrote a website on the "Usurpers who wanted to join the club"
under the first tetrarchy.

http://augustuscoins.com/ed/usurpers/Usurpers.html

Next theme: Genius

 

Too slow.

 

Claudius II, AD 268-270
Roman billon antoninianus, 19mm, 3.6g, 12h
Rome, issue 1, officina 3, c. September 268 – end 269
Obv: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate head right
Rev: GENIVS AVG, Genius standing left, holding patera over small altar in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; –/Γ//–
Refs: RIC 45; Cohen 110; MER/RIC temp 192; RCV 11339; Normanby 634; Hunter 13.

Next: Officina mark gamma (Γ)