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Woo-ooh, So Busted! Except, for this minute, more reasons why I can't is all I can give you. Serious, that's, Cordial apologies.

 

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Faustina Sr, AD 138-141
Roman AR denarius; 3.83 g, 18.2 mm
Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust, right
Rev: AETERNITAS, Fortuna standing left, holding globe and rudder
Refs: RIC 348; BMCRE 360; Cohen 6; RCV 4577.

Next: somebody holding a globe.

 

Does a capricorn holding it count?


KINGS OF THRACE. Rhoemetalces I.
AE28. 13.51g, 28mm. Sapaian, late 1st century BC - AD 12. RPC I 1708; Youroukova 182-4. O: BAΣIΛEΩΣ POIMHTAΛKOY, Jugate busts of Rhoemetalces, diademed, and Pythadoris, right. R: KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, Jugate busts of Augustus, laureate, and Livia, right; to right, capricorn right, holding globe.

Next: Three, four or more heads on a coin

 

Thank you, @Roman Collector, for rising to the challenge. Not to mention the staggering net esthetic improvement on what Ryro would've gotten from here.
Even for an Antonine, that is some Serious Stuff.
...I used to work at a place where this one lady, a little over half my freaking age (and already well over my pay grade), would show up, week by week, with her hair natural, or in a twist, or what.... Something different, almost every week. I remember asking her, once, if she could do Bantu rolls, which she allowed was Just a Little overly ambitious, for that minute. (...Yes, she was lovely in every way ...just don't tell anybody I said that.)

 

I would argue that this one complies with the letter of the request, because three heads do appear on the coin, namely those of Faustina II and her twin sons b. 31 Aug 161 AD -- Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (the older twin, d. 165 AD) and Commodus.


Has anyone ever found it suspicious that all of Commodus's brothers died in childhood? Did he have an alibi? Assuming that's Commodus on the right, what is he reaching for with his hidden left hand?

Next, since perhaps my response didn't comply with the spirit of the request, the same theme as before: three, four, or more heads on a coin.

 

Valerian, Gallienus and Valerian II AE25 Nicomedia, Bithynia / agonistic urns - third Neocorate


Next: another provincial certainly identifiable even though the name of the city does not appear on the coin as struck (here off flan at the top)

 

Here are three heads of the riders on this RR denarius of Albinus, (six heads if you count the horses).

next .... your favorite RR denarius...

 

Sorry, Doug beat me to the punch!

 

"Tiny" Anonymous Ae As Libral standard Crawford 35/1 Obv. Head of bearded Janus. Rv Prow of Galley right. 272.48 grms 61 mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Your favorite coin

 

I don't know if I could put anything as my favorite, but this is definitely at the top of the list.

Srivijaya Empire of Sumatra
c. 960-1300 CE
AV 1/16 Massa (1/4 Kupang) | 0.16 grams | 5mm wide scyphate
Obv: Sandalwood flower
Rev: Sumatran style na in Nagari script
Recovered from the Musi River in Palembang
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Next: Another favorite coin

 

My avatar coin, Nerva/Salus. He just looks so regal!
Next, continue the theme.

 

It's seldom enough that I get to have one (...one?) favorite, so here's a re-post:
Aksum /Axum: Kaleb, earlier 6th century, 'tremissis.' (The gold series was originally calibrated very closely to Roman weights. ...That is, as of the later 3rd century, into the 4th. This late, couldn't tell you....)

 

...Well, except, where did the Cuirass thing go?

 

On my one trip to Europe, as a kid, the family spent most of half a summer sponging off of relatives in the extreme west of Germany. (As in, Belgium was Over There.) My uncle drove us to a place nearby where there was a 3rd-c. (still very pre-Constantinian) stone relief of Mithra. ...I was under the impression that in the AE issues of Constantine, 'SOLI INVICTVS' was identified with him. Stop me before I lie again....

 

Very, Very cool coin, @Alegandron. This whole thread is doing some Damage to my ignorance, especially the sheer geographic and cultural breadth of coins of the, ahem, 'Classical' era. Most of all starting from the Hellenistic period. To paraphrase Hunter Thompson, Good craziness.
...Except, surely you know (or your granddaughter can probably tell you) that slam-dancing is associated mostly with punk rock. ...A little like crowd-surfing is with its bastard child, grunge.

 

FYI, the operative request is supposed to be @dougsmit's request above, not @octavius's request, which came too late to go into effect. Can't anyone here follow the rules of the game?!

 

Let's get back to Doug's request since I don't see a next theme posted with the last shown coin anyway.

With Mount Argaios shown on these, who needs the city name spelled out anyway?


LUCIUS VERUS
AR Didrachm. 6.64g, 21.4mm. CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia, AD 161-166 (Cos 2). Metcalf 131d; RPC Online Vol. 4, #7030. O: AYTOKP OYHPOC CEBACTOC, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: YΠATOC B, Mt. Argaeus with two large rocks at its base, left rock decorated with a deer leaping left, right rock with a tree; in the middle, a round stippled rock (wreathed in flames or surrounded by water?); on summit, Helios standing left, holding globe and long sceptre.

On the other hand, when you don't have Mount Argaios depicted on the coin, and your city is one of the very many Caesareas around, maybe it's best to mention your famous mountain by name on the coin just to be on the safe side...

ANTONINUS PIUS
AE Assarion. 4.71g, 19.9mm. CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia, RY 14 (AD 150/1). RPC IV.3 Online Temp 6708; Henseler 236a. O: AY ANTΩNЄINOC CЄBAC, laureate head right. R: KAICAPЄΩN T ΠΡ APΓAIΩ ("Caesarea at the Argaios") / ЄT ΔI, Turreted, veiled and draped bust of the city-goddess to right.

Next: Another Cappadocian provincial not showing that Mountain

 

Some of Septimius' first (year 2) issues from Caesarea used Nike.


Next: a coin dared to year 2

 

Year two:


Probus AD 276-282.
Roman billon tetradrachm, 7.62 g, 20.2 mm, 11 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, AD 276/7.
Obv: A K M AVΡ ΠΡOBOC CEB, laureate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: LB, Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae.
Refs: BMC 2412; Geissen (Köln) 3127; Dattari (Savio) 5527; Milne 4521; Kampmann & Gunschow 112.7; SNG Cop 913; Emmett 3979.

Next: Somebody holding scales.

 

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (3,48g). Rome mint. Struck AD 212-213.
Obv-ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, Laureate head right.
Rev-MONETA AVG, Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopia.
RIC IV 224; RSC 165.

Next......Elephant in silver