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AV Daric ND Sardes Mint (420-380BC
Xerxes II
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Lydia, Tripolis. Æ18. Athena/Hermes
Late 2nd - 3rd centuries AD. Æ (5,28 g. - 18 mm)
Obv: Helmeted bust of Athena; wearing aegis right.
Rev: ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus.
SNG Copenhagen 723.

Next: Pseudo autonomous

 

Both of these coins are from the Amirs of Sindh, rulers of present-day Pakistan and North India who ruled under the Abbasid Caliphate for sometime before ruling more or less independently.

Issued under Ahmad | 0.51g | 10mm


Issued under 'Ali | 0.52g | 10mm

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Next: Another Islamic/Arabic coin

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An Islamic coin, Muhammad bin Sam Ghorid of Ghazna / Delhi mint (1173-1206).
This may look like the Hindu dynasty Samanta Deva Jital of 900 AD, but in fact, it's a Coin of an Islamic dynasty. The obv mentions Sri Hamira in Nagari legends, and in the rev the letters Sri Mahamad Sam, notice the word Sri, which is used in Hinduism for respect. Also the iconography of seated bull, and the horseman are both of Hindu origin!

Next, post a coin where the conqueror issues coins that retain the same icons/designs/language, but only the name of the authority is changed.

 

next: AR Seleukid coin

 

Tetradrachm of Philip I Philadelphos, Antioch, 88-75 BC.
Another Tetradrachm

 

Yours and mine look like they came from similar origins, although as a series, perhaps they show Philip before/after a glass of wine.


SELEUKID EMPIRE. Philip I Philadelphos. Circa 95/4-76/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm 25.4mm 15.41 g. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 88/7–76/5 BC.
O: Diademed head right.
R: Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram to inner left and in exergue; all within wreath.
HGC 9, 1319

NEXT: Another coin with a smiling(even if slightly) portrait

 

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Next up: edit: portrait with a smile

 

Smiling Julia Mamaea:


Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.
Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.3 mm, 5 h.
Rome mint, 7th emission, AD 227.
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: VESTA, Vesta standing left, holding patera and transverse scepter.
Refs: RIC 362; BMCRE 440; Cohen 85; RCV 8218.

Next: Patera and scepter.

 

CALIGULA
AE As
OBVERSE: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TRP O T - Bare head Left.
REVERSE: VESTA - Vesta seated left, holding patera and scepter
Struck at Rome, 37/8AD
9.6g, 28mm
RIC38, BMC46, C27

Next: Caligula

 

next: another Caligula

 

New theme,
Valerian antoninianus, Oriens Augg. An ironic coin with a message of his campaigns in the east that Valerian wanted to show, but we all know what happened to him the last time he decided to march in that direction!

Next, a coin you find ironic.

 

A coin of Claudius II that celebrates his victory over the Goths at Naissus. I find it ironic because the Goths’ descendant tribes, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, would take over parts of the dying Western Roman Empire around two centuries after Claudius’s victory. Not to mention the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 AD.

Claudius Gothicus, Roman Empire
AE Antoninianus
Obv: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right
Rev: VICTORIAE GOTHIC, two bound captives seated at base of trophy
Mint: Cyzicus (struck 268-270 AD)
Ref: RIC 252



Next theme: non-Roman coin with a trophy

 

Mysia, Pergamon . Circa 2nd Century BC. AE 18mm (5.31 gm).
Obv.: Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian Egret helmet.
Rev.: ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ (Athénas Nicéphore), trophy, consisting of crested helmet and cuirass with arms below; monogram to the right.
SNG von Aulock 1374; SNG France 1884. VF.

next......octopus

 

Sicily Syracuse Second democracy onkia - 450 BC, on the obv it features Nymph Arethusa, the word ΣVPA (meaning Syracuse), and a dolphin to her left if you squint, and my second favorite animal (seal is my first), octopus on the reverse!

Next, a coin from a thalassocratic state.

 

"thalassocratic" : I had to look that one up on my external brain. Good word.

 

This seems too perfect, the Srivijaya Empire of Sumatra is about the clearest thalassocracy example there is, in my opinion.

Srivijaya of Sumatra
c. 830-1100 AD
Tin Bead Ingot | 0.25g | 5.5mm | 2mm thick
Obv: Concurrent circles
Rev: Five dots aligned as a cross
Unpublished

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Next: Another naval based kingdom

 

Their rival, none other than the Cholas,

Next, a coin from an entirely landlocked kingdom, at all its point of existence!

 

Celtic - Andoco type silver unit of the Catuvellauni tribe. VA 1868.

Next up a coin of the Cantii