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L ΔѠΔ-Є-ΚΑΤΟΥ.

Faustina Jr, AD 161-175.
Billon Tetradrachm, 13.82 g, 23.2 mm.
Alexandria, AD 148/9.
Obv: ΦΑΥCΤΙΝΑ CЄΒΑCΤΗ, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: L ΔѠΔЄΚΑΤΟΥ (regnal year 12 of Antoninus Pius), Dikaiosyne seated left, holding scales and cornucopiae.
Refs: Köln 1944; Dattari 3238; BMC 1317; Emmett 1938.

Next: Any coin dated year 12.

 

Hadrian Alexandria 4dr / Serapis with Cerberus

Next: a spelled out Alexandrian date

 

ENATOV for 9th:

ANTONINUS PIUS
Billon Tetradrachm. 13.86g, 25mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 9 (AD 145/6). Dattari 2346; Dattari-Savio Suppl. pl 14, 16; Emmett 1426.9; RPC Online temp 13572. O: Laureate draped bust right. R: L ENATOV, Draped bust of Sarapis wearing kalathos and taenia, right.

Next: A different spelled-out Alexandrian date

 

Hadrian
Egypt, Alexandria, Year 11
Billon Tetradrachm
Obv: AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, laureate, draped bust right.
Rev: L ENΔ-E-KA-TOV, eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt with wings spread.
Ref.: Emmett 836; Dattari 1573

Next: Alexandrian Drachm

 

Egypt Ptolemy IV 221-205 BC AE 37mm 42g Drachm Zeus-Ammon Eagle Tbolt SV 974

Next: Ammon / Amun

 

PTOLEMY X
AE20
OBVERSE: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right
REVERSE: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, two eagles standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae before
Struck at CYPRUS c 100 BC
6.11g, 20mm
Svoronos 1698

Next: two or more animals on reverse

 

Roman Republic
123 BCE
Issued under C. Porcius Cato
AR Denarius
Ref: RRC 274 1

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Next: Any animal working

 

Mules Pulling



RI Julia Flavia Titi Diva 90-91 CE d-Titus concubine-uncleDomitian AE Sestert 33mm 20.4g - Carpentum mules SPQR - SC scarce

Next: MULE (animal)

 

Julia Domna, AD 193-217
Roman provincial Æ 29.3 mm, 13.67 g, 6 h.
Ionia, Ephesus, AD 193-217.
Obv: CЄBACTH IOY ΔOMNA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: ЄΦЄϹΙΩΝ TPIC NЄΩKOPΩN, carpentum drawn right by two mules.
Refs: SNG Copenhagen 417; BMC 267 var. (obv legend).

Next: Julia Domna provincial.

 

Julia Domna Ae 23 Perinthos Obv Bust right draped Rv .Tyche standing left Sear GICV 2321 193-200 AD 6.53 grms 23 mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Perinthos I always thought this obv looked a lot like the obverses on her early denarii
Planchet archives at: https://edmontoncoinclub.com/the-planchet/the-planchet-archived/

 

Thrace, Perinthos. Severus Alexander AE17
Obv: M AYP CE ALEXANDROC / Bust r.
Rev: PERINQIWN DIC NEWKORWN / agonistic urn.

Next: Amphora

 

Boeotia (Boeotian League, including Thebes), AR Stater 379-338 BC. Obv. Boeotian shield / Rev. Amphora, ΔΑ-IM (Daim-, magistrate [=Daimachus?]) across fields. BCD Boiotia 523 [Classical Numismatic Group, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Boiotia, Triton IX Auction, Session 1, Lot 523 (not this coin) (10 Jan. 2006, New York)]; BMC 8 Central Greece 126 (at p. 81) [Head, B., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, and Euboea) (London, 1884)]; SNG Copenhagen 323 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum (Copenhagen, 1942-1979)]. 18.5 mm., 12.19 g. [Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 214th Buy or Bid Sale, Dec. 2020, Lot 59.]



Next: a shield that's neither round nor oval.

 

Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence 1209-1245. 'Menut marseillais' (Duplessy) /'obole' (Poey d'Avant), 1243-1245.
Shield (Distinctive rounded bottom --sorry-- typical of Iberian and Occitanian shields) with the royal arms of Aragon (of which Raymond was a cadet).
+[R:] B. COMES.
Rev. [E]P / VI /N / CI (Or, from 1 o'clock, 'PVINCIE;' Provence.)
Duplessy 1615, Poey d'Avant 3935. (...And Boudeau 810, Roberts 4592, as a 'denier.' Also Crusafont Vol. IV, 176, as a 'diner'.)


Harness stud with arms of Aragon, c. earlier 13th c.
Cf. Stephen Ashley, Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 101, 2002. See esp. p. 18, figures p. 19.
It's natural that a stud like this would have been found in England, since Henry III married one of Raymond's daughters, Eleanor. Her entourage would've been all over the place.

 

NEXT coin?

 

Oh, nnnNo! Did it again!!! Where's the imojee for 'dope-slap'? (...And why did I misspell that again?)
Um, anything corresponding to the earlier 13th c. CE. ...Or from either Provence or Aragon.

 

Dharmasoka deva AD 1208-1209
Seated king, SRI DHA RMMA SI KA DE VA in Brahmi in two vertical lines in the left field / King standing, small altar in the left field, various dots and decorations in fields, 20mm, Mitchiner NIS 842 - 844

Next ....An otopus

 

Octopus


SYRACUSE.
Second Democracy, 466-405 BC
Æ Tetras,
2.7g, 15mm; c.425 BC.
Obv.: Head of Arethusa right, hair in korymbos, dolphin before and behind, ΣVPA before; all in linear circle.
Rev.: Octopus and three pellets.
Reference: SNG ANS 376, Calciati II.21.1, Bérend Pl.VI.11.
Ex: @John Anthony

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