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Yeah @panzerman , if you post a coin you need to choose the next theme so the thread can keep going.

Anonymous, Visigothic Kingdom
AE nummus
Obv: King's(?) bust facing
Rev: Cross, S-P in fields
Mint: Spali
Date: Mid 7th century AD
Ref: n/a (Crusafont Group B)



Next theme: Western European 500-1000 AD

 

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My only Lombard coin...

AV Tremissis ND struck circa 730-44AD Pavia Mint 23mm./ 1.31g.
Liutprand 712-44AD King of the Lombards/Tuscany
Next theme/ Lombard coinage

 

That will be a tough one! Very nice coin @panzerman! If I could pick one Lombard king to have a coin of, he'd be it.

I LOVE that coin, @ValiantKnight! Will be looking for one...

 

My thoughts exactly. I don't recall anyone else here having a Lombard coin. If no one steps up by later tonight I've got something sort of related that can be substituted.

 

Thanks! I've got another one but the style and condition aren't as good (although the reverse is better centered).

 

Well, @ValiantKnight -- looks like it's time to post the something sort of related so as to keep the game going.

 

I call upon the 24 hour rule.
I present my Nero tetradrachm from the town of Alexandria.
Quite nice, isn't it?
Next theme is Alexandria Tetradrachms.

 

ALEXANDRIA TET:


RProv Valeria Messalina m-Claudius 41-54 CE Alexandria BI Tet yr 42-4313-1g 25mm RPC I 5131

Next up: PTOLEMY NON-TET

 

Alegandron was quicker than me. The next is: PTOLEMY NON-TET

 

Ptolemy II AE46 (TIF's is heavier so he won't tell)

and now you can show your Nero. We need to check to be sure we are first to post.

 

Nero:

Probably shouldn't bite into this one. I guaranty it won't taste like chocolate. It would taste like Verdicare.

Next is coin depicting personification of a city

 

Cilicia, Hieropolis/Kastabala
2nd to 1st c. BC
AE 20
Obvs: No inscription, turreted Tyche right. Branch behind.
Revs: IEPOΠOΛITΩN TΩN ΠPOΣ TΩN, City-goddess with scepter. Eagle beneath.
20mm, 10.9g

Next Cilicia

 

Tarsus (?), Cilicia 4th c. BC , AR 3/4 obol .50g
Baal seated left holding a scepter in his left hand, grapes and corn ears in his right.
Forepart of a wolf right, crescent to upper left
SGCV II, 5660. SNG Levante 223




Next Corn Ears

 

Here is a coin of Tarsos in Cilicia:


22-19 mm. 10.81 grams.
Facing lady (like Arethus on coins of Kimon, Syracuse)/Ares in Attic helmet right
Usually said to be of Datames (378-372 BC), but some now think the lettering says "Tadanmu". Struck 374-373 BC
Countermark of a bull in a rectangle with lettering B'L for Baal.
ANSMN 31 (1986) plate 2.20, countermark 7, page 61.
SNG von Aulock 5940.
DeCallatay RQEMA&C type 276 reports a die study of the type found 106 dies among 296 coins.

Too slow! Use @randigeki's "corn ears" theme.

Next up: countermark on a Greek coin

 

Corn, grain ears.

Cilicia, Laertes. Trajan Æ21. Demeter seated
Obv: Laureate head right.
Rev: Demeter seated left, holding poppy and grain ears in right hand, scepter in left.
SNG France 589-90; SNG Levante 371.

Next theme: Trajan that does not look like Trajan.

 

TRAJAN
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head right
REVERSE: P M TR P COS II P P, Pax standing left, holding branch & cornucopiae
Struck at Rome, 98/9AD
3.1g, 19mm
RIC 6

Next: Pax

 

Lot 149. Trebonianus Gallus, 252 - 253 AD, Silver Antoninianus, Pax

Trebonianus Gallus, 252 - 253 AD
Silver Antoninianus, Milan Mint, 22mm, 3.52 grams
Obverse: IMP C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trebonianus right.
Reverse: PAX AETERNA, Pax standing left holding scepter and branch.
RIC71
NEXT: HELMET WITH HORNS

 

My Carinus Antonianus, my first coin. Next topic is "debased coinage."

 

Victorinus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 269-271.
AE antoninianus, 19mm, 2.8g, 12h; Cologne mint, struck A.D. 270/1.
Obv.: IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG; Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: [PA]X AVG; Pax standing facing, head left, holding olive-branch and short, transverse scepter; V - (star).
Reference: RIC 118; Hunter 11.

Next, an ancient or medieval coin minted by a mint in Germanic/German territory.

 

This coin missed being medieval by a few years. Minted shortly after gaining it's independence from Bavaria.


SALZBURG - ARCHBISHOP MATTAUS LANG v. WELLENBURG-1519-1540 AR Zweier, 1528. Uniface coin. Arms of Salzburg and Mattaus side-by-side, bishop's hat above, date delow.

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