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ELECTRUM


Carthage Zeugitana
310-270 BCE
EL Dekadrachm-Stater
18.5mm 7.27g
Tanit
Horse 3 pellets in ex
MAA 12 SNG COP 136

Next: more Electrum

 

Erythrai Electrum hekte 550-500 BC Obv, head of Herakles left wearing lion skin headdress Rv. Hexapartite square Anepigraphic SNG Von Aulock 1942 2.53 grms 10 mm Photo by W. Hansen Next coin Herakles

 

Herakles!


Septimius Severus, AD 193-211.
Roman provincial Æ 18.6 mm, 4.37 g, 7 h.
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, AD 193-211.
Obv: ΑV Κ CΕΠΤΙ CΕΥΗΡΟC Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: MAPKIA-NOΠOΛITΩ-N, Herakles standing left, wrestling the Nemean lion.
Refs: AMNG I 585 v.; Varbanov 710; Moushmov 397; H&J 6.14.14.5-6; Mionnet Suppl. 2, 126.

Next: Septimius Severus Provincial

 

Not received yet, but too excited not to give a "sneak peak":

Next up: phallus

 

(Double-Oops; Sorry, @Pavlos.)

 

Next up: coin from Julius Nepos

 

Q. POMPONIUS MUSA. Fourrée denarius (56 BC). Rome.
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right; sceptre to left.
Rev: Q POMPONI MVSA.
Melpomene standing left, wearing sword and holding club and mask.Cf. Crawford 410/4 (for prototype).Fine.2.95 g, 17 mm. Numismatik Naumann Feb 2021

next up: a different Muse

 

Here's another Muse:

Moneyer: Q. Pomponius Musa
Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right, two crossed flutes behind
Reverse: Q. POMPONI / MVSA - Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry, standing right, supporting chin with arm resting on colunmn to right and holding two tibiae
Mint: Rome (66 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.82g / 19mm / 7h
References:

• RSC 13 (Pomponia)
• Sydenham 815
• Crawford 410/5

Provenances:

• Ex. Andrew McCabe Collection
• Ex. Art Coins Roma Auction 3, 31-May-2011, lot 215

Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction E-Sale 18 #810 27-Jun-2015




Next - another Muse

 

Q. POMPONIUS MUSA ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS POMPONIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Laureate head of Apollo right; sandal to left
REVERSE: Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing left and leaning left arm on column, holding persona (comic mask) in outstretched right hand
Rome 55 BC
3.39g, 16mm
Crawford 410/9b; Sydenham 821; Pomponia 19

Next: Apollo

 

Since I like showing it off, I'll re-post my most recently acquired Roman Republican denarius, issued by C. Calpurnius L.f. Piso Frugi, minted circa 61 BCE (not in 67 BCE as Crawford states). A very fetching Apollo graces the obverse.





Next: a sword, whether as an element of the design or as a control symbol.

 

I hope a parazonium counts.


Carus, AD 282-283.
Roman billon Antoninianus, 3.57 g, 21 mm, 6 h.
Antioch, AD 282.
Obv: IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: VIRTVS AVGG, emperor standing right, holding parazonium and receiving Victory on globe from Carinus (or Jupiter) standing left, holding scepter; A//XXI .
Refs: RIC 124C; Cohen 116; RCV 12188.

Next: Dude with hair loss.

 

Of course a parazonium counts. But if that's a parazonium, why isn't it triangular, and why does it have a knob at the end instead of a point? It looks more like a short scepter -- kind of like the denarii of Balbinus and Pupienus with reverses that some erroneously characterize as figures of those emperors, each bearing a parazonium (neither of which is remotely triangular), but are actually figures of the Genius of the Senate, each bearing a short scepter.

 

Those are good questions. I suppose I shouldn't have accepted RIC V.2 uncritically, because the reverse description there calls it a parazonium. My coin is 124, bust type C.



How about this one?


Valerian I, AD 253-260.
Roman AR antoninianus, 2.75 g, 20 mm, 7 h.
Uncertain Eastern mint, 2nd emission, AD 256-260.
Obv: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS·P·F·AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front.
Rev: PIETAS AVGG, Valerian, holding eagle-tipped scepter, and Gallienus, holding parazonium, standing facing each other, sacrificing over lighted altar between them.
Refs: RIC 285; Göbl 1684e; Cohen/RSC 152; RCV 9955; Hunter 73.
Notes: The ANS attributes this issue to Cyzicus, Göbl to Samosata, and RIC to Antioch. According to the introduction of RIC volume V, during Valerian's reign, some coins minted in Asia cannot certainly be attributed to either Antioch or Cyzicus (p.22-26). RIC dates this issue to AD 255-56.

Next: Portrait with a very prominent brow.

 

1.40 g 13.3 mm
Arcadius 383-408
Obv: D N ARCADIVS P F AVG
Draped, cuirassed bust with pearl diadem to the right.
Rev: SALVS REI - PVBLICAE
Victoria striding to the left with her tropaeum on her shoulder, dragging a prisoner behind her with her left.
In the exergue: SMNA
RIC IX 45

Next - portrait with a serious nose, but not Nerva

 

Next Domitian Pegasus denarius

 

Domitian. As Caesar,
AD 69-81. AR Denarius
Struck under Vespasian,
early AD 76-early AD 77.
Obv: CAESΛR AVG F • DOMITIANVS,
laureate head right.
Rev: COS IIII above, Pegasus
standing right, left foreleg
raised. RIC II 921 (Vespasian);
RSC 47; BMCRE 193-5 (Vespasian);
(18mm, 3.12 g, 7h). Rome mint.


Next: Coin from Saguntum , Sagunto, Arse , Spain . They are all the same local.
The Siege of
Saguntum was a battle which took
place in 219 BC between the
Carthaginians and the Saguntines
at the town of Saguntum, near the
modern town of Sagunto in Spain. The
battle is remembered because it
triggered one of the most important
wars of antiquity, the Second Punic War.

 

Ok how about a coin minted from any place that was had significant Second Punic war battle.

 

I have a coin from Saguntum:


Iberia, Arse (Saguntum), Edetani tribe (under Roman rule), AE quadrans, ca. 170–120 BC. Obv: scallop. Rev: "AIUBaS" in Iberian letters; dolphin; above, three pellets. 17mm, 4.13g. Ref: Álvarez-Burgos 2008 (ABH) 2051.

Next: another scallop

 

SCALLOP



Oscan-Latin Aes Formatum scallop shell with Ribs 4th BCE

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