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Here's a RR coin with Jupiuter that took a good few months to escape from Italy, but it was well worth waiting for.

Moneyer: L. Cornelius Lentulus
Obv.: L·LENT·C·MARC COS - Head of Apollo right
Rev.: Q - Jupiter standing facing, holding thunderbolt in right hand and eagle in left hand; on left, star; on right, altar decorated with garland
Mint: Illyrium (49 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 4.09g / - / -
References:

• RSC 65 (Cornelia)
• Sydenham 1030
• Crawford 445/2
• HCRI 5
• RBW 1563

Provenances:

• Ex. NAC 52, October 2009, lot 264

Acquisition: Varesi Online auction #169 20-Sep-2020



Next - something else that took a long time to arrive

 

This coin took me 4 months to receive from India!
Pallava potin unit,
Mahendra Varman I (600-630AD)
Humped bull with Tamil-Grantha script above (a combination language of Tamil+Sanskrit created by the Pallava's), and the reverse has the 16-spoked wheel of 'Dharmachakra' aka karma cycle!

Next, a coin with a 'new language', a product of two older languages.

 

Well this one has two languages, Greek and Kharoshthi

KUSHAN DYNASTY
Vima Kadphises, 95-127 AD.
AE Tetradrachm, 28mm, 16.5g, 2h.

Obv. BACIΛEΥC BACIΛEωN OOHMO MEΓAC OOHM KAΔΦICHC; Kadphises, standing facing, head left, sacrificing over altar to left and holding hand on hilt; to left, filleted trident behind, tamgha and club to right.

Rev: Siva with three heads standing facing, holding trident in raised right hand and resting lowered left hand on bull Nandi standing to right, behind; tamgha above to left.with kharoshthi legend maharaja rajadhiraja sarvaloga isvarasa mahesvarasa.
Mitchner 3040



Another coin with a new/hybrid language

 

According to Wikipedia the Jawi script used on this coin and other contemporary types is a local script/alphabet used in the Malay region (including Sumatra) to write Arabic language to accompany the spread of Islam in the region but also to allow for native sounds not used in Arabic languages. I'm not too knowledgeable on scripts/languages so please correct me if I'm wrong on some of this.

Jambi Sultanate of Sumatra
c. 1590-1620 AD
Tin Pitis | 0.93 grams | 19mm wide
Obv: Chanpi Raj in Jawi script
Rev: Plain
Ref: Hartill GCC#3.118, see Zeno
Ex: Frank S. Robinson (FSR)

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Next: Another unusual metal, no gold-silver-AE

 

Some more pitis:



next: silver coin struck under Roman rule

 

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

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Next: A coin you no longer have

 

Next: A coin with an interesting countermark or banker's mark.

 

c/m Cleopatra on a Cleopatra coin



next: Cleopatra

 

NEXT - another Antony

 

Next: Cistophoric tetradrachm of Antony and Cleo.

 

12 hours

Sultanate of Rum
Present-day Turkey
Issued during the period of Three Brothers
650 AH | 1252-1253 AD
AR Dirham | 2.76 grams | 23mm wide
Sivas Mint

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Next: Another coin completely filled with script/calligraphy

 

Umayyad Caliphate dirham- 715 AD (Islamic year of 96).
Next, another Islamic coin dated within 100 years of its foundation!

 

next: silver rupee India

too late

 

Missed by seconds!
Akbar rupee, 1586 AD

Next, another Islamic coin dated within 100 years of its foundation!

 

Here is my pre-reform Arab-Byzantine type which is said to have been some of the earliest Islamic coinage.

Umayyad Caliphate
Byzantine Imitation AE Fals
c. 65-86 AH | 685-705 AD
Standing Caliph Type

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Next: Another imitative type

 

next; another barbaric coin

 

Here's my barbarous antoninianus of Carausius, wolf and twins reverse!



Next: A coin with a legend that reads something along the lines of IIIVCIIVVVVOVI

 

How about AAAAOAAA

Next, blundered legends on an official Roman coin.

 

Eastern imitation Tetradrachm with Aramaic/Modern Hebrew grafitto spelling the word Shekel, the script is identical in style to the Wadi et Daliyet letters which have been dated with certainty to 352-335 and perfectly corresponds with this late tetradrachm.