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Special issue Chola stater featuring Vishnu's foot and bow on the obverse's bottom right.
Next, a part of a god's body other than head.

 

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Eudoxia, AD 395-404.
Roman billon Æ 4 reduced centenionalis, 1.94 g, 14.9 mm.
Cyzicus, AD 402-404.
Obv: AEL EVDOXIA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right, being crowned by the hand of God.
Rev: SALVS REIPVBLICAE, Victory seated r., inscribing Christogram on shield set on cippus. SMKA in exergue.
Refs: RIC 103; LRBC 2589; RCV 20894.

Next: Someone being crowned by a deity.

 

Campania, Suessa Aurunca
268 – 240 BC
OBV:Laureate head of Apollo, L, O at right
REV: SVESANO, Man-headed bull, Nike flying above, crowning bull with laurel branch or wreath. SNG Cop 586; SNG ANS 606

Next - Nike/Victory flying

 

next: Neapolis

 

You didn't say WHICH Neapolis!


Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman provincial Æ 26.85 mm, 13.64 g, 12 h.
Samaria, Neapolis, AD 159/160.
Obv: ΦΑVCΤЄΙΝΑ CЄΒ ЄVCЄ CЄΒΑ ΘVΓ, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: ΦΛ ΝЄΑCΠΟΛЄѠ CVΡΙΑC ΠΑΛΑΙCΤΙ, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae; year ЄΤ ΠΗ.
Refs: RPC IV.3, 6340 (temporary); Lindgren A2431B; SNG ANS 973; Hendin 880; Rosenberger 20.
Notes: The obverse titulature, ΦΑVCΤЄΙΝΑ CЄΒ ЄVCЄ CЄΒΑ ΘVΓ, is translated as "Faustina Augusta, daughter of Pius Augustus" and corresponds to the Latin FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL found on imperial issues for her. Ex George Fisher Collection.

Next: Coin dated not by year of an emperor's reign, but by year of the city.

 

Hey, that's the same request you posted on May 6!

Unfortunately, I have only one coin to post in response:

See footnote re date on coin:

Domitian and Domitia, AE 22.7, 93/94 AD, Cilicia, Anazarbus. Obv. Laureate head of Domitian to right, AYTO KAI ΘΕ YI ΔOMITIANOC CE ΓEP around from upper right / Rev. Draped bust of Domitia left, date IB P (= Year 112, = 93/94 AD)* across fields, star behind head, KAICAPEΩN ΔOMETIA CEBACTH around from lower left. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. II 1749; RPC Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749 ; SNG Levante 1367 [Levante, E., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Switzerland I, Levante-Cilicia (Zurich, 1986)] (see https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=40245); BMC Vol. 21 Lycaonia, Anazarbus 9 p. 32 [Hill, G.F., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia (London, 1900)]. 22.7 mm., 10.09 g. (Purchased from Zuzim Inc, Brooklyn, NY Jan. 2021; exported from Israel 2016 pursuant to IAA [Israel Antiquities Authority] Export License No. 531619, April 17, 2016.) (Double die-match to RPC II 1749, specimen no. 16; see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1749.)



*Year 1 of era was 19 BCE, date of founding of Anazarbus after visit of Augustus.

Next: another coin dated not by year of an emperor's reign, but by year of the city.

 

I have a feeling nobody's going to answer this request, so I hereby withdraw it, and replace it with something a little easier: another coin depicting Domitia. Preferably Imperial, but Provincial will do!

 

I don't know if withdrawals are in the official rules, so I will share this coin with Civic Year dating... "Civic Year" or CY 13 (97/96 BC). This is 13 years that start from 109/8 BC when Grypus granted the city of Seleukia Pieria independence in gratitude for support during his civil war. I'll link the longer story on Seleucid Family Politics.

Seleukis and Pieria, Seleukeia Pieria, 105/4-83/2 BC, AR Tetradrachm, 30mm, 14.90g, dated CY 13 (97/96 BC)
Obv: Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right
Rev: ΣEΛEYKEΩN / THΣ IEPAΣ / KAI / AYTONOMOY, Filleted thunderbolt on throne; ΓI (date = 13) below, monogram (ω/Δ) to lower right; all within wreath.
Ref: Callataÿ, Production, pp. 75–6

Next: a coin depicting Domitia

 

Very nice, @DonnaML! I have one too.

 

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Michen of Lower Burma
c. 750 to 832 AD
AR Bracteate | 0.03 grams | 7mm wide
Obv: Four petalled flower with stem and dimple

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Nepal 1 Dam (1/128th of a Mohur), 0.04g

Next, a coin less than 0.10g

 

Ionia. Miletos circa 525-475 BC.
Tetartemorion AR Cf. Rosen 407/8.
Klein 430; SNG Tubingen 3001; Rosen 407
Head of a roaring lion l. R/ Quail standing l. within incuse square
5 mm., 0,08 g.

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next: Domitian provincial

 

Thrace. Sestos. Domitian AD 81-96.
Bronze Æ 16 mm., 3,84 g

Obverse inscription
ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ-ΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design
laureate head of Domitian, r.
Reverse inscription
ϹΗϹΤΙWΝ
Reverse design
lyre

Next: lyre

 

Lyre


RImp Octavian 32-31 BCE AR Den Rome mint Bare CAESAR DIVI F Mercury lyre RIC 257 Sear 1550

Next: Luna

 

Luna:


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman AR denarius, 3.07 g, 20.6 mm, 12:00.
Rome mint under Caracalla, AD 215.
Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: LVNA LVCIFERA, Luna in biga of horses, galloping left, drapery billowing behind head.
Refs: RIC 379c; BMCRE 10; Cohen 105; RCV 7101; Hill 1477.

Next: Domna under Caracalla.

 

Here's my sestertius of Domna struck under her son.

Photo taken by CNG
Next: A different Severan empress in AE (sestertius, dupondius or as)

 

Julia Mamaea, AE Sestertius (30mm., 20.27g.), Draped bust r., wearing stephane./ Rev. Felicitas standing l., holding caduceus and leaning on column. RIC 676.

Next: mother of a Roman emperor

 

Faustina Jr, mother of Commodus, although the rumour has it Commodus was a product of an affair and not the actual son of a guy like Marcus Aurelius!

Next, a bastard emperor

 

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