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  1. TuckHard

    TuckHard Well-Known Member

    200-340 CE (Circa) AE 'Bull left' 'Brahmi script' 0.89g 8mm S1 Combined.jpg
    Nagas of Narwar
    Central India
    c. 200-340 AD
    AE Unit | 0.89 grams | 8mm wide
    Obv: Brahmi script
    Rev: Bull standing left
    See it on Zeno.ru
    Next: 8mm or smaller
     
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  3. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    Rhodos best (2).jpg

    next: Rhodos AR

    too late, as Tuckhard said less then 8mm
     
  4. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

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    Caria, Kasolaba. Hemiobol
    Obv: Head of ram right.
    Rev: Young male head right, Carian legend S-A across fields.
    c. 400-340 BC.
    7mm., 0.55g.

    Next: Ram
     
  5. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    I got a Ram!
    Thanjavur Marathas copper 'Kasu' depicting the Hindu god Ram in the middle, his wife Sita to the right, and his friend Hanuman to the left. Standing king on the reverse.
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    Next, three or more gods on a single side.
     
  6. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

  7. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Moneta:

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    Severus II, Caesar 1 May AD 305 - 25 July, 306.
    Roman billon follis, 9.10 g, 27.1 mm, 11 h.
    Rome, third officina, c. AD 305.
    Obv: SEVERVS NOB CAES, laureate head, right.
    Rev: SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Moneta, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; -/*//R T.
    Refs: RIC vi, p. 365, 123a; Cohen 62; RCV 14638.

    Next: Deity holding scales.
     
  8. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

  9. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped &cuirassed bust of Postumus right. Rev: IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter walking right, hurling a thunderbolt

    RIC V Postumus 311

    Next - Victorinus
     
  10. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    VICTORINUS

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    RI Victorinus 269-270 CE BI Ant Gallic Empire Salus

    Next: VINDEX (I have to ask...)
     
  11. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    You are the reason I picked this up at a Frank auction:
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    Next up: fat Nero
     
  12. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

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    NERO
    AR Denarius
    OBVERSE: NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS - Laureate head right
    REVERSE: No legend Exe: SALVS - Salus seated left, holding patera
    Struck at Rome, 65/6AD
    2.9g, 18mm
    RIC 60, BMC 90, C 314

    Next: Another Nero
     
  13. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

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    Nero As - Lugdunum mint.

    next up , his mother...
     
  14. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Nero's mom:

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    Claudius, AD 41-54 and Agrippina II, AD 50-59.
    Roman provincial Æ 20.2 mm, 5.81 g, 10 h.
    Lydia, Thyatira, AD 50-54.
    Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑYΔΙΟC CЄΒΑCΤΟC, bare head of Claudius right.
    Rev: ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ CЄΒΑCΤΗΝ ΘΥΑΤΙΡΗΝΟΙ, draped bust of Agrippina right.
    Refs: Sear 507; RPC I 2380; BMC 22. 301, 57; SNG München 611; SNG von Aulock --; SNG Copenhagen --; Mionnet --; Wiczay --.

    Next: Claudius provincial.
     
  15. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

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    Next up: Macedonian shield coin
     
  16. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    [Too late!]

    Claudius I, billon [Sear] or AR [RPC] Tetradrachm, Year 2 [41/42 AD], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΤΙ ΚΛΑVΔΙ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ ΑVΤΟΚΡ around, LΒ [Year 2] under chin / Rev. Draped bust of Antonia [Claudius’s mother] right, ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ upwards to left, ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ downwards to right. ); RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. I 5117 (1992); RPC I Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5117; Emmett 73.2 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Sear RCV I 1868 (ill.); Sear GIC 492 (ill.) [D. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values (1982)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 65 at p. 9 [Pool, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)].

    Claudius I - Antonia (mother) Roman Alexandria Tetradrachm jpg version.jpg
     
  17. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Awesome! Way cool. Attributions?
     
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  18. Andres2

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  19. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    CILICIA. Soloi (ca 1st century BC) AE19
    Obv: Head of Artemis right, wearing stephane.
    Rev: ΣΟΛΕΩΝ - Double cornucopia; to left, Є above Θ.
    Ziegler -; SNG BN 1209-10 var. (controls); SNG Levante 865 var. (same)
    5,68 g, 19 mm

    Next - double cornucopia
     
  20. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

  21. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Anchor

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    Apollonia Pontika, Thrace.
    AR diobol
    1.3g
    410/404-341/323 BCE
    Obv: Full-face laureate Apollo with short hair.
    Rev: Magistrate's initals around the images. Upright anchor with thick flukes and a rectangular stock. The letter A on one side and the additional symbol of a crab viewed from above on the other side between flukes and the stock.
    Topalov 56
    Ex: @red_spork


    Next: Non-Greek, Non-Roman Goddess
     
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