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  1. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Alexandrian Nero:

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    Nero and Claudia Octavia
    Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 11.1 g, 25.0 mm
    Egypt, Alexandria, AD 56-57
    Obv: ΝΕΡ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΑΥΤΟ, laureate head of Nero, right
    Rev: ΟΚΤΑΟΥΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ, bare-headed and draped bust of Octavia, right; L Γ before.
    Refs: RPC 5202; BMC 119; SGI 657; Cologne 122; Milne 133; Emmett 127.

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  3. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev. Bust of Alexandria, right, wearing elephant headdress, AYTO-KPA around, LIB [Year 12] in right field. RPC I 5289, Emmett 109.12, Milne 238, K&G 14.88. 20x23 mm., 12.11 g.

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    Next: another representation of Alexandria, on a Provincial or Imperial coin.
     
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  4. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Hadrian visiting Alexandria, Egypt.

    Æ Drachm, 36mm, 22.1g, 11h; Alexandria, Year 15 = 130/1 AD.

    Obverse: AVT KAI - TRAI AΔPIA CEB; Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right.

    Reverse: Alexandria kisses the hand of the arriving emperor; he is laureate and togate, stands left, extends right hand to Alexandria and holds scepter in left; she stands right wearing elephant skin headdress, guides the emperor's hand to her mouth with her right hand, and holds two wheat ears downwards with her left hand; in lower field L - IE.

    Reference: Cologne 1034; Emmett 964/15.

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    Another Hadrian travel coin, non-Egypt
     
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  5. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: galley
     
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  6. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Roman Republic, C. Fonteius, AR Denarius, 114-113 BCE. Obv. Laureate, Janiform head of the Dioscuri, control mark N under left chin [mark of value * (= 16) under right chin is worn off], one dot beneath head / Rev. Galley left with three rowers, gubernator (pilot) at stern, rudder beneath stern, apotropaic eye on side, three-pronged ram with wolf’s head above extending from prow, banners/streamers extending from stern, C • FONT above (N and T in monogram), ROMA below. Crawford 290/1, RSC I Fonteia 1 (ill.), Sear RCV I 167 (ill.), Sydenham 555. 20 mm., 3.90 g. Ex: Auctiones GmbH, eAuction 67, Lot 55, 15 March 2020; Ex: CNG Auction May 2012, Lot 293; Ex: Bruce R. Brace Collection.*

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    * According to H.A. Seaby in RSC I (at p. 48), the Janiform head on the obverse relates to the origins of the Fonteia gens -- which claimed as its founder Fons or Fontus, supposedly the son of Janus -- and the galley on the reverse relates to the naval exploits of the moneyer’s ancestor P. Fonteius Capito, who was praetor in Sardinia in 169 BCE. Crawford disagrees. (See Vol. I at p. 305.) He states that there is no good evidence for the existence of Fontus, and that the Janiform head should instead be regarded as that of the Dioscuri, because the gens Fonteia came from Tusculum, the chief cult-center of the Dioscuri in Latium. Crawford also states that the reverse is “doubtless” an allusion to the transmarine origin of Telegonus (the son of Ulysses and Circe), who was the legendary founder of Tusculum. Sear agrees with Crawford.

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  7. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    Aes Grave As with Janus obv. and reverse prow of ship. c. 225 BCE.

    next.... Roman ship.

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  8. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: sestertius Hadrian
     
  9. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    sestertius of Hadrian...
    next , dupondius of Hadrian...

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  10. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Dupondius of Hadrian:

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    Hadrian, AD 117-138.
    Roman orichalcum dupondius, 13.78 g, , 26.1 mm, 7 h.
    Rome, ca. AD 119-124.
    Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG P M TR P COS III, radiate and draped bust, right.
    Rev: PIETAS AVGVSTI, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing facing right before a lighted altar, raising her right hand and holding a box of incense in her left.
    Refs: RIC 601c; BMCRE 1233-34; Cohen 1044; Strack 542; RCV 3665; Hill 257.

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  11. ambr0zie

    ambr0zie Dacian Taraboste

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    Trajan AR Denarius. Rome, circa AD 112-114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI; PIET in exergue, Pietas standing left, sprinkling incense over lighted altar to left and holding sceptre. RIC 262; BMCRE 481; RSC 201.

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  12. shanxi

    shanxi Well-Known Member

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    Trajan
    AR-Denar
    Obv.: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate head right, drapery on far shoulder
    Rev.: COS V P P SPQR OPTIMO PRINC, Dacian seated left in mourning, on pile of captured arms, DAC CAP in exergue
    Ag, 3.44g, 18.5mm
    Ref.: RIC 098

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  13. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next: Trajan Decius
     
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  14. maridvnvm

    maridvnvm Well-Known Member

    Obv:– IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right
    Rev:– PANNONIAE, The two Pannoniae facing each other, holding a standard between them
    Minted in Rome. A.D. 249 - 25
    Reference(s) – RIC 26. RSC 81

    3.41 gms, 21.54mm x 180mm

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  15. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    next:Hadrian Africa
     
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  16. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Very much on my want list, but I'm afraid I don't have one yet.
     
  17. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    12 hr rule...
    As Claudius.

    next - post anything Claudius...

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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Claudius.

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    Next: another As from the 1st century BC or AD (Claudius or otherwise).
     
  19. ValiantKnight

    ValiantKnight Well-Known Member

    Domitian, Roman Empire
    (later revalued in the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy)

    AE As / 42 nummi
    Obv: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIAN COS II, laureate head left, countermark XLII (42) in left field
    Rev: VICTORIA AVGVST, Victory advancing right, standing on prow, holding wreath and palm branch, S-C across fields
    Mint: Rome
    Date: 73-74 AD (struck); 498-526 AD (revalued)
    Ref: RIC 677

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  20. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    Taking your NEXT as a little too literal, perhaps:

    An "antoninianus" of Claudius II which obviously could not have been valued in any world at a nominal two denarii communi. This is what is sometimes called a minimus radiate (14mm). I figure this fits your request as the coin was essentially tarriffed as "something else, but definitely not as a antoninianus"
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    NEXT *hard mode*
    A Roman coin counterstamped by a NON-Roman culture.
     
  21. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    12 hour rule

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    next: cow with calf
     
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