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Quarter Stater
Alexander III
Pella Mint
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Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-500 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. Goldsborough Type 3 [Goldsborough, Reid, Apollonia Pontika Drachms (see https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html), Catalogue of Types]; Seaby GCV 1655 var. (crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-42 [Topalov, Stavri, Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. (Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9]; SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea (London, 1993)] [online ID SNGuk_0901_0159 ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.


Next: another coin from Apollonia Pontika.

 

Apollonia Pontika


Apollonia Pontika Thrace AR Diobol 1.3g 410-323 BCE Apollo-Anchor crab-crawfish A Tupalov 56

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Good Ole Vespy perpetually holding one in:

Next up: more Vespasian looking like he's holding back a fart

 

next: Titus denarius

 

Rome mint, AD 80
IMP TITUS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM, Laureate bust of Titus right
TRP IX IMP XV COS VIII PP, Dolphin entwined around anchor
3.56 gr
Ref : RIC # 26a, RCV # 2517, Cohen # 309

Nexte : another dolphin

Q

 

Dolphins swimming around Arethusa.

Tetradrachm, Syracuse, Second Democracy, 460-406 BC.



Next: Gemini, the twins.

 

Maxentius, AD 307-312.
Roman billon follis, 6.44 g, 24.5 mm, 1 h.
Ostia, 4th officina, AD 309-312.
Obv: IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG, laureate head, right.
Rev: AETE-RNITAS - AVG N, Dioscuri standing left and right, each holding scepter and bridled horse; MOSTQ in exergue.
Refs: RIC vi, p. 404, 35; Cohen 5; RCV 14975.

Next: More Dioscuri.

 

Cn. Lucretius Trio.
AR Denarius, 136 BC, Rome
Obv: TRIO, Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) below chin.
Rev: CN LVCR / ROMA, The Dioscuri galloping right.
Ag, 17.4x19.6mm, 3.87g
Ref.: Crawford 237/1a.

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Macedon. Thessalonica circa 187-131 BC.
Bronze Æ 20 mm., 5,19 g.
Head of Janus R/ ΘEΣΣAΛONIKHΣ, the Dioscuri riding in opposite directions. SNG Cop 369

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edit - too late, please continue with "caps of the Dioscuri"

 

Hi All,



The coin is ex-Forvm.

Next: A coin with a god's attribute (symbols) but not the god's image.

- Broucheion

 

Cappadocia, Caesarea. Nerva
(Didrachm / AD 97)
Obv: AVTOKPAT NEPOYAC KAICAP CEBACTOC
Laureate head of Nerva right.
Rev: VΠATOY TPITOY
Club of Hercules.


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Here's another man-faced bull didrachm...

Mint: Neapolis, Campania.
Obv.: ΔΙΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ - Head of Parthenope right, wearing ear-ring and necklace; bunch of grapes behind
Rev.: ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - Man-headed bull right, crowned by Nike flying right
Mint: (ca 320-300)
Wt./Size/Axis: 7.31g / - / -
References:

• BMC Campania 47
• Rutter, Historia Nummorum 571
• Sambon 438
• SNG Munchen 234

Provenances:

• Auktion Ars Classica 15, Luzern 1930, Nr. 56

Acquisition: Kuenker 168 #7046 12-Mar-2010


Next - another coin with an old provenance.

 

This one of Julia Domna was formerly owned by Clarence Bement (1843-1923):


Julia Domna, AD 193-217
Roman orichalcum dupondius; 10.61 gm, 24.2 mm
Rome, issue 6, AD 195
Obv: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: FECVNDITAS, Fecunditas enthroned right, nursing one child, second child stands before her.
Refs: RIC 844; BMCRE 494; Cohen 43; Hill 126; RCV 6639
Notes: Ex Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement Collection, lot 1184. Die-match to BMCRE-494, pl. 21.4.

It appears in Ars Classica VIII, 1924, Bement Collection, lot 1184. Here's the listing from that auction:




Next: Fecunditas.

 

Faustina II (wife of Marcus Aurelius & daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, ca. 162/163 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. draped bust right with hair in chignon behind, wearing double strand of pearls, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA ./ Rev. Fecunditas (or Faustina as Fecunditas) standing facing, head right, holding long scepter in right hand and, with left hand and arm, infant with its arms raised towards its mother (representing Marcus Annius Verus, b. ca. 162 AD*), FECVNDITAS. RIC III MA 677, RSC II Faustina II 99c (Faustina with double strand of pearls)**, Sear RCV II 5252, BMCRE Marcus Aurelius 92 (var. with Faustina wearing single strand of pearls***). 18.46 mm., 3.54 g.



*See Dinsdale Ch. 4 p. 51 & n. 1 [Dinsdale, Paul H., The Imperial Coinage of the Middle Antonines: Marcus Aurelius with Lucius Verus and Commodus, Ch. 4, Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04 - Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (med_res).pdf) at p. 51] ("This issue refers to the birth of M. Annius Verus in 162"). See also https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marcus_Annius_Verus_Caesar : “Marcus Annius Verus Caesar (born 162 or 163 – 10 September 169) was the 12th of 13 children of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Empress Faustina the Younger. Annius was made caesar on 12 October 166 AD, alongside his brother Commodus, designating them co-heirs of the Roman Empire. Annius died on 10 September 169, at age seven, due to complications from a surgery to remove a tumor from under his ear. His death left Commodus as the sole heir. . . . He was given the name of Marcus Annius Verus because it was the original name of his father, Marcus Aurelius” -- as well as his grandfather and great-grandfather.

** The fourth of four listed varieties, along with Faustina II bareheaded, with single strand of pearls, and with stephane. (See RSC II at p. 223.)


*** The British Museum, at least as of the date of BMCRE, does not appear to have an example of the variety with Faustina II wearing a double strand of pearls.

Next: Another Fecunditas, but not Faustina II or Julia Domna.