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If we can be serious numismatists for a moment, Milne actually lists 5 different varieties of the type, Nos. 5325-5329. As far as I can tell from all of Milne's abbreviations and codes, the five varieties differ only in the positions of their reverse dies, which he indicates by tiny arrows pointing in different directions rather than by the usual clock hours. In order, translated into hours, the five types beginning with 5325 seem to be at 3 hrs, 5 hrs, 9 hrs, 10 hrs, and 8 hrs. Hopefully one of those matches yours! All five specimens were donated to the Ashmolean by Milne himself between 1897 and 1932.

The only hesitation I have with the identification as a hippocamp is that I'm used to seeing them with the front legs of horses. Yours doesn't appear to show that, but then again neither does the one at the link I posted.

 

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What is the ID on this piece? It's interesting! My coin doesn't have counter marks but rather punch marks so I waited the 12 hours to see if anyone else could fill it.

Post-Mauryan India
c. 184-150 BCE
AE Rectangle PMC | 0.98 grams | 9x10mm wide

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Next: Another punchmarked coin

 

It's a countermarked preByzantine Roman weight.

Hoping this fits the criteria as punched vs cm:

Next up: silver coin with one smooth side

 

This isn't ancient, probably minted in the 18th or early 19th century, but it appears quite ancient and was made via ancient methods.

Cambodia
BI Fuang | 1.52 grams | 15mm wide


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Next: Another coin which appears older than it truly is (open interpretation)

 

next: primiteve money

 

Again, not quite ancient but I hope it fits in enough. This is a ring-money that was used by the Korintji/Kerinci people or tribe of Sumatra who lived in the interior of the island. The use of brass rings as money probably started around 1700 and lasted until 1900 AD and was noted by numerous colonial historians, most notably Millies in his 1871 work that would become the first published piece on what would become Indonesian numismatics. They are quite rare, but not terribly so. This variety with an evenly spaced reeded outer edge is much more rare than the more common plain rings or those with knobs. This type is also the kind depicted by Millies.

Korintji People of Sumatra
Present-day Indonesia
c. 1700 - 1900 AD
Brass Ring with Riveted Outside Rim and Two Inner Bands
(also known as anye or ringgeld)
2.38 grams | 22mm wide | ring 2mm wide, 3mm tall
Ref: Millies (1871) #210, 211; see below




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Next: Another "primitive" money or typical coin

 

Let's get back to ancients here...
Next up: Celtic coinage

 

Celtic Imitation of Parion, c. 250 BCE
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Next: another BCE imitation

 

Semis that is probably a Spanish imitative:


RR Anon AE Semis 211-207 BCE Saturn S Prow ROMA Sear 766 Craw 56/3

Next: Semis from BCE

 

next: Saturnus

 

Saturn!


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 4.26 g, 18.8 mm, 12 h.
Antioch, 15th emission, AD 266-268.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: AETERNITAS AVG, Saturn standing right, holding harpa in left hand; PXV in exergue.
Refs: RIC 606; Göbl 1662i; Cohen 44; RCV 10170.

Next: AETERNITAS legend but featuring a deity other than a personification of Aeternitas.

 

Aeternitati AVG (Sol standing right, holding globe)



Next: Anything by Gordian III

 

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III
AE 18 mm, 2.59 gm
Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓORΔIANOC AVΓ; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: AΔPIANOΠOΛEITΩN; ostrich running like stevex6 is chasing it with a basting brush
Ref: Varbanov 3833, rare
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-now-extinct-animal-on-a-roman-coin.287175/

Next: an animal not commonly seen on ancient coins

 

next: a coin issued by the Aelolians

 

AEOLIS, KYME
AE 11
OBVERSE: AΡIΣT-ANΔΡOΣ, eagle standing right
REVERSE: K-Y, one-handled vase
Struck at Aeolis, 300-200BC
1.36g, 11mm
Sear #4187; SNG Copenhagen 41-3

next: handled vase

 

Islands off Thrace. Thasos circa 404-340 BC.
Obol AR
10 mm, 0,73 g
Satyr kneeling left, holding kantharos / ΘAΣIΩN, amphora. Le Rider, Thasos 27; SNG Copenhagen 1029.

Next - another vase

 

I have already posted this coin, but I like this elegant vase.
Lepton (or prutah) of the Jewish rebels, first revolt, dated year 2.

NEXT : a coin issued by a rebel.

 

Hi All,

Tryphon. Houghton CSE 259 var: no Dioscuroi caps.



Newell, in "The Seleucid Mint of Antioch", p. 73, prefers the allusion to the old Macedonian custom of proclamation by the army: "The Macedonian helmet chosen for the reverse type of all these issues has direct reference to the claim of Tryphon that, - according to the time honored Macedonian custom, - he was supposed to have been unanimously elected by free Macedonian soldiers in open assembly. There may also be intended a punning reference to his name, for in both Homer and Hesiod a helmet is sometimes called τρυφαλεια." Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, Vol. I, p. 337, note that the horn on Tryphon’s helmet does not closely resemble short horns which adorn a Macedonian helmet on Roman republican denarii celebrating the defeat of Philip V of Macedon, but it rather recalls the lavishly endowed wild goats depicted on various Thraco-Macedonian coinages of the archaic and classical periods.

Next: Horns

- Broucheion

 

Horns. Two, if you look closely. A coin that just missed my top 19 Roman Imperials. Maybe it would have been no. 20.



Next: hippopotamus.

 

Hi All,



NEXT: Something that crawls.

- Broucheion