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I thought the same thing when I first saw the type. It is though. This is mine of his coin type:


Pisidia - Selge
Stag Fraction
200-1 BCE
Obv: head of Herakles facing, wreathed with styrax, (club over left shoulder, off flan). Rev: SE-L with recumbent stag right, head turned back, K below. 2.81 grams. Very fine. [No Reserve]
Literature
BMC 43-44; SNG France 3 1964-1965; Waddington 3941; Imhoof KM 11; Imhoof MG 104; Paris 763 and 749.


Next up: bee

 

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Not sure if that is a bee or a wasp on the reverse.



Next: Another insect.

 

Roman Republic, C.. Allius Bala, AR Denarius, 92 BCE, Rome mint. Obv.: Diademed female head (Diana?)* right, wearing necklace; BALA behind, control mark "R" below chin / Rev.: Diana in biga of stags right, holding sceptre and reins in left hand and flaming torch in right, with quiver over shoulder; control-mark (grasshopper) below stags; C•ALLI in exergue; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 336/1b; RSC I Aelia [Allia] 4 (ill.), Sear RCV I 221 (ill.), Sydenham 595, BMCRR 1742-1771 [no control-letter "R"]. 17 mm., 3.88 g.**



* Varying identifications of obverse head: Crawford ("female head r., wearing diadem"); RSC I ("female head (Diana?)"); BMCRR (same); Sear RCV I ("female deity").

** Moneyer otherwise unknown. See BMCRR p. 238 n. 2: "This type may refer to the annual festival in honor of Diana held on the Aventine, where her temple stood, and at which torch races occurred. . . . C. Allius Bala was apparently the first moneyer to introduce a symbol as a mint-mark in conjunction with a letter."

Changing the subject, next: a coin with PRINC IVVENTVTIS (or any abbreviation thereof) in the legend, as on this coin of Geta. (Another new write-up of a coin I bought at the recent NYINC.)

Geta Caesar (son of Septimius Severus) AR Denarius 200 AD. Obv. As young boy, bare-headed and draped bust right, P SEPT GETA CAES PONT / Rev. Geta in military dress standing facing, head left, holding baton with right hand and long sceptre with left hand, trophy of arms behind him to right, PRINC IV-VENTVTIS. RIC IV-1 18, RSC III Geta 157b (ill. p. 97), Sear RCV II 7196. Purchased on Jan. 14, 2022 from Keith Candiotti (Miami, FL) at NYINC 2022. 19 mm., 3.2 g.

 

Philip II, as Caesar AD 244-246. Rome
Sestertius Æ
30 mm, 14,16 g
RIC IV Philip I 255
M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, bust of Philip II, bare-headed, draped, right
PRINCIPI IVVENT S C, Philip II, in military attire, standing right, holding transverse spear in right hand and globe in left hand

Next - another sestertius with portrait of somebody with rank of Caesar

 

Here you go!


Maximus, Caesar AD 235/6-238.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 21.54 g, 31.5 mm, 12 h.
Rome, 3rd emission, late AD 236-237.
Obv: MAXIMVS CAES GERM, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS S C, Maximus standing left in military dress, holding baton in right hand and transverse spear in left hand; behind him, two standards.
Refs: RIC 13; BMCRE 213-17; Cohen 14; RCV 8411; MIR 37-5; Banti 6.

Next: More military standards.

 

PHILIP I
AE25
OBVERSE: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: ANTIO-C H-ICOL to left and right of vexilium surmounted by eagle, between two legionary eagles, SR in exergue
Struck at Pisidia, Antiochia, 244-249 AD
6.91g, 24mm
SNG France 1259/1262

Next: Coin struck at Pisidia

 

Hadrian, AE 18, Baris, Pisidia (SW Anatolia N of Lycia, near today’s Farı mevkii, Kılıç, Turkey), 118-138 AD. Obv. Laureate and draped bust right, AYT TRAI AΔPIANOC / Rev. Emperor in military dress, on horseback galloping right, brandishing javelin at serpent beneath horse’s hooves, BAPHNΩN. RPC III Online 2776 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2776) (4 specimens; 14 on acsearch); Von Aulock, Pisidiens II 236-7 corr.; SNG Copenhagen Part 32 107-108 var. (obv. legend); SNG von Aulock Vol. 3 5009 var. (same). Purchased at JAZ Numismatics Auction 195, Lot 10, 2 Dec. 2021; ex. Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 103, Lot 107, 23 March 2017. 18 mm., 3.9 g., 6 h.



Next, another coin depicting both a person on horseback and a snake.

 

Let's just change it to coins with one or more snakes!

 

Next: more mythical creatures

 

Castulo, Spain, AE As - 2nd century BC -
Virile head right, a hand before
Sphinx walking right. Iberian for KASTILO at exergue
15.9 gr
Ref : Sear GIC #15, Catalogue 38 and 39 CNH (CORPVS NVMMUM HISPANIAE, L. Villaronga)

Next : more sphinx

Q

 

Achaea. Attica, Athens. AE18. Athena/Sphinx
Obv: Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos, r.
Rev: ΑΘΕ, sphinx wearing modius, r.; all in wreath.
Time of Augustus, c. mid-late 20s BC.
RPC 1311.

Next: more mythical creatures.

 

Next: mythological monster

 

next: mythtological animal

 

Next: archaic beauty

 

Greek Italy, Southern Lucania, Metapontum, AR Stater (7.94g. 20.00mm), circa 470-440 BC
Obv: META (retrograde), six-grained barley ear; dotted border on raised rim
Rev: Incuse six-grained barley ear; striated border on incuse rim
Ref: HN Italy 1484; Noe Class XI

Next: Grain, Barley, Wheat, Corn, or cereal with any other name

 

Domitian, quadrans, basket full of corn ears.

Next : a quadrans

 

Next up: kerykeion

 

I wonder if it's called them caduceus if I would have gotten a response. Anyways, 12 hours

Next up: rose

 

next: Rhodos

 

Rhodes AE27 ~120-84 BC

Next: a Rhodes coin without a flower