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My impression at first glance was octopus (or the related images like cuttlefish, etc.)

That's funny, I would've posted one of the 3 or 4 coins I've bought from Zeus because they were misattributed! For a while it was a routine for me to scan through looking for rarities they overlooked and called something else.

 

SPAIN, Colonia Romula (Seville). Tiberius Dynastic/Family Æ As (29mm, 11.45 g, 5h), with Germanicus and Drusus Caesars. Struck AD 14-19. Ref: ACIP 3361; RPC I 74.

Provenance: J.-P. Righetti Collection, 6754. (Ex-CNG, not in the M&M Sales which are nicely summarized on @Valentinian 's auction catalogs page.)

There was also an SNG Jean-Pierre Righetti published in 1993, but it didn't include any of the coins that were later sold at auction. The SNG Righetti coins were donated to the Bernischen Historischen Museum (Bern, Switzerland).

His brother also had an important collection of Roman Provincial coins: François Righetti Collection.



NEXT: Another coin that came from a numismatic family (collectors, dealers, authors, etc.).

 

This came from my dad, thus a Numismatik family

Next: a cleaned coin that's getting its groove back (toning or patina wise)

 

Well, a lot of 12hr'ed coins lately! (Even 24hr'ed!) If I hadn't just done so a few round ago, I'd have posted my 12hr'ed New Style Athens as a "cleaned coin that's getting its groove back" (I really wish someone hadn't cleaned/dipped it to remove old toning between M&M 40 in 2014 and HJB 215 in 2019, but it's doing okay now).


So how about something different:

A "Hannibal" 1/4 Shekel:


Yes, I think it's probably a "disguised portrait" of Hannibal, AKA Herakles-Melqart "with the features of" Hannibal. I'm even fine saying both the Melqart-Herakles with club AND the bare headed male (with horse reverse not elephant) are the same guy on silver coins of this period.


NEXT: Another "Disguised Portrait" (i.e., deity/etc.-with-the-features-of), you decide if a possible or certain or unlikely one.

 

Faustina II AD 147-175. Rome
Denarius AR; AD 160 (December). 17 mm, 3,16 g
FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right, hair in chignon behind / FECVND AVGVSTAE, Faustina as Fecunditas, standing front, head left, holding infant in each arm, two other young children standing beside her to left and right, holding onto her gown

RIC III Marcus Aurelius 676, RSC II 95, Sear RCV II 5251, BMCRE 89

Next - another coin where a person is depicted as a deity.

 

Next: another coin depicting Alexander the Great

 

next: elephant scalp

 

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 Online 5289, Emmett 109.12, Milne 238 at p. 7 [Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], K&G 14.88. 20x23 mm., 12.11 g.



Next, another Nero coin from Roman Alexandria.

 

Nero and Poppaea
27-24 mm. 13.00 grams
Sear Greek Imperial 664

Next: Another Roman provincial with a female.

 

I was hoping this would circle back so I could post this Julia Mamaea:

Next: A reverse you could guess from seeing the obverse but be wrong with the correct answer being of a different gender

 

Assuming that there are others as baffled as I am, is it possible to give any more hints regarding what you have in mind? Domitian with a male deity on the reverse instead of Minerva, perhaps?

 

You might figure this Gallienus antoninianus would feature one of the "zoo" types on its reverse, but it has Fecunditas!!



Next: Another Gallienus with shoddy production.

 

I assume post production counts.

Next: another coin damaged in modern times

 

LIVIA
AE Dupondius
OBVERSE: IVSTITIA, draped bust of Livia as Justitia right, wearing stephane
REVERSE: IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG REST, around large SC
Restoration issue under Titus.
Rome, AD 80-81
9.9g, 27mm
Cohen 9, RIC II 424 (Titus), BMC 289 (Titus), Komnick 15
Modern stamp, 7 over 36 on obverse

Next: Livia

 

Tiberius, Roman Empire
AR denarius
Obv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right
Rev: PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding long scepter in her right hand and olive branch in her left; plain chair legs
Mint: Lugdunum
Date: 14-37 AD
Ref: RIC 26



Next: Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain and Portugal)

 

From southern spain Cordoba Andalucia:



next: OB CIVIS SERVATOS

 

Ae sestertius of Caligula - OB CIVIS SERVATOS.

next, a corona civica.

 

next: Galba sestertius

 

Galba sestertius. next, Galba denarius..