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Wei/Liang (350-290 BCE)

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Here is my Qin dynasty coin (221 BC). Still in the seller's 2x2.

While searching for my Qin coin, I come across this Han dynasty bronze mirror I purchased in Hong Kong years ago. It is dated just a little bit later than the Qin dynasty, at 202 BC to 220 AD.


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Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang - 1st Emperor to unite China


China
Qin Shi Huang
34mm 8.5g
ban liang
221-206 BCE
半两 Primitive Line script
rare
ex Dr Alex Fishman

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China Qin 220-180 BC AE 12 Zhu Ban Liang Blank H7.7

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Warring States, State of Yan, 400 - 220 BC
AE Knife, 139mm, 16.30 grams
Obverse: MING.

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Reverse: PAI.
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Next: a league

 

Boeotia (Boeotian League, including Thebes), AR Stater 379-338 BC. Obv. Boeotian shield / Rev. Amphora, ΔΑ-IM (Daim-, magistrate [=Daimachus?]) across fields. BCD Boiotia 523 [Classical Numismatic Group, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Boiotia, Triton IX Auction, Session 1, Lot 523 (not this coin) (10 Jan. 2006, New York)]; Hepworth 18 [Hepworth, R., "The 4th Century BC Magistrate Coinage of the Boiotian Confederacy" in NK 17 (Hungarian Numismatic Society, Numismatic Gazette (Budapest)) (1998)]; BMC 8 Central Greece 126 (at p. 81) [Head, B., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, and Euboea) (London, 1884)]; SNG Copenhagen 323 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum (Copenhagen, 1942-1979)]. 18.5 mm., 12.19 g. [Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 214th Buy or Bid Sale, Dec. 2020, Lot 59.]



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Next, another Boeotian shield.

 

Great Theban Stater! And, is that Achaean League above?
I had one that would satisfy both prompts (thumbnail is a Boeotian League AE), but I'll go with the Stater below...

Greek (Classical). Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater (12.08g, 22mm, 5h). Magistrate Theog-, struck 379 – 368 BCE.
Obv: Boeotian shield.
Rev: ΘΕ-ΟΓ. Amphora with tall ornate handles, its upper half decorated with fluting above two horizontal bands & narrow “ankle"/base; above, caduceus (kerykeion) right; all within shallow incuse concave circle. Graffito upper left: Ξ.
Ref: BCD Boiotia 502 (same dies); Hepworth 57. Cited incorrectly in Nomos Obolos 16 as BCD 503 [caduceus left]; see also CNG EA 420 (9 May 2018), Lot 217 (corr., cited incorrectly as BCD 546; same rev. die).
Prov: Ex-Nomos Obolos 16 (Zurich, 11 Oct 2020), Lot 742 (Corr., BCD No.).

Notes: Without context, it’s unclear what the graffito means. The usual interpretation is the first initial of the owner's name. For similar graffito in a small hoard of Boeotian Theban staters, interpreted as the religious dedication of a "tithe" of spoils, see Liampi (2008, AJN) "NIKA, ΛEIA: Graffiti on Sicyonian and Theban Staters in a New Hoard from Boeotia / Beginning of 2000."

BCD Boiotia 502 (Triton IX), commented on an example of the same dies:

"The reverse dies of this magistrate ... are of particularly high quality artwork according to Hepworth, p. 64, 14. This is understandable, given that they were issued immediately after the Spartan yoke was lifted off the Kadmeia. It was the time when Thebes was looking forward to the increasing military power and political assertion in the area that came with independence and which led to the glorious years of Epaminondas' heyday."​

NEXT: Another coin with notably high relief. Something thick!

 

Central & Southern Greece, AR Hemidrachms, Boeotian Federal Coinage. Circa 395-340 BC. Obv: Boeotian shield. Rev: Kantharos, club above, BO-I crescent flanking. Ref: SNG Cop 177; SGCV 2396; HGC 1166. From the BCD Collection. Ex-CNG Electronic Auction 177, Lot 248.
Another Kantharos.

OOPS. TOO LATE>Notably High Relief

 

Whoa! You got a group lot of 10 of those? LUCKY YOU! Nice little hemis!

 

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Next: another purported gluten

 

I know that was a typo, but since I’m currently on a diet and I really miss carbs, I’ll post a coin with Ceres, the goddess of gluten


Diva Faustina Senior, AR Denarius (17mm, 3.30 g). Rome mint. Draped bust right, wearing pearls bound on top of her head / Ceres standing left, holding grain ears and torch. RIC III 378 (Pius).

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Annona was all about the grain!

Marcus Aurelius, Augustus AD 161-180.
Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.1 mm, 11 h.
Rome, 36th emission, AD 178.
Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head, right.
Rev: COS III P P, Annona standing left, holding corn-ears in right hand over modius and cornucopia in left hand; to right, prow.
Refs: RIC 424; BMCRE 691; Cohen 151; RCV 4893; MIR 436-4/30.

Next: rainbow toning.

 

Here's a tetradrachm that's worn but has fairly colorful toning, from Pamphylia, Side, circa 205-100 BC. This coin has the anchor countermark, which flattened part of the reverse.

16.20 grams



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