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Here's an Imperial coin with 2 elephants. I wish I had the missing bit!

Obv.: L AQVILIVS FLORVS III VIR - Helmeted and draped bust of Virtus right
Rev.: AVGVSTVS / CAESAR - Augustus, holding branch and sceptre, driving biga of elephants left
Mint: Rome (19 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.39g / - / -
References:

• RIC 301

Provenances:

• Ex. G. Hirsch Nachfolger 6, 58

Acquisition: Numismatik Naumann Online auction Auction 109 #178 17-Oct-2021
Notes: Oct 24, 21 - Broken and glued.



Next - another broken-and-repaired coin

 

next: Virtus

 

Next: man or God with beard

 

Two beards, one half-man, half-god, the other just a man (but with an impressive beard):


Next: another long beard

 

Is this long enough?



Next: Any coin depicting a ruler or emperor who appears with and without a beard.

 

edit - 0.001153 seconds too late

 

Arabia Petraea, Bostra. Marcus Aurelius Æ17.
Obv: ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (lightly bearded - short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Rev: ΤΥΧ ΝƐΑ ΤΡΑΙ ΒΟϹ, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, r.

Next: Youthful

 

Augustus
(27 BC - 14 AD). AR Denarius. Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?), c. 19 BC. Obv. Oak-wreathed head right. Rev. Shield. RIC I (2nd ed.) 36a. AR. 2.80 g. 20.00 mm. RRR. Broken and repaired, otherwise. VF. Purchased from Artemide Kunstauktionen Feb 2022

Next: Augustus

 

Next: inscription within wreath

 

Next: thunderbolt

 

Next: Pisidia

 

Here's a Roman Provincial from Antioch, Pisidia.

Coin: Bronze AE33 of Caracalla
Obv.: IMP CAE M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG - Laureate bust right
Rev.: COL CAES ANTIOCH - she-wolf standing right below tree, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus
Exergue: SR
Mint: (ca 198-217 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 27.19g / 33mm / 7h
References:

• Krzyzanowska pl. 39, 70
• SNG France 1141-1143
• BMC 46

Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction E-Sale 21 #522 31-Oct-2015


Next - a wolf, with or without twins

 

One without the twins


Papius. L. Papius Celsus 45 BC. Rome
Denarius AR
17 mm, 3,70 g
Obv: Head of Juno Sospita right. Border of dots / Rev: L·PAPIVS CELSVS·III·VIR, wolf, right, placing stick on fire; on right, eagle fanning flames . Border of dots.
Crawford 472/1; RCV I 461


Next - 2 animals on a reverse, but not a Viminacium or Provincia Dacia coin

 

This coin depicts the two rivers, Caprus and Lycus, symbolized by a boar and a wolf:

Philip II as Caesar, AD 244-247.
Roman provincial Æ 25 mm, 7.7 g.
Phrygia, Laodicea ad Lycum, Sardis Workshop,[5] AD 244-247.
Obv: •Μ•ΙΟVΛΙ••ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ•Κ•, bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II, right, seen from front.
Rev: ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄ|ΩΝ ΝЄ|ΩΚΟΡΩΝ, river Caprus as boar and river Lycus as wolf seated back to back, heads facing each other.
Refs: BMC 25.324,260 (same rev. die); RG 6326 (same obv. die); RPC VIII unassigned, ID 20777; SNG Cop 607; SNG Leypold 1678.

Next: Dots between words to clarify the inscription.

 

SALONINA
AE29. 9.26g, 29.5mm. IONIA, Ephesus, AD 254-268. Karwiese 1184 (this coin cited and illustrated). O: · CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONH · CЄBA ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent. R: EΦECIΩN Γ N-EΩ-KOPON, Artemis, standing facing, head right, raising right hand and holding bow; tree behind her, stag at her side.
Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection; ex "Bavarian Collection" (Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI, 18 March 1993, lot 1141)

Next: Artemis with her stag

 

Phrygia, Aezanis. AE17. AD 41-54.
Obv: ΘEOC CYNKΛHTOC, draped bust of the Senate right, hair bound in a taenia.
Rev: EΠI AΣKΛA XAΡAKOΣ AIZANITΩN in two lines around cult image of Artemis Ephesia standing front, right hand outstretched over a stag at her side.
Magistrate Askla Charakos.
RPC I 3104

Next: Magistrate

 

Tarentum, Calabria. AR Nomos, ca. 272-240 BCE. Magistrates Sy… and Lykinos. Obv. Nude youth on horse advancing to left, crowning horse with wreath held in right hand, holding reins in left hand; to right, ΣΥ; below horse, ΛΥΚΙ/ΝΟΣ in two lines / Rev. Phalanthos [not “Taras”; see https://coinsweekly.com/and-this-is-where-aristotle-was-wrong/] astride dolphin to left, his back half-turned to viewer, brandishing trident held in right hand, chlamys draped over left arm; ΤΑ-ΡΑΣ beneath dolphin; in right field, owl standing to left, head facing.. Vlasto 836-841 [all same type] at p. 95 & Pl. XXVII [Ravel, O.E., Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M.P. Vlasto (London, 1947, reprinted 1977)]; HN Italy 1025 [Rutter, N.K., ed., Historia Numorum Italy (London, 2001)]. 19.5 mm., 6.47 g, 12 h. (“Reduced standard” compared to larger size of earlier coins, beginning after arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy ca. 280 BCE.) Purchased at Nomos Obolos Auction 22, 6 March 2022, Lot 39.



Next, another trident.

 

Dolphin rider, another coin I try hunting but my bids are always not enough, even if I don't want a spectacular example and my bids could be enough ... oh well.
Here is my only trident



Bronze Æ 11 mm., 1,68 g.
CARIA. Mylasa. Ae (Circa 210-30 BC). Obv: Forepart of horse right. Rev: MYΛΑΣΕΩΝ. Ornate trident head. SNG Keckman 225.

Next - forepart of animal

 

THESSALY, TRIKKA
AR Hemidrachm
OBV: Youth, petasos and cloak tied at neck, wrestling forepart of bull right
REV: Forepart of horse galloping right; T-PI-KK-A-I around; all within concave incuse
Circa 420-400 BC
2.7g, 17mm
SNG Cop 265
ex: JAZ Numismatics

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