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Sicily, Akragas. Circa 480/478-470 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 8.25g, 6h). Obv: AK-RA; Eagle with closed wings standing left. Rev: CA-Σ: Crab, small male head facing right below, all in shallow incuse circle. Rev: SNG ANS 959 (same dies); SNG Cop 37 var. (eagle right), Jenkins Gela Group IV; HGC 2, 97. Fine/Good Fine, old collection toning, well centered. Ex John Brown Collection. With old ANACS photo certificate of authenticity, issued 02-01-85 ("510-472 BC"). Ex CCE December 1984, Lot 1. Ticket included. Ex Warren Esty.

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Katane, Sicily
c. 216-206 BC
AE Chalkous | 4.42g | 18mm wide
Obv: Busts of Serapis and Isis
Rev: KATANAION, Apollo standing left with column to the right, holding a branch and bow
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Next: Another island coin

 

Next: another island coin.

 

Phoenicia, Arados 2 B.C
Aradus mint, year 258 (local Era) = 2/1 BC. 8,9 g - 20mm
Obverse: Bust of Astarte-Europa right with smaller head of Augustus in front.
Reverse: Humped bull galloping left, head facing, Phoenician letters beth (B), taw (TH), zayin (Z) & aleph (´) above, Aradian era date 258 (ΣNH) below.
RPC I 4483.
Next ...Augustus.

 

Next: Alexandria

 

Ufff...I need to buy more coins!
Next....A coin that when you see it you know where it's from, post your coin with no description, next poster needs to identify where it was from before posting their coin.

 

Here's an easy one:



Next, another Provincial of the same Emperor, but not from the same province.

 

Hadrian, AD 117-138.
Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 12.76 g, 24.8 mm, 11 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, year 21=AD 136/7.
Obv: ΑVΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ; laureate head of Hadrian, right, drapery on l. shoulder.
Rev: L ΚΑ; Demeter standing facing, head l., wearing crescent, holding ears of corn and torch.
Refs: RPC III, 6131; BMC 16.71,579; Köln 1209; Dattari 1335; Milne 1519; Emmett 832.
Note: Ex-Clain-Stefanelli.

Next: another portrait with the drapery on the far shoulder.

 

@Roman Collector ....And where is @DonnaML coin from?

 

I think either of these fit the criteria, but they're both pretty cool soooo....

Next: detailed clothing

 

Not from the same Province, I said! So we still need a Hadrian Provincial, not from Egypt. That should be next.

 

Back on track


Lydia, Nakrasa
ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ, laureate and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, r. / ΝΑΚΡΑϹΙΤΩΝ, Tyche standing l., wearing kalathos, holding rudder in r. hand, cornucopia in l.
RPC III, 1805, BMC 17–18


Next - another coin from Lydia

 

Lydia makes me think of this.



Here's one from Philadelphia in Lydia.


Lydia, Philadelphia, early-mid 2nd century BC.
Greek Æ 17 mm, 5.84 g, 12 h.
Obv: Head of Zeus, right, wearing tainia.
Rev: ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛ / ΦΕⲰΝ either side of lyre (or kithara), monogram above, plectrum below; all within laurel-wreath.
Refs: BMC 22.187, 5-7; Sear 4720; cf. SNG Cop 348-50; cf. SNG von Aulock 3061.

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Lydia, Philadelphia. Pseudo-autonomous AE18

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Next: personification

 

Marcus Aurelius Caesar (under Antoninus Pius) AR Denarius, 145-146 AD, Rome Mint. Obv: Bare head right, clean-shaven, AVRELIVS CAE-SAVG PII F / Rev: Honos standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae, COS II. RIC III Antoninus Pius 429a, RSC II Marcus Aurelius 110 (p. 202), BMCRE IV Antoninus Pius 594 (p. 85), ERIC II 301, Sear RCV (1981 ed.) 1279; A. Pangerl, "Vier Jahrzente Portraits des Marcus Aurelius auf römischen Reichsmünzen," 500 Years of Roman Coin Portraits (2d ed. 2017), pp. 318-333 at p. 324 Tabelle 1 (No. 3.10) & p. 326 (No. 10) [dated to 145-146 AD and classified at p. 439 as “Type 3: long head shape of adolescent boy; beginning moustache, increasing but discrete side burns”] (noting at p. 324 that "RIC gibt keinen Barttyp an"). 18.2 mm, 3.3 g.


This is going to be more difficult than it seems: another Roman coin -- whether Republican, Imperial, or Provincial -- depicting a male personification. (Hint: there aren't many of them; the overwhelming majority of personifications are female.)

 

Anonymous AE Quadrans (18 mm, 2.70 g). Time of Domitian to Antoninus Pius. Rome, AD 81-161.
Obv. Youthful veiled head of Annius Verus (?) as the personification of Winter to right, wearing wreath of reeds.
Rev. S•C within olive wreath fastened with jewel at apex.
Van Heesch pl. 25, 3; RIC 35.
Very rare. River patina. Fine.
Purchased from Auctiones gmbh March 2021
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