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Seleucid Empire
Issued under Antiochus III
223-211 BC
Antioch Mint
AE Size E | 1.74g | 10mm

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Pisidia, Antiochia. Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Æ23 (22.59mm, 4.88g, 6h). Obv: L SEPT SE-V AVG IMP P; Laureate head of Septimius Severus right. Rev: ANTIOCH G-ЄNI COL CA[Є]; Genius (or god Mên?) wearing modius, standing facing, head left, holding branch and cornucopiae. Ref: Krzyznowska 39 var. (obverse legend, as Krz 43); Cf. SNG Cop 30. Good Very Fine/ Very Fine, detailed and expressive portrait, black-green patina on devices, tan-green deposits in recesses and fields. Ex Agora 73, Lot 172, March 2018.

Next: Syrian Antioch.

 

next: Seleukid tetradrachma

 

Syria, Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypon) Tetradrachm, 109-96 BCE Antioch Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / Rev. Zeus Nikephoros seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike on outstretched right hand and scepter in left; to outer left, E/P monogram above A [Antioch]; ΔI monogram below throne; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. Seleucid Coins [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; Seleucid Coins Online [same] (see http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309); Seaby 7145 (ill.) [Sear, David, Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9 (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [Newell, E.T., The Seleucid Mint of Antioch (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [Spaer, A. & A. Houghton, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins (London, 1998)]; BMC 4 Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI] [Gardner, P., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria (London, 1878)]. 27 mm., 16.2 g.



Next, another Seleucid tetradrachm, but not Antiochos VII or VIII.

 

Hi All,



References: SC-0331.3a; WSM 1297; Silver Coins of Antiochus 433.

Note: Ptolemaic drachm with related controls from this series is in my collection and noted in Lorber's CPE as CPE-401.

Next: Seleucid coin with Cleopatra Thea.

- Broucheion

 

Here you go:


Cleopatra Thea, Queen of Syria, with son Antiochus VIII.
AR tetradrachm; 15.85 gm, 27 mm.
Antioch mint, 125-121 BC.
Obv: Jugate busts, right.
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, Zeus Nikephoros seated l., holding lotus-tipped scepter; IE outer left, A under throne.
Refs: SNG Spaer 2437; c.f. Sear 7135.
Notes: Ex-Henry Clay Lindgren.

Next: Jugate bust.

 

Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shuqailat I Æ 17mm. Petra, attributed to years 26-48 = AD 17/18 - 30/49. Jugate busts of Aretas, laureate and draped and Shuqailat, veiled and draped to right; [H] to left, [F] to right, monogram above / Crossed cornucopiae, 'Aretas, Shuqailat' in Aramaic, in three lines across fields; X above intersection of cornucopiae. CN, Type 188f; Schmitt-Korte II, 81. 3.91g, 17mm, 12h.

Very Fine, in excellent condition for the type. Extremely Rare




Next: A coin with the final regnal year of any king, queen, emperor or empress.

 

Ae sestertius of Caligula, Tribunicia Potestas IIII - struck Jan. 1 - 23rd 41 CE.

next, last year again of ruler...

 

Next: defaced

 

A quite defaced or corroded Faustina Junior portrait.


Next: Coin with Venus standing.

 

next: Venus

 

Julia Mamaea (mother of S. Alexander) Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 224. IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust to right / VENVS FELI[X], Venus seated to left, holding palladium and sceptre; SC in exergue. RIC IV 701 (Alexander); Banti 18; BMCRE 199-200. 21.35g, 29mm, 12h.

Next Cupid.

 

Antiochos VII Euergetes (or Sidetes), 138-129 BC.
Obv.: Bust of winged Eros right
Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEPΓETOY, Isis headdress, EoP below: 175 sel. = 138/7 BC.
Eros = Cupid, OK?

Next : ISIS (not the terrorists : , the goddess!)

 

Just picked up a Domna denarius with Isis and infant Horus (or Harpocrates) on the reverse. Haven't snapped a photo yet.

Next up: another ISIS!

 

next: another Julia Domna

 

Emesa (Homs, Syria), Julia Domna, AE 24 mm
Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , draped bust of Julia Domna right
[EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year 527 sel. = 215-216 AD. , monumental cubic altar on three steps, with 2 storeys ornamented with 3 niches with statues, small lighted altar on top.

Emesa was the birthplace of Julia Domna, the city of which she was a citizen.

Next : a temple

 

RR denarius of Egnatius , reverse Temple.

next, another Temple on Republic coin.