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@Ryro - while I like the coin and I may be mixing up the geography - I think your coin is from eastern Turkey (or parts of Anatolia), and the Western Kshatrapas were kings in western and central India? Calling foul as I am interested to know if there is something I am missing....

Western Kshatrapas, Vijayasena (AD 238-250)


AR Drachm (14.5mm, 2.45g)
Year 165 SE (= AD 243)
Obv: Head r., wearing cap.
Rev: Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun
Ref: Senior 351

Reverse legend reads: rajno mahakshatrapasa damasenasaputrasa rajno mahakshatrapasa vijayasenasa
(of King Vijayasena, mahakshatrapa, son of King Damasena, mahakshatrapa)

That said - let the game go on (@Alegandron caused me to jump to the wikipedia to see what a Uraeus is).

Next up: URAEUS

 

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I also looked it up! Learn sometime new every day!

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius
year 12, CE 171/2
AE diobol, 22 mm, 7.53 gm
Obv: [MAV]PHΛIOC ANTω[ΝΙΝΟCCE]; laureate bust right
Rev: Uraeus serpent erect left, wearing headdress; "holding" sistrum and grain ear; LI - B across upper fields
Ref: Dattari 3605 and Pl. XXXII, 3605 (this coin). Dattari-Savio Pl. 193, 3605 (this coin); Geissen --; Emmett 2260.12, R5
ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)

Next: a coin with a pedigree going back 100 years or more.

 

I should've looked a little closer at the geography. That and I'm always looking to show off that coin ..though I do have one of the type you are looking for as well...that mightve stopped @algegandron and his double play. Curse that nayer do well!



RudrasimhaII,son of SvamiJivadaman,KardamakaFamily, Western Kshatrapas,

ARDrachma,Obv:bust of king facing right, date behind, corrupt Greek legend around,Rev:three arched hill with crescent in center, moon to left and sun to right, Brahmi legend in PrakritSvamiJivadamapitrasaRajnahKshatrapasa Rudrasihasa,2.13g, 13.75 mm,(A.M. Fishman 31)

Though I'm certainly excited to see who can match @TIF's century plus challenge

 

Now would be the time for @Ken Dorney to post his Hieron II coin with a pedigree older than @dougsmit !

 

I have a couple of coins from the Duke of Northumberland's Collection - catalogued by Admiral Smyth in 1856, but here's one I bought without knowing its full provenance - I found it in the first volume of Banti (RR edition) - sold by Dupriez in 1913. Cr. 480/1 denarius - "Sulla's Dream" (a fourrée):


Next - another fourrée.

 

An official coin followed by a fourree of the same type.
These are the first coins on my site about anicent imitations:
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/


Two Roman Republican silver denarii from 103 BC. The one below is an ancient counterfeit with a copper-core silver-plated and then struck to make a convincing imitation of the genuine full-silver coin above. The silver plate has broken showing the copper core near the rim at 5:30 and on the helmet near the middle. The reverse, next, makes it clearer that it is an ancient fake. Prototype: Moneyer Q. Minucius Ter. M.F.
Obverse: Head of Mars in crested helmet left. Reverse: Two warriors fighting, the one on the left protecting a fallen comrade.
Silver denarius. 20-19 mm. 3.89 grams. Sear 197. Crawford 319/1.
Fourree: 19-18 mm. 3.53 grams.

Next theme: Fighting on a Republican coin.

 

I'm still stuck on Sulla's dream and Plutarch's telling 9.4:

It is said, also, that to Sulla himself there appeared in his dreams a goddess whom the Romans learned to worship from the Cappadocians, whether she is Luna, or Minerva, or Bellona. This goddess, as Sulla fancied, stood by his side and put into his hand a thunder-bolt, and naming his enemies one by one, bade him smite them with it; and they were all smitten, and fell, and vanished away. Encouraged by the vision, he told it to his colleague, and at break of day led on towards Rome.​

Next theme: Fighting on a Republican coin



C. Servilius circa 57 BC. AR denarius
Obv: FLORA PRIMVS, head of Flora right, wearing flower-wreath, lituus behind
Rev: Two soldiers standing confronted, each holding a shield and upright short sword, C F in lower right field; C SERVEIL in exergue.
Size: 17.9mm 3.41g
Ref: Crawford 423/1; RSC Servilia 15

Next: anything with flora or fauna

 

Next topic: Scyphate coin

 

LOL ! I HAD to be a ... Smart-As in that follow-up post of mine!

 

Scyphate:



Next: Something ancient from modern-day Saudi Arabia

 

Next up:Coin from Abbasid Caliphate

 

Jarir 786-788 Tabaristan

Abbasid Governors. AR hemidrachm (24.1 mm, 1.89 g, 9 h). Dated PYE 135/A.D. 786. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and

crescent flanking flames. Alb.64; VF or better, almost as struck, with luster. Former FRC

Next up: Flames on coin

 

Flames:


Crispina, AD 180-182
Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 19.5 mm, 11 h
Rome, AD 177-180
Obv: CRISPINA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right
Rev: DIS GENITALIBVS, large rectangular altar, garlanded and lighted
Refs: RIC 281a; BMCRE 31-32; RSC 15; RCV 5999 var.; MIR 18, 8-4a; CRE 277.

Next up: rectangular altar

 

I wasn't fast enough with my flaming coin, but here's Apollo holding a patera over an altar on a stater of Side. SNG Cop. 376. I bought it more for the cute Nike and the pomegranate.


Next - another silver stater.

 

CORINTHIA, Corinth
AR Stater. 8.56g, 21.3mm. Circa 345-307 BC. Pegasi 428; Ravel 1010. O: Pegasos flying left, Q below. R: Helmeted head of Athena left, helmet decorated with laurel wreath; A-P below, Chimaera creeping about to left behind.

Next: Chimaera

 

Chimera, on a coin of Sikyon in the Peloponessos, not far from Corinth.
Dove flying left in olive wreath
Stater. 23-21 mm. 11.97 grams.
c. late 330's.
BCD Peloponnesos (LHS 96) lot 219 for type. Sear Greek 2763

Next Theme: Dove

 

Dove? Will two doves do?
Sikyon AR obol

Next: a coin with substantially the same thing on both sides

 

Next a coin with weapons on it.

 

ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denatius. 3.88g, 19.4mm. Rome mint, 113/2 BC. T. Didius, moneyer. Crawford 294/1; Sydenham 550. O: Helmeted head of Roma right; [XVI monogram below], monogram of ROMA behind. R: Two gladiators fighting, one attacking with a whip, the other defending with a stave; T. DEIDI in exergue.

Next : 120-110 BC