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NERO
AE 17
OBVERSE: NERWN KLAYDIOS KAISAR GER, draped bust right
REVERSE: QYAT-EIRH/NW-N, labrys (double axe)
Struck at Thyateira, Lydia, 55AD
2.97g, 17mm
RPC 2381; SNG von Aulock 3216; BMC 58; SNG Copenhagen 595;
SNG Munich 612; Weber 6931; Mionnet VII 596; Lindgren I 834

Next: Coin struck at Lydia

 

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Darius II - Artaxerxes II, (420 - 375 B.C.)
Persian Empire, Lydia, Anatolia
AR Siglos
O: Kneeling-running figure of the Great King right, bearded, crowned, dagger in right hand, bow in left hand, waist indicated, pellets on sleeves.
R: Oblong incuse.
Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint
14mm
5.2g
Carradice Type IV (middle) B, pl. XIV, 43; SNG Kayhan 1033; SGCV II 4683

Next: Any coin from Thessaly

 

Next: Another 5th century B.C. silver coin

 

ATTICA, AEGINA
AR Stater
OBVERSE: Sea-turtle (T-backed); head in profile
REVERSE: Large square incuse with skew pattern
Struck at Aegina, 480-457BC
11.96g, 20mm
SNG Cop 507

Next: A 4th century B.C. silver coin

 

@Bing Lovely Aegina turtle stater! That is definitely one I would love to get sometime.




Next: 3rd century B.C. silver coin

 

ANONYMOUS ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Didrachm
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Mars left, oak-sprig behind
REVERSE: ROMANO on tablet below head of bridled horse right, ear of wheat behind
Struck at Metapontum, 280-276 BC
19 mm, 6.55g
Cr13/1, Syd 1

Next: 2nd Century BC silver coin

 

Athens, new style tetradrachm, Imitation, c. 150 BC.
17.1 grams



Next: A first century BC silver coin.

 

Antony and Octavian, denarius (41 BC).

Next up : a portrait on each side

 

NERO
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERM, laureate head of Nero right.
REVERSE: DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVG, Claudius' laureate head right
Struck at Caesarea, Cappodocia, 63/4AD
3.6g, 17mm
RIC 621, RSC 3, RPC 3648

Next: A coin struck at Cappodocia

 

Germanicus, with Divus Augustus (15 B.C. - 19 A.D.)
AR Drachm
CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea
O:GERMANICVS CES TI AVGV COS II PM, bare head of Germanicus right.
R: DIVVS AVGV-STVS, radiate head of Augustus left.
3.23g
16.5mm
RPC I 3623a; cf. Sydenham, Caesarea 50; RIC I 61; BMCRE 106

The date of this issue remains uncertain. RPC places it late in Tiberius' reign, circa 33/4 AD, while the traditional dating, adopted by RIC and Sydenham, place's it in the first year of Caligula's reign, 37/8 AD.

Next: Another coin from Cappodocia

 

72 hrs
let's try some Late Roman coinage


Valens, siliqua, Trier mint
Obv.: D N VALEN-S P F AVG, diad., draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev.: VRBS ROMA / TR P S. Roma seated left holding sceptre and victory on globe

Next : Valens

 

VALENS
AV Solidus
OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: RESTITVTOR REIPUBLICAE, Valens standing right, holding labarum in right hand & Victory on globe in left, cross to left. Mintmark star ANTE star
Struck at Antioch, 364 AD
3.6g, 19mm
Antioch RIC 2d,xxxvii-5

Next: Victory on globe

 

Maximinus Daia (309-313), reduced follis (312), Antioch, 5th officina.
Obv.: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG, laur. head right
Rev.: GENIO AVGVSTI / * / Є // ANT, genius standing left holding cornucopia and victory on globe.

Next : Genius

 

Maximinus II Daia (309 - 313 A.D.)
Silvered follis
O: GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAESAR; Laureate head right.
R:GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right hand holding patera from which liquord flows; left a cornucopia., A in right field, •SM•SD• in exergue.
Serdica mint
28mm
10.7g
RIC VI 13b RCV 3754v (obverse inscription)

Next: Any Rome Mint Denarius

 

Denarius of Titus, Rome, with bankers' marks.

Next : Titus

 

Here's a "two-fer": a tetradrachm of Vespasian and Titus from Antioch, year 2.
13.4 grams



Next: a provincial coin of Claudius.

 

Claudius (41 - 54 A.D.)
AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm
O: TI CLAVD CAES · AVG, bare head left.
R: COM ASI across field, distyle temple of Roma and Augustus, enclosing standing facing figures of Claudius, holding scepter, being crowned by Fortuna, holding cornucopia; ROM ET AVG on entablature.
Ephesus mint. Struck AD 41-42
10.08g
28mm
RIC I 120 (Pergamum); RPC I 2221; RSC 3; BMCRE 228; BN 304-6

Next: Anything you want, lets keep beating this dead horse.

 

M. PLAETORIUS M.F. CESTIANUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS PLAETORIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Bonus Eventus right; horse's leg behind. Argentarii mark in obverse
REVERSE: M. PLAETORI CEST. EX. S. C, winged caduceus
Rome 57 BC
3.87g, 19 mm
Cr405/5; Syd 807; Plaetoria 5

Next: Winged Caduceus

 

I hate to see this thread die, so Ill try again.

ANONYMOUS
Æ Quadrans
OBVERSE: Winged petasus
REVERSE: S-C, winged caduceus
Struck at Rome, Late 1st-mid 2nd century AD
15mm, 2.36g
RIC II 32

Next: Quadrans

 

Next - any Roman coin from the 1st century A.D.