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Tiberius (AD 14-37), bronze coin of Antioch. It's from Syria but it's Roman !

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TIBERIUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG AVGVSTVS, laureate head right
REVERSE: PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, holding long sceptre & olive branch, seated right on throne with ornate legs, single line below
Lugdunum 14-37 AD
3.75g, 19mm
RIC 30, RSC 16a, BMC 48

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Next - your favorite, heavily-worn coin

 

Not heavily worn but certainly worked before being interred


Antoninus Pius AE As, Rome, AD 147-148 AD.

ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XI, Laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder / COS IIII Emperor togate, standing left by altar, holding patera and scroll. S-C across fields.

BMCRE 1814 note; RIC III 852-a var (drapery).

7.85 g. gram. 23 x 28 mm

 

@expat what's next?

 

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Next, anything from Trier mint

 

Constantine the Great (307 - 337 A.D.)
Billon centenionalis
O: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust right.
R: BEATA TRANQVILLITAS (blessed tranquility), globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS/XX, •STR and crescent in exergue.
Treveri (Trier) mint, 323 A.D
3.32g
19mm
RIC VII Trier 389

Next: Any Sitting God Reverse

 

Next - another coin of Alexander III (lifetime preferred, posthumous if necessary)

 

BOEOTIA. Thebes. Circa 363-338 B.C. AR stater. Photo credit to Davissons Ltd. I apologize as I just realized I'm not following the original theme of the thread. I'm just excited to finally add a Boeotia Shield to my collection. I've looked for a long time and all the ones I saw were not as well centered as this one.

 

Back to the game. Alexander III

ALEXANDER III
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Head of Herakles right in lionskin headdress
REVERSE: ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aetophoros seated left, holding eagle and sceptre. Forepart of Pegasus left in left field, X on W monogram beneath throne
Struck at Abydos 325-323 BC
4.2g, 17mm
Price 1505

Next: The Pegasus

 

Next - coin with a hole (by design or otherwise)

 

QUINTILLUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP CM AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: PAX AVGVSTI, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre, A in left field
Struck at Rome, 270 AD
2.2g, 20mm
RIC 26

Next: A contemporary of Quintillus

 

Diocletian would have been in his mid-twenties when Quintillius died.



Next - Jupiter and/or thunderbolt

 

Licinius I (308 -324 A.D.)
Æ Follis
O: IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS PF AVGG; Laureate bust right.
R: IOVI CONS-ERVATORI AVG; Jupiter standing left, chlamys across left shoulder, leaning on scepter and holding Victory on globe in right hand, eagle holding wreath to left on ground // HTΔ
Heraclea mint, 15-316 A.D.
4.26g
22mm
RIC VII Heraclea 12, p. 543 (unlisted officina)

Next: Any architecture coin

 

97 hour bump. Does a hut count as architecture?



Next: another Constantius II coin.

 

Constantius II, Silvered AE3
OBVERSE: FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left
REVERSE: PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with two turrets, star between, dot in left field. Mintmark SMHΓ
Struck at Heraclea 327-329 AD
3.6g, 19mm
RIC VII 97,G

Next: Any campgate

 

Licinius I (308 - 324 A.D.)
Æ(S)3
O: IMP LICINIVS AVG, Laureate bust left wearing Imperial mantle and holding mappa, sceptre and globe.
R: PROVIDENTIAE AVGG, Campgate with 6 rows of bricks,
Pellet in right field, SMHA in exe.
3.3g
19mm
RIC VII Heraclea 29 (R2)

Next: Concordia

 

L. MUSSIDIUS LONGUS
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: CONCORDIA, diademed and veiled bust of Concordia right, crescent below chin
REVERSE: Shrine of Venus Cloacina: Circular platform surmounted by two statues of the goddess, each resting right hand on cippus, the platform inscribed CLOACIN and ornamented with trellis-pattern balustrade, flight of steps and portico on left; L • MVSSIDIVS • LONGVS around above
Rome 42BC
3.5g, 19mm
Crawford 494/42C; CRI 188; Sydenham 1093b; Kestner 3753-4; BMCRR Rome 4242-3, Mussidia 6a

Temple of Concordia with olive tree


Next: Venus

 

Lucilla (164 - 182 A.D.)
Æ Sestertius
O: LVCILLA AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust righ
R: VENVS S-C, Venus standing left holding apple & scepte.
Rome
22.8g
30mm
RIC 1763, Cohen 72, BMC 1167

Next: Any Sestertius

 

Caracalla (198-217). AE Sestertius, Caracalla. Minted in Rome, year 211. Obv. Laureated bust to the right. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT. Rev. Fortuna seated to the left, shield under throne. FORT RED P M TR P XIIII COS III P P / SC. Orichalcum 30.5 mm, 26.18 gr. Yellow copper, red stains. S. 6921. Bought from a seller named Jakob in Istanbul, December 1974.
This coin is sort-of-an-ancestor of the 19th and 20th century British penny.

Next: a large Roman Provincial coin.