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This is my only coin with an agonistic table on the reverse. Ex Roma.

Gordian III, Anchialus, Thrace, Æ29, AD 238-244.



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GORDIAN III
AE30
OBVERSE: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from the backt
REVERSE: PMSC OLVIM City goddess standing left between bull & lion; AN IIII in ex
Struck at Viminacium, Dated year 4=242 AD
17.2g, 30mm
AMNG 83

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Valerianus
Antoninianus
Moesia, Viminacium, 256 AD, struck under the authority of Valerian and Gallienus
20 mm, 2.661 g
RIC V Valerian 216; MIR 36, 1588a-1579b;

Ob.: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG Bust of Valerian, radiate, draped, right
Rv.: LAETITIA AVGG Laetitia, draped, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and anchor in left hand



Next: Gallienus as Augustus - he was Augustus from 260 - 268 AD.

 

Gallienus, AE antoninianus, Rome 267/8
Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
Rev.: SOLI CONS AVG / A, Pegasus jumping right

Next up: Pegasus

 

(just a note about Gallienus
Gallienus was not Augustus from 260, he was Augustus already since 253. When Valerian became emperor in 253, he immediately associated his adult son Gallienus to his power with the title of Augustus. Cornelia Salonina, Gallienus' wife, became Augusta, and their elder son, Valerian Junior (or Valerian II) was made Caesar in 256.
Valerian Augustus and Gallienus Augustus being co-emperors, Valerian immediately moved East to command the Oriental army against the Persians, while Gallienus commanded the Western army against the Germanic threats. When Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persians in 260, a disaster that had never happened since the capture of the consul Regulus by the Carthaginians in the 1st Punic War, it seems that Gallienus did not move a finger to negotiate his liberation and pay a ransom. Valerian died in captivity, Lactantius pretends he was skinned, his hide dyed red (the colour of the evil god Ahriman, today's Shaytan, in Iran: Iranians call their Western foes the "Great Satan") and exposed in some Persian temple.
Gallienus had been for 7 years co-Augustus with his father and did not always agree with him on all topics, but he could not implement his own agenda because his father, being senior emperor, had superior authority. As soon as he found himself sole emperor, he made important reforms (no doubt he had them in mind for a while): he stopped the persecution of Christians and deprived senators of military commands and provincial governments.

 

DOMITIAN
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head right
REVERSE: COS IIII, The Pegasus standing right with raising left foreleg
Struck at Rome, 76AD
3.1g, 20mm
RIC 921

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Domitian (81 - 96 A.D.)
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch
AR Tetradrachm
O: AVT KAISAR DOMITIANOS SEB GERM, laureate head right; aegis at point of bust.
R: ETOUS NEOV IEROV H, eagle standing facing right on thunderbolt; palm in right field. RY 8 (88/9 AD)
14.77g
26mm
Prieur 145; RPC II 1978; Wruck 108

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Macrinus (tetradrachm minted at Hierapolis (Mambij))

next : Lion

 

Thank you @GinoLR for the correction, it is very much appreciated

 

LYSIMACHUS KING OF THRACIA
AE 20
OBVERSE: Helmeted head of Athena right
REVERSE: BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, above and beneath lion running right, small caduceus, spearhead below
Struck at Uncertain mint, Thrace 305-281 BC
6.1g, 20mm
SNG Cop1149-51

Next: Athena

 

Tetradrachm, Stephanophoric type
Ionia, Herakleia ad Latmon, after 165 BC, ca. 165 – 140 BC
17.202 g, 30 x 29.5 mm, 12 h
SNG Lockett 2823; Pozzi 2452; SNG Kayhan 330;

Ob.: Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos to r. wearing ornately decorated helmet: Pegasos above raised ear flap, five horses on visor, Artemis(?) on neck guard
Rv.: HΡAKΛEΩTΩN, club; below, ΣK monogram to left and ΩΔΡI monogram to right of Nike walking left holding wreath, all within laurel wreath

Picture courtesy CNG



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Been about 24 hours - it's not celtiberian, but it is a tetradrachm -



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Demetrius II Nicator, AE23, uncertain Syrian mint, 144/3 BC
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right
Rev.: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY NIKATOPOΣ, winged Athena standing left, holding Nike facing right and offering wreath, spear in crook of arm, left hand resting on grounded shield. Monogram.
Central cavity on both sides.
Seleucid Coins (part 2) 1919

Nice black desert patina, isn't it?

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Antiochos I Soter (281 - 261 B.C.)
SELEUKID EMPIRE
AR Tetradrachm
O: Diademed head right
R: Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and right. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY within.
Seleukeia on the Tigris mint
29mm
16.78g
SC 379

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Hi All,

PUPIUS RUFUS (QUAESTOR)
CYRENAICA, UNCERTAIN MINT: PROBABLY PTOLEMAIS,
ca 34 - 31 BCE

Bronze As minted in Kyrenaica with A Publius Rufus as Propraetor and Quester, 34-31 BCE



Æ AS
Size: 27x28 mm
Weight: 8.93 g
Die Axis: 06:00
Broucheion Collection C-2020-12-05.001​

OBV: Zeus-Ammon facing head right. Legend behind head: KAIT[AMIACL]. No border visible.
REV: Sella castrensis between fasces. In the field: L; In right field: Λ. Legend above: ΠOYΠIOC; Legend below: ANTICTPAT. No border visible.
Refs: Sv-UNLISTED; RPC-I 0920; Asolati 152/1-3 (closest to 152/3).

Notes From Jawarski (2009): "Aulus Pupius Rufus is a figure known solely thanks to coins struck in Cyrenaica. The office he held is designated as follows by Greek legends on bronze coins of the highest denomination: ANTICTPAT(HΓOC) KAI TAMIAC, and TAMIAC ANTICTPAT(HΓOC) as well as by images: the sella castrensis between fasces known from asses of Pupius Rufus is an attribute of a propraetor, and the sella quaestoria, hasta and sacculus found on the semisses of this official constitute the attributes of a quaestor.

Traditionally the activity of Pupius Rufus is dated to a period between two other officials known from coins of Roman Cyrenaica: Crassus and Scato. However, there is no certainty as to the absolute dates of his term in office, although it is commonly agreed upon that it must have been before 27 BC when, as a result of the reorganisation conducted by Augustus, the province of Creta et Cyrene was included in the competencies of the senate, and the governor in charge of it was not, as before, a quaestor pro praetore, but a praetor pro consule.

Pupius Rufus, like his predecessor Crassus, struck bronze coinage in three denominations: the as, the semis, and the quadrans. …

The sella castrensis between fasces known from asses of Pupius Rufus is an attribute of a propraetor, and the sella quaestoria, hasta and sacculus found on the semisses of this official constitute the attributes of a quaestor.

Despite the gradual increase of our knowledge of Cyrenaica in the time of Pupius Rufus, the extent of his coinage is still obscure. The evident differences in the known dies used to strike the individual coins of this official indicate the existence of at least a few issues of each type. Most probably, to a limited extent, minting activity was continued, not only in Cyrene, but also in Ptolemais after Crassus. Also the conclusions made to date about the coinage of subsequent Roman officials in Cyrenaica - Scato, Capito and Palikanus - await verification by archaeological discoveries."

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- Broucheion

 

Carthage, 2nd c. BC, AE 27 mm
Obv.: Head of Tanit left
Rev.: Horse pacing right, punic letter beneath

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Trier/ Erzbistum
AV Goldgulden ND (1365)
Coblenz Mint
Kuno II Von Falkenstein 1362-86
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