FFIVN and I stopped by our favorite ancient dealer today and picked out a few new coins. These are the dealer's attributions. I'm not 100% sure on them but since he has decades more experience I am deferring to him. Thanks for looking! Histaea, Euboaea 3rd Century - 146 BC Tetrobol Obverse:Head of Maenad, right - Though looking through wildwinds I'm wondering if this is correct Reverse: Nymph Histaea, seated right on stern of galley Ephesos, Ionia AE16. 203-333 BC. Menokritos. Obverse:E-Φ, bee in wreath Reverse: stag grazing right, quiver above, (MHN)OKRIT(OS) in exergue Nero AE21 of Miletus, Ionia. AD 54-68. 4.56 g. Magistrate Ti. Dama. CEBACTOC Obverse: laureate head right Reverse: EΠI TI ΔAMA MIΛHCIΩN downwards to left and right of Apollo standing right, holding bow and stag. Maximianus, Billon Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria. 286-305 AD Obverse: Laureate Head Right Reverse: Nike standing right, holding wreath I couldn't find this one anywhere and I would like to know more about it if anyone has any good references.
A nice assortment! @Jochen recently posted a great article about Apollo Philesios, the iteration of Apollo seen on your coin of Ionia: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/apollo-philesios-and-the-movable-stag-of-kanachos.330205/ I'll try to tweak your Alexandrian images and see if I can confirm the attribution.
The Alexandrian is going to be tough to call. By the late Provincial period the portraits were generic and the "Nike flying right" type was issued by several of emperors. Your coin's reverse has L Γ across the field so that doesn't narrow it down. You can make out "CEB" at the end of the obverse legend so that emperor was Augustus rather than Caesar. Maximian is certainly a strong possibility but so is Diocletian. There is a letter blob at ~9:30 on the reverse which is probably an "o", and an "o" in that approximate position in the legend fits both Diocletian and Maximian. I can't discern any other letters with much certainty. I could be wrong about the "o" blob; other possibilities in that case include Numerian and Aurelian. It's probably Maximian (Emmett 4147, regnal year 3, 287/8 CE / Nike flying right) or Diocletian (Emmett 4064, regnal year 3, 286/7 CE / Nike flying right).
Thanks! It is a shame that the legends are so bad on it. I guess that's what you get when you can't afford much and have to stick to the ~15 dollar coins
Nice ones! I particularly like the Nero because it has the statue of Apollo Didymeus on the reverse. Nice-looking Nike on that Alexandrian tetradrachm, too.
