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I found it here: https://davcoin.com/lot/e-auction-50-lot-99

 

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Thanks for the info. It's a beautiful antoninianus. The silver plating, if it isn't solid, is remarkably intact. Aurelian also reformed the currency as you know and came out with a new silver coin.

XRF can also give you the surface composition & there are non-destructive techniques for the interior composition as well.

 

Picked up this Philip the other day, there were a few other that I wanted but couldn't afford.
It is a Laetitia reverse, she is said to be the Joy in the three Ladies of virtue.
I believe that this one is.
Philip I AR Antoninianus. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate draped & cuirassed bust right / LAET FVNDATA, Laetitia standing left holding wreath & rudder. Ric 35b, RSC 72.
There are some similarities but still a little different.

 

Roman Silver Denarius of Geta (minted in Rome sometime between 200 and 205):

 

Indo-Greek Silver Tetradrachm of Hermaeus (minted sometime between 55 and 50 BCE):

 

Lysimachus, don't have it in hand yet. Came from Israel in an oil lamp collection


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Kushan Gold Dinar of Vasudeva I (minted sometime between 191 and 225):

 

Brutus Silver Denarius. Obverse head of Liberty right. Reverse Brutus and companions advancing left. Brutus is third in line. This coin should have LIBERTAS behind head of Liberty (worn off on my coin), and BRVTVS in Exergue (partial on my coin). This coin is listed as Rare (that's why mine is so worn. A better one is out of my budget, lol). It's difficult to research without knowing a lot about Brutus (which I don't, but found someone that did). As I'm sure most of you know, during this time period, wealthy people were able to mint their on coinage. So, this coin was minted by Brutus when he was a moneyer (it's listed as 54 B.C.).The reason it's difficult to find is because Brutus was adopted by the Junia Family, and the coin was minted through their name. It's listed as Junia 31. Then B.M.C. 3861, Syd 906, Craw. 433/1 (that's what I was told, I don't know what that all means, other than a means to find a listed coin?)

 

On the reverse of this denarius the consul Lucius Iunius Brutus is walking between two lictors, each carrying an axe over the shoulder, preceded by an accensus.
This reverse design was the prototype for the famous AU Koson stater, Crawford, CMRR, p. 238: "A remarkable issue of gold staters, imitated from the denarii of M. Brutus”. This stater, and a companion denarius issued by Brutus in the same year (Cr. 433/2) depicting L. Iunius Brutus on the obverse, and C. Servilus Ahala on its reverse, announces, in Crawford's words, "the moneyer's admiration for those of his ancestors who were tyrannicides and the production of the issue forms part of a pattern of consistent opposition to Pompey's real or supposed intentions to achieve sole rule." (Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, Vol. 1, p. 455).
Lictors were the 'guards' assigned to important magistrates clearing the way for them by walking before a magistrate; however, on this coinage, Brutus, the magistrate is walking between two lictors. They carried 'fasces', a bundle of rods with an axe inserted, which represented power over life and death.
The number of lictors was according to the rank of the magistrate, a consul had 12 lictors, a praetor 6.
Accensus were public officers who attended on several of the Roman magistrates. They summoned the people to the assemblies, and those who had lawsuits to court; they preserved order in the assemblies and the courts, and proclaimed the time of the day.
This coin is the first coin, as far as we know, to have the portrait of the Roman goddess Libertas with the inscription of her name in the obverse. It should be obvious that this coin is the prototype for all depictions of Liberty called for in coinage in the Mint Act of 1792.

Marcus Junius Brutus was the son of Marcus Junius Brutus and Julius Caesar’s former mistress, Servilia. By 59 BC he acquired the alternative name Quintus Caepio Brutus through adoption by his uncle, Quintus Servilius Caepio.
His ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus overthrew Tarquinius Superbus, the last Etruscan king of Rome.

The attribution is: Crawford 433/1; Sydenham 906a; Babelon Junia 31a; RBW 1542; BMCRR Rome 3861.

A quick search using acsearch shows that this denarius is not rare, it could be pricey but not rare.

 

WOW! Thank you so much. I've got a lot of new info to digest. Well, I've always said I like to learn and I love history, so this is fantastic info, to me. Again, thank you so much.

 

Macedonian First Meris Silver Tetradrachm (minted in Amphipolis sometime between 158 and 150 BCE):

 

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Hi! Welcome to CoinTalk. Great bunch of people, with an unbelievable wealth of knowledge (I'm talking about the other members, not me).

 

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Can anyone identify this coin, what it is, and from which period it originates? If someone has a better image, please share it. Thank you!

 

Can anyone identify this coin, what it is, and from which period it originates? If someone has a better image, please share it. Thank you!

 

Hi @Isacc,

Ptolemy VIII. See Svoronos 1642 http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html

- Broucheion

 

Thank you very much for your help.

 

Roman Silver Denarius of Macrinus (minted in Rome in 218):