Saturday Night Free For All

Yipes, @seth77, don't know how I missed it. Like how it dispenses with the more common martial motifs.

 

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I've rearranged my medieval trays this week. I hadn't closely looked at some of the coins for quite a while. This one in particular is nicer than I remembered:


Italy, Genoa, civic issue, AR denaro, 1139-1339. Obv: +•IA•NV•A•; city gate. Rev: •CVNRADI REX; cross pattée. 16mm, 0.74g. Ref: CNI 69. MIR 16. Biaggi 835

 

@Orielensis, I couldn't tell you how skewed the American market is toward this, but for years on end, the majority of these that show up here are in that kind of state; borderline Extremely Fine, with really nice strikes. --I have no idea of the history of hoards for these; that would help. Since I'm saving another one for the Medieval Mondays thread, here's mine.

 

Happy Saturday Night!!

Picked this up a month or so ago.. my first Owl.
New Style and in very low grade but it fit my budget nicely and feels great in hand.


Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (15.6g 32mm), ca. 165-42 BC. New Style issue.
Obverse: Head of Athena right, wearing triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos springing right.
Reverse: A-ΘE, owl standing right, head facing, on overturned amphora; in fields, magistrates' monograms; in lower left field, term of Hermes; all within laurel wreath.

 

Here is a coin that just keeps hanging in there. It was the first coin that I had managed to liberate from a coffin. It was labeled AU If you can believe it. I wouldn't think that would be possible for an ancient coin. Oh well Ar Tetradrachm of Elagabalus 218-222 A.D. Emesa Mint? Prieur 267 13.28 grms 24 mm

 

Since the thread I posted of it is being ignored, will post it here too since it is a pretty nice coin & not something posted very often.


Vonones I (8 - 12 A.D.)
AR Drachm
O:ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΟΝΩΝΗΣ, bust of king left, tapering beard, short hair; border of dots; semi-circular Greek legend.
R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ / ΟΝΩΝΗΣ / ΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΣ / ΑΡΤΑΒΑΝΟΝ, Nike walking right; in right hand, palm; in front below palm monogram 26.
Ecbatana Mint
3.81g
19mm
Sellwood 60.5

 

Here's a neat little one from very late in the Roman Empire's history.

John II Comnenus
AE Half Tetarteron

1118 - 1143 A.D., Thessaloniki Mint, null Officina
2.72g, 17.0mm, 6H

Obverse: IC-XC,
Christ nimbate, standing facing on footstool, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of gospels, both hands at front

Reverse: IW DECPOT,
Crowned bust of John facing, wearing jewelled chlamys, holding labarum and cross on globe

Exergue: null

Provenance: Ex. Rudnik Numismatics 2019

Reference: SBCV 1954

 

Hey Wainnaminnit, @Mat, I liked it! The coin is definitely worth a second look. ...But, Yeah, Public Service Announcement, take a look at his thread!!!

 

These three arrived in yesterday's mail, two from @John Anthony and one from @Justin Lee! I've been cataloging them and putting them into my collection on this Saturday night.

Scepter-holding was a common activity among Greco-Roman deities, apparently. If they weren't holding a scepter, they were holding a cornucopiae or two.


Constantine I, AD 307-337.
Roman billion follis, 3.56 g, 23.6 mm, 6 h.
Thessalonica, AD 312-13.
Obv: IMP C CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG NN, Jupiter, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing front, head left, holding Victory on globe in right hand and leaning on scepter with left hand; at feet to left, eagle holding wreath in beak; -/-//•TS•Є•.
Refs: RIC vi, p. 519, 61b; Cohen 310; RCV 15972.

Licinius I, AD 308-324.
Roman billon follis, 3.34 g, 22.4 mm, 7 h.
Heraclea, AD 313.
Obv: IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate head, right.
Rev: IOVI CONSER-VATORI AVGG or IOVI CONSER-VATORI AVGG: Jupiter, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing front, head left, holding Victory on globe in right hand and leaning on scepter with left hand; at feet to left, eagle holding wreath in beak; -/Γ//SMHT.
Refs: RIC vi, p. 541, 73; Cohen 108; RCV 15240.

Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.
Roman Æ as, 11.07 g, 24.8 mm, 1 h.
Rome, 4th emission, AD 224.
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: VENVS FELIX S C, Venus seated left, holding Cupid in extended right hand and vertical scepter in left hand.
Refs: RIC 703; BMCRE 202-3; Cohen 70; RCV 8248.

 

Reading what I can find on this Lycian League 1/4 drachm...

Lycian League, Masicytes, circa 27-20 BC, 1/4 Drachm
Obv: Draped bust of Artemis left, with bow and quiver over shoulder.
Rev: Λ - Y / M - A. Quiver; aphlaston to left; all within incuse square
Size: 0.95g, 12mm
Ref: Troxell 138

 

LOL

 

I think he is talking about silvering his hair!

John

 

...After the last few years, who needs any help with that?

 

Photographed and did a bit more research into this nice bronze of Skotussa. It is the same type as BCD Thessaly I 1343, the catalogue notes of which are interesting for highlighting a disagreement between the cataloger (Alan Walker) and the consigner (BCD) regarding who's depicted on the obverse of the coin.

THESSALY, Skotussa
AE Trichalkon. 5.38g, 20mm. THESSALY, Skotoussa, late 3rd century - 2nd century BC. Rogers 546 var. (ethnic); BCD Thessaly I 1343; HGC 4, 615. O: Head of Athena right, wearing close-fitting helmet adorned with crest and plume. R: Bridled horse prancing right; ΣKO below.
Ex BCD Collection (with his handwritten tag noting, "T/ne ex Thessaly, Oct. 86, 8000 dr")
Alan Walker, in Nomos Auction 4 notes: "This coin type is usually dated to the 3rd century BC but it probably is later, almost certainly 2nd century. This is because the helmet of Athena is strikingly similar in basic form to that worn by Roma on early denarii, struck from c. 211 until the earlier 2nd century (as Crawford 51 ff. - of course the Roma's helmet bears a wing rather than a plume, but the shape is the same)."
BCD notes: "Head, in his Historia Numorum 2, p. 310, identified the obverse of this and of the next lot as "Ares(?)" and this writer tends to agree with him rather than with ASW. Admittedly, the similarity with the obverses of lots 1257 and 1258 above is not striking but, then, the Skotussa coins are much later."

 

..ah...so it seems @Alegandron (& probably quiet a few others)..are actin' like folks from Missoura...next Saturday night, i will post before & after pics to quell the unbelievers(without giving away the secret, of couse)

 

Not sharing is not caring.....

 

@Clavdivs, No! Savor the anticipation! Like with a coin arriving from Europe....

 

..i aint sure that's what Clavdivs is talkin' about, but yeah, its Sunday here now...

 

Nice coins! I've always wanted to get some Spanish stuff from the time of Columbus and the voyages to the Americas but know nothing about them.

As comprehensive as that site is, I've found quite a few coins not included. I've submitted quiet a few but never have gotten a response or had them posted. It still may be worth it though.

That's a beauty! I really like the dark look. I need to get into these coins!

 

I have also sent the Tacitus to be added to the site in 2015 but as far as I know it wasn't.