Snack snake

In a previous thread @Mat suggested coins under $25 were "snacks". Here is a snack (shipping included) that came today:

20 mm. 5.12 grams. 1:00
Lucius Verus at Augustua Traiana, Thrace.
I thought the condition was nice for a provincial.

When I looked it up I was even more pleased. RPC IV on-line has this page:
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/ident/?c_id-1=augusta_trajana&od_id-1=271&rd_b=or&rd=&ri=&ri_ns=&m=&e item cand=&d2=&stype=ident&search=Search

It is #3900 there and their illustrated coin is much worse, so I submitted this one for possible inclusion on the site. They cite 9 examples but only 1 is pictured.

I think it is great that we have a hobby where an inexpensive item can be special.

 

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I like it. I also like snakes (not as pets, but in the yard). Here is one of my many snake coins:

MACRINUS
Pentassarion AE28
OBVERSE: AVT K OPEL CEVH MAKREINOC K M OPEL ANTWNEINOC - confronted busts
REVERSE: VP PONTIAN-OV MARKIANO/ POLIT, Coiled serpent with radiate head
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Magistrate Pontianus; 217 - 218 AD
12.6g, 28mm
Hr & J (2012) 6.24.22.6

 

I like snakes too, more of a zodiac entertainment thing. Don't have any snake coins though but thanks for reminding me to look for one.

 

No snake coins for me anymore, but I do have a 12 year old boa named Charles. Snakes are awesome!

 

Nice coin too for under $25!

 

Nice coin. I should really do bronze coins. Many a bronze coin can be had much less expensive than my cheapest silver coin.

Anyway, you said snakes? Salus reverses with snakes being fed snacks from the hand.

 

There is some argument as to whether or not this is a snake. For the sake of this thread I will call it a snake. As an added bonus it is about to be trampled by an elephant.

 

A neat coin!

 

My wife is a snake! No, seriously, she was born in the Year of the Snake .

That's a true value meal right there, @Valentinian. I'd be more than pleased with such a snack myself.

 

I like the full legends and the general "look" of the op coin. Great find. Hope they do include it in RIC.

 

Struck under Roman occupation, picture taken on a rare Sunny day in the Netherlands , snakes all over this coin.

 

I've only heard snake, but I also know small amounts of things. What are the other theories?

 

Some refer to it as a war trumpet or a dragon.

 

Not unreasonable ideas, but I like the idea of one of those mountain-traversing elephants recoiling at something as pedestrian as a snake.

 

Great snakes, gang ...

=> here are a few more for our cool snake-pit

 

Awesome serpents, Steve!

 

Steve,

I gotta say, the biga of snakes is one of the most funny of ancient coins! I've never handled one, but if and when I do it will go to my collection and not to inventory!

 

Which makes me want to show mine off once again:

M. VOLTEIUS M.F. ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS VOLTEIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Bacchus or Liber right, wreathed with ivy
REVERSE: Ceres holding two torches, in biga of serpents right. Symbol in left field (double headed axe)
Rome 76BC
3.75g, 18mm
Volteia 3; Cr385/3; Sear 314

 

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