Thought I would share a few new pickups in the last couple weeks: (Also added a Edward II Farthing and Alexander I Scotland Penny but don't have good photos of those yet) First a pair of neat imitations: Very nice catooish reverse on this Claudius Got this Antioch imitaitve, never seen one before First RR bronze - chunky 28.2g Pretty cool Pergamon provinical with Tiberius and Livia portraits and a Divus Augustus statue on the reverse Shockingly this is my first portait of Titus, struck with his brother Domitian under Vespasian's reign My first overstruck coin! - Heraclius in Syracuse overstruck on Justin I in Constantinople, quite a journey for this coin and I love being able to see both the overstruck and host coin so well. Please feel free to post any similar coins!
Those are cool, @Nathan F!! I love the Tiberius/Livia confronted bust coin of Pergamon! I also like that big Janus head anonymous Republican bronze. It's chunky!! Here are a few similar coins in my numophylacium. Titus and Domitian, Caesares, AD 69-81. Roman provincial Æ 18.5 mm, 5.14 g, 5 h. Lycaonia, Laodicea Combusta (Laodikeia Katakekaumene / Claudio-Laodicea). Obv: TITOC KAI ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡEC, bare head of Titus right, facing bare head of Domitian left. Rev: KΛAYΔIO ΛAOΔIKЄѠN, Cybele, polos on head, seated left, holding patera and tympanum; lion beneath throne. Refs: RPC II 1613; von Aulock Lykaoniens 151; SNG von Aulock 8416; Waddington 4779; SNG France III 2322. Anonymous, Second Punic War, 218-202 BC. Roman Republican Æ as, 27.8 g, 31.1 mm, 1 h. Uncertain mint south of Rome (Campania?). Obv: Laureate head of bearded Janus, I above. Rev: Prow of galley, right; I above, ROMA below. Refs: Group D1, McCabe, Andrew. "The Anonymous Struck Bronze Coinage of the Roman Republic" in Essays in honour of Roberto Russo / ed. by Peter G. van Alfen and Richard B. Witschonke. - Zürich ; London : Numismatica Ars Classica NAC, 2013, pp. 141-144.
Big fan of the RR As you obtained... JANUS AS RR Anon AE As after 211 BC Janus I Prow Cr 56-2 Sear 627 RR AE As P.CORNELIUS P.F. BLASIO BC 169-158 35mm 42.5g Sear 703 Syd 370 Craw 189/1 RR Atili Saran AE As 148 BC Janus ROMA Prow Sear 399 Craw 214/2a RR Anon AE As 211-206 BC sextantal Janus Prow Anchor Sear 628 Craw 50/3
