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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4318315, member: 87404&quot;]It&#039;s great to spend some time outdoors these days, and with such great companions!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always admired these Thracian lions, but only recently picked myself up my first, then the second followed pretty quickly.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/collagemaker_20190813_133755943.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Cherronesos, Thrace</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Circa 480-350 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AR Hemidrachm</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: Forepart of lion right, head turned back.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with a dot and palm branch in each of two opposing quarters.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: Sear 1602-1606, BMC Thrace 10, McClean 4081</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/incollage_20200207_115729280.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Cherronesos, Thrace</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AR Hemidrachm, Circa 400-338 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: Forepart of lion right, head turned back.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with alternating shallow and deeper sunken quarters, with a dot and selinon leaf on stem (wild parsley or celery) in each of two opposing quarters.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: Apparently unpublished</font></p><p><font size="3">Very rare symbol.</font></p><p><font size="3">cf: CNG E-Auction 104, Lot #37;</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; NN Auction 67 (7/1/2018), Lot #57</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my right-facing Zeus Hellanios~but no star...</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/collagemaker_20190727_181457603.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Syracuse, Sicily</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Hiketas II, Ruled 287-278 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE Litra, Struck circa 283-279 BC</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: ΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΛANIOY, youthful laureate head of Zeus Hellanios right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: ΣΥΡΑΚ-ΟΣΙΩΝ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, with wings spread, A to left.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: CNS II, 168; HGC 2, 1449; SNG ANS 799</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Faustina II sestertius with the same reverse legend as your denarius. Your&#039;s has an interesting, unique portrait.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/collagemaker_20190727_180628587.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Faustina II, Wife of Marcus Aurelius</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE Sestertius, Struck 145-161 AD, Rome mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Bust of Faustina the Younger, draped, right, hair is elaborately dressed in horizontal lines with ringlets down front: it is coiled in a chignon on back of head.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: AVGVSTI PII FIL, Spes, draped, standing front, head left, holding up flower-bud in right hand and gathering up fold of skirt in left, S-C across field.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC III 1371</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 30mm, 23.5g</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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