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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8223454, member: 110350"]I have a few as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-500 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. Goldsborough Type 3 [Goldsborough, Reid, <i>Apollonia Pontika Drachms</i> (see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html</a>), Catalogue of Types]; Seaby 1655 <i>var. </i>(crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-42 [Topalov, Stavri, <i>Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. </i>(Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9];<b> SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158</b> [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249" rel="nofollow"><b>SNGuk_0901_0159</b></a> ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444658[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Istros. 400-350 BCE. AR Drachm. Obv. Two facing male heads, left head inverted / Rev: Sea eagle on dolphin, ISTRIH [<i>partially off flan</i>] above eagle, globule under eagle’s tail; letter “A” ligatured with [archaic Π with shortened right stem, or sideways Γ ?] beneath dolphin. SNG.BM.249 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249" rel="nofollow"><b>SNGuk_0901_0249</b></a> with Rev. Monogram No. 49]; AMNG I/I No. 417 <i>var.</i> [no globule], see also No. 422 [Pick, Behrendt, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I </i> (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 161-162]; BMC 3 Thrace No. 6 <i>var. </i>[no globule] [Poole, R.S., ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc., Vol. 3</i> (London, 1877) at p. 25]; Seaby 1669 <i>var.</i> [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins & their Values, Vol.</i> <i>I: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978)]. 19 mm., 5.36 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444659[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Rhoemetalces and Augustus, AE 22 mm., 11 BCE-12 AD, Thrace. Obv. Jugate heads of King Rhoemetalces and his queen Pythodoris right, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ / Rev. bare head of Augustus right, ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ. ); RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I 1711 (1992); RPC I Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711</a> ; Sear <i>GIC </i>Thrace 5396 [D. Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values </i>(Seaby 1982)]; BMC 3 Thrace 4-6 [Poole, R.S., ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc., Vol. 3</i> (London, 1877)]. 22 mm., 8.93 g., 7 h. Ex. London Ancient Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444661[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III with wife Tranquillina, AE 26 mm., 241-244 AD, Thracia, Anchialus [Pomorie, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane; ΑVT Κ M ANT / ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ clockwise around; CEB TPAN // KVΛΛINA in exergue; border of dots/ Rev. Apollo standing left, holding patera in right hand; left arm resting on column; ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝωΝ / ΑΓXΙΑΛEωΝ clockwise around; border of dots. RPC Online VII.2 48961; Moushmov 2939 [H. Moushmov, <i>Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula</i> (1912)], Varbanov II 668 [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Vol. II,</i> <i>Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia</i>) (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria 2005)], AMNG II 656 [F. Münzer & M. Strack, <i>Die antiken Münzen von Thrakien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands</i> Vol. II (Berlin, 1912)]. 26 mm., 11.91 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444662[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I & Otacilia Severa, AE 26, 244-249 AD, Mesembria, Thrace [Nessebar, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Philip I, right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Otacilia Severa, left, wearing diadem (or stephane), ΑΥΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC Μ WΤ; in exergue (in two lines) ϹƐΒΗΡΑ-ϹƐ / Rev. Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding marked cubit rule with extended right hand and bridle* with left hand, wheel at her feet left, ΜΕ-ϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. VIII Online 48407 [temporary ID number] (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48407" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48407" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48407</a> ); SNG Cop. 664 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part</i> 6<i>: Thrace 1: The Tauric Chersonese-Thrace (Mesembria)</i> (Copenhagen 1942); Varbanov 4254 [Ivan Varbanov, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume II: Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia)</i> (Bourgas, 2005)]. [<i>Obv. Die match: Naumann Auction 49, Lot 354, Jan. 8, 2017 (RPC VIII Online ID 48407, Specimen 17; see </i><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/obv/333697/high" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/obv/333697/high" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/obv/333697/high</a>.] 26 mm., 10.5 g. [Footnote]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444663[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8223454, member: 110350"]I have a few as well. Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-500 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. Goldsborough Type 3 [Goldsborough, Reid, [I]Apollonia Pontika Drachms[/I] (see [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html']https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html[/URL]), Catalogue of Types]; Seaby 1655 [I]var. [/I](crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, [I]Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe[/I] (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-42 [Topalov, Stavri, [I]Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. [/I](Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia[/I] (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9];[B] SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158[/B] [[I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea[/I] (London, 1993)] [online ID [URL='http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249'][B]SNGuk_0901_0159[/B][/URL] ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h. [ATTACH=full]1444658[/ATTACH] Thrace, Istros. 400-350 BCE. AR Drachm. Obv. Two facing male heads, left head inverted / Rev: Sea eagle on dolphin, ISTRIH [[I]partially off flan[/I]] above eagle, globule under eagle’s tail; letter “A” ligatured with [archaic Π with shortened right stem, or sideways Γ ?] beneath dolphin. SNG.BM.249 [[I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea[/I] (London, 1993)] [online ID [URL='http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&AccessionNo=0901_0249'][B]SNGuk_0901_0249[/B][/URL] with Rev. Monogram No. 49]; AMNG I/I No. 417 [I]var.[/I] [no globule], see also No. 422 [Pick, Behrendt, [I]Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. I/I [/I] (Berlin, 1898) at pp. 161-162]; BMC 3 Thrace No. 6 [I]var. [/I][no globule] [Poole, R.S., ed. [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc., Vol. 3[/I] (London, 1877) at p. 25]; Seaby 1669 [I]var.[/I] [Sear, David, [I]Greek Coins & their Values, Vol.[/I] [I]I: Europe[/I] (Seaby 1978)]. 19 mm., 5.36 g. [ATTACH=full]1444659[/ATTACH] Rhoemetalces and Augustus, AE 22 mm., 11 BCE-12 AD, Thrace. Obv. Jugate heads of King Rhoemetalces and his queen Pythodoris right, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ / Rev. bare head of Augustus right, ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ. ); RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. I 1711 (1992); RPC I Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711[/URL] ; Sear [I]GIC [/I]Thrace 5396 [D. Sear, [I]Greek Imperial Coins and their Values [/I](Seaby 1982)]; BMC 3 Thrace 4-6 [Poole, R.S., ed. [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc., Vol. 3[/I] (London, 1877)]. 22 mm., 8.93 g., 7 h. Ex. London Ancient Coins. [ATTACH=full]1444661[/ATTACH] Gordian III with wife Tranquillina, AE 26 mm., 241-244 AD, Thracia, Anchialus [Pomorie, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane; ΑVT Κ M ANT / ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ clockwise around; CEB TPAN // KVΛΛINA in exergue; border of dots/ Rev. Apollo standing left, holding patera in right hand; left arm resting on column; ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝωΝ / ΑΓXΙΑΛEωΝ clockwise around; border of dots. RPC Online VII.2 48961; Moushmov 2939 [H. Moushmov, [I]Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula[/I] (1912)], Varbanov II 668 [Ivan Varbanov, [I]Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Vol. II,[/I] [I]Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia[/I]) (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria 2005)], AMNG II 656 [F. Münzer & M. Strack, [I]Die antiken Münzen von Thrakien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands[/I] Vol. II (Berlin, 1912)]. 26 mm., 11.91 g. [ATTACH=full]1444662[/ATTACH] Philip I & Otacilia Severa, AE 26, 244-249 AD, Mesembria, Thrace [Nessebar, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Philip I, right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Otacilia Severa, left, wearing diadem (or stephane), ΑΥΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC Μ WΤ; in exergue (in two lines) ϹƐΒΗΡΑ-ϹƐ / Rev. Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding marked cubit rule with extended right hand and bridle* with left hand, wheel at her feet left, ΜΕ-ϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. VIII Online 48407 [temporary ID number] (see [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48407[/URL] ); SNG Cop. 664 [[I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part[/I] 6[I]: Thrace 1: The Tauric Chersonese-Thrace (Mesembria)[/I] (Copenhagen 1942); Varbanov 4254 [Ivan Varbanov, [I]Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Volume II: Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia)[/I] (Bourgas, 2005)]. [[I]Obv. Die match: Naumann Auction 49, Lot 354, Jan. 8, 2017 (RPC VIII Online ID 48407, Specimen 17; see [/I][URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/obv/333697/high[/URL].] 26 mm., 10.5 g. [Footnote] [ATTACH=full]1444663[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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