Zombie Emperor! Show us your weird stuff!

Every so often one comes across some interesting things with ancient coins. Its why they are so fascinating and enjoyable. Take the coin below. The celator who carved the reverse die was not so skillful. His resulting work makes Antoninus' face look like a death mask, or as the title of this thread says, a zombie!

Show us you other weird, odd, strange and otherwise fun coins!



Caracalla, 198 - 217 AD
Silver Denarius, Rome Mint, 20mm, 2.67 grams
Obverse: IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, Laureate and draped bust of Antoninus right with horn over head.
Reverse: SACERD DEI SOLIS ELAGAB, Antoninus standing right holding club and sacrificing from patera over lighted altar to right, star in right field.
RIC 131

 

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My main zombie coin due to the toning.


Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
R:TR P XXXIIII IMP X COS III P P, Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath with her right hand, cradling trophy with her left arm.
Rome mint. Struck 180 A.D.
3.14g
19mm
RIC III 411 var. (bust type); BMCRE 808; MIR 18, 463-4/37; RSC 975a.

 

Here's my zombie Lucius Verus.



Lucius Verus, AR Denarius (17 mm, 3.08 g, 12 h), Rome, 161-162. IMP L AVREL VERVS AVG Bare bust of Lucius Verus to right. Rev. PROV DEOR TR P II COS II Providentia standing front, head left, holding globe in her right hand and cornucopia with her left. RIC 482 (Marcus Aurelius).

 

The Grateful Dead coin series?

 

Phillip II with a weird hole in his ear.

 

I owned this one which I thought was CREEPY

 

Here's Macrinus with Bad Temper. BMC 97. Laodikea ad Mare.

 

Zombie Jesus!

 

If you watched Game of Thrones, you will know this guy:


Gosdantin III or IV, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, AR Takvorin, 1344–1373 AD, Sis or Tarsus mint. Reverse: Armenian legend, king riding r., holding lily sceptre. Rev: Armenian legend, lion with cross walking r. 23mm, 1.97g. Ref: Nercessian 471–478; 491–496.

 

You've all seen my Alien Lucifera reverse, with an alien holding a cattle prod type device to keep his human slaves in line. All hail our alien overlords. We live to serve you.

 

Excellent coin reverse and timely thread idea (the best holiday is the year is just around the corner)!
Though, I'm pretty sure it's a d!€k head Elagabalus coin (I've been looking for one for a while) and not Carrot case ala.
Here's a couple spooky "looks likes" that I shared in last year's Halloween thread:

 

Claudius II, Antioch


Most of the later Thracian kings were a mite weird looking and so were the Roman emperors on their coins. This is Rhadamsades on the obverse but the reverse may be Licinius (my choice) or Constantine.

 

Licinius with sort of a fish face (fish mouth and eye?) .. and the really weird beard that kind of grows sideways from his mouth... I don't know ..
it should be a horrible coin and maybe you think so - but I absolutely love it!
Just so unique!

 

Creepy Frankenstein And Sons


RI Nero and Drusus Caesar under Tiberius Carthago Nova mint AE As 14-37 CE

 

Oh, guys, don't even try. I win this round easily :-D

 

Last time I saw a face like Uberitas's it was in a haunted house!


Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.
Roman AR antoninianus, 5.43 g, 20.1 mm, 6 h.
Antioch, first series, AD 251-252.
Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right; •••• below.
Rev: VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding purse and cornucopiae; •••• in exergue.
Refs: RIC 92; Cohen 125; RCV 9652; Hunter p. cvi; ERIC II 63.

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A rather ghoulish-looking Pudicitia -- or perhaps she's just wearing a gas mask:


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman AR denarius, 3.20 g, 17.6 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 211.
Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: PVDICITIA, Pudicitia veiled and stolate, seated left, head and torso facing, right hand on breast and left hand resting on chair and holding scepter.
Refs: RIC 385; BMCRE 19; Cohen 165 (error); RSC 172a; RCV 7105; Hill 1298; CRE 383; ERIC II 210.
Notes: Ex E. Button, Frankfurter Münzhandlung 114, lot 619, Dec. 5, 1967. Ex CNG Triton XX, lot 614 E053, Jan. 9, 2017.

 

I can't leave this thread without Steve's zombie Jesus:



And in another vein of weird & wonderful, this flip-over double strike:

 

I have shown both of these before, but I can't resist sharing them again.
1) Tetricus II as Jar Jar Binks:


2) Constantine wearing Spock ears:

 

Tyche with Anubis head.

 

Most of my gorgons just look goofy or harmless, but this one is genuinely sinister: