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Syracuse over 200 year span Syracuse Gelon 485-478 BCE AR Tet 24mm 16.7g Slow Biga Victory Arethusa 4 dolphins Sear-Greek S 914 Ex Charles Reeve Sicily Syracuse Hieron II 275-269 BCE Persephone Core Left - Bull Left AE22

RR Lucretius Trio 76 BCE AR Den Neptune dolphin boy S 322 Cr 390-2

Vulcans Tongs... Samnium Aesernia 263-240 BC AE 20 Vulcan Pilos Tongs Jupiter Biga Left

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Uncert West Asia Minor Karia 5th C BC AR tetartemorion 5mm 0.15g Female - Frprt man-faced bull r Kayhan 968 exc rght

Broad Flan … and I have always enjoyed this coin…Roman RepublicAnon AR Victoriatus 211-206 BCEJupiter Dioscuri Sear 49 Craw 44-1 Next: Victoriatus

I knew Elizabeth produced some of the first milled, however, I know little of milled history or of my English coins. I do not know if this one is milled. I suspect hammered. Hence, “perhaps not.” 🙂 I am still learning. This is why I am here.

Perhaps not... England - Elizabeth I 1558-1603 AR Sixpence 3rd-4th issue crescent mintmark

I need to pull it out and use my microscope sometime. I have a huge project thought out when I finally retire, this is a part of it... thanks for reminding me!

Bruttium Carthage occup 2nd Punic War AR Half-Shekel 216-211 Tanit Horse SOLAR-O Ureai HN Italy 2016 SNG Cop 361-3 Carthage Zeugitania AR ½ Shekel 17mm 3.8g 2nd Punic War 218-202 BC Sicily mint 216-211 BC Tanit l Horse r sun as double uraeus SNG COP 359

RI Balbinus 238 CE AR Denarius 20mm 3.7g Rome Laureate draped cuirasses - Victory wreath palm RIC 8

SELJUQ OF RUM Kaykhusraw II 1236-1245 AR dirhamSiwas AH 639 A-1218 lion sunface star L

To keep it going. The Mamertini, Sicily, c. 288 - 278 B.C.Mamertini or "children of Mars," was the name taken by a band of Campanian (or Samnite) freebooters who about 289 B.C. seized the Greek colony of Messana at the north-east corner of Sicily, after having been hired by Agathocles to defend it (Polyb. 1. 7. 2).Bronze pentonkion,Calciati I p. 93, 3/1; SNG ANS 402; BMC Sicily p. 109, 3; SNG Cop 434 var (on reverse Φ left), gF, some corrosion and pitting,Messana mint, weight 16.288g, maximum diameter27.5mm, die axis 270o, c. 288 - 278 B.C.;obverse APEΣ, laureate head of Ares right, Macedonian helmet behind;reverse MAMEPTINΩN, eagle standing left on a thunderbolt, head left, wings openNEXT: UNhelmeted Ares / Mars

Sicily SelinusAR Litra400 BCE10mm 0.67gNymph on rock touching serpent Selinon leaf -Man-faced bullMildenberg 27

Roman RepublicC. Allius BALA,92 BCE denarius19-18 mm. 3.83 gFemale head right (Diana?), I before neckBiga of stags (thus Diana), anchor below. A ALLISear 221. Crawford 336/1c. Aelia 4Ex: Warren EstyYear before the Social War with the Marsic Confederation Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 BCE Diana Boar Hannibal capital Italia SCARCE

ROMEArcadius, AD 395-408AR Siliqua, 16mm, 1.1g, 12h.Obv.: DN ARCADI-VS PF AVG; Pearl diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.Rev.: VIRTVS RO-MANORVM; Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spearNext: MAMERTINI / MAMERTINOI / MAMERTINES

LOL, GREAT pic of Cookie Monster!

Hmmm... I believe that I have a Bronze PUCK for hockey playing in Ancient North Africa... my largest stamped / hammered coin (this is not cast)Carthage201-175 BCEÆ 15 Shekels45 mm 7.5 mm thick. 102gWreathed TanitHorse Uraeus above.MAA 104 SNG Cop 400

RI Maximinus II Daia 305-308 CE Folles AE 26mm Trier mint GENIO POPV-LI Genius-Serapis stndg RIC VI Treveri 667b Next: Modus

VICTORINUSRI Victorinus 269-270 CE BI Ant Gallic Empire PAXEx: Holding History

Kingdom of EgyptPtolemy IV, 221-205AE Drachm, 40.01mm x 6.5mm thick, 69.46gObv: Diademed head of Zeus Ammon r.Rev: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt(Struck during Republican Rome's 2nd Punic War)

This is a little one... RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens 46mm 90.3g 9.3mm thick Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi 3 Next: Large Bronze

SEXTANS of the Roman RepublicRR AE Aes Grave Sextans 270 BCE 37mm 55.28g Dioscuri R and L Next: Quadrans of the Roman Republic

When I lived in NC, I panned for and found a few flake of gold. Was fun, and I have them around here someplace.

GETA SpearingGETA (209-211). Denarius. Rome.Obv: IMP CAES P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG.Laureate head right.Rev: PONTIF TR P COS II.Emperor on horseback left, spearing fallen enemy.RIC 68