Ryro Posted June 21, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 next: more imitatives 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted June 21, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 21, 2022 This coin was made by the more-or-less sovereign Chinese gold mining communities (gongsi) of west Borneo in present-day Indonesia during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The obverse inscription is a unique and meaningful invention for community but the reverse inscription is blundered and unreadable, copied crudely from contemporary Qing Dynasty coins which bore Manchu script mintmarks. This coin is not really an imitation coin, but it in certainly imitative! Next: same theme 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted June 21, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 This one is a meta as it is pretty awful. A modern forgery of a Celtic imitation of a Macedonian shield coin. Next: more silly imitative and OR barbarous coins 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted June 21, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2022 Arcadius, contemporary imitation. DNARCA-DIVSAVG (or similar). Note the usual "PF" is missing. The reverse prototype is SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, perhaps Nicomedia with staurogram in left field and [S]MN[A/B/Γ] in exergue. Next...Arcadius. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 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 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) Meow 🐈 Edited June 22, 2022 by Curtisimo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 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 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Alegandron said: NEXT: UNhelmeted Ares / Mars Well, six hours have passed and still no Un-helmeted Ares/Mars....Patience has never been my strongest attribute, so I will see if I can advance the board with this coin of Un-helmeted Hermes. While I recognize that Hermes and Ares are different gods, they are both gods, and, well, ahem, there is not much more to say than that. I think the rest of my thought here is obvious: this is just a fun coin - and although it is only sort-of, not really, OK not at all, matching the request from @Alegandron, I suspect he will pardon the transgression. I'll add one more justification - if it weren't for Hermes - Ares might have been imprisoned forever in a brazen jar (and that doesn't sound like fun) - he might have even perished. "So suffered Ares, when Otus and mighty Ephialtes, the sons of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, and in a brazen jar he lay bound for thirteen months; and then would Ares, insatiate of war, have perished, had not the stepmother of the sons of Aloeus, the beauteous Eëriboea, brought tidings unto Hermes; and he stole forth Ares, that was now sore distressed, for his grievous bonds were overpowering him." - Homer, Iliad, 5.385 Pisidia, Termessos Major Æ 26mm. Pseudo-autonomous issue, time of the Severans, third century AD. ΤЄΡΜΗϹϹЄΩΝ, bare-headed and draped bust of Hermes to right, kerykeion over shoulder / ΤΩΝ ΜЄΙΖΟΝΩΝ, Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding branch and folds of drapery. Next: Another God or Goddess Without Helmet Edited June 22, 2022 by Sulla80 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamnaskires Posted June 22, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 22, 2022 A Vologases III tet depicting on its reverse Tyche (no helmet!) presenting a diadem to the king. This was a win from a Stephen Album auction, so next: A coin purchased from Stephen Album Rare Coins. 13 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) I have a couple to choose from. Here's one I never post. al-Musta'sim Half Dirham, 1252-1253 Madinat al-Salam. Silver, 19mm, 1.47g. AH650. (A 277). Next: Abbasid Edited June 22, 2022 by John Conduitt 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted June 22, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 22, 2022 Jarir 786-788 Tabaristan Abbasid Governors. AR hemidrachm (24.1 mm, 1.89 g, 9 h). Dated PYE 135/A.D. 786. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Alb.64; VF or better, almost as struck, with luster. Former FRC next: severed head 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Ryro said: Next: severed head The head on this coin looks relatively unattached: Kings of Paphlagonia, Pylaimenes II/III Euergetes (Circa 133-103 BC), AE 3.85g, 17.4mm Obv: Facing head of a bull Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΠYΛΑΙΜΕΝΟΥ / ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ, winged kerykeion Ref: SNG BM 1555 Notes: Pylaimenes II or III? pieces of the story: Mithridates VI, Bithynia, an invasion, a usurper, and more in my notes. Next: Bull (or part of bull) 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 23, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 23, 2022 Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Roman provincial Æ 18.5 mm, 4.59 g, 12 h. Bithynia, Nicaea, AD 138-161. Obv: ΑVΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝ[EΙΝΟϹ?], bare-head, right. Rev: ΝΕΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ, Apis-bull standing, right, head surmounted by solar disk and wearing uraeus crown. Refs: RPC IV.1, 10001 (temporary); Mionnet 5.89,455; RG I(3).413,118(2) pl. LXIX, 19. Next: Antoninus Pius. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAg47 Posted June 23, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 23, 2022 Antoninus Pius- Apamia 138-161 AD 27mm, 5.09g, PHRYGIA, Apameia SNG von Aulock 3495; RPC Online temp 1736 OBV: AV KAI AΔPI ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate bust right. REV: [AΠA]-MЄ[ΩN], Tyche wearing polos standing left holding cornucopiae and rudder. Next- A broad flan, low weight coin. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 Broad Flan … and I have always enjoyed this coin…Roman RepublicAnon AR Victoriatus 211-206 BCEJupiter Dioscuri Sear 49 Craw 44-1 Next: Victoriatus 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 Next: A Roman Republican coin struck outside of Rome. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Curtisimo said: Next: A Roman Republican coin struck outside of Rome. Is imperatorial OK ? Marcus Antonius and Lucius Antonius, Denarius - Ephesus mint 41 BC M ANT IMP AVG III VIR RPCM NERVA PROQ P, Bare head of Marcus Antonius right L ANTONIUS COS, Bare head of Lucius Antonius right 3.58 gr Ref : HCRI # 246, RCV #1509, Cohen #2 Next : a portrait on each side or follow up with Marcus Antonius Q Edited June 23, 2022 by Qcumbor 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted June 23, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 23, 2022 5 minutes ago, Qcumbor said: follow up with Marcus Antonius I will follow you 😄 ... and wish me a another coin with an relationship to Legions. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Prieure de Sion said: Next: wish me a another coin with an relationship to Legions. here's an odd one - a counterfeiter's fourree core? Contemporary imitation of an Mark Antony denarius: 32-31 BC? AE-Denarius (bronze, 2.00g, 16x14mm). Legionary issue, mint moving with Antony, Legion XII? Obv: ANT, war galley under oar right with triple ram prow and scepter tied with fillet Rev: [XII] ANTIQ[VAE], legionary eagle (aquila) between two standards (signa) Next: another contemporary counterfeit Edited June 23, 2022 by Sulla80 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 Vespasian, Caduceus Denarius subaeratus Obv.: laureate head left, CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Rev.: winged caduceus, PON MAX TRP COS V AE/AR, 2.82 g, 19 mm Ref.: "RIC 75 var. (legend, bust) Next: caduceus 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAg47 Posted June 23, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 23, 2022 Mauryan empire Karshapana, 322 BC - 185 BC obv- assorted punchmarks rev- Caduces (symbol of Ashoka) Next, India 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 Western Kshatrapas Vijayasena as mahakshatrapa, silver drachm 240-250 CE Obv.: Head of king right, date behind head: out of flan Rev.: Chaitya (3-arched hill), river below, crescent moon and sun above, Brahmi legend around “rajno mahakshatrapasa damasenasaputrasa rajno mahakshatrapasa vijayasenasa” Next: mountain 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 23, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 23, 2022 Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Roman provincial Æ 25.0 mm, 11.27 g, 7 h. Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Lucius Aurelius Gallus, legatus consularis, AD 201-204. Obv: ΑVΤ CΕΠΤ• CΕVΗΡ ΠΕΡ, laureate head, right. Rev: VΠ ΑVΡ ΓΑΛΛΟV ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ / ΠΡΟC ΙCΤΡ, AIMOC across left field, mountain-god Haemus reclining right on wooded rock outcropping, resting right arm above head and cradling scepter in left arm; below, bear right, chasing leaping stag. Refs: AMNG I 1315; Varbanov (2nd ed.) 2721; HrHJ 8.14.43.3; Moushmov 1023. Next: personification of a geographical feature. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted June 23, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 Phrygia Hierapolis 2th. century Obv: ΙƐΡΑΠΟΛƐΙΤΩΝ, draped bust of Artemis, l.; having quiver at shoulder; to l., bow Rev: ΧΡVϹΟΡΟΑϹ, river-god Chrysoroas reclining, l., holding poppy and two ears of corn, resting on water-urn AE, 11.17g 25mm Ref.: L. Weber, NC 1913, 19, VIII, no. 5, RPC IV.2, 11860 (temporary). Next: a real river, not a personification 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted June 23, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) "a real river, not a personification" Ummm, does this baby count? Trajan ... Tyche with river god (swimming in the river) NEXT => another real-river (if this coin doesn't make the cut) ... "otherwise" post a cool rabbit/hare coin Edited June 23, 2022 by Steve 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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