John Conduitt Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) I'm assuming you don't mean they actually ruled... Otacilia Severa (6th emission of Philip I) Antoninianus, 247 Rome, 4th officina. Silver, 22mm, 3.55g. Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set on crescent. Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopia (RIC IV, Philip I, 125c). From the Dorchester (Dorset) Hoard 1936. Next: 4th officina Edited June 30, 2022 by John Conduitt 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted June 30, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) "4th officina" => Here ya go ... man, I had a beauty! Galeria Valeria. Augusta, Æ Follis Cyzicus mint, 4th officina Struck circa AD 308 293(?)-311 AD Diameter: 26 mm Weight: 6.34 grams Obverse: Diademed and draped bust right Reverse: Venus standing facing, head left, lifting dress and holding apple; MKΔ Reference: RIC VI 38 Other: 1h … dark brown to black patina ... a fricken beauty!! Ex-stevex6 ... ummm, I think the "delta" tells ya the officiana is 4, eh? (but I'm no coin-whiz) NEXT => RAMS ... lotsa RAMS Edited June 30, 2022 by Steve 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) Rams? One ram, anyway. Yes it is a ram 😁 Tasciovanus Unit, 20-10BC Verlamion. Bronze, 16mm, 1.85g. Conjoined bearded heads right, elaborate hair arranged in two rows of crescents; VER(I) in front. Ram left, pellets and rosettes in front and below, rosette flanked by two pellets above; TA(SC) above (Spink 242). Next: Jugate Edited June 30, 2022 by John Conduitt 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) . Edited June 30, 2022 by Ryro Goofed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted June 30, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 30, 2022 Sicily, KataneCirca 216 to 206 BCIssued anonymouslyAE Chalkous | 4.42 grams | 18mm wideObv: Jugate busts of Serapis and IsisRev: KATANAION, Apollo standing left with column to the right, holding a branch and bow Next: another Sicily coin 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) Sicily Syracuse AE 18 357-344 BC Female Hd Dolphin Scallop Next: Scallop Edited June 30, 2022 by Alegandron 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) Cast Aes Grave Sextans, c265BCItaly. Bronze, 33mm, 36.89g. Scallop-shell seen from outside; below, two pellets. Scallop-shell seen from inside (Cr 21/5). Next: Aes Formatum Edited June 30, 2022 by John Conduitt 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 Aes Formatum - one of those so called cakes. I wish I could say it is attractive, and "better in hand" ,- but it is not. It looks like a big piece of rusty dirt "in hand". next, a more attractive Aes Grave - any denomination.. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 ROMAN REPUBLIC. Anonymous. Circa 215-212 BC. Æ Aes Grave As, 41mm, 70.7g, 12h; Post-semilibral series, Rome mint. Obv.: Bearded head of Janus on raised disk. Rev.: Prow left; I above. Ref.: Crawford 41/5a; Sydenham 101. Ex- John Anthony JAZ Auction 199 lot #1, E- Eberhard Link Collection. Ex-Münz Zentrum 88, Cologne 1997, lot 353. Peus Nachfl. 322, Frankfurt am Main 1988, lot 42. Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung 19, Mannheim 1980, lot 99. Ex-Giessener Münzhandlung 15, Munich 1979, lot 105 Next: Janiform 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted June 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2022 How about a MALE and FEMALE Januform? Islands of Troas, Tenedos, late 5th-early 4th century BCE. AR Obol (8mm, 0.60g, 3h). Janiform head, female on l., male on r. R/ Labrys within incuse square. SNG Ashmolean 1235; HGC 6, 387. Next: Labrys, not a Bipennis 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted June 30, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) "Labrys, not a Bipennis" ... drat, I wanted to post my bipenis, but I decided to post this instead ... => back-atcha!! ISLANDS off TROAS, Tenedos. AR Obol Late 5th-early 4th century BC Diameter: 8 mm Weight: 0.55 grams Obverse: Janiform head of a diademed female left and laureate male right Reverse: Labrys in linear border within shallow incuse square Reference: SNG Ashmolean 1235; HGC 6, 387 Other: 6h … sweetly toned Ex-stevex6 NEXT => Hercules performing one of his cool feats (ummm, one of the 12 labours) Edited June 30, 2022 by Steve 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Posted June 30, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) MAXIMIANUS (first reign: 286-305) Antoninianus, Lyon, 287-289 IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG, Radiate, helmeted, and cuirassed bust right. VIRTVTI AVGG, Victory standing right on club, crowning Hercules standing right, wrestling Nemean Lion. Next: Another of the 12 Edited June 30, 2022 by Alwin 12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 Here is Hercules resting while holding the apples of the Hesperides behind his back. Roman Empire Maximinus Daia (AD 308 - 313) AE Follis, Antioch mint, struck ca. AD 313 Dia.: 20.5 mm Wt.: 3.9 g Obv.: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG; Laureate bust right Rev.: HERCVLI VICTORI; Hercules standing right, leaning on lions skin and club Ref.: RIC VI 170b, Scarce Ex FSR, lot 370 (Jul. 2018) Next: another Hercules labor coin 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted July 1, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) 6 hours Northern Song Dynasty of China1094-1097 ADIssued under Emperor ZhenzongAE cash | 4.29 grams | 24.5mm wideObv: Shao Sheng Yuan Bao in running script (clockwise)Rev: Blank with wide rimsRef: Hartill #16.307, Gorny's NS#29b.23 Next: Another coin from east of Persia Edited July 1, 2022 by TuckHard 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 Emperor: Wu Zong Av: Kai Yuan Tong Bao 開元通寶 Rv: Jing (Jingzhao), Shaanxi Year: 845-846 AE, 3.48g, 24mm Ref.: 14.67, FD708, S368 Another chinese cash coin with writing on both sides 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuckHard Posted July 1, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 1, 2022 Ming Dynasty of China1628 to 1644 ADIssued under Emperor Chongzhen at the Guizhou MintAE cash | 2.65 grams | 24.5mm wideObv: Chong Zhen Tong Bao (top-bottom-right-left)Rev: Gui (for Guizhou)Ref: Hartill #20.296, see it on Zeno.ru, Z#295561 Next: Another coin bearing only script 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, TuckHard said: Next: Another coin bearing only script Islamic, Ayyubids, Egypt, al-Kamil I Muhammad, AH 615-635 / AD 1218-1238, Dirham (Silver, 22 mm, 3.00 g, 10 h), citing the caliph al-Kamil I Muhammad, Dimashq, AH 618 = AD 1221/2. Balog, Ayyubids, 430. Al-Kamil is known as a just and compassionate ruler who sought peace with the crusaders, and peaceful co-existence for Christians and Muslims. He is also said to have met for peaceful dialog with St. Francis of Assisi during the 5th crusade ~1219 AD. He negotiated a peace treaty in 1229 with Frederick II King of Sicily, ceding Jerusalem while retaining other rights and holy sites. More on this and related coins here: Dirhams, Sultans, Crusaders, and the Pope. Next: a coin with an interesting story Edited July 1, 2022 by Sulla80 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted July 1, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 1, 2022 7 minutes ago, Sulla80 said: Next: a coin with an interesting story Interesting is always a matter of opinion. In any case, I find the background interesting. Others perhaps not. Caracalla's relationship with religion was, as Cassius Dio reports, determined above all by his need to obtain healing from the gods for his illnesses - he fell seriously ill several times during his lifetime. To this end, he is said to have offered sacrifices and consecrations to all the more important deities and to have prayed fervently. The gods from whom he hoped for help included the Greek healing god Asclepius, the Egyptian Serapis and Apollo, who was identified with the Celtic healing god Grannus and worshipped as Apollo Grannus. The emperor probably visited the temple of Apollo Grannus in Faimingen, which was then called Phoebiana and belonged to the province of Raetia. It is certain that Caracalla visited the city of Pergamon, where he hoped for healing in the temple of Aesculapius. In 214 AD, after his exhausting campaign in Germania, the emperor had himself cured in the sanctuary of Asclepius there, renovated the temple of the god in gratitude for his healing and had coins with his image issued in Rome. It was also Pergamon that granted Caracalla the right to consecrate a third neo-Christian temple, in which the Greek inhabitants of the province of Asia could worship Asclepius and Caracalla. Caracalla became a "fellow god" (syntheos) of Asclepius. No new temple was built for this purpose, but the statue of Caracalla was added to the most important cult image of Asclepius in Pergamon. The cruel fratricide burdened Caracalla all his life. He had terrible nightmares and probably suffered from psychosomatic complaints. But Rome could not afford a sick emperor at the beginning of the crisis-ridden 3rd century. So the emperor sought healing by visiting the shrines of the healing gods. Although the treatment of wounds and everyday physical ailments was well developed in Roman times, there were still countless illnesses for which doctors could not prescribe an effective cure for their patients. These sick people took refuge in the sacred groves and temples of Aesculapius, Apollo or Amphiareios. There the priests proclaimed to them that illness could result from the fact that man had not lived in accordance with divine law, that the gods had sent suffering to tell them this. It was now a matter of restoring harmony with the gods and the world as a human being. In healing sleep, the sick entered into contact with the supernatural and in dreams were shown ways and means of relief. Caracalla must have had a liberating dream in Pergamon. It is not known how the priests there helped him to make his peace with the gods and his salvation. In any case, the emperor remained grateful to the god Asclepius throughout his life. Apart from the large donations to the temple priests and the privileges for Pergamon and its sanctuary, as mentioned before, he honoured the god by making him known throughout the empire in a large and extensive coin issue - and in exactly the same way and representation as he was worshipped in Pergamon. In fact, Asclepius from Pergamon is clearly recognisable on the coinage, as this god was only depicted there with a so-called omphalos (an egg-shaped stone), as he is also depicted on this type of denarius on the right in the reverse image. It is interesting to note that this representation was apparently derived from the local coinage of Pergamon, whereas it was normally the city of Rome that provided the models for the coin motifs of the areas dependent on it. There is a contemporary sestertius coinage from 215 AD (RIC IV Caracalla 538a), which even more clearly underpins the reference to the cult of Asclepius from Pergamon on the reverse. Here, in addition to Omphalos, his son Telesphoros is also depicted - which was probably no longer possible on the denarius for reasons of space. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted July 1, 2022 · Member Share Posted July 1, 2022 Edit 😉 ... my wish was a coin with a snake... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 Caracalla. 198-217 AD. AR Denarius (2.82 gm, 19mm). Laodicea mint. Struck 200/1 AD. Obv.: ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev.: SAL GEN HVM, Salus standing left, holding serpent-entwined scepter, and raising kneeling figure personifying the human race. RIC #350; BMC 701; RSC 558a. gVF. Next....Laodicea mint Denarius of anyone male or female. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) Septimius Severus (AD 193-211) AR Denarius, Laodicea ad Mare Mint Obv.: L - SEPT SEV AVG IMP XI PART MAX, Laureate head of Severus right Rev.: COS II PP, Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm Ag, 3.40g, 18.7mm Ref.: RIC 503a; RSC 96. Another denarius from a mint outside rome Edited July 1, 2022 by shanxi 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted July 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2022 Severus Alexander. 222-235 AD. AR Denarius (3.12 gm, 20mm). Antioch mint. Struck 222 AD. Obv.: IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate and draped bust right. Rev.: P M TR P COS P P, Fortuna standing left holding rudder on globe and cornucopiae; star in left field. RIC #267. gVF. Next...An Empress Denarius minted outside of Rome. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted July 2, 2022 · Supporter Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 6 Next: silly hat 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted July 2, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 2, 2022 Claudius Gothicus Egypt, Alexandria Billon-Tetradrachme, AD 269/270 Obv.: AVT KΛAV∆IOC CEB, laureate and cuirassed bust right Rev.: bust of Alexandria right wearing turreted cap, earring, and chiton L - B (year 2) flanking across field AE, , 9.66g, maximum diameter 20.7mm, die axis 0deg Ref.: Milne 4246, Geissen 3030, Dattari 5383, SNG Cop 849, BMC 2330, Kampmann-Ganschow 104.19, Emmett 3869 (R2) Next: Alexandria (the personification, not the city) 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted July 2, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted July 2, 2022 14 minutes ago, shanxi said: Next: Alexandria (the personification, not the city) Nero, BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt, dated RY 12 = AD 65/6 Obv: ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV Κ[ΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ], radiate bust to right, wearing aegis Rev: ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ, bust of Alexandria, wearing elephant headdress, to right; LIB (date) in right field Ref: RPC I 5289; Dattari (Savio) 204; Emmett 109 Next: Alexandria personified OR a coin from Alexandria 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.