Roman Collector Posted October 9, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) The sestertius version of this coin is not uncommon. However, the medium bronze is extremely rare. There are three other examples known: 1. Paris specimen cited by Cohen and Strack, 2. Naples specimen cited by Strack, 3. Yale University Art Gallery 2009.110.36 = Münzhandlung Basel (Auction 1), June 28, 1934, pl. 29, 1171, 4., cited by Strack. Mine is the fourth known example. Faustina Senior, 138-140 CE. Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h. Rome, 140-141 CE. Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funerary ustrinum in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right. Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --; Strack 1238. Notes: Bertolami E-Auction 61, lot 550, 9 September 2018. Next: Funerary imagery/theme. Edited October 9, 2023 by Roman Collector 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 9, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 9, 2023 54 minutes ago, Roman Collector said: Next: Funerary imagery/theme. Divus Antoninus Pius under Marcus Aurelius; Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 161/180 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 3.25g; Mint: Rome; Reference: RIC III Marcus Aurelius 438; Provenance: Ex Essex Coins London, Great Britain; Obverse: Head of Antoninus Pius, bare, drapery on left shoulder, right. The Inscription reads: DIVVS ANTONINVS for Divus Antoninus (The divine Antoninus [Pius]); Reverse: Pyre of four tiers, decorated with hangings and garlands, surmounted by quadriga. The Inscription reads: CONSECRATIO for Consecratio (Consecration). Next: a Gold coin from 14th - 15th century... 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted October 9, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 9, 2023 5 hours ago, Prieure de Sion said: Next: a Gold coin from 14th - 15th century... 14th century : Jean II le bon (the Good) - Florin d'or - 1358 (Montpellier) Avers : + FRA• - •NTIA• Grande fleur de lis épanouie. Revers : S•IOHA - NNES•B•(heaume)• Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, vêtu d'une peau de mouton, tenant un sceptre cruciforme de la main gauche et bénissant de la main droite. 20 mm - 3,47 gr Ref : Ciani # 362, Dy # 346 Next : fleur de lys Q 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 9, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Qcumbor said: Next : fleur de lys German States, Sacrum Imperium Romanum (HRR Holy Roman Empire); Reign: probably Wilhelm of Lüneburg (1195 - 1213); Mint: Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Duchy; Date: ca. 1195/1213 AD; Nominal: Bracteate (Brakteat); Material: Silver Sheet metal; Diameter: 21mm; Weight: 0.58g; Reference: Bonhoff 113; Reference: Berger 478; Reference: Reitz 11 b; Description: Lion to the right between globe and cross over lily Next: Medieval silver coin from Great Britain 1000-1400 AD 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougsmit Posted October 9, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 9, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 10:57 AM, Roman Collector said: I like this one, not despite its squarish flan, flan crack, and encrustations, but because of these characteristics. I think it fits @dougsmit 's notion of a wabi sabi coin. That's what makes it ancient! Faustina II, 147-175 CE. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.87 g, 32.5 mm, 11 h. Rome, late 162 to early 163 CE. Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right (Beckmann Type 7 bust). Rev: LAETITIA S C, Laetitia standing facing, head left, holding wreath in right hand and vertical scepter in left hand. Refs: RIC 1654; BMCRE 924-27; Cohen 149; RCV 5279; MIR 21. Note: Issued to commemorate the birth of Marcus Annius Verus in late 162 CE. Discussed here also. Do we need to be careful not to tell the uneducated ate coins were meant to be circulated as cash and sometimes have personalities not covered by MS 5/5 5/5? Stamp collectors 40 years ago (when I was one) paid more for used examples of high denominations (like the 90 cent) especially when tied to package wrappers than for mint and uncancelled ones. I don't know about today. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted October 9, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 9, 2023 British Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Æthelred II, AD 978-1016. AR penny (21mm, 1.67g, 5h). Last Small Cross type. York mint, Othgrim moneyer. Struck circa 1009-1016. Obv: ✠EÐELRED REX A(NG)LORVI; Diademed bust left in circle. Rev: ✠OÐGRRIM MΩO EOFRPI; Small cross pattee. Ref: SCBI -; BMC -; Hildebrand -; N 777; S 1154; ‘York e’ style. Good Very Fine, weak centres, tiny peck marks in reverse field. Provenance Ex-Baldwin's Auction 57 (23 Sept 2008), Lot 337. Next: Cross 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 10, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 10, 2023 Cross JAIME I. (1213-1276 AD). Spanish States Obverse: ARAGON., bust of King Jaime, crowned and draped, left. Reverse: IACOBVS REX., cross of Caravaca, (Patriarchal Cross). 1 Denier (1/240th Libra), Billon. 1.09g. 18mm. Jaca mint, (1085-1340), Spain. CRU # 318. NEXT: Medieval 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinoLR Posted October 10, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 10, 2023 medieval Antioch - Bohemund III - Denier. 1163-1201 AD. Class C. Obv: +BOAMVNDVS, bust r. wearing helmet with cross and chain-mail, crescent left and star right. Rev: +ANTIOCHIA, cross with crescent in first quarter. Next : crescent and star 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 10, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 10, 2023 Crescent and star Amisos, Pontos. AE20. Time of Mithradates VI. Ca 120-63 BC. AE 19mm. Helmeted head of Ares right / AMI-ΣOY across fields, sword in sheath, star in crescent at upper left, IB at upper right, ΦΠA monogram at lower left, no monogram at lower right. 19mm, 7.68g Malloy 32a. Not in SNG BMC Black Sea NEXT: Ares 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted October 10, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 10, 2023 Messana (under the Mamertini) 288-278 BC AE Tetras (16mm, 2.93g) O: Laureate head of Ares right. R: Bull butting right; MAMEPTINΩN in ex., spear head below. HGC 2, 878; Calciati 8; Sarstrom 62; Mini' 11; Sear 1138v (bull left) Rare ex M&R Coins "Even brave sailors fear rock-caved Charybdis, Who drinks the waves, vomits them out again, And Skylla with her barking dogs around her Churning the waves that circle Sicily" ~ Ovid Next: mercenary issue 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor robinjojo Posted October 10, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) Mercenary issue Egypt, Pharaonic Kingdom, imitation tetradrachm in the Athenian style, late 5th-mid 4th centuries BC. Syria Group 2022. Small countermark on obverse. 16.97 grams This imitative issue is thought to have been used to pay Greek soldiers employed to fight the Persian effort to conquer Egypt in the late 5th to early 4th centuries BC. There is still controversy surrounding these coins. Were they minted in Athens following the Peloponnesian War? Were they produced in Egypt using dies from Athens? Evidence points to the latter. Hoards and individual finds of these coins have been made in Syria, as well as elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, including Palestine, Israel and Jordan, so clearly they also served as trade coinage at a time when owls issued from Athens were fewer in number. Next: Another owl, Athenian or imitative. Edited October 10, 2023 by robinjojo 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted October 10, 2023 · Supporter Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 ATTICA, Athens. Circa 353-294 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.20 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with profile eye and pi-style palmette / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. Bingen Pi-style III; Kroll –; HGC 4, 1599. Next: Athena 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeady Posted October 10, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 10, 2023 Here's an Athens tetradrachm. State, City: Attica, Athens Coin: Silver Tetradrachm - Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye ΑΘΕ - Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square Mint: Athens (ca 454-404 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 17.18g / 23mm / 5h References: Kroll 8 SNG Cop. 31 Acquisition: CNG Online auction eAuction 333 #45 20-Aug-2014 Next - a Greek silver coin not from Athens. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 10, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 10, 2023 Illyria, Dyrrhachium. AR drachm, 2.95 g, 17.4 mm, 11 h. Magistrate Zopyros, 80-70 BC. Obv: Cow suckling calf, owl in right field before cow; ΦΙΛΩΤΑΣ above, head of Helios facing right, top. Rev: Square with double stellate pattern, ΔΥΡ/ΖΩ/ΠΥ/ΡΟΥ around. Refs: Ceka 451; Maier 221; SNG Cop 469; SNG Evelpides 1744; SNG Leipzig 715. Next: Helios. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted October 11, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 11, 2023 Helios: Gordian III, AE 26x28 mm., AD 238-244, Thrace, Hadrianopolis (now Edirne, Turkey). Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right [small planchet defect on cheek], seen from rear, AVT K M ANT – ΓΟPΔIANOC AVΓ (AVΓ ligate) / Rev. Helios, radiate, standing facing, head left, nude apart from cloak falling from left shoulder, raising right hand, and holding globe and whip in left hand, AΔPIANO – Π – OΛEITΩN. 26x28 mm., 9.56 g. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Online VII.2 708 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/708) [Specimen 20 is this coin, used as “plate coin” for type]; Varbanov II 3793 [Ivan Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values, Vol. II, Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia) (English Edition) (Bourgas, Bulgaria 2005)]; Jurukova 479 (die combination 249/497=465, a new combination) [Y. Jurukova, The Coinage of the Towns in Moesia Inferior and Thrace, 2nd-3rd centuries AD: Hadrianopolis (Sophia 1987)]. Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 223rd Buy or Bid Sale, 20 Apr. 2023, Lot 397, from Mark Gibbons Collection; ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Online Auction 271, 20 May, 2020, Lot 257. (Video of coin at https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/inventory/item-detail/ancient-coins/100346?fromBbs=223rd Buy Or Bid Sale.) Next, a Gordian III Provincial. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 11, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 11, 2023 A provincial from the same city 16 mm, 2,32 g. Thrace, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III 238-244. Ӕ. AYT K M ANT ΓOΡΔIANOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from rear / AΔΡIANOΠOΛEITΩN, ostrich walking right. Varbanov 3833; RPC VII.2, 806; Jurukova, Hadrianopolis 676; Moushmov 2630A. Next - let's see another Hadrianopolis 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted October 11, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 11, 2023 Roman Thrace, Hadrianopolis. Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Ӕ18 (3.35g, 6h). Obv: AY K Λ CЄΠ-CЄY(HP)O[C]; Laureate head right. Rev: AΔΡIAN-O-ΠOΛЄIT; Nike advancing left with wreath and palm branch. Ref: Jurukova 219, one specimen (attribution courtesy of Curtis Clay via Forvm). About Very Fine, nice green patina, obverse slightly off-center. Same obverse die as NN Auction 73, Lot 274. Next: Another Septimius Severus Provincial 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 11, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Edessa said: Next: Another Septimius Severus Provincial Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caracalla under Septimius Severus; Bronze of the Roman Imperial Period 206/207 AD; Material: AE; Diameter: 28mm; Weight: 14.37g; Mint: Amasia, Pontus; Reference: SNG von Aulock 6709, Dalaison 488; Obverse: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right. The Inscription reads: AV KAI M AVPH ANTΩNINOC for Autokrator Kaisaros Marcos Aurelios Antoninos (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus); Reverse: Caracalla and Septimius Severus standing facing one other, clasping hands; star above. The Inscription reads: AΔP CЄV ANT AMACIAC MH NЄ ΠP Π ЄT CΘ for (H)adriana Severiana Antoniniana Amasias Metropoleon, Neokoros pros Pontus, Etous Sigma Theta (City of Hadriana Severiana Antoniniana Amasias, temple guard on the Pontus, year 200 + 9 = 209 Pontic era). Next: a father with his son... 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 11, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 11, 2023 Posted before, but only one I have Marcus Julius Severus Philippus (Philip the younger). Struck under Philip I Philip II, AR antoninianus. 22.4 mm, 4.91 g.(Thick flan), Rome mint, 249AD. IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / LIBERALITAS AVGG III, Philip I, holding short sceptre, and Philip II seated left on curule chairs, extending right hands. RIC 230; RSC 17, Sear 9265. Appears to be reverse die match to example held by American Numismatic Society NEXT: Another Father and Son coin 8 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted October 11, 2023 · Supporter Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 Next: Herakles looking badass 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted October 11, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 11, 2023 (edited) He's pretty ripped in this scene... Taras, Calabria 290-281 BC AR Diobol (12-14mm, 1.08g) O: Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin. R: Herakles standing left, strangling the Nemean lion; club above Ionic capital to right, TAP above. D'Andrea XL, 964; Vlasto 1415; Cote 423; HN Italy 1064 Rare From the Colin E. Pitchfork collection. ex CNG; ex Quadriga Ancients Left-facing Athena’s are slightly less common on Tarentine coinage, as are Corinthian helmets. But a left-facing Herakles is quite scarce. Next: the Moon Edited October 11, 2023 by Phil Anthos 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted October 12, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2023 Byzantion Thrace Late 1st century AD. Obv.: Draped bust of Artemis to right Rev.: ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ, crescent moon above star AE, 2.99g, 18mm, 6h Ref.: Schönert-Geiss 1957 Ex Thrax Collection Ex Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 58, Lot 552 Next: Crescent and star(s) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted October 12, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2023 Crusader States, Principality of Antioch. Bohemund IV or V, AD 1201-1251. BI Denier (18mm, 1.07g, xh). Obv: Helmeted and mailed head left; crescent before, star behind. Rev: Cross pattée; crescent in second quarter. Ref: CCS 126. Good Very Fine. Ex Numis Naumann 124 (8 Jan 2023), Lot 790. Next: Medieval Denier 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 12, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2023 JAIME I. (1213-1276 AD). Spanish States Obverse: ARAGON., bust of King Jaime, crowned and draped, left. Reverse: IACOBVS REX., cross of Caravaca, (Patriarchal Cross). 1 Denier (1/240th Libra), Billon. 1.09g. 18mm. Jaca mint, (1085-1340), Spain. CRU # 318. NEXT: Medieval 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Ancient Coin Hunter Posted October 12, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 12, 2023 (edited) Here is a type I once had a fake of. It was a clever Crusader fake and fooled many people, including the original owner who had gifted it to me. Bohemund VII, AR 12 Denier piece, 4.3 grams County of Tripoli, 1275-1287. Last remnant of the once-larger principality of Antioch. Bohemund spent most of his time fighting a war against the Knights Templars. Shortly after the time of this coin the Crusaders were kicked out of the Middle East permanently.... Another fake Crusader coin??? Edited October 12, 2023 by Ancient Coin Hunter 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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