Odds and Ends
They are as the title suggests...coins that don't really fall into any of my many collecting patterns, but ones that I just had to pick up none-the-less.
LESBOS, Mytilene
EL Hekte (Circa 454-427 BC).
10mm, 2.58g
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right
Rev: Head of cow right
within incuse square.
Ref: Bodenstedt 56; HGC 6, 982
(Author's collection)
 Seleucid Kingdom. Alexander I Balas, 150-145 BC. AE 21. Byblos mint. Six-Winged Titan, Kronos. Lindgren 1811 (Author's collection)  Caracalla
PHOENICIA, Berytus
193 - 217 A.D. Æ 24 (8.9g)
Obv.: Laur. bust r. of emp.
IMP M AVR SEV ANTON AVG
Rev.: Poseidon standing facing in car
drawn over waves by four
hippocamps, hldg trident and dolphin
COL BER
Ref: BMC 156 (Author's collection)  THRACE, Odessos. Julia Maesa 218-224 A.D. 18mm 3.32g Hercules strangles a kitty cat (Author's collection) 
IONIA. Metropolis. Ae (1st century BC). Diogenes, magistrate. 14mm 2.10g pine cone (Author's collection)
EGYPT. Alexandria. Claudius (41-54). Ae Diobol. Dated RY 13 (52-3). Æ 25mm, 12.90g RPC I 5193; Dattari (Savio) 156; Emmett 80.13
Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙ ϹЄΒΑϹ ΓЄΡΜΑ.
Laureate head right.
Rev: ΑVΤΟΚΡΑ / L - ΙΓ.
Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, head left.
RPC I 5193; Dattari (Savio) 156; Emmett 80.13. (Author's collection)
LYCAONIA, Iconium
Claudius 41-54 AD
Annius Afrinus, legatus
Æ 20mm, 3.68g.
Obv: ANNIOC AΦPЄINOC.
Bare head of Annius Afrinus right.
Rev: KΛAVΔЄIKONIЄωN.
Perseus standing left, holding harpa
and severed head of Medusa.
Ref: RPC I 3543; SNG von
Aulock 8645
(Author's collection)
PALMYRENE, Palmyra
Pseudo-autonomous issue
ca 2nd-3rd centuries AD
Æ 12mm, .75g
Obv: Turreted city goddess
Rev: Galley with diety aboard
(Author's collection)
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CYPRUS, Paphos
Septimius Severus 193-211 AD
Æ Tetrassarion 29mm, 19.07g, 12h
Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚ•ΚΑΙC•CЄΠ•CЄΟYΗΡΟC
Laureate, draped/cuirassed bust of Emp.
Rev: KOINON KYΠPIΩN Conical cult
xoanon of the Aphrodite of Paphos
within central distyle tower; distyle porticoes
flanking, each containing candelabra and dove
sitting above; the entire structure set on low basis;
semi-circular forecourt; star inside crescent above.
Ref: BMC 55; SNG Copenhagen 89
(Author's collection)
PHRYGIA, Hierapolis
Philip I 'the Arab' 244-249 AD
Æ 38mm, 21.29g
Obv: AVT K M IOV ΦΙΛΛΙΠOC
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right;
c/m A within wreath within circular incuse.
Rev: IЄPAΠOΛЄITΩN; Hexastyle
temple, containing facing statue of
Apollo, holding lyre, next to tree.
Ref: RPC 20711 (8 specimens); SNG
von Aulock 3659; Howgego 667 (for c/m)
(Author's collection)
BITHYNIA. Nicaea. Macrianus (Usurper, 260-261). Æ 25mm, 7.26g City walls in octagon. SNG Copenhagen 543; SNG von Aulock 733
Obv: TI ΦOVΛ IOV MAKPIANOC CEB.
Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: NIKAIEΩN.
View of city walls in shape of octagon, seen from aerial perspective; arched central gateways above and below.
RG 867; SNG Copenhagen 543; SNG von Aulock 733; BMC 157. (Author's collection)
PHRYGIA, Colossae
Pseudo-autonomous ca. 150-200 AD
Æ 34mm, 14.49g
Obv: DHMOC KOΛOCCHNΩN
Head of Demos right.
Rev: KOΛOCCHNΩN.
Helios driving quadriga.
Ref: RPC 1899; vAulock, Phrygiens
498 = SNG von Aulock 3765.
(Author's collection)
PAMPHYLIA, Aspendos. Valerian I 253 A.D. AE 33mm (11.35g). Hecate tri-form. (Author's collection)
Troas, Ilion, Æ (3,03g), Gordianus III., 238-244 AD. She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. (Author's collection)
 Maurice Tiberius
582 - 602 A.D. Æ Follis, yr. 8
(589/99), 32mm (13.6g) Antioch
Obv.: DMTIACOISSAINTPPITV
bust facing, cross on crown,
consular robes, holding mappa
& eagle-tipped scepter
Rev.: M, ANNO left, cross above,
THEUOP, stigma/vau II (yr. r.)
Ref: Sear Byz 532v (Author's collection) |