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Nicaean Addenda: Scarcer Finds from Nikaia, Bithynia
« Reply #150 on: September 23, 2009, 05:01:41 pm »

Isegrim notes one specimen of this issue (AE27, 7.64g) in an unpublished private collection, so I'll post this one here as a visual accompaniment (AE25, 6.98g):
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« Reply #151 on: October 08, 2009, 09:59:40 am »
Greetings all! I recently aquired this apparently unpublished coin struck for Caracalla at Nicaea and decided to post it here, for your consideration, at Pscipio's advice:

Bithynia, Nicaea, Caracalla as Augustus, AD 198-211
AE16, 2.2 g
Obv: ANTWNINON AYGOUSTON - laureate head r.
Rev: CEOVHPEIA NIKAIEΩN - prize

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« Reply #153 on: October 11, 2009, 06:13:40 pm »
I would like to add the following coin to the thread, even though it is not unpublished, stricty speaking. It is still very uncommon and I have found only one example.

AE, Caracalla; 198 – 217; 1,55 g; 14 mm.
Av.: [ANTΩNE]INOC AVΓO; laureate head right.
Rv.: NIKA –  IEΩN; snake emerging to the left from half-opened cista.
Rec. Gen. 443, Pl. LXXVIII, 25. Imh.-Blumer –. SNG Righetti –.SNG Leypold –

As far as it is possible to be sure, this one is from the same obverse die as the Rec. Gen coin.
It ist also one of the smallest of Nikaea as far as I can see.

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« Reply #155 on: October 11, 2009, 11:19:58 pm »
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« Reply #156 on: October 12, 2009, 03:50:53 pm »
Thanks for reminding me of that thread! :D

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Nicaean Addenda: Scarcer Finds from Nikaia, Bithynia
« Reply #157 on: December 03, 2009, 04:50:16 pm »
A (probably new) assarion of the younger Caracalla Augustus:



Nikaia in Bithynia, Caracalla, struck 198-210 AD.,
Æ22 / Assarion (20-23 mm / 6.22 g),
Obv.: .. AYPH ANT - ΩNINOC AVΓ.., laureate head of the younger Caracalla right.
Rev.: [N]IKAI - EΩ[N] , Tyche, wearing polos, standing left, holding cornucopia and rudder.
cf. Waddington, Rec. Gen. 456, 455 ; Weiser - .

Maybe some day i have time for cleaning this one.


regards

Fortunately i "captured" a better one of this type (both sides die match) with full visible legends:



Nikaia in Bithynia, Caracalla, 198-210 AD.,
Æ22 / Assarion (21-22 mm / 6,16 g),
Obv.: M AYPH ANT - ΩNINOC AVΓ , laureate head of the younger Caracalla (as emperor) right.
Rev.: NIKAI - EΩN , Tyche, wearing polos, standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia.
cp. Waddington, Rec. Gen. 456, 455 ; Weiser - .

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« Reply #158 on: January 04, 2010, 10:27:13 am »

Recently sold on XBax, AE20, 4.0g, reverse Isegrim-listed for Julia Mamaea (1 specimen, AE22, 5g, SCHOLZ NZ 1910 S15,57), but not for Severus Alexander:
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« Reply #159 on: January 04, 2010, 05:16:50 pm »
Ohhh, so YOU got that one!  I had my eye on it but my snipe program didn't fire!

Oh well,

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« Reply #160 on: January 04, 2010, 11:20:56 pm »

Wasn't me, either, but I really thought we ought to post it to maintain these Addenda's inclusiveness. 
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« Reply #161 on: January 17, 2010, 01:25:21 pm »

AE15, 1.5 g, Geta bare-headed r.,  GETAS KAISAR / Naked Herakles resting on club r., NIKAIEWN, a reverse which is apparently unlisted for Geta and unattested on this scale from Nicaea.
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Nicaean Addenda: Scarcer Finds from Nikaia, Bithynia
« Reply #162 on: January 17, 2010, 02:17:00 pm »


Septimius Severus, 193-211 AD.,
Orichalcum Hemiassarion (17-18 mm / 2,88 g),
Obv.: AV K Λ CЄΠ CЄVHPOC , laureate head of Septimius Severus right.
Rev.: NIK-A - I-EΩN , tetrastyle temple on 3 steps, pellet on pediment.
cp. Rec. Gen. 390 (Domna) , - 479-80 (Caracalla) , - 520-2 (Geta) ; SNG von Aulock - ; BMC - .

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« Reply #163 on: January 17, 2010, 05:51:55 pm »
The following coin is presented as a provincial of Septimius Severus from Nikopolis ad Istrum (AE16, 2.3 gr.), but I think it was struck in Nicaea. It's similar with the one posted above by Arminius, though it has a different obverse legend (starts with CEV...). It may be unpublished.

 

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« Reply #164 on: January 18, 2010, 08:12:52 am »

Thanks for posting these both, yes, apparently unpublished for Septimius, and two good illustrations of how varied the portraiture is even on these small coins from Nicaea.
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« Reply #165 on: January 24, 2010, 09:42:31 am »

AE17, 3.4g, Commodus draped bust r., AYT KOMO ANTWNINOS / Commodus standing l. holding Nike on globe, AYT KOMODOS ANTWNINOS

This type is omitted from RG as well as RPC Online; it does show up in Isegrim, which catalogues one specimen, Lindgren 3.184, apparently from the same dies as my coin.  Lindgren lists his coin as an unpublished variant of an AE 21, Nicaean RG 436.296 (RG's is the second picture below); but is this likeness really specific enough to establish the new type-minus-ethnic as Nicaean?
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« Reply #166 on: January 24, 2010, 01:47:59 pm »
The plate coin clearly has the city ethnic for Nicaea.  Your coin does not.  I'd have a hard time attributing your coin to Nicaea, but the plate coin certainly is.

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« Reply #167 on: January 27, 2010, 01:12:40 pm »
at the suggestion of jochen, i will post a coin in need of id-ing.
its an apparently unlisted AE16mm, 1,7gr;

av : M.AVP.ANT.... ; diademed head right
rev : NIKAI - EWN ; coiled serpent

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Nicaean Addenda: Scarcer Finds from Nikaia, Bithynia
« Reply #168 on: January 27, 2010, 01:34:49 pm »
Apparently same obverse and maybe also reverse die:



Nikaia in Bithynia, Caracalla, 198-210 AD.,
Æ Hemiassarion (16-18 mm / 3,43 g),
Obv.: AYT K M AYP AN[TON]INOC AYΓ , laureate head of Caracalla right.
Rev.: NIKAI - EΩ[N] , curled snake.
Waddington, Rec. Gén 1/3, - . unlisted

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« Reply #169 on: January 27, 2010, 02:23:48 pm »
yes, thank you arminius, it certainly looks very similar.
mine has the first part of the legend (AYT K) off flan. also yours is like twice as heavy.

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« Reply #170 on: January 27, 2010, 02:28:13 pm »

Thanks for posting; same reverse type attested for Septimius Severus and Geta (RG 441,337-41, and  464,517); one day soon we may also find one for Julia Domna, to round out the family array of these.
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« Reply #171 on: February 12, 2010, 12:26:54 pm »
Here is a new coin from Nicaea:

Æ 17, 6 h, 2.98 g. Obv. …• CEΠTI • ΓETAC… Bare head of Geta Caesar r. Rev. NIKAI-[EΩN]. Eros standing facing, head l., stringing his bow.

The reverse type is known for Commodus (RPC IV, 6255 provisional) and from this single specimen for Geta Caesar. The Geta coin is not unpublished, though, because it is included in our Prolegomena website (link below).

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« Reply #172 on: February 12, 2010, 03:57:37 pm »
AE15, 1.61g, Geta head left, GETAS KAISAR  / Facing torch-bearing goddess, NIKIAEWN
I find no reference to this type for a coin from Nicaea; the goddess may be Demeter or Artemis or even three-faced Hekate
Here is a second specimen of the type illustrated in reply #119.

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« Reply #173 on: February 12, 2010, 04:18:24 pm »

Thanks for these postings, Francis; I had linked to the first of your Getas at

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=49390.msg307614#msg307614

but not here in Nicaean Addenda.  Also great to see your second specimen of the left-facing Geta / Hekate from reply #119:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=45188.msg334415#msg334415

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« Reply #174 on: February 12, 2010, 05:46:22 pm »
Here's another Nicaea coin that I haven't located in any catalogue yet.
Septimius Severus, Æ 26, 7 h, 10.30 g. Obv. ΑΥΤ Κ Λ CΕ [...] ΟC Π C [?]. Laureate head r. Rev. ΝΙΚ-A-I-EΩΝ. Zeus Aetophoros standing r., nude, hurling thunderbolt with his r. and holding eagle with spread wings on his outstretched l.

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