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[kokoshawnuff]

Crawford 480/5a
Reverse with Venus standing left, her staff not terminating in a star.

[Andrew McCabe]

Crawford 480/5a
Reverse with Venus standing left, her staff not terminating in a star.

Alfoldi shows 8 examples of this rare variety without star (not including yours) as against 171 examples of the variety with star. So it is very rare! Congratulations on such a great find. It is anyways a wonderful Caesar portrait if not for being a rare variety too.
Andrew

[kokoshawnuff]

Thank you Andrew. Rarity is interesting to me so this is quite a wonderful thread to look through and learn.

[Andrew McCabe]

Thank you Andrew. Rarity is interesting to me so this is quite a wonderful thread to look through and learn.

Yours is certainly the best known example of this rare Julius Caesar variety, much better than any of the eight Alfoldi specimens. It's a coin that I would love to own!

[kokoshawnuff]

Andrew thank you again, and speaking of rare Caesars have you (or anyone else reading this) seen a 443/1 without the serpent?

[Arminius]

What is the rarest coin in a bunch of ca. 250 with this attribute so far?
So i show just the latest one:



Anchialos in Thracia, Commodus, issued by Caecilius Servilianus, Legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Thraciae, struck ca. 191-192 AD.,
Æ 30 (30-32 mm / 12,91 g), yellow bronze, irregular alignment ↑<- (ca. 220°),
Obv.: ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡ - ΚΟΜΟΔΟC , laureate-headed bust of Commodus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, facing right.
Rev.: ΗΓ ΚΑΙ CΕΡΟΥΙΛΙ - Α[ΝΟΥ] ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ , (emperor as ?) Herakles standing frontal, head left, his r. hand leaning on club, left holding lion skin; die-break starting at 9-10.
unlisted ; RPC online - ; other online sources - .

By the way: I stopped reporting these new types or errors to the RPC online project as i can still see no effect on the database after more than two years.
What is your experience concerning RPC online updates?

 

[Andrew McCabe]

Andrew thank you again, and speaking of rare Caesars have you (or anyone else reading this) seen a 443/1 without the serpent?

Yes I have, though I don't have a photo immediately to hand. There is at least one die lacking the serpent.

[Mark Fox]

By the way: I stopped reporting these new types or errors to the RPC online project as i can still see no effect on the database after more than two years.
What is your experience concerning RPC online updates?

 

Dear Arminius and Board,

You may want to try sending your coin submissions directly to Volker Heuchert, who the last I knew was waiting for me to send my batch of coins that I still haven't gotten around to yet!  I can send you his e-mail address if desired.


Best regards,

Mark Fox
Michigan 

[okidoki]

Roman Empire, Hadrian, AS Roma 125-28 AD Salus leaning on Column

Reference.
cf. RIC 669 unlisted in RIC BMC OR Strack Hill

Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
Laureate, cuirassed bust right, seen from front

Rev. COS III in field S-C
Salus standing right "next to column", holding and feeding snake from patera in left.

10.19 gr
24x26 mm

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-116212

[*Alex]

I think that possibly my rarest Roman coin is this one of Delmatius.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-126203




My rarest British coin is probably this rather battered pattern farthing of Queen Anne

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-127421



Alex.

[okidoki]

Today from FORVM  

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Drachm 122-23 AD Nilus

Reference. very rare R5
Emmett 1015.7; RPC 3, 5392; Milne 1038; Dattari 1802 var (date above); Kampmann-Ganschow 32.228; Geissen -, BMC Alexandria -, SNG Cop -, SNG Hunterian -

Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ СƐΒ
laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder.

Rev. in exergue LZ = year 7
Nilus reclining left, hippopotamus under left arm, long reed in right, cornucopia in left.

22 gr
33.6 mm
12h

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-126205
ex. FORVM

[Jochen]

I think this is the rarest coin of Nikopolis:

Macrinus, AD 217-218
AE 28, 11.12g, 27.8mm, 195°
struck under governor Marcus Claudius Agrippa
obv. AVT K OPPEL C - EVH MA[KRINOC]
        Bust, draped and cuirssed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. VP AGRIP[PA NIKOP]OLITWN PROC I / CTRW
       Youth (mountain god Haimos), nude, except drapery over r. shoulder and hips, with boots, on 
        rocks std. r. and looking l., resting with r. arm - in which he holds a spear - on tree behind 
        and holding l. arm over his head
        in r. field AIMOC
ref. a) AMNG I/1, 1700, pl. III, 24 (1 ex., Bassarabescu)
       b) Moushmov 1295, pl. XI, 34 (spear disappeared!)
        c) not in Varbanov (engl.)
             cf.# 3390: different obv. legend, spear disappeared, pic on p. 385 called #3391 in     
             error. Rv. copied from Pick pl. III, 24, obv. from #3407 in error
        d) Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2015) No. 8.23.43.4 (this coin)
extremely rare (R10), F+, black green patina
Pedigree:
ex Diana Coins, E-Bay, 2009
ex coll. Steve Cady, Tantalus Coins, 2012

Note: Nicolae Bassarabescu was director of the journal "Poporul" in Bukarest, 1890. His coin vanished over the years. So I'm proud to present here a new specimen of this type. There was originally only 1 pic of it: #24 on pl. III in AMNG I/1. This pic was copied by Moushmov and Varbanov, whereby the spear has disappeared from the pic.

This is my most important coin from Nikopolis: An extremely rare type, which was lost over more than 100 years and now found again!

Best regards

[jmuona]

This is in my gallery, but I am putting it here as well. Out of the 1800 Otho denarii I have this far put in my database, eight belong to this type, all minted with the same dies. The only museums that have this are Paris, ANS and Copenhagen (found in Denmark!!).
This is one rare 1st Century coin.
RIC 2, IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P / CERES AVG.
I do have a few "unique" coins from little studied series, but this being a coin of one of the 12 Caesars makes it my rarest.
s.
Jyrki Muona

[ancientdave]

Whoa, back from the dead!  It's great to see all of these new rare and beautiful coins!

[Molinari]

This is my rarest coin, excluding a unique countermark I own.  It was issued by the Kersini and is one of four known:

SICILY: The Kersini, 357-344 BC, AE Tetras, 7.51g, 21mm, 4h. Bearded (?) head to right, dotted border/Forepart of Acheloios (Belici?) as a man-faced bull to right. Campana CNAI "Kersini" 1.

Ex. CNG eAuction 327, lot 329 (the Continental Collection) mis-described as a bronze hemilitra from Agyrion.

[Jochen]

Another R10 (unique) coin from Nikopolis:

Caracalla as Caesar, AD 195-198
AE 17, 2.98g, 16.95mm, 15°
obv. M AV KAI - AN[TWNIN] (read from outwards)
       Bust, draped and cuirassed, bare-headed, r.
rev. NIKOPOLI PR[OC ICTRON]
       Peacock of Hera advancing r. (, before a snake erecting?)
ref. a) not in AMNG
      b) not in Varbanov (engl.)
      c) Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2015) 8.18.3.5 (this coin)
extremely rare (R10), F/F+, Grey grey Patina

Obv. from same die as HrHJ (2015) 8.18.52.8 (Basket). So I was able to restore the obv.

Best regards

[Tacitus]

LV 2405
IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG
RDC - Bust Right

CONSERVATOR MILITVM
Emperor standing left holding scepter recieving globe from Mars standing right holding spear.

-/Epsilon/-/KA

Minted Nov 275 to Dec 275

(4 specimens including this one known)

[Sam]

Regardless some unique coins in my collection from FORVM .
For a known issue type , I think this is my rarest :

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.83 g, 1h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Struck circa 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background BAΣIΛEΩΣ , ΛYΣIMAXOY ; monogram to inner left, ligate ΘE on throne. Meadows, Earliest 22 (A13/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Thompson 161; Müller –; SNG Berry 438 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, some porosity, a few minor marks under tone. Rare.


https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-99497

[memmi]

Hello everyone,

This is the rarest coins in my collection.
State: Roman Empire
Ruler: Trajan (AD 98-117), restoring the types of Republican moneyer C Memmius C.f. (c. 56 BC)
Best regards,
Mario

[okidoki]

Very nice Mario,

never seen it 

[Jochen]

Never seen before. Very interesting.

Jochen

[memmi]

Hi Jochen, Hi Eric

Neither I would not know anything about this coin, but the Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear (A.C.C.S.) that I got October 11, 2013 says the following:

Obverse: laureate head od Quirinus right, with long hair and beard, C MEMMI C F before, QVIRIN[VS] behind,

Reverse: Ceres seated right, holding ears od corn and torch, serpent at feet, MEMMIVS AED CERIALIA PREIMVS FECIT around in inner circle, IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST around in outer circle.

MIR 14; RIC 799; BMCRE 687
Best Regards,
Mario (memmi)

[Pekka K]

Woytek (MIR 14) 831, 8 coins known.

Pekka K

[memmi]

Exactly.
Thank you Pekka K.

[NORMAN K]

Some of you may have already seen this Probus coin I have had in other discussions.
I believe this is a rare coin because I know of only one example of RIC 809 Probus on the Probvs.net coin site.  ( http://probvs.net/probvs/R809/R809.120205.PG.JPG) My coin is an 809var.  and in addition it has two enemy solders.  I am posting it here because I would like to know if there are any other known examples.