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[Jschulze]

That is a nice Probus coin Norman! 

[Jschulze]

This coin isn't the prettiest and the photography is just from a camera phone... Also, i don't know if it's my "rarest" but I've been searching for another example. There are similar but... nothing matching that I've seen. I posted it before in this thread (link below) earlier and would welcome someone pointing out another example!

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=95856.0

IVLIA MAMAEA AVG
COL FL PAC DEVL (under wing) T
24mm

[Jordan Montgomery]

My rarest was purchased here from FORVM, ex. Andrew McCabe collection and actually Andrew himself is the one who pointed out how rare this coin was and why I should buy it. This semis is from the Crawford 41 series of anonymous postsemilibral bronzes. This series includes both cast and struck semises but Crawford only knew of a single example of the struck semis. More are known now, but even so this coin remains extremely rare. This example is quite worn and underweight(likely due to being overstruck) but is a die match to one in Russo's paper in anonymous bronzes from Essays Hersh and even in the state it's in is one of my favorite bronzes in my collection.

Roman Republic Æ Semis(18.688g, 30mm). Anonymous post-semilibral series, 215-212 BC. Rome mint. Laureate head of Saturn right, S behind/Prow of galley right, S above, ROMA below. Russo p. 140, 2 and pl. 16, 10 (same dies); McCabe Anonymous A1.Sm.2; Crawford 41/6e. Ex. Andrew McCabe.

[Jaimelai]

One of three know from this Thraco-Macedonian tribe:


Moriaseis, Thrace
185-168 B.C
Bronze Æ 19
5.89 gm, 19 mm
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right
Rev.: Six-rayed star; M-OP-IA-ΣE-Ω-N between rays
Katalog Münzauktion Essen 64 (1992) no. 47;
P.R. Franke, MOPIAΣEΩN - Die erste Münze eines bislang unbekannten thrakisch-makedonischen Stammes, in: V. Spinoi - L. Munteanu, Miscellanea numismatica antiquitatis in honorem septagenarii magistri Virgilii Mihailescu, Bucarest 2008, p. 67-68.


Here it is with it's brothers:


The three known coins of the Thraco-Macedonian tribe known as the Moriaseis as spoken of by Pliny, "in the coastal region of Pontos live Moriseni and Siton, the ancestors of the singer Orpheus" (Nat. History 4, 41).

[Lee S]

As many have said.... It's quite easy to obtain rare, but not valuable coins.. ( I wish I had some which were both... But that's unlikely to happen!)

  This is probably my rarest... The same type is recorded , but without the wheel... One has to wonder what the wheel signifies...


Ionia, Phocaea. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Between -30 and 276 AD.
Obv. ΦΩΚΕΑ, Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right
Rev. Griffin standing right, left forepaw on wheel

[Molinari]

My new rarest coin, which arrived yesterday.  It is the second known, and the only one in private hands.

SICILY: The Mamar, c. 409 to 403 BC (and therefore the earliest bronze man-faced bull coin). Unfortunately, there probably has been some restoration by a modern hand on the reverse portrait, though the G&M lightning exaggerates it.

[David Atherton]

My new rarest coin, which arrived yesterday.  It is the second known, and the only one in private hands.

SICILY: The Mamar, c. 409 to 403 BC (and therefore the earliest bronze man-faced bull coin). Unfortunately, there probably has been some restoration by a modern hand on the reverse portrait, though the G&M lightning exaggerates it.

It's always very satisfying to add such rarities! Congrats on your new acquisition.

BTW, I presume the other specimen is in a public collection?

[Molinari]

Yes, but I don't have the museum name on hand at the moment.  Here is one equally as rare, the 2nd known, from Neapolis.  Taliercio was uncertain of the letters in exergue but this example reveals it is the pervasive IS. Normally I wouldn't have bid since the MFB face is worn flat, but the rarity changed my mind.

[Maciej D]

My two rare hybrids. 2x TRP XIX !!
1. denarius
      Lucius Verus / Marcus Aurelius
      RIC 515 / RIC 125
2. sestertius
      Lucius Verus / Marcus Aurelius
      RIC 1426 / RIC 908-910
not listed

[Oliver K]

How can I load the pics here ?

[okidoki]

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?board=17.0

and here

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?board=27.0

[okidoki]

ROMAN EMPIRE, Sabina (Augusta, 128-136/7 AD) MYSIA, Cyzicus. Ae.18 Kyzicos standing.
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Reference.
RPC III -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; apparently unpublished.

Obv. CABINA CЄBACTH.
Draped bust of Sabina, r., with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane

Rev. K - Y / Z - I.
Hero Kyzicos naked but a chlamys on l. shoulder, standing l., resting on sceptre with his r. hand, l. hand on his hip

4.42 gr
18 mm

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-128774

[Joss]

That's a very neat coin areich, extra points for the small size. I've always been a sucker for the smaller denominations.

You should like this one then:

Nagidos
AR Hemitetartemorion
480-380 BC
O/ Head of Aphrodite l.
R/ Head of Dionysos l.
6mm; 0.1g!!!

Unpublished under this denomination (Nagidos minted obols with these portraits, cf. SNG BN 11). I have never found another example, probably because it is too small to notice in the ground.

[Tacitus]

I am not sure I have this attributed properly (well at least the MER-RIC number)...  If so, this is only one of 2 specimens known...

MER-RIC 3367
Mint: Ticinum Issue 1
Datation: November – December 275
Denomination: Aureliani
Titulature: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG
Bust: Bust right, radiate, cuirassed, with left sleeve raised
Legend: MARTI PACIF
Reverse: Mars in military dress walking l., holding olive branch in r. hand, transverse spear and long oval shield in l. hand.
Reverse Mark: –/–//S


The item that sets this apart apparently is his left sleeve is raised.