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Alexander the Great 336-323 BC.Obverse: Head of Alexander as Herakles in lion's skin right.
Reverse: Bow with quiver and club, B A.
Attribution: Sear 6742
Date: After 336 BC
AE17, 17.97 mm, 5.9 gramsb70
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Calabria, Tarentum (Taras) Circa 302-228 BC. AR ObolCALABRIA, TARENTUM (TARAS) CIRCA 302-228 BC.AR OBOL (11 mm/0.50 gm) Kantharos Dolphin Var.
Kantharos flanked by two stars / Kantharos, dolphin right. Vlasto 1651 var. 11 mm. 0.50 gm.b70
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Mesembria, Thrace, Greece, c. 450 - 350 B.C.Silver diobol, cf. SNG Cop 652 ff. (rev legend counterclockwise on all specimens in the major references), Mesembria? mint, 1.078g, 13.3mm, c. 450 - 350 B.C.;
Obverse: Crested Corinthian helmet facing;
Reverse: M-E-T-A in four quarters of a wheel, read clockwise, surrounded by border of radiating lines;
Forvm said; "We examined hundreds of coins of this type and for all except one other on coin archives the legends are counterclockwise. The attribution of the coin archives example made no notice of the reversed legend. This coin may be an ancient forgery or a mint error".b70
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Otacilia Severa 246-248 AD.Otacilia Severa, AR Antoninianus.
Obverse- M . OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed, draped bust right on crescent, hair weaved in straight lines and rows with long plait carried up the back of head.
Reverse- CONCORDIA-AVGG, Concordia seated left, patera in right hand, double cornucopiae in left.
Rome mint, RIC IV, Part III, 125c, Ex Vel Garnett Collection.
22mm x 24mm, 4.76g
Note: The "pellet” in the obverse legend appears to be more of a spacer for the engraver versus an actual device meant to be struck up on the coins themselves as this piece seems to have been struck from very fresh dies. Most likely the “pellet” is not as evident on later strikes from this die and would instead appear more like an intentional space.
b70
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VESPASIAN 69-79 ADVespasian. 69-79 AD. AR Denarius (3.49 gm; 16 mm). Struck 72 AD. Antioch mint.
Obverse- IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII Laureate head right.
Reverse- NEP RED Neptune standing left, right foot on globe, holding acrostolium in right hand, sceptre in left.
RIC II 361; BMCRE 506; RPC II 1928; RSC 274.b70
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