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(613-632) Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine [Sear 886]Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine, AE Decanummium, Catania mint. No legend, Heraclius, bearded on left and Heraclius Constantine, unbearded on right, crowned, draped and cuirassed busts facing, cross between their heads / Large I, ANNO to left, regnal year to right, mintmark CAT. SB 886, MIB 241.B*Numis
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032p Hadrianus (117-138 A.D.), Egypt, Alexandria, RPC III 5886, AE-Drachm, L /IH//--, Demeter and Euthenia, #1032p Hadrianus (117-138 A.D.), Egypt, Alexandria, RPC III 5886, AE-Drachm, L /IH//--, Demeter and Euthenia, #1
avers: AΥT KAIC TPAIAN AΔPIANOC CEB, Laureate draped and cuirassed bust right.
reverse: No legends, Demeter standing right, holding corn-ears and torch, facing Euthenia, standing left, holding corn-ears and scepter, L-IH in between the legs.
exergue: L /IH//--, diameter: mm, weight: g, axis: h,
mint: Egypt, Alexandria, date: 133-134 A.D., Year (IH)18.,
ref:
RPC III 5886,
Emmet 0941-IH,
Milne 1408-1410,
Geissen 1109-1110,
Dattari- 1671-1672,
Kampmann-Ganschow 032.579,
BMC -,
Q-001
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035 Antoninus Pius (138-161 A.D.), RIC III 0886, Rome, AE-Sestertius, S/C//--, SALVS AVG COS IIII, Salus standing left,035 Antoninus Pius (138-161 A.D.), RIC III 0886, Rome, AE-Sestertius, S/C//--, SALVS AVG COS IIII, Salus standing left,
avers: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XV, Laureate head right.
reverse: SALVS AVG COS IIII, Salus standing left feeding serpent arising from altar, and leaning on staff, S-C across the field.
exergue: S/C//--, diameter: 30,0-32,5mm, weight: 21,53g, axis: 5h,
mint: Rome, date: 151-152 A.D., ref: RIC III 886,
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112 Probus (276-282 A.D.), AE-Antoninianus, RIC V-II 886, Serdica, VIRTVS PROBI AVG, Bust-G, -/-//KAA, Emperor riding left,112 Probus (276-282 A.D.), AE-Antoninianus, RIC V-II 886, Serdica, VIRTVS PROBI AVG, Bust-G, -/-//KAA, Emperor riding left,
avers:- IMP-C-M-AVR-PROBVS-P-F-AVG, Radiate, helmeted, cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield. Shield decorated.
revers:- VIRTVS-PROBI-AVG, Emperor riding left, right hand raised, left holding sceptre; at foot, captive.
exe: -/-//KAA, diameter: mm, weight: g, axis: h,
mint: Serdica-4th-emiss, date: 2280-281 A.D., ref: RIC-886, p-114,
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1249 - 1286, Alexander III, AR Penny, Struck 1280 - 1286 at Roxburgh, ScotlandObverse: + ALEXANDER DEI GRA . Crowned head of Alexander III facing left within circle of pellets; sceptre topped with fleur-de-lis before. Cross potent in legend.
Reverse: REX SCOTORVM +. Long cross pattée dividing legend into quarters, with three pierced mullets of six points and one mullet of seven points in quarters of inner circle. The total of 25 points is indicative of the mint of Roxburgh.
Class Mb with unbarred "A", wider portrait and cross potent mintmark in legend.
Roxburgh only accounts for some 9% of Alexander's second coinage so issues from this mint are quite rare.
Diameter: 18mm | Weight: 1.0gm | Die Axis: 3h
SPINK: 5054

Alexander III's reign saw the introduction of the round halfpenny and farthing to Scottish medieval coinage.
Following the English recoinage of Edward I in 1279, Alexander introduced his second coinage which began in 1280 and ended when he died in 1286. This coin was therefore struck between those dates.


Alexander III was born at Roxburgh, he came to the throne when he was just 7 years old following the death of his father, Alexander II.
At the age of ten, in 1251, Alexander married Margaret, daughter of Henry III of England. Henry seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage from the Scottish kingdom. Alexander did not comply but In 1255, after a meeting between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso, he was compelled to consent to the creation of a regency representative of both monarchs.
The early years of Alexander III's reign were dominated by a power struggle between the two factions, but when he reached the age of 21 he was able to rule in his own right. His first action was to claim control of the Western Isles which were then under the domination of Norway. The Norwegian King Haakon rejected the claim, and in 1263, responded with a formidable invasion force which sailed around the west coast of Scotland and halted off the Isle of Arran. Alexander craftily delayed negotiations until the autumn storms began which resulted in the Norwegian ships being greatly damaged. Haakon, losing patience, attacked the Scots at Largs, but the battle proved indecisive and his position became hopeless. The Norwegians set sail for home but Haakon died en route, on Orkney, towards the end of the year. In 1266, at the Treaty of Perth, Norway formally ceded the Western Isles and the Isle of Man to Scotland in return for a monetary payment.
Alexander, when only 44 years old, met his end on the night of 19th March 1286. After entertaining guests at Edinburgh Castle he decided that night that he would return home to his wife near Kinghorn. His aides advised against it because there was a storm and the party would have to travel in darkness for many miles along a treacherous coastal path. Alexander was determined to travel anyway and ignored his advisors. It is not clear what happened, but it seems he got separated from the rest of his group and his horse lost its footing in the dark. The following day Alexander's body, and that of his horse, was found on the shore at the foot of the cliffs, the King's neck was broken. In 1886, a monument to him was erected in Kinghorn, on the side of the cliffs, at the approximate location of Alexander's death.
Alexander had no heirs, which ultimately led to a war with England that lasted almost thirty years.
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1866 Frankfurt Silver 2 VereinsthalerGerman States, Free City of Frankfurt (1815-66), Silver 2 Vereinsthaler (Double Thaler), 3½ Gulden, 1866, Davenport 651, SCWC KM 365, Thun 145, AKS 4, Jaeger 43, Schw. 83, Kahnt 183, gEF, incuse edge lettering STARK ⍭∗⍭ IM ⍭∗⍭ RECHT ⍭∗⍭ (Strong in Justice), weight 37.04g (ASW 1.0718oz), composition 0.9 Ag, 0.1 Cu, diameter 41.0mm, thickness 3.1mm, die axis 0°, Frankfurt mint, 1866; obverse FREIE STADT-FRANKFURT (Free City of Frankfurt), laureate and draped bust of Francofurtia right, wearing embroidered Imperial Mantle and oak wreath tied with ribbon at back, hair bound with pearls, waved and knotted in chignon at back, long corkscrew curl beneath ear and short curl down cheek, A.v.NORDHEIM incuse on truncation below shoulder for engraver August von Nordheim, toothed border surrounding; reverse ZWEI VEREINSTHALER . XV EIN PFUND FEIN (2 Vereinsthaler, 1/15 Fine Pound), crowned Imperial Eagle standing facing, head left, wings spread, ✥ 1866 ✥ below, engraved by August von Nordheim, toothed border surrounding; from the Roger Belmar Collection; ex Baldwin's (21 May 2021); ex Roma Numismatics auction XX Day 2 (30 Oct 2020), lot 886, acquired from Sincona AG; £400.00.Serendipity
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1886 Morgan Silver DollarUSA, Morgan Silver Dollar, 1886, Breen 5586, SCWC KM 110, BU, edge milled, weight 26.73g (ASW 0.7734oz), composition 0.9 Ag, 0.1 Cu, diameter 38.1mm, thickness 2.4mm, die axis 180°, Philadelphia, PA mint, 1886; obverse E • PLURIBUS • UNUM (Out of Many, One) arcing above and 1886 arcing below flanked by thirteen stars (seven left, six right), laureate and diademed Liberty head left, wearing Phrygian cap encircled by diadem inscribed LIBERTY, cotton and wheat wreath above diadem, tiny M incuse on truncation for engraver George T. Morgan, toothed border surrounding; reverse UNITED-STATES OF-AMERICA arcing above and * ONE DOLLAR * arcing below, ℑ𝔫 𝔊𝔬𝔡 𝔴𝔢 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 in one line over bald eagle standing facing, head left, wings spread, clutching olive branch in right talon, three arrows in left, within half-circle laurel wreath tied with bow at base, tiny M incuse in left bow loop for engraver George T. Morgan, toothed border surrounding; from the Roger Belmar Collection; ex London Coin Company (26 Sep 2020); £149.95.Serendipity
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1886 Victoria Young Head Silver SixpenceGreat Britain, Victoria (1837-1901), Silver Sixpence, 1886, Bull 3260, ESC 1748, Davies 1105 (Dies 6+F), SCWC KM 757, MCE 1407, SCBC 3912, Type A5, Choice UNC, bright mint lustre, some light surface marks, edge milled, weight 2.8276g (ASW 0.0841oz), composition 0.925 Ag, 0.075 Cu, diameter 19.3mm, thickness 1.0mm, die axis 180°, London mint, 1886; obverse VICTORIA DEI GRATIA BRITANNIAR: REG: F: D: (Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen of the Britains, Defender of the Faith), third young filleted head left, hair bound with double fillet, waved and pulled back in ponytail ending in single corkscrew curl at back, no lock on cheek, no initials on truncation, engraved by William Wyon, toothed border surrounding; reverse SIX/PENCE in two lines over small scroll -·-, surmounted by early St. Edward's Crown, within open olive and oak wreath tied with bow at base, 1886 in exergue with no die number above, engraved by Jean Baptiste Merlen, toothed border surrounding; from the Roger Belmar Collection; ex Timothy Medhurst Coins & Antiquities (17 Apr 2023); £70.00.Serendipity
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B 057 Nicephorus III. Botaniates (1078-1081 A.D.), SB 1886, AR-Miliareson, Constantinopolis, Rare !B 057 Nicephorus III. Botaniates (1078-1081 A.D.), SB 1886, AR-Miliareson, Constantinopolis, Rare !
avers: EN TOVTω NIKATE NIKHΦ KAI MAPIA, cross-crosslet on globe resting on three steps, X in centre, dot in crescent on shaft, crowned busts of Nicephorus, bearded and wearing jewelled chlamys on left, and Maria wearing loros, on right.
revers: - + - /NIKHΦP/KAI MAPIA/ΠICTOI RA/CIΛEIC Pω/MAIωN in five lines;
–+– above, –o– below; triple border.
exe:-/-//- • -, diameter: 22-23mm, weight: 1,52g, axis: 6h,
mint: Constantinopolis, date:, ref: SB-1886, p-373, Rare !
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Constantine IAE 3/4, 3.02g, Constantine I, 280-337 AD, Heraclea mint. Obv: Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right of Constantine, CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG. Rev: Two helmeted soldiers standing facing, heads turned towards each other; holding inverted spear and resting hand on shield; between them two standards, GLORIA EXERCITVS, (dot)SMHA in ex., aXF. RIC VII 116, LRBC I, 0904, SRCV 3886, VM 093.Molinari
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EB0982 Heraclius and Son / Large IHeraclius and Heraclius Constantine, AE Decanummium, Catania mint.
Obverse: No legend, Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine, crowned, draped and cuirassed busts facing, cross between their heads.
Reverse: Large I, ANNO to left, regnal year to right, mintmark CAT.
References: SB 886, MIB 241.
Diameter: 15mm, Weight: 3.494g.
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Egypt, Alexandria, 032 Hadrianus (117-138 A.D.), RPC III 5886, AE-Drachm, L /IH//--, Demeter and Euthenia, #1Egypt, Alexandria, 032 Hadrianus (117-138 A.D.), RPC III 5886, AE-Drachm, L /IH//--, Demeter and Euthenia, #1
avers: AΥT KAIC TPAIAN AΔPIANOC CEB, Laureate draped and cuirassed bust right.
reverse: No legends, Demeter standing right, holding corn-ears and torch, facing Euthenia, standing left, holding corn-ears and scepter, L-IH in between the legs.
exergue: L /IH//--, diameter: mm, weight: g, axis: h,
mint: Egypt, Alexandria, date: 133-134 A.D., Year (IH)18.,
ref:
RPC III 5886,
Emmet 0941-IH,
Milne 1408-1410,
Geissen 1109-1110,
Dattari- 1671-1672,
Kampmann-Ganschow 032.579,
BMC -,
Q-001
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Lokri Opuntii - AR Triobolc. 340-330 BC
head of Persephone right wearing wreath of grain, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace
Ajax the Lesser (son of Oileus) nude but for crested Corinthian helmet advancing right in fighting attitude holding short sword and shield on left arm ornamented inside with coiled snake (control symbol), helmet crest below
OΠONTIΩN
SNG Cop.51, de Nanteuil 886, BCD Lokris-Phokis 96
2,7g 15mm
ex Aurea
J. B.
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Mehmed II AU 55OTTOMAN. Mehmed II, Silver Akce, AH 855-886, 2nd Reign SRukke
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Mehmed II AU 58OTTOMAN. Mehmed II, Silver Akce, AH 855-886, 2nd Reign, SRukke
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Pantikapaion, Tauric Chersonesos, Thrace, 310 - 304 BC.AE 20, McDonald 70, SNG Pushkin 886, Sear GCV I 1701, Lindgren II 677, , weight 5.1 g, max. diameter 19.84 mm, Pantikapaion mint, c. 310 - 304 BC; Obv. head of youthful satyr left, wreathed in ivy; Rev. Π Α Ν in legend, head of roaring lion left, sturgeon fish left below. Chestnut brown patina.

Background info; Pantikapaion (Panticapaeum) is present-day Kerch, an important Greek city and port in Taurica (Tauric Chersonese), situated on a hill (Mt. Mithridates) on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait), between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. Originally called Apollonia. Wikipedia.
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Philip I - AntiochAR tetradrachm
244 AD
draped and cuirassed laureate bust right from behind
AVTOK K M IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB
eagle facing, head left, standing on palm branch, wreath in beak ΔHMAΡX__EΞOVCIAC
SC
McAlee 886, Prieur 317 (4 Exemplare)
12,1g 26mm
ex Dionysos
J. B.
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RIC 0756 VespasianusObv : IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG, Laureate head right
Rev : PON MAX TR POT P P COS V CENS, Winged caduceus between crossed cornucopiae
AE/Dupondius (27.49 mm 11.64 g 6h) Struck in Rome (for circulation in Syria) 74 A D
RIC 756 (C), BMCRE 886, RPC 1982
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Vespasian, RIC 886, Sestertius of AD 76 (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus)Æ Sestertius (27,72g, Ø 33mm, 6h). Rome, AD 76.
Obv.: [IMP CAES] VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VII, laureate head right.
Rev.: S·C in ex., Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus with six columns on podium of three steps; between the columns in the centre on a pedestal, the statue of Jupiter seated on a throne, holding a sceptre in l. hand; right and left statues of Juno and Minerva standing; outside the columns two statues standing. The pediment is decorated with Jupiter seated between two figures and groups in the corners; on the roof are statues and eagles at the corners left and right.
RIC 886 (rare); BMCRE 721; Cohen 488
Ex Calgary Coin (Robert Kokotailo), Sept. 2015; from an old time Calgary collection (MS), CNG Sale 58 (September 19, 2001), lot 1139.
3 commentsCharles S
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[1640aii] Leo VI, the Wise, 6 January 870 - 11 May 912 A.D.Bronze follis, SBCV 1729, DO 8.6, nice VF, 5.122g, 25.3mm, 180o, Constantinople mint, c. 886 - 912 A.D.; Obverse: LEON bASILVS ROm, bust facing, with short beard, wearing crown and chlamys and holding akakia in left hand; Reverse: + LEON/En QEO bA/SILVS R/OMEOn, legend in four lines. Ex FORVM.

Leo VI "the Wise" or "the Philosopher" (Greek: Λέων ΣΤ΄, Leōn VI), (September 19, 866 – May 11, 912) was Byzantine emperor from 886 to 912 during one of the most brilliant periods of the state's history.

Background
Leo was born to Eudokia Ingerina who was at the time mistress of Emperor Michael III and wife of his Caesar Basil. Which of the two men was his father is uncertain. He was officially acknowledged by Basil as his son, but he apparently regarded Leo as Michael's son and favored his undisputedly biological son Constantine.

On the night of September 23-September 24, 867, Michael was assassinated by Basil who succeeded him as Emperor Basil I. As the second eldest son of the Emperor, Leo was associated on the throne in 870 and became the direct heir on the death of his older half-brother Constantine in 879. However, he and his father hated each other and Basil almost had Leo blinded as a teenager. On August 29, 886, Basil died in a hunting accident, though he claimed on his deathbed that there was an assassination attempt in which Leo was possibly involved.

Domestic Policy
One of the first actions of Leo VI after his succession was the reburial of Michael III in Constantinople, which may have contributed to the suspicion that he was Michael's son. Seeking political reconciliation, the new emperor secured the support of the officials in the capital, and surrounded himself with bureaucrats like Stylianos Zoutzes and the eunuch Samonas. His attempts to control the great aristocratic families (e.g., the Phokadai and the Doukai) occasionally led to serious conflicts. Leo also attempted to control the church through his appointments to the patriarchate. He dismissed the Patriarch Photios of Constantinople, who had been his tutor, and replaced him with his own 19-year old brother Stephen in December 886. On Stephen's death in 893, Leo replaced him with Zaoutzes' nominee, Antony II Kaleuas, who died in 901. Leo then promoted his own imperial secretary (mystikos) Nicholas, but replaced him with his spiritual father Euthymios in 907.

Leo completed work on the Basilica, the Greek translation and update of the law code issued by Justinian I, which had been started during the reign of Basil.

Foreign Policy
Leo VI was not as successful in battle as Basil had been. In indulging his chief counselor Stylianos Zaoutzes, Leo provoked a war with Simeon I of Bulgaria in 894, but was defeated. Bribing the Magyars to attack the Bulgarians from the north, Leo scored an indirect success in 895. However, deprived of his new allies, he lost the major Battle of Boulgarophygon in 896 and had to make the required commercial concessions and to pay annual tribute.

The Emirate of Sicily took Taormina, the last Byzantine outpost on the island of Sicily, in 902. In 904 the renegade Leo of Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his Muslim pirates (an event described in The Capture of Thessalonica, by John Kameniates). In 907 Constantinople was attacked by the Kievan Rus' under Oleg of Novgorod, who was seeking favourable trading rights with the empire. Leo paid them off, but they attacked again in 911, and a trade treaty was finally signed. The admiral Himerios, a relative of Leo's last wife, Zoe Karbonopsina scored some successes against the Muslim fleets in 908 and raided Cyprus in 910, but in 912 a fleet of 112 dromons and 75 pamphyloi was soundly defeated in its attempt to conquer Crete.

Fourth Marriage Dispute
Leo VI caused a major scandal with his numerous marriages which failed to produce a legitimate heir to the throne. His first wife, whom Basil had forced him to marry, died in 897, and he married Zoe Zaoutzaina, the daughter of his adviser Stylianos Zaoutzes, though she died as well in 899. Upon this marriage Leo created the title of basileopatōr ("father of the emperor") for his father-in-law.

After Zoe's death a third marriage was technically illegal, but he married again, only to have his third wife die in 901. Instead of marrying a fourth time, which would have been an even greater sin than a third marriage (according to the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos) Leo took as mistress, Zoe Karbonopsina. He married her only after she had given birth to a son in 905, but incurred the opposition of the patriarch. Replacing Nicholas Mystikos with Euthymios, Leo got his marriage recognized by the church, but opened up a conflict within it and allowed new grounds for papal intervention into Byzantine affairs when he sought and obtained papal consent.

Succession
The future Constantine VII was the illegitimate son born before Leo's uncanonical fourth marriage to Zoe Karbonopsina. To strengthen his son's position as heir, Leo had him crowned as co-emperor on May 15, 908, when he was only two years old. Leo VI died on May 2, 912. He was succeeded by his younger brother Alexander, who had reigned as emperor alongside his father and brother since 879.

Legends
According to Bishop Liutprand of Cremona, and probably inspired by stories about the caliph Harun al-Rashid, Leo would sometimes disguise himself and look for injustice or corruption. On one account, he was even captured by the city guards during one of his investigations. He wanted to know if the city patrol was doing its job appropriately. He was walking alone, disguised, late in the evening without any documentation. He bribed two patrols for 12 nomismata, and moved on. However, the third city patrol arrested him. When a terrified guardian recognized the jailed ruler in the morning, the arresting officer was rewarded for doing his duty, while the other patrols were dismissed and punished severely.

As John Julius Norwich notes in his book A Short History of Byzantium, "He [Leo VI] had proved himself, if not a great Emperor, at any rate an outstandingly good one . . . In his lifetime Leo was genuinely loved by his people, and after his death they had good cause to be grateful" (Norwich, John Julius. A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. 165).

References
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise

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