Odds and Ends

They are as the title suggests...coins that don't really fall into any of my many collecting patterns, but ones that I just had to pick up none-the-less.

LESBOS, Mytilene EL Hekte (Circa 478-455 BC) 11mm, 2.51g Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rev: Incuse head of bull right. Ref: Bodenstedt 29; HGC 6, 956 (Author's collection)

LESBOS, Mytilene EL Hekte (Circa 454-427 BC). 10mm, 2.58g Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right Rev: Head of cow right within incuse square. Ref: Bodenstedt 56; HGC 6, 982 (Author's collection)

LESBOS, Mytilene EL Hekte (Circa 454-427 BC) 11mm, 2.48g Obv: Diademed head of Silenos right Rev: Two confronted rams' heads; palmette between; all within incuse square Ref: Bodenstedt 37 (Author's collection)

Seleucid Kingdom. Alexander I Balas, 150-145 BC. AE 21. Byblos mint. Six-Winged Titan, Kronos. Lindgren 1811 (Author's collection)

Caracalla PHOENICIA, Berytus 193 - 217 A.D. Æ 24 (8.9g) Obv.: Laur. bust r. of emp. IMP M AVR SEV ANTON AVG Rev.: Poseidon standing facing in car drawn over waves by four hippocamps, hldg trident and dolphin COL BER Ref: BMC 156 (Author's collection)

THRACE, Odessos. Julia Maesa 218-224 A.D. 18mm 3.32g Hercules strangles a kitty cat (Author's collection)

IONIA. Metropolis. Ae (1st century BC). Diogenes, magistrate. 14mm 2.10g pine cone (Author's collection)

EGYPT. Alexandria. Claudius (41-54). Ae Diobol. Dated RY 13 (52-3). Æ 25mm, 12.90g RPC I 5193; Dattari (Savio) 156; Emmett 80.13 Obv: ΤΙ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙ ϹЄΒΑϹ ΓЄΡΜΑ. Laureate head right. Rev: ΑVΤΟΚΡΑ / L - ΙΓ. Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, head left. RPC I 5193; Dattari (Savio) 156; Emmett 80.13. (Author's collection)

LYCAONIA, Iconium Claudius 41-54 AD Annius Afrinus, legatus Æ 20mm, 3.68g. Obv: ANNIOC AΦPЄINOC. Bare head of Annius Afrinus right. Rev: KΛAVΔЄIKONIЄωN. Perseus standing left, holding harpa and severed head of Medusa. Ref: RPC I 3543; SNG von Aulock 8645 (Author's collection)

PALMYRENE, Palmyra Pseudo-autonomous issue ca 2nd-3rd centuries AD Æ 12mm, .75g Obv: Turreted city goddess Rev: Galley with diety aboard (Author's collection)

Roman Republic ca. 42 BC AR Denarius 20mm, 3.86g Magistrate L. Mussidius Longus Obv: Bust of Sol facing Rev: L MVSSIDIVS [L]ONG[VS], CLOA[CIN] Ref: Crawford 494/43a; Sydenham. 1094 Gorny & Mosch lot# 2341 (Author's collection)

CYPRUS, Paphos Septimius Severus 193-211 AD Æ Tetrassarion 29mm, 19.07g, 12h Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚ•ΚΑΙC•CЄΠ•CЄΟYΗΡΟC Laureate, draped/cuirassed bust of Emp. Rev: KOINON KYΠPIΩN Conical cult xoanon of the Aphrodite of Paphos within central distyle tower; distyle porticoes flanking, each containing candelabra and dove sitting above; the entire structure set on low basis; semi-circular forecourt; star inside crescent above. Ref: BMC 55; SNG Copenhagen 89 (Author's collection)

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis Philip I 'the Arab' 244-249 AD Æ 38mm, 21.29g Obv: AVT K M IOV ΦΙΛΛΙΠOC Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; c/m A within wreath within circular incuse. Rev: IЄPAΠOΛЄITΩN; Hexastyle temple, containing facing statue of Apollo, holding lyre, next to tree. Ref: RPC 20711 (8 specimens); SNG von Aulock 3659; Howgego 667 (for c/m) (Author's collection)

BITHYNIA. Nicaea. Macrianus (Usurper, 260-261). Æ 25mm, 7.26g City walls in octagon. SNG Copenhagen 543; SNG von Aulock 733 Obv: TI ΦOVΛ IOV MAKPIANOC CEB. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: NIKAIEΩN. View of city walls in shape of octagon, seen from aerial perspective; arched central gateways above and below. RG 867; SNG Copenhagen 543; SNG von Aulock 733; BMC 157. (Author's collection)

PHRYGIA, Colossae Pseudo-autonomous ca. 150-200 AD Æ 34mm, 14.49g Obv: DHMOC KOΛOCCHNΩN Head of Demos right. Rev: KOΛOCCHNΩN. Helios driving quadriga. Ref: RPC 1899; vAulock, Phrygiens 498 = SNG von Aulock 3765. (Author's collection)

PAMPHYLIA, Aspendos. Valerian I 253 A.D. AE 33mm (11.35g). Hecate tri-form. (Author's collection)

Troas, Ilion, Æ (3,03g), Gordianus III., 238-244 AD. She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. (Author's collection)

Maurice Tiberius 582 - 602 A.D. Æ Follis, yr. 8 (589/99), 32mm (13.6g) Antioch Obv.: DMTIACOISSAINTPPITV bust facing, cross on crown, consular robes, holding mappa & eagle-tipped scepter Rev.: M, ANNO left, cross above, THEUOP, stigma/vau II (yr. r.) Ref: Sear Byz 532v (Author's collection)

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