UK Polymer Currency 2014-2022

 Five Pounds signed by Victoria Cleland 2014-2018, depicting Churchill

Ten Pounds signed by Victoria Cleland 2014-2018, depicting Jane Austen

Twenty Pounds signed by Sarah John 2018-present, depicting J.M.W. Turner

ROMAN EGYPT/Salonina CE 253-268

Potin Tetradrachm; 9.91 g, 21-22 mm, Alexandria mint, RY 4= CE 256/7

Köln 2961

RPC X Online 75346 (this coin illustrated)

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/472296

Emmett –n/a

Curtis 1542 (this coin)

Dattari 5307

BMC 2259

Milne 3934

Demetrio 3122

RCV 10698

O: draped bust r wearing stephane; KOPNEΛIA CAΛωNEINA CEB

R: Nike adv r with wreath L to the outer left field and Δ to outer right field

EX: Musa Numismatic Art/Glen Lindwall (CA)

EX: CNG 556 (21 Feb 2024) lot 412

Ex: Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection purchased from CNG 8 March 1991

Ex: Hans M. F. Schulman Auction 17 June 1958, portion of lot 504 from the Curtis Collection

Ex: Col. James W. Curtis Collection, 1542 

 

ROMAN PROVINCIAL/Pisidia; Antioch; Julia Domna CE 193-217

 AE 22 mm, 5.69 g, 6h, c. CE 205

SNG Paris 1134

RPC 74362 (3 examples noted with this coin illustrating type)

O: draped bust r, IVLIA AV-GVSTI

R: Mên stg facing hd to the right, left foot on bucranium, chicken at rt foot and holding nike, COL MEN ANTIOC

Ex: FSR

Ex: Eid Mar Auctions (Germany) 1 lot 262 (16 December 2023)

ROMAN PROVINCIAL/Pisidia, Antioch; Caracalla CE 198-217

 AE 22 mm, 5.62 g, 12h, c. CE 205

SNG Von Aulock 4934

RPC 74368

O: laur draped and cuirassed bust r, ANTONINVS PIVS AVG

R: Genius stg facing hd l, holding cornucopia, ANTIOCH G-EN COL CA

Ex: FSR

Happy New Year 2025!

ENGLAND/Plantagenet; Edward III CE 1327-1377

 AR Penny, 18 mm, 1.04 g, London mint c. CE 1356

SCBC 1587

N 1176

Fourth coinage, Series F, i.m. coronet

O: facing crowned portrait of king, EDWARDVS REX ANGLI

R: Long cross, three pellets in each angle, CIVITAS LONDON

Ex: Aegean

Ex: Pegasi (-2020) SKU 9720966

ROMAN PROVINCIAL/Cilicia; Tarsos; Salonina CE 253-268

 AE 30.2 mm, 13.5 g, Tarsos' third neokoria was granted during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus so this piece dates to sometime between CE 253-260. The third neokoria is referred to by lower right gamma of the two gammas in the right field. 

SNG France 2 Cilicie 1837

SNG Levante 1198 (plate 80)

RPC unassigned ID 60634 (12 specimens) [this coin illustrated in text cf. Bay Numismatics reference]

O: KOPNHLIAN CA-ΛΩNINAN CE, bust of empress r on a crescent, surrounded by oak wreath

R: TAPCOV M-HTPOΠOΛC ΩC in left field AMK and right field Γ Γ, Cybele std r, feet between two lions. 

from RPC online: 

Ταρσοῦ μητροπόλεως αʹ μ(εγίστης) κ(αλλίστης) γʹ γʹ
Translation of Tarsus, metropolis, the first, the greatest, the most beautiful, (of) 3 (eparchies), thrice (neocorate)

Ex: W. Esty

Ex: N & N London Online Auction 50 (29.06. 2024) lot 362

Ex: Bay Numismatics (Rotterdam, NL) EA 2, (11 April 2024) lot 285  

appears to be same coin as that Auctioned by Solidus EA 9, 8 Oct. 2016, lot 353 except for the weight which could be an error. 

ROMAN/Theodosius II CE 402-450

 AE 17-16 mm, 2.3 g, Antioch mint c. CE 402-403

RIC X 100 variety

Esty Type 47

O: facing bust helmeted cuir with shield and spear lg cross on shield DN THEODOSIVS PF AVG

R: Constantinopolis std holding victory facing left with rt foot on prow CONCORDI-A AVGG/in ex ANTI

Ex: W. Esty

ROMAN/Constantius I, as Caesar issued by Domitius Domitianus c. CE 296-297

 AE Follis, 9,94 g, 25-24 mm, Alexandria mint.

RIC VI Alexandria 21a

RCV 14073

O: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laur bust r

R: Genius standing l, eagle at feet to the left  A in the right field, GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI in ex ALE

Ex: W. Esty

Ex: Demeter Coins 6 (14 April 2024) lot 704

ROMAN/Aelia Eudoxia CE 400-404

 AE Centenionalis; 16 mm, 1.94 g, Antioch mint CE 402-404

RCV 20895

O: diad draped bust right, AEL EVDO-XIA AVG

R: Victory stg r inscribing a chi-rho on a shield set on a cippus, SALVS REI-PVBLICAE in ex ANTΓ

ex: W. Esty

Japan/Tokugawa Shogunate period 1600-1868

AE Kanei Tsuho, 23 mm, 2.37 g. 

Hartill 4.144

Reverse: plain

Jumantsubo, Fukagawa, Musashi  CE 1736-1739

 

ROMAN/Maximianus CE 286-310 abdication issue

AE Half Follis, 19.6 - 18.7 mm. 2.62 g,  c. CE 306, Alexandria mint

RIC 87b

RCV 13419

O: laur draped bust r, DN MAXIMIANO FELISSIM

R:  Providentia and Quies stg facing each other holding branch, A in lower field between, PROVIDENTIA DEORVM in ex ALE

 

Ex: W. Esty

AUSTRIA/County of Tyrol/Leopold V 1626-1632

 AR 10 Kreuzer 28 mm, 3.85 g, mint of Hall in Austrian Tyrol 1632

KM 589

MT 479

O: Armored portrait of Leopold V. of Habsburg, value below, date in front of the bust.  LEOPOLDVS D G ARC D AVSTRI (10) in right field 1632

R: Crowned coat-of-arms with Hungary, Bohemia, Austria and Tyrol, at bottom ancient Austria, surrounded by the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece. DVX BVRGVND COMES TYROL

ROMAN/Honorius CE 393-423

 AE 4   11 mm, 0.92 g, 6h, Roma mint c. CE 410-423

RCV 21048

O:  diad drap bust r [DN]HONOR[IVS PF AVG]

R: Victory adv l holding wreath and palm, P in field [VICTORIA AVGG] in ex [RM].

ex: W. Esty

EU Coinage/Vatican City; Pope Francis CE 2013- date

One Euro Cent, 2016 Roma Mint, issued only in sets of which there were 70,000 issued in 2016

Leuchtterm LVA-K1.5

purchased this example as a singleton at a shop at the Vatican. No Vatican Euro coins were available in change despite having read that 50 Euro cent examples could be had in change from some shops, we could not find examples of this during a short visit. 

Main entrance as it appeared on 3 October 2024 just before some torrential rains dropped perhaps 2 cm of rain on Roma over the next few hours. 
 

ROMAN/DECENTIUS as Caesar CE 350-353

 

AE Centenionalis, 22 mm, 5.1 g, 6h, Roma mint c. CE 350-351

RIC VIII 219

O: bare headed and cuir bust r. Γ behind head. MAG DECENTI-VS NOB CAES

R: VICT DD NN AVG ET CAES two victories supporting wreath inscribed VOT/V/MVLT/X in ex. RS

 

Ex: Warren Esty

Ex: London Ancient Coins (UK) Auction E (08.08.2013) lot 277

Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus XI Epiphanes Philadelphus c. BCE 94/3

 AE 21 mm, 7.21 g, 1h, Antioch mint

SC 2443 (likely)

O: Diademed hd of Antiochus XI r, bearded, diadem ends falling straight behind, dotted border.

R: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOV in two lines on r., EΠΙΦΑΝΟVΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦOV in two lines on l., Athena stg. l. holding Nike outside inscription and resting hand on grounded shield, spear propped in crook of elbow.

Control: outer l. above bunch of grapes.

ROMAN SYRIA; Augustus BCE 27-CE 14 revived posthumous Tetradrachms of Philip Philadelphus

AR Tetradrachm, 14.39 g, 26 mm, 12h, Antioch mint, dated Yr. 28 of the Caesarean Era or BCE 22/21

RPC 4144

Newell 41

Prieur 21

McAlee 22

O: diad hd of Philip Philadelphus r.

R: Zeus enthroned l holding Nike, frozen control under throne, AYT monogram inner left field and HK in ex as the Caesarean Era year.  ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ on right ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ on left

 

EX: “Livia” Hoard 1998 cf. Richard G. McAlee “The Livia Hoard of Pseudo-Philip Tetradrachms” AJN 11 (1999) pp. 1-12 and plates 1-3. Where among the hoard of 677 pieces, only 20 were identified as Yr. 28.

EX:  CNG which made the coins available to McAlee for study.