20161223
Two DDR (1949-1990) Commemoratives
20161221
JORDAN; Abdullah II (1999-); Half Dinar 2006/1427 AH
KM# 79
28 mm, 9.43 g.
OBS: عبدالله الثاني ابن
الحسين ملك المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية
“Abdullah ath-Thani Ibnal-Husayn Malik al-Mamlakah
al-Urdaniyyah al-Hashimiyyah”
REV: THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN/HALF DINAR/نصف دينار ١٤٢٧ه
٢٠٠٦م
With large ١/٢ in center.
FRANCE; François Mitterand; President 1981-1995; Centennial
Coin Specifications: (this example is BU)
Country:
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France (LU-G1002 Leuchtturm 2018 Catalogue Euro number)
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Year Of Issue:
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2016
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Denomination:
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2 Euro
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Mint Mark:
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cornucopia
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Mintage:
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Circulation:
9,980,000; Brilliant Uncirculated: 10,000; Proof: 10,000
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Alloy:
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Cupronickel
Outer Ring: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel Clad; Nickel Brass Inner Core: 70% Copper,
24.5% Zinc, 5.5% Nickel
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Weight:
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8.5 grams
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Diameter:
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25.75 mm
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Edge:
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Lettering (2**
2** 2** 2** 2** 2**)
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OBV Designer
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REV Designer
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Luc Luycx
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Quality:
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Circulation,
Brilliant Uncirculated, Proof
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20161219
ROMAN/Severus Alexander CE 222-235
RSC 76
O: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laur., draped cuirassed bust r.
R: IOVI PROPVGNATORI, Jupiter adv left looking right and
reading to throw a fulmen from his right hand.
INDO-PARTHIAN/Gondopharid; Pakores c. late 1st Century CE
Senior 269.8T
O: diad bust left
R: Nike adv right
20161029
ISLAMIC/'Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan; Jarir جرير CE 786-788
AR Hemidrachm, 23mm, 2.04 g, 3h, PYE 135
Album 64 (R)
Malek 95
Wilkes 110 (Islamic Coins & their Values Vol. I)
Wilkes 110 (Islamic Coins & their Values Vol. I)
O: name in outer margin of obs Q3 جرير , “Afzut” in place of name before bust.
R: “Tabaristan” on right, “135” on left of attendants and
fire altar.
20161026
GREECE/Seleucid; Antiochus I Soter BCE 281-261
AR Tetradrachm, 25.5 mm, 16.61 g,
6h, Aϊ
Khanoum mint
SC 438.1a
O: diad hd r
R: Apollo Delphios std l on omphalos
testing arrow in his right hand and holding bow in his left, monogram Δ in a
circle to inner left. BAΣIΛEΩΣ on right ANTIOXOY on left.
Ex: CNG 367:252 (27 Jan 2016)
20161019
IRAN/Parthia; Phraates II BCE 138-127/6
AR Drachm, 4.2g, 20mm, 12h, Tambrax mint struck c. BCE 128-126
Sellwood 16.11
Shore 50
BMC Parthia pg. 17, 15
Sunrise 272
O: Short bearded bust left
wearing diadem, TAM behind
R: BAΣIΛΕΩΣ/MEΓAΛOY on right
separated by guide line, APΣAKOY/ΘEOΠATOPOΣ on left separated by guide line.
Arsakes I seated right on
omphalos, holding bow
20160917
IRAN/Parthia; Vardanes I c. CE 40-47
AR Drachm, 3.73
g, 20 mm, 12h, Ecbatana mint
Sellwood 64.31
Shore 353
O: bare-headed
bust left with medium pointed beard wearing diadem with loop at top and three
ends; earring visible; three lines on forehead representing royal wart.
R: archer std r
on throne holding bow, below bow Ecbatana mint mark. Blundered Greek legend.
20160820
GREECE/Egypt; Ptolemaic; Kleopatra VII Thea Neotera BCE 51-30
AR Tetradrachm; 24 mm, 13.59 g, 12h. Alexandria mint, RY 14/BCE 39-38
Svoronos 1828 (Ptolemy XIII)
SNG Copenhagen 408
Noeske 370-1
DCA 70
O: diad. Hd of Ptolemy I r, wearing aegis around neck
R: Eagle with closed wings stg l on thunderbolt, palm frond
over shoulder, LIΔ over headdress of Isis to left, ΠA to right. Around
ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛΕΩΣ.
Ex CNG
20160813
Roman Republic, c. BCE 210
CR 64/6a
RCV 1226
O: hd of Mercury r wearing winged petasos, two dots above
R: Prow of galley right, ROMA above, MA monogram to right, two dots below.
Possibly overstruck on a Carthaginian bronze.
Ex: CNG 376 lot 764 or 765 (06-15-2016)
Ex: RBW Collection
Ex: UBS 59 portion lot 6125 (01-29-2004)
20160730
Greece/Seleucid; Demetrius II Nikator (first reign) BCE 146-138
AR Drachm 3.78 g, 16-17 mm, 12h, Probably minted at
Seleucia in Pieria
SC 1927.1
HGC 982 (R2)
O: diad hd of Demetrios r, diadem ends falling
straight behind, dotted border
R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY in two lines on right,
NIKATOPOΣ on left, anchor flukes upward.
Control inner left Flower (rose or lily?)
Ex: WKR Collection
20160723
ROMAN/ Geta, as Caesar CE 198-209
AR Denarius, 17 x 19 mm, 2.33 g, 12h, Rome mint c. CE 203-208
RIC Geta 47 (R)
BMC p. 245 note 454 ("The denarius quoted by C.86 is very doubtful")
RSC 86
On 9 Oct. 1991 Curtis Clay (who is revising RIC for Septimius Severus and family) wrote to the prior owner stating that this example was only the second known example. The G. R. Arnold collection did not have one. (CNG sold an example in 2013 for $2,200).
O: P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, bare headed draped bust right
R; MINERVAE VICTRICI, Minerva, helmeted, draped, advancing left, brandishing javelin in right hand and holding shield in left hand; at her feet, snake preceding her.
Since this posting, a third example has been identified and was sold by Leu Numismatik at Web Auction 24 on 3 December 2022, lot #2954. The hammer price was 1800 CHF (USD $2,015.76, 2023 conversion). The Leu write up indicates "From the Red Ox Collection and the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with 'four socks of old coins' in reward." This example was the second to appear at auction in nine years, since the aforementioned CNG sale in 2013.
From a review of these three coins, it appears that the reverse die is the same in all three examples, though the obverse die appears the same in the CNG and above example, but different in the Leu example. So, at least two obverse dies were utilized and one reverse die.
Ex: Warren Esty Collection
Ex: ANA Chicago 1991, London Coin Galleries (CA)
20160703
ROMAN/Titus CE 79-81
AR Denarius,
3.26 g, 19 mm, 6h., Roma mint, c. September to December CE 79
RSC 287a BMC 23
RIC 41
O: laur bust
left, IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM
R: Ceres
seated left holding wheat ear and poppy in rt hand, lighted torch in left, TRP
VIIII IMP XV COS VII PP
an example of this coin sold at Gemini X (2013) lot 664 ex: Harry N. Sneh Collection. The note accompanying that example stated "Very rare with portrait left, a variant first reported in ASFN 1884, p. 175. RIC 41 cites another specimen from Boric-Breskovic's catalogue of the Belgrade collection; ours could be only the third recorded."
The example depicted here appears to be the fifth recorded.
The other four were the Gemini example, an example sold by CNG in 2012 and an example posted on Forum Ancient Coins Gallery that had been acquired from the French firm CGB in 2012 and a fairly worn example from the ANS OCRE site from the Museu de Prehistòria de València , that was part of the 1990's Llíria Hoard (http://nomisma.org/id/lliria_hoard).
an example of this coin sold at Gemini X (2013) lot 664 ex: Harry N. Sneh Collection. The note accompanying that example stated "Very rare with portrait left, a variant first reported in ASFN 1884, p. 175. RIC 41 cites another specimen from Boric-Breskovic's catalogue of the Belgrade collection; ours could be only the third recorded."
The example depicted here appears to be the fifth recorded.
The other four were the Gemini example, an example sold by CNG in 2012 and an example posted on Forum Ancient Coins Gallery that had been acquired from the French firm CGB in 2012 and a fairly worn example from the ANS OCRE site from the Museu de Prehistòria de València , that was part of the 1990's Llíria Hoard (http://nomisma.org/id/lliria_hoard).
20160702
ROMAN/Two Lugdunum (Lyon) Emissions of Probus CE 276-282
AE Antoninianus, 3.42 g, 21 mm, 12h, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint,
c. CE 277 3rd emission
RIC 37 bust
RCV 11992
O: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right
R: MARS VICTOR/III, Mars advancing right, carrying trophy
and spear
AE Antoninianus, 3.74 g, 22 mm, 6h, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint,
c. CE 278-279
RIC 84 variety
RCV 11992
O: IMP C PROBVS·P·F·AVG, s/a/a
R: MARS VICTOR/III, s/a/a
20160701
IRAN/Sasanian; Examples from a Hoard from the time of Yazdgard III in Kirman c. CE 642-645/6
The hoard has invariably been referred to as the "Silk Road Hoard" or the "Tokharistan Hoard" but was described in great detail in an article entitled "A Hoard from the time of Yazdgard III in Kirman" by Heidemann, Riederer & Weber ( Iran 52 (2014): 79-124).
As these examples are studied further I will be updating their respective information. These are both drachms minted posthumously in the name of Khusro II (CE 590-628) and are thought to have been minted at a centralized mint of Yazdgard III sometime after the Battle of Qadisiyya and possibly just before the Battle of Nihavand during the early days of the Muslim conquest of the Sasanian Empire.
AR Drachm, 32 mm, 3.92 g, 9h, ShY (Shiz) mint, Yr. 37
Heidemann etal, Die 33 late=ShY 37A=0483, 26 examples noted.
AR Drachm, 32 mm, 4.1 g, 3h, ART (Ardashir Khurrah aka Jur or Gor mint), yr. 37
Heidemann etal, Die 15 = ART 37A=0082, 23 examples noted.
As these examples are studied further I will be updating their respective information. These are both drachms minted posthumously in the name of Khusro II (CE 590-628) and are thought to have been minted at a centralized mint of Yazdgard III sometime after the Battle of Qadisiyya and possibly just before the Battle of Nihavand during the early days of the Muslim conquest of the Sasanian Empire.
Heidemann etal, Die 33 late=ShY 37A=0483, 26 examples noted.
Heidemann etal, Die 15 = ART 37A=0082, 23 examples noted.
GREECE/Sicily; Himera c. BCE 415-409
AE Hemilitron; 15 mm, 2.76 g., 11h.
Kraay, Bronze, group b, 3
CNS 35
HGC 2, 479
O: Hd of nymph left six pellets before.
R: six pellets (Mark of Value) within wreath
20160624
ISLAMIC/’Abbasid; Harun ar-Rashid هَارُون الرَشِيد AH 170-193/CE 786-809
AR Dirham, 2.93 g,
23 mm, ---h, ar-Rafiqah الرفقة mint (Syria) AH 188/CE 804-805
Album 219.2 (S)
Ar-Rafiqah was
Harun ar-Rashid’s capital during his reign. It is now known as the town of
Raqqah in Syria which in turn is the “capital” of Da’esh داعيش aka ISIS.
O: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بالرفقة سنة ثمان و ثمنين و مية
R: anonymous reverse with
just محمد رسول الله in three lines in the center field above the dot.
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