CANADA/Charles III 2022- New Issues 50c dated 2023 but issued 2024

Three ply nickel plated steel, 6.9 g, 27.13 mm, serrated edge. Dated 2023 but issued in January 2024. According to the mint in Ottawa, this set (5c to $2) is the "first wave of circulation coins issued with the new obverse."
 

UK/Victoria 1837-1901

 AR Two Pence, 1838, 13 mm

Spink 3919

KM 729

GREEK/Seleucid; Antiochos IX BCE 114/3-95

 AR Drachm, 3.59 g, 16mm, 12h, Antioch mint c. BCE 96-95

SC 2370 (R2)

O: diad hd of Antiochos r dotted border

R: ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY in two lines on r, ΦΙΛΟΠATOPOΣ on l. control mark, E/A/Π vertically to left.   Tyche stg l.

Denmark/Margarethe II 1972-2024

25 Øre 1983

                                                                     

GREEK/Seleucid; Seleucos VI c. BCE 96-94

AE 19.5 mm, 7.35 g, Antioch mint.

SC 2425.1

HGC 9, 1284 (R2)

O: diad, beardless bust r, dotted border

R: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕVKOV in two lines on the rt, EΠΙΦNOVΣ NIKATOPOΣ in two lines on the l, Apollo stg l, testing arrow and resting elbow on column. Primary controls on outer left

 

ISLAMIC/Umayyad; Umar II CE 717-720

AR Dirham; 27 mm, 2.85 g, Damascus mint AH 100/ CE 718-719

SICA II, 643

O: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بدمشق سنة ماة

IRAN/Sasanian/Khusro II Parviz CE 591-628

AR Drachm; 30 mm, 4.13 g, ShR (Shiraz) mint, Regnal year 27=c. CE 617-618

GÖBL 214

O: Head of King r. crowned

R: Fire altar and attendants, to the right mint mark to the left RY.

Ex: Cud

 

 https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/happy-new-year-in-different-languages

ROMAN/Valerian CE 253-260

AR Antoninianus; 21 mm, 3.78 g, Antioch mint CE 254-255

RIC 220

RCV 9966

RSC 179

O: rad, cuir, draped bust r, IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG

R: Valerian or Sol radiate in long robes adv r, r hand raised holding orb in l. RESTITVT GENER HVMANI.

ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk, AL-MANṢŪR 'ALĀ AL-DĪN 'ALI 778–783 AH. = 1377–1381 CE

 

AE Fals; 18.7 x 15.7 mm, 1.33 g, Tripoli mint nd

Balog 505. Border on both sides: circular line in circle of dots.

Field divided by two horizontal lines of dots.

ضرب طر /

لملك المنصور /

ابلس

Lion passant to left; tail, with knot in the middle, curled back.

L 929 (17, 2.27) Plate XIX, 505a. ANS (18, 2.35); (17, 2.16). Flagellation (18) Plate XIX, 505 b. München, two specimens. Jungfleisch (22, 4.36).

reference taken from http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan55713.

Towns underlined in blue are the mints for the three Mamluk Fals shown here. Map is the Mamluk lands c. 1330 CE, a generation or longer before the period covered by these coins.

ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk, AL-ASHRAF NĀṢIR AL-DĪN SHA'BĀN II 764–778 AH. = 1363–1377 CE

 AE Fals; 18 x 14 mm, 1.89 g, Hamah mint nd

Heraldic (lion to left)

Balog 464. As above, but lion on the reverse to left.

BMC 606,c (18) Plate XVII, 464a; 606, f (17). BM, L. A. Lawrence 1935 5–1–4; 5–1–5. L 1099 (2.08). ANS (15) Plate XVII, 464b.

 

الملك

الاشرف

Upper segment: بحماة

Lower segment: ضرب

 reference taken from http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan55713

British Colonial Ireland & America; Wood’s Half Penny 1722

AE Half Penny; 27 mm; 6h, 8.84 g

KM 116

Spink 6600

O: laur bust of George I r, GEORGIUS DE GRATIA REX

R: Hibernia with Harp std l, harp to right, HIBERNIA 1722

 

ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk; as-Salih Salih ad-Din Salih AH 752-755/CE 1351-1354

AE Fals; 19 mm, 2.89 g, Halab mint; AH 755/ CE 1354

Description of the piece below from ANS Digital Library: Coinage of the Mamlūk Sultans of Egypt and Syria (numismatics.org)

Balog Mamluk 338

 

Copper
ALEPPO, 755 H.

338. Border: circular line.

Field divided by two horizontal lines into three segments.

Upper segment: سنة خمس

Central segment: الملك الصالح

Lower segment: وخمسين بحلب

Border: circle of scrolls (or on some specimens a circular cable?) between two circular lines.

In center: bird walking to right, head turned straight back. Above the bird's back, swan-like body, so far unidentified.

On top of the name, الصالح, is an ornament; on some specimens it is: الصالح ω (P M–5823), on others: الصالح (L 890, b and L 940).

L 890,b (18) Plate XIII, 338a; 940 (18, 2.80). P M–5823 (20) Plate XIII, 338. BMC 542 (20); 543 (21); 543,a. BM F–5–70–7–15980. Lagumina p. 96 no. 6. Blau no. 300 a, b. Wien 774. ANS, three specimens: (21, 2.94); (19, 2.56); (19, 2.14). Thorburn. Balog, three specimens: (20, 2.99); (20); (20).

Only a few specimens were known to Lavoix, who attributed them to al-Ṣāliḥ Ḥājji, but read the mint-name Aleppo correctly: Lane-Poole ascribed the coin to al-Ṣāliḥ Isma'īl and read the upper and lower segments as: قسيم محمد and ضر بحلب.

We have now several fulūs of this issue, on which the mint, Aleppo, and the date, 755 H., are clear. There can be no doubt about the attribution to al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ.

The heraldic bird of the reverse has been described as a duck, to which — especially on poorly preserved specimens — it has a certain resemblance. Mayer, in his Saracenic Heraldry (p. 7 and notes p. 3, 10 and 26), points out, however, that there is no evidence that the duck was ever used as heraldic emblem on a Mamlūk blazon.

On closer examination of the coins, the bird does not resemble a duck but rather any walking bird with short legs, and could be an eagle, a raven or even a sparrow. Until we have further clearer evidence, we should like to suggest the eagle.

 

 

 

ISRAEL; First Roman War CE 66-73

 AE Prutah; 14mm, 2.33 g,  Year 2= CE 67/68

Hendin (5^th ed) 1360

O: amphora with broad rim and two handles שנת שתים

R: vine leaf with tendril,ציון חרות

Paleo-Hebrew script reads “Year Two” on obs and “the Freedom of Zion(Jerusalem)” on the reverse, though is written here in modern Hebrew.

ROMAN Provincial; Thrace; Rhoimetalkes III CE 38-46 & Caligula CE 37-41

AE 22 mm, 6.65 g, possibly Abdera mint CE 38-41

RPC 1724.2  (six specimens recorded)

Youroukova 210, plate XXV

O: Laur bust of Caligula left [ΓAIΩ KAIΣAPI] ΣEBA[ΣTΩ]

R: laur and draped bust of Rhoimetalkes r, retrograde inscription BAΣIΛEYΣ POIMHTAΛKAΣ.

Notes: “this is apparently a half denomination to RPC 1723 and 1724, but what makes this coin particularly curious is the retrograde reverse legend. The die cutter is also likely responsible for the reverse die of RPC 1725 with its retrograde BAΣIΛEΩΣ legend.”

 

EX: K. Dorney

Ex: Roma Numismatics 101 lot 358 (13 Oct 2022) “from a private English collection”

Bust of Caligula from the Palazzo Massimo, Roma September 2024

 

    

IRELAND Pre-Decimal Farthing 1940

 KM#9 AE Farthing, 1940 mintage: 192,000

14th century Harp in the Long Room at Trinity College Library Dublin, Summer 2023

National Symbol of Ireland

FRANCE/ Napoleon I 1804-1815

AR 5 Francs, Bayonne mint, 1813, Pierre-Joseph Tiolier, General Coin Engraver Paris (1803-1815) and Pierre-Boniface Darripe, Mint Master Bayonne (1810-1828).

KM 694.9 mintage 1,161,000

O: laur bust r NAPOLEON EMPEREUR

R: 5 Francs within wreath EMPIRE FRANÇAIS around, 1813 below and L to lower right.

Views of Bayonne:

View of the Nive 1990

Facade of the Cathedral showing that the statuary was robbed out during the French Revolution as was common practice at that time. 

a stroll along the old city walls

the cathedral cloisters

all taken in Bayonne, 1990. 

portion of Jacques Louis David's "Coronation of Napoleon" (1806)

seen in May 2025 at the Denon wing of the Louvre

Greece/Seleucid; Demetrius III BCE 97/6-88/7

 Æ 19 mm, 6.81g Damascus mint. c. BCE 95-94

SC 2454.5

SNG Spaer 2836

 O: Radiate diad. bust r.

R: BACΙΛΕΩC ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟV ΘΕΟV on rt., ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΟC CΩΤHPOC, on left. Nike walking r holding wreath and palm branch. dotted border. NI above ΦΙ on outer left field.

In ex. monogram on rt, not visible, and date not fully visible on this piece. Though much nicer reverse than the example acquired in 2008.