Silver (billon) tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Radiate bust of Nero left wearing aegis, NEPW KLAV KAIS SEBA GEP L IΓ (date) before / Radiate head of Augustus right, ΘEOΣ ΣEBAΣOΣ. Great portrait! Dark olive-green patina with earthen deposits.
Bare head of Augustus left, PERM CAES AVG / Apex & simpulum, COLONIA PATRICIA. Dark olive-green patina with earthen deposits. ref: RPC 99 Sear'88 #538 Sear SGI 18 Alvarez Burgos 1760 Villaronga-Benages, 3352 Cohen 151 for type. Bare head of Augustus right, PERM CAES AVG / IVLIA TRAD within oak wreath. Bronze As struck at Julia Traducta, Spain. Rare left-facing bust! * The first coin I had that made me fall in love with ancient history so many decades ago now was an Augustus As with an ancient hole in it. Holed in antiquity to be worn as jewelry! Reddish tone. His bare head left, CAESAR AVGVST PONT MAX TRIBVNIC POT / P LVRIVS AGRIPPA IIIVIR AAAFF around large SC. Bronze As struck 7 BC, moneyer P Lurius Agrippa. Gorgeous portrait and nice gray cabinet tone not at all evidenced in this terrible photo. Bare head of Augustus right / Victory standing right crowning trophy, dagger and curved sword at base, P CARISI LEG. Rare small silver Quinarius struck at Emerita Augusta (Merida), Spain, 25-23 BC, by P Carisia, moneyer. Wonderful portrait, light coppery-orange tone. Bronze Semis struck at Julia Traducta, Spain. Bare head of Augustus right, KAISAPOS SEBASTOY / Diademed head of Rhoemetalkes I right, BASILEWS POIMHTALKOY. VG, with decent portrait, dark green patina. Bare head of Augustus right, CAESAR to left / AVGVSTVS within laurel wreath. Cut in half to make “change”! Back-to-back heads of Agrippa on left, and Augustus right, with bare head, IMP below (only bust of Augustus visible) / Crocodile chained to palm, COL NEM (only inscription and top of palm visible). Bronze As struck at Nemausus, Gaul, struck c. 24-20 BC., Bare head of Augustus right, IMP CAE-SAR / Six grain ears tied together, AVGV-STVS. Augustus Caesar, large silver Cistophoric Tetradrachm or Triple Denarius. Coin diameter 19mm (capsule measures 3 3/8" x 2 3/8"). Encapsulated and graded Very Fine by NGC. His laureate head right, AVGVSTVS DIVI F / Caius Caesar on horseback galloping right, legionary eagle between two standards behind AVGVS F below, C CAES above. Silver denarius, Lyons mint, struck 9-8 BC. RARE! The largest silver coin of Augustus I've ever had! #CR3226: $550 SOLDĪugustus Caesar. IMP CAESAR beneath bare head right / AVGVSTVS above garlanded altar decorated with two confronting hinds. Rare large silver Cistophoric Tetradrachm.
* I am not going to forgive myself for letting this coin go. VF, struck strongly, but somewhat off-center on smallish flan, losing some legend both sides - warm, chocolate-brown patina.
C RIVS BLANDVS, large S C with moneyer's name concentrically around / VIR? A?A?A F?F, titles around round garlanded altar with bowl-shaped top. Diademed head of Augustus right / Bull butting left. Germanus Indutilli L(ibertus), magistrate. Bronze quadrans struck at Gaul, uncertain mint (Treveri?). Much nicer portrait in hand than photo suggests.
His laureate head rt., CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE / Gaius & Lucius standing front, each with a hand resting on a round shield, a spear, & in field above, a lituus right & simpulum left ("b9"), AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT.
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