Silver turtles like this one were widely used in trade during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The sea-turtle design is distinctive of the island of Aegina, located off the northeastern coast of the Peloponnese. 🪙Aegina, Stater, ND (520 BC - 480 BC) Silver, 25 mm, 12 g N#96163 #numismatics #ancientgreece #silver

Attica Owl - Silver Tetradrachm from Athens, about 450-400 BC. This is a coin I've been after for a while. Thankfully a reasonable dealer at the table right next to mine had this one for sale in Sunday.

Edit: I have found similar coins online to this one so it may be correct as a coin of Herod Archelaus (the seller told me this is what it is). Please let me know your thoughts and if this is indeed a Herodian coin.

Castor and Pollux? Rising and setting sun? Two branches of the river Danube? These two upside-down faces on the drachm of Istros (a Greek colony by the Black Sea on today's Romanian territory) are still enigmatic. 🪙 Drachm, Istros, ND (ca 340 BC - 313 BC) Silver, 18 mm, 5.9 g N#268112 #numismatics #ancientgreece #silver

I learned about an other coin with hieroglyphs in the latest Bulletin of the French Numismatic Society. It's an imitation of an Athenian owl with the hieroglyph 𓎝 (uah - wꜣḥ), probably minted in Philistia in the 4th century BC. Only 9 specimens are known: 8 specimens of about 0.5 grams and a lighter specimen of 0.12 grams, all from the same hoard discovered in Sicily in 1890. 🪙 Obol, Philistia, ND (ca 4th century BC) Silver, 0.5 g, 11 mm Just added to Numista under number N#442799. 📷 Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, Delepierre 3043 See also the only other ancient coin with hieroglyphs on Numista: N#77617. Please comment if you know any other ancient coin with hieroglyphs. 📰 Julien Olivier; 2024. “À la recherche des chouettes « uah ». Le trésor de Sicile 1890”. Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique, 79 | 08, pages 363-371.

A vivid scene of a lion attacking a bull is shown on this silver stater from Tarsos, Cilicia (modern-day Turkey). The name of the Achaemenid satrap, Mazaios, is written at the top in Aramaic: 𐡌𐡆𐡓𐡂. 📷 Stater, Cilicia, Mazaios, ND (ca. 361 BC - 334 BC) Silver, 10.8 g, 25 mm. N# 81096 #numismatics #ancient #silver

Any information would be appreciated. Sorry for the poor picture quality.

AE Follis of Constantine the Great (Canstantine 1st) 306AD to 337AD, reverse featuring Sol. Minted at the Arles Mint, France.

Not my coin, but pretty high up there in the list of all time favorite coins I have shot.

Three ancient coins I got over the weekend.

Here's a Nero that I picked up recently... Enjoy!

AE3 Follis from the Reign of Constantine 1st (Constantine the Great). Commemorative issue minted at Treveri Mint circa 330-331AD.