Game Of The Contemporary Civilizations Revised

Since you wanted to see a Byzantine coin, here as special deal a 2-in-1:



Follis of year 6 (=615/6) of Heraclius minted in officina A of Constantinople - Sear#805
over
Follis of year 9 (=573/4) of Justin II minted in officina B of Nicomedia - Sear#369

The red markers indicated the orientation of the matrix (original coin) while the black ones indicate the orientation of the overmint.

Does any one have a coin they want to post?

A billion tridrachm, minted by Carthage around 215-205 BC. 9.589g, 26.2mm

Obverse: Head of Tanit left, wearing barley wreath, pellet on leaf, triple-pendant earing, and necklace with many pendants

Reverse: Unbridled horse standing right, palm tree in background, pellet below horse's belly forward of the palm trunk

The Second Punic War was raging during this time, and this coin's minting period would have seen Hannibal's fall in Italy and the beginning of the end for Carthaginian dominance of the western Mediterranean.

Elsewhere in the world the successor states quashed several rebellions and even managed to expand their territories a bit, sometimes at the expense of the others. Philip V in Macedon picked the Carthaginian side in the war while Rome worked hard to keep the various city-states of Greece from uniting, and Persia fought (and lost) against Bactria while also building influence in India.

In my opinion this was one of the most interesting periods in world history, because for a few decades there really was no superpower. Alexander's kingdoms had fallen, Rome hadn't fully risen, Carthage was still powerful (at the beginning anyway,) Greece wasn't united, and from this point one can imagine an almost infinite number of possibilities for who could have risen up and dominated the world stage for the next hundred years. From hindsight we know it was Rome, and know that it was far longer than 100 years, but there is no reason it had to be Rome, and oh what a different world it would be...

Did you mention Parthia?

Well...okay, you didn't. I'm posting one anyway.

Arsaces II
drachm, 211 - 191 BC
Sellwood 6.1

Pergamum Kingdom
AR Tetradrachm
Attalos I
241-197 BC
Bust of Philetaerus
Athena enthroned
Mysia mint
SNG BnF 1623
28.5 mm x 16.282 grams

A bit on the edge of the Hellenic world here - enough on the edge to be now in Russian territory... but yeah, that was a pretty major country back in the day (though perhaps not in that specific period).



Bosporus, Pantikapaion, AE16, ca. 220-210 BC
Head of bearded satyr right / bow, arrow, PANTI below
Anokhin 145, apparently (date should be correct if the reference is).

Sorry for the awful photos - did a few shots about a week after purchase, never really cared enough to do any more. Might consider making a few more photos eventually (it's a nice coin, just really dark).

Unfortunately the obverse is very much off centre, but still:



AE 14 from Antiochos III, the Great (223-187BC) - BMC4p28#53

Obverse: Laureate head of Antiochos III right, dotted border
Reverse: BASILEW[S] and ANTIL[OXOY] either side of Apollonaked, standing left, holding arrow and bow

Note: Yes, there is a Lambda in the name on this coin

Carthaginian Traveling Mint, Iberia, Carthago Nova
c. 220-210 BC. AE Unit 13.4mm 1.59g
Obverse: Bust of Tanit Left
Reverse: Carthaginian Helmet
ref:(Alvarez Burgos (1992), 86, 403-4 ; Villaronga (NAH, Numismática Antigua de Hispania) p. 69, nº 43 (pl. II, XXI / XXII) ; Lindgren I, 2)