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Silver dirham of Emperor Khosrau II

Description: Coin from the Sassanian Empire in Persia, showing a profile bust of Khosrau II with two standing figures and symbols on reverse.
Date: [0560..0600]

Coin commemorating Roman emperor Caracalla

Description: Commemorative coin of two right-facing portraits within a border of dots on the obverse and reverse sides. One of the men is shown in a laurel crown while the other wears a helmet.
Date: unknown

Coin from Rome of Claudius Drusus

Description: Roman coin of Tiberius Claudius Drusus (Claudius I) head right with a figure holding long torch in right hand and a cornucopia in the left on reverse.
Date: unknown

Coin of Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius

Description: Coin of Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius showing on the obverse laureate head right; the reverse has the inscription SC across the fields in the center of which is Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae.
Date: unknown

Coin of Hadrian from Britain

Description: Roman coin of Hadrian on the obverse shown bust right; on the reverse is the goddess Piety, seated. This coin was found in a cache near Hadrian's wall in Great Britain.
Date: unknown

Coin of Ptolemy VI from Egypt

Description: Coin from the Kingdom of Egypt that bears on the obverse the laureate head of Zeus Ammon, right; on the reverse is an eagle standing left on a thunderbolt.
Date: unknown

Coin of Tiberius from the Lugdunum mint

Description: Roman coin of Tiberius who is on the obverse, laureate head right with the inscription TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII; on the reverse is the front elevation of the Alter of Lugdunum with the inscription ROM ET AVG.
Date: unknown

Modern counterfiet of a coin from Macedon of Alexander the Great

Description: This is a modern cast counterfeit of a tetradrachm from Macedon from the reign of Alexander the Great. The originals were minted ca. 336-323 BCE. The obverse shows Heracles facing right wearing a lion-skin headdress. The reverse shows Zeus seated left, holding an eagle and sceptre with a torch in the left field. Very faint to the right of the seated figure is ALEXANDROU, Alexander. Since Alexander's program of hellenization through hegemony included common coinage, this example is as much … more
Date: unknown
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