Malta AE29. Late 3rd century BC, Veiled female head right / Mummy of Osiris, holding flail & scepter, between Isis and Nephthry, each with wings crossed in front.
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The crossed form of the letter Θ (Θ) is no longer used in this period.
{From the crossed sword and scepter on the obverse.}
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The wide flan and crossed feet of Zeus suggest this is a later issue. The mint name is abbreviated as the letter phi but this could be any of hundreds of cities.
The Visigoths had crossed the lower Danube in 376 and two years later, under Fritigern, had defeated the Romans under Valens at the disastrous battle of Adrianople, in which the emperor lost his life.
After the 2nd Army crossed the Rhine he was reconnoitring the area near Belsen, ahead of the main advancing forces, when he heard a radio message in German discussing a typhus epidemic in the concentration camp there.
'Fairy chimneys,' cones and strange rock formations have been sculpted by wind and rain while subterranean towns were excavated by a populace seeking shelter from the conquerors and would-be conquerors who crisscrossed the wide open steppes of the ...
Such cancellation may be in the form of defacement of the design, such as several crisscrossed lines, the addition of a cancellation mark etc.
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The migrants may have crossed the land bridge several millennia earlier and followed a coastal route, thus avoiding the ice-covered interior.
On July 9, 1755 General Braddock crossed Monongahela River and heard shots from his advanced scouts led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gage.
The central image shows a crossed canon and a fasces bundle, representing military and governmental power.
I remember in one session of our Garrett Collection sale held for the Johns Hopkins University a few years ago, in the space of three days over $10 million worth of coins crossed the auction block! ...
She wears a soft cap, Roman-style sandals with crossed ties, and a long flowing garment of alternating solid and vertically-striped panels.
These coins would be very rare today if all those wooden sailing ships could have crossed the Atlantic successfully.
When the Brand coins crossed the auction block, the entire numismatic world was thrilled to see rarities and other pieces which had been off the market for a generation or more.
One of the commonest, however, is the triple crown of the pope shown together with crossed keys symbolizing the power of the pope and his authority as the successor of St Peter.
In 1835 his father and close relatives crossed over the Orange River in search of better grazing on the banks of the Caledon.
When we offered the collection of Morris Evans in our August 1998 Rarities Sale, 22 of these patterns crossed the auction block, with 21 different varieties.
It depicts two symbols of peace and friendship in the center: hands shaking and crossed peace pipes. Click here to see an image. penny - a small denomination coin usually made of copper.
Frigate Saint Andrews (probably due to Augustus’ influence) on March 12, 1849, arrived in Panama, crossed the Isthmus on foot, by Indian dugout canoe, and on donkeys.
L, sometimes in a crossed script form (₤), is usually used as the symbol.
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He and his soldiers courageously crossed the Delaware River into Trenton, NJ. Using surprise as their greatest weapon, Washington's army captured over 900 prisoners and secured the town.
silver dollars and gold coins, nearly $6 million crossed the block during the sale, with an average lot value of over $4,000.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he threw Rome into more than three years of civil war, eliminating his opponents along the way.
Obverse picture: the big coat of arms of Riga (stone portal with 2 flagged towers, 2 crossed keys above with small cross on top, head of lion in the gates). Legend: CIVITATIS RIGENSIS ...
Crossed shields and spears/ Palm, BPIT above(for Brittanicus), date below, year 14 (=AD54), H652.
The reverse (tails) design features the crossed rifles insignia, the branch insignia of the Infantry. Inscriptions are UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE DOLLAR and E PLURIBUS UNUM.
In August 1415, Henry's army crossed the channel and invaded France. Greatly outnumbered and with his army exhaused and disease ridden, Henry prepared to take on the flower of French knighthood near Agincourt on 25 October 1415.
On his trail followed many others: in 1499-1500, Vincent Yanez Pinzon discovered the northeast coast of South America; in 1513, Ponce de Leon discovered Florida, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama toward the Pacific Ocean.
Type 23. AE2. SALVS REIPVBLICAE
Empress standing front, arms crossed on breast
383-388
Aelia Flaccilla, RIC Constantinople 82
Only for Aelia Flaccilla.
Aelia Flaccila: Constantinople (above), Cyzicus, Nikomedia.
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Reverse: The 'Wheel of Law' Emblem in center surrounded by crossed "Thunderbolts". Tibet and Chinese Script reads: Ch'ien Lung
Code FC13.2
Coin FC13.1 minted in copper
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Destined for an outstanding collection a near perfect 1963 Washington quarter crossed the auction block for $598 in January 2007.
DLRC Auctions sold the coin to a buyer of quality Washington quarters.
Laid Paper
When held to the light, the paper shows alternate light and dark crossed lines.
Lamination
A layer of metal on a coin which has split away from the other layers.
Note that the Norwegian and Danish ore is spelled with a "crossed out O"; the Swedish ore is spelled with an umlaut (two dots) over the "O". The names ultimately derive from the Roman gold coin, the aureus.
Their paths crossed in 1908, when Roosevelt posed for Brenner for a Panama Canal Service medal. The artist had already modeled a plaque and medal for Lincoln's birth centennial and suggested a Lincoln coin.
The saltire or cross is located on the reverse of a Maria Theresia Taler, right next to the year. The saltire is sometimes also described as a pair of crossed staves that appear as an "X".
Bronze 17 mm. GIC-5625. Obverse: a four-line Greek inscription in a wreath. Reverse: Two crossed palm-branches with a date mark for year 14 of Claudius (AD 54) between.
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The magnifications at the right show the counterstamps - an incuse square and an incuse crossed Y.
Type:
Lydia/Apollonia. 2nd-3rd century AD Æ15 ...
*57 ANTONIUS FELIX, Procurator under Tiberius. 26-36 AD. Æ Prutah/ Legend in wreath/crossed palm branches. Unlisted? ιου very small. H-651v, TJC-342v, AJC-32vVF $110 [image] ...
Obv: AV K Λ CEVHPOC
Draped, laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛEITΩN
Two crossed cornucopias.
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helping hand, yet on her feet are the crossed thronged sandals of the ancient
Roman soldier. In the crook of her left arm is a large bundle of oak
and laurel branches representing both civilian and military honors. She ...
The reverse displays an olive wreath under two crossed rifles with bayonets behind a scroll with "Libertad 15 Septembre 1821", the date Guatemala declared its independence from Spain. The year (1894) and fineness (900) appear at the bottom. Nearly 1.
The reverse, modeled by Wojciech Pietranik, depicts a mock coat of arms with the British Lion and the Australian Kangaroo against a representation of the famous old urn above crossed cricket bats.
AV gold Stater (8.58g) Obverse: Head of the goddess Athena wearing a crested Corinthian helmet ornamented with a serpent. Reverse: Nike, the winged goddess of Victory standing with a long crossed scepter and holding a wreath in her outstretched ...
After campaigning unsuccessfully against Persia, he took up arms against the Germans and crossed the Rhine, seeking a negotiations rather than battle.
The metal's surface is dull (or, in contrast, too shiny ‘to be true'), criss-crossed by little scratches and accidents may be visible (shocks to the rim, large scratches).
Due to the swollen rivers of the Punjab, he was considerably delayed and finally on 3 July he crossed the Chinab River about 42 miles north of Wazirabad. Zakariya Khan, the subahdar of Lahore and Multan, had accompanied Nadir to this point.
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