Lucania, Herakleia AR Diobol. Circa 432-380 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / HE (retrograde) above lion crouching right. BMC 3, SNG Cop 1100.
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Retrograde
A coin called Retrograde is a coin with legend going left all around the "brink". See photo: a Titvs' aureus (79-81 a.D.).
Ribattitura ...
Note: Retrograde N in the corrupted obverse legend
Maurice Tiberius, Æ Follis, Year 17 (598/599), Theoupolis (Antioch), Officina 3
d N mI .-INVT ...
Type E37
Retrograde obverse.
18mm. 12:00. 31.2 grams.
Sear 1814 "sometimes retrograde"
Anokhin 443 (retrograde variant of 441) ...
ΠΟΜ (retrograde) Poseidon naked, with chlamys hanging loosely across his shoulders, wielding trident, and occasionally holding a wreath in his extended hand (an agonistic prize ?); a dolphin or pistrix sometimes as an adjunct symbol.
First the legend includes a retrograde 'E'. The other letters are the same as their mirror images but the letter order is the same as found on coins with normal E's so it seems wrong to call the entire legend retrograde.
+TVRRIS DAVIT retrograde, Tower of David, 4 flags protruding from sides/+SEPVLChRVM DOMINI, Holy Sepulchre showing rock tomb and aedicule, guardian angel(?) above, Slocum 288; CCS 51; Schl.-; Met. pg.77.
as on Class I, seldom retrograde. Obv. types: Herakles wielding club, Hermes (?) carrying ram, Nude winged figure, Bearded head of Ammon, Bearded head of Ares on shield (ΜΑ, Ma).
The most spectacular are those with retrograde motifs, with errors in texts or dates. These faults ...
"LXV" on Claudius As together with retrograde "PR" countermark (middle coin). This countermark is for the Legio XV Apollinaris.
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for the middle coin with the L XV countermark diameter is 26 by 28mm with a weight of 14.2g ...
Obv: [AVT]O KAI TI AIΛ AÎ"[ ] (Retrograde)
Laureate head left.
Rev: ZEVÎ"MATEWN
Tetrastyle temple, with peribolos enclosing the sacred grove; all within laurel-wreath. (GIC 1492v) ...
coin #1:
The coinage in a shape of Septimius Sever's head on the obverse of this types of coins was firstly stated. The retrograde ring-off of the separate letters of the inscription and the absence of the separate letters in the legend.
*28658 Mattathias Antigonus. 40-37 BC. AE Prutah (2.10) . Double cornucopia, ear of barley between/Retrograde Hebrew Mattatayah. Usual flan handles . H-483, AJC-Y, TJC-40. VG+. $45 [image] ...
 See also: Grade, Legend, Bust, Wreath, Obverse
  
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