195 Caracalla Nicaea Bithynia Cista Mystica Serpent AE16 Roman Empire (25010102R) Byzantine 66g (heavy flan)

66g (heavy flan)

Very Fine Louis XVI Royal France copper laird error coin

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Struck for Czar Peter I the Great

the Tegucigalpa mint typically reworked/re-engraved dies until dates were not legible and the dies broke

195 Caracalla Nicaea Bithynia Cista Mystica Serpent AE16 Roman Empire (25010102R) Byzantine 66g (heavy flan)Very Fine Roman Provincial Nicaea Bithynia AE16 coin. Struck for Caesar Caracalla between 195 to 198 CE. Approx 16mm, 1. 93g. Obverse: M AV ANTN INoC KAIc, bare head right. Reverse: NIKAIEN, serpent rising from cista. Cista mystica was a basket used for housing sacred snakes in connection with the initiation ceremony into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus).