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Not much is know about these coins. They both date to the medieval ages and include a cross so are likely from a Christian dominated area.

Henrid VI was the king of the Holy Roman Empire from 1191-1197 CE. He helped suppress rebellion while his father was crusading. He was a successful ruler, marrying the daughter of the king of Sicily, but eventually died in 1197 from malaria.

These coins, from about the same time but of differing weight and size, both show the typical lion facing a bull. This image was the standard design on the earliest Lydian silver coinage, thought by most scholars to be the oldest silver coinage.…

From Rome, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter

Tondo from Djemila (Algeria), probably AD 199 (G. M. A. Hanfmann, Roman Art, 1964, pl. XLVIII), showing the Severan dynasty: Septimius Severus with Julia Domna, Caracalla and Geta, whose face is smeared out, probably because of the damnatio memoriae…

Head of the colossal statue of Constantine I, Musei Capitolini, Rome. Marble, Roman artwork.