Post it and pick it!

[shanxi]

Caracalla
Denar
Rome mint, 201 A.D.
Obv.: ANTOINIVS PIVS AVG, Laureate and cuirassed bust right
Rev.: PART MAX PONT TRP IIII, Trophy with two Parthian captives
Ag, 3.1 g, 18.2 mm
Ref.: RIC 54a

 

Next: Trophy

[Alwin]

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
Denarius
Rome, 200-201
3.29 g - 19 mm
S 6323 v. - C 370 - RIC 176
SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right
PART MAX PM TR P VIIII, trophy between two captives

Next: Another PART MAX

 

Edited August 14, 2022 by Alwin

[Curtis JJ]

Did someone say "PART MAX"? Apparently I have four of this Caracalla type (PART MAX PON TR P V COS & PART MAX PON TR P IIII [x3])

Top Left: my favorite, remarkably affordable from Victor Clark on VCoins (his photo).
Top Right/Lower Left: Savoca.
Bottom right (bit of sentimental value): Purchased from Rudi Smits, the Belgian (Antwerp) numismatist (died  Mar 2014).

NEXT: Captives Coinage

Edited August 14, 2022 by Curtis JJ
rev legends

[TuckHard]

I have this super tough captive coin which miraculously still has enough detail in the right spots to ID it well.

Roman Empire
367-375 AD
Valentinian I
Siscia Mint
AE | 1.68 grams
Obv: Emperor facing right
Rev: Emperor dragging captive, Q to left, K over P right, BSISCV below
Ref: RIC IX 14a type xxvii(a)

Next: a captive treated better than this

[Curtis JJ]

15 minutes ago, TuckHard said:

Next: a captive treated better than this

It's funny how well one can identify coins like this with practice! I've certainly got bunches like this that I saved because they fit my "captives" collection. You can even make out the field-control-symbols & mint & officina letter on yours, I love that!

I'm not sure if this captive is being treated any better, but I was able to treat it slightly better when cleaning this coin, maybe 20 years ago using olive oil soak / toothpick (though some bits of patina flaked away, which is why I didn't try to remove every speck of dirt).

On this one you can still see the Chi-Rho. Beginning with coins of Constantius II and Constans the RIC "captives coinage" started to dramatize that the emperor was dominating pagan barbarians in the name of both Rome and Christianity. (Being my favorite collecting area for Roman coins, my page on "barbarians, captives, and enemies" touches on that.)

 

And, for a "captive being treated better" interpretation, here's Constans gently dragging one from his grass hut by the hand rather than the hair while tied up! 

Next: Romans in the Christian Period (4th cent. onward) with a Captive, Enemy, or Barbarian anywhere in the design

Edited August 14, 2022 by Curtis JJ
Alternate interpretation!

[John Conduitt]

4 minutes ago, TuckHard said:

I have this super tough captive coin which miraculously still has enough detail in the right spots to ID it well.

Roman Empire
367-375 AD
Valentinian I
Siscia Mint
AE | 1.68 grams
Obv: Emperor facing right
Rev: Emperor dragging captive, Q to left, K over P right, BSISCV below
Ref: RIC IX 14a type xxvii(a)

Next: a captive treated better than this

This is great. There's no way you'd expect to get an ID with no legends on a common coin, but you can.

[Curtis JJ]

38 minutes ago, John Conduitt said:

This is great. There's no way you'd expect to get an ID with no legends on a common coin, but you can.

The amazing thing is this type was struck by Valens, Valentinian, and Gratian, and also Theodosius (much less common, but they didn't come with field marks or this officina, I don't think). All of the first three even used K / P for the right field marks (among many other variants).

Valens also used K/P/BSISCV, but you can tell there are too many letters for Valens; Gratian did have K/P BSISC- (I don't know about the -V officina); however, I think all Gratians for that issue had a continuous obv. legend (no break); so I think that narrows it down to Valentinian.

Of course, all that depends on all the different officina and controls being well documented by the references. @TuckHard may also be able to read the final letters in the name a little better in hand.

This is the stuff I really enjoyed about identifying late Roman bronze coins -- especially the lower grade ones I cleaned myself or bought in group lots! Reminds me of all the little strategies like that, which you can really only learn through practice.

[Spaniard]

Valens. 364-378 AD. AE Nummus (2.19 gm, 18mm). Thessalonica mint. Struck 364-367 AD.
Obv.: D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right.
Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM, Emperor walking to right, head to left, holding labarum and dragging captive; TESΓ in exergue.
RIC IX #16b. VF.

Next..More Valens

[DonnaML]

Valens, AR reduced Siliqua, 364-367 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. DN VALEN-S PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / Rev. VOT- V- MV•LT - X in four lines within wreath. In exergue: Mintmark RB. RIC IX Rome 10c (p. 118), RSC V 91(h) (ill.), Sear RCV V 19687. 17 mm., 2.00 g.  From 1887 East Harptree hoard (one of 19 coins of this type in hoard; see https://archive.org/details/thirdnumismatic08royauoft/page/46/mode/1up). Ex Spink Auction 16006, 26-27 Sep 2016, Part of Lot 3028. (See https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1689&lot=3028.)  [Footnote omitted.]

Next, a coin issued by his brother, Valentinian I.

Edited August 14, 2022 by DonnaML

[DonnaML]

Wow. I thought this would be an easy one! Nobody has a coin of good old Valentinian I?

[Roman Collector]

Here's a Valentinian I:




Next: More SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE.

[Curtis JJ]

Here we go, my Valens SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE ex CNG Keystone 6 / Kenneth Bresset Collection

 

 

 

NEXT: ANY WINGED HUMANOID FIGURE (Victory or otherwise) 

[Octavius]

 RR denarius Plautius  with winged Aurora reverse...

next ... more wings...

 

[akeady]

Here's a "winged female figure running right, looking back".

State, City:	Caria, Kaunos
Coin:	Silver Hemidrachm - Winged female figure running right, looking back - Griffin standing left, right foreleg raised, within incuse square
Mint:	Kaunos (ca 386-300 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis:	2.44g / 11.6mm / 8h
References:	SNG Keckman 812 Konuk 35
Provenances:	Ex. Dave Surber Collection
Acquisition:	Agora Auctions Online Auction Sale 15 #37 19-Aug-2014

 

As the previous owner, Dave Surber, was the founder of Wildwinds, how about:

Next - a coin published on Wildwinds.

[Curtis JJ]

2 hours ago, akeady said:

Next - a coin published on Wildwinds.

Good one! Here's a Lucius Verus from Augusta Traiana, rescued from an eBay group lot, possibly the first example photographed (now the SMB has photographed theirs as well [only the cast is on RPC, but coin photo is on their website], so it's no longer the "only photographed"). It's on the Wildwinds Lucius Verus Page and Thrace, Augusta Traiana page, and the second specimen on the RPC Online Page (both submitted by me). (Nice thing about collecting Provincials -- you're always finding "one of the only ones" of something!)

NEXT: A coin published on RPC Online

Edited August 15, 2022 by Curtis JJ

[shanxi]

Livia, wife of Augustus
Cilicia, Augusta
Æ 18mm
Dated year 6 (AD 26/27)
Obv.: IOYΛIΛ [CE]BACTH , Draped bust right
Rev.: [E]TOYC ς AYΓOY CTANWN, Tyche seated right on rock, holding grain ear, river god Saros at feet.
AE, 18mm, 4.36 g
Ref.: SNG Levante 1241 (this coin), RPC I 4009 (this coin)
ex CNG eAuction 106, lot 180

 

Next: seated right

[ambr0zie]

 

Kings of Parthia. Ekbatana. Artabanus II, cca 10-38
Drachm AR
18 mm, 2,87 g
Obv/ bare-headed bust left with medium square cut beard, wearing diadem with loop at the top and three ends, hair almost straight, earring visible; border of dots
Rev/ beardless archer, seated right on throne; in right hand, bow; below bow monogram 26; Greek inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ / ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ / ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣ / ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ legend on left read from outside
Sellwood 63.6

 

Next - Parthia

[Spaniard]

3 minutes ago, ambr0zie said:

Next - Parthia

Vardanes I (40-47 AD)

Vardanes I (40-47 AD) AE Chalkous 11mm/1.8gr.. Obverse- Bust left with short beard, wearing diadem and spiral torque; hair in three distinct waves with earring visible; diadem pendants shown as three lines; circular border of pellets. Reverse- Monogram ΜΤΘ; legend as dashes Mint- Mithradatkart-Near modern Askabad in Turkmenistan. Ref- Sellwood 64 type variant (ΜΤΘ monogram) This is quite a rare type Next...More Parthia.

[shanxi]

PARTHIAN KINGDOM. Orodes II (57-38 BC)
AR drachm, Ekbatana
Obv:: Diademed, draped bust of Orodes II left, wearing rounded beard, royal wart on brow, torque ends in hippocamp; star to left, crescent above star to right
Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ-ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ-ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ-ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ-ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ-ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; TA monogram below bow, Trident anchor symbol behind throne.
AR, 19mm, 3.94g.
Ref.: Shore 260; Sellwood 48.8.

 

Next: Archer

[John Conduitt]

Phraates IV Drachm, 37-2BCMithradatkart. Silver, 21mm, 4.16g. Diademed bust left, wart on forehead; behind, eagle flying left, crowning Phraates with wreath. Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow (Sellwood 52.32-3 var).

Next: throne

[Roman Collector]

Faustina I, AD 138-140.
Roman AR denarius, 3.17 g, 17.3 mm, 12 h.
Rome, AD 140.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, left.
Rev: IVNONI REGINAE, Throne, against which rests transverse sceptre; below, peacock with tail spread.
Refs: RIC 339b; BMC 143; Cohen 220 (no collection cited); Strack 405 (citing BMC and Reka Devnia); Reka Devnia 1313; RCV --; CRE 132.

Next: peacock with tail spread.

[shanxi]

Faustina II
AR-Denar, Rome
Obv.: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, draped bust right
Rev.:CONSECRATIO, peacock standing facing, head right.
Ag, 17.2mm
Ref.: RIC 743, CRE 200 [R]

 

Next: more peacocks

[Ursus]

Julia Domna, Roman Empire, denarius, 196–211 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA; bust of Julia Domna, draped, r. Rev: IVNO, Iuno standing l., holding patera and sceptre, peacock at feet l. 18mm, 3.20g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 559.

Next: Severan ladies

[ambr0zie]

Julia Maesa. Augusta AD 218-224. Rome Denarius AR 19 mm., 2,31 g.
Mother of Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander
RIC IV Elagabalus 249           
Date Range: AD 218 - AD 222
Obverse Legend: IVLIA MAESA AVG
Type: Bust of Julia Maesa, hair waved and turned up low at the back, draped, right
Reverse Legend: FECVNDITAS AVG
Type: Fecunditas, draped, standing left, extending her right hand over a child and holding cornucopiae in left hand

 

Next - another Severan lady, but not one shown in this post or the previous

 

[Ursus]

Julia Soaemias, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 218–222 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVG, bust of Julia Soaemias, draped, r., hair waved and turned up low at the back. Rev: VENVS CAELESTIS; Venus, diademed, draped, seated l., holding apple in extended r. hand and sceptre in l. hand; at feet, child. 19mm, 3.39g. Ref: RIC IV Elagabalus 243.

Next: Yet another Severan lady not shown in this or post or the previous two

Edited August 15, 2022 by Ursus