Phil Anthos Posted October 21, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 21, 2023 Faustina I / Ceres after 141 AD AR Denarius (18mm, 2.98g) O: Draped bust right, hair arranged in chignon; DIVA FAVSTINA. R: Ceres, veiled, standing right, holding corn ears and sceptre; AVGVSTA. RSC 93; RIC 358; Sear 4581; BMC 389; Strack 475 ex Vaughn Rare Coin Gallery ~ Peter 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 21, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 21, 2023 1 hour ago, expat said: Diva Faustina Faustina Sr AR Denarius, RIC 361, RSC 101a, BMC 417, SEAR 4583. DIVA FAVSTINA, with elaborate hairstyle and draped bust right / AVGV-STA, Ceres standing left, long hair tied behind, raising right hand & holding long torch with left. Rome mint, A.D. 141. 3,0 g - 15 mm Lovely, but Beckmann's die-linkage study demonstrates that the coins with the AVGVSTA reverse legend and depicting Ceres holding a single torch or scepter are securely dated to AD 145-47; these coins were produced before the Ceres type with two torches was introduced in December AD 147 with the birth of Faustina the Younger's first child. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 22, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 22, 2023 Link: 11 hours ago, Phil Anthos said: Ceres Gaius Memmius; Denarius of the Roman Republic Period 56 BC; Material: Silver; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 3.63g; Mint: Rome; Reference: Crawford RRC 427/2; Obverse: Laureate head of Quirinus, right. Border of dots. The Inscription reads: QVIRINVS C·MEMMI·C·F for Gaius Memmius Gaius Filius (Gaius Memmius, son of Gaius); Reverse: Ceres seated right, holding torch in left hand and corn-ears in right hand; before, snake. Border of dots. The Inscription reads: MEMMIVS·AED·CERIALIA·PREIMVS·FECIT for Memmius Aedile Ceriala Preimus Fecit (Memmius, Aedile, initiator of the games of Ceres). 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 22, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 22, 2023 Link Ceres on a Republican coin 17 mm, 3,36 g. M. Volteius M. f. AR denarius. Rome. 75 BC. Head of Bacchus (or Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath / Ceres driving biga of snakes right, holding torch in each hand; dolphin behind. Crawford 385/3; Sydenham 776; Volteia 3. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 22, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 22, 2023 Link: snake biga. Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman provincial Æ 25.4 mm, 10.73 g, 7 h. Mysia, Cyzicus, AD 169-175. Obv: ΦΑVСΤΕΙΝΑ СΕΒΑCTH, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: ΚVΖΙΚΗΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡ, Demeter standing in biga drawn by coiling serpents, right, holding torch in each hand. Refs: RPC IV.2, 17502 (temporary); BMC –; Mionnet II –; Wiczay –. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 22, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2023 Mysia PERGAMON (Mysia) AE16. Obverse: Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with 8 pointed star. Reverse: AΘHNAΣ / NIKHΦOPOY. Owl standing facing on palm frond right, with wings spread. Monograms ΓΑ and ΑΡ either sides of owl in fields. Leipzig 1102-1103. Pergamon mint, ca. 200-133 BC. 2,9 g - 16 mm 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 22, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 22, 2023 Owl 20 mm, 6,66 g. Seleukid Kings of Syria. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 126/5-121/0 BC. Ӕ. Antioch. Dated SE 190 = 123/2. Radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / BAΣΙΛIΣΣHΣ KΛEOΠATPAΣ KAI BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, owl standing right on fallen amphora, head facing; IE to inner right; below, PP (date, first P retrograde) and palm. SC 2263.2f. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 22, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 22, 2023 (edited) Link: Cleoopatra Thea and Antiochus VIII. This one came from the Henry Clay Lindgren collection, which he sold off in a series of buy-or-bid sales some 15 to 20 years ago. I like it because of the write-up about it in the Celator: Cleopatra Thea, Queen of Syria, with son Antiochus VIII. AR tetradrachm; 15.85 gm, 27 mm. Antioch mint, 125-121 BC. Obv: Jugate busts, right. Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, Zeus Nikephoros seated l., holding lotus-tipped scepter; IE outer left, A under throne. Refs: BMC 4.86,5; SNG Spaer 2437; c.f. Sear 7135. Notes: Ex-Henry Clay Lindgren. Obverse die match to an example sold in Baldwin's, Dmitry Markov and M&M Numismatics New York Sale IX, January 13, 2005. Here's the write-up about the sale in The Celator: Edited October 22, 2023 by Roman Collector 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted October 22, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 22, 2023 Links: Antiochos VIII and Zeus Nikephoros. Syria, Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypon) Tetradrachm, 109-96 BCE Antioch Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / Rev. Zeus Nikephoros seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike on outstretched right hand and scepter in left; to outer left, E/P monogram above A [Antioch]; ΔI monogram below throne; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. Seleucid Coins [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; Seleucid Coins Online [same] (see http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309 ); Seaby 7145 (ill.) [Sear, David, Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9 (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [Newell, E.T., The Seleucid Mint of Antioch (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [Spaer, A. & A. Houghton, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins (London, 1998)]; BMC 4 Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI] [Gardner, P., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria (London, 1878)]. 27 mm., 16.2 g. Purchased from Frank S. Robinson, Auction 111, Feb. 11, 2020, Lot 146. [Not FSR's photo] 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 Link another king named Antiochos. 18 mm, 3,7 g. Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochus VII Euergetes 138-129 BC. AR drachm. Tarsus, “civic” workshop. Diademed head of Antiochus VII right / BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEPΓETOY, Sandan standing right, wearing a polos and with bow and quiver over shoulder, holding labrys and flower, on the back of horned lion-griffin right; to outer left, [ΛY above monogram]. Cf. SC 2058.1; HGC 9, 1081. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted October 23, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2023 Link Flower. BRASS DUPONDIUS OF DOMITIAN AS CAESAR: SPES. ROME, AD 81. RIC II 351. E.F Obverse: CAES DIVI AVG VESP F DOMITIAN COS VII, Laureate bust of Domitian facing left. Reverse: S C, Spes advancing left, holding flower and lifting skirt. RIC II 351? [Rome, AD 81]. Diameter: 28 mm. Weight: 12.8 g. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 45 minutes ago, Dafydd said: BRASS DUPONDIUS OF DOMITIAN AS CAESAR: SPES. ROME, AD 81. RIC II 351. E.F That’s a well portrait- Gratulation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted October 23, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 minute ago, Prieure de Sion said: That’s a well portrait- Gratulation! Thank you, shame the reverse is not as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 Not very pretty, but... Maximianus / Elpis Alexandria, Egypt 287-288 AD (Year 2, first reign) AE Tetradrachm (17mm, 8.13g) O: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; MAΞIMIANOC CEB. R: Elpis standing left, holding flower and raising her skirt; L-B on either side. Milne 4814 ex M&R Coins ~ Peter 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 Yes, a gorgeous portrait of Domitian! ~ Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted October 23, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2023 Alexandria Augustus Ae Diobol, 24 MM 8.65 GR AE Diobol Year 41 = 11/12 AD, Egypt, City of Alexandria. Head R. Rs. LMA in the oak wreath. L. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 6 minutes ago, Dafydd said: Thank you, shame the reverse is not as good. Here in the forum no one has to be "ashamed" of a coin - all coins are worth showing, all have a story to tell. But if you want to know, by all means 🙂 the reverse is good, the coin is great centred, the patina colour beautiful and the portrait gorgeous. I would love to have your Domitian in my collection. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted October 23, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 23, 2023 All Flavians look like the Godfather to me. 🙂 ~ Peter 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 24, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 24, 2023 Link: Alexandrian bronze with the date within a wreath on the reverse. Livia, under Augustus, 27 BCe - 13 CE. Roman Æ diobol, 7.41 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h. Egypt, Alexandria, 6th series, 10/11 CE. Obv: Bare head right with Nodus hairstyle. Rev: Date (LM=40) within oak wreath. Refs: BMC 16.4, 31; SGI 209; Emmett 57; RPC 5054. Notes: Lindgren sale 38, lot 110. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 24, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2023 Within wreath 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 24, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 24, 2023 Pileus 21 mm, 3,77 g. Trebonianus Gallus 251-253. AR antoninianus. Rome. IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, bust of Trebonianus Gallus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, right / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas, draped, standing left, holding pileus in right hand and transverse sceptre in left hand. RIC IV Trebonianus Gallus 70; RSC 68. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted October 24, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2023 Pileus and sceptre 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 24, 2023 · Patron Share Posted October 24, 2023 Link: Antoninus Pius Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Roman provincial Æ 18.5 mm, 4.59 g, 12 h. Bithynia, Nicaea, AD 138-161. Obv: ΑVΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝ[EΙΝΟϹ?], bare-head, right. Rev: ΝΕΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ, Apis-bull standing, right, head surmounted by solar disk and wearing uraeus crown. Refs: RPC IV.1, 10001 (temporary); Mionnet 5.89,455; RG I(3).413,118(2) pl. LXIX, 19. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 24, 2023 · Member Share Posted October 24, 2023 Link: 1 hour ago, Roman Collector said: Bithynia, Nicaea Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus; Reign: Commodus; Mint: Nicaea, Bithynia; Date: 180/191 AD; Nominal: Bronze; Material: AE; Diameter: 15mm; Weight: 3.62g; Reference: RPC IV.1 25063 (this coin); Rare: Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections); Provenance: N&N Numismatics London, Great Britain (Auction 14, Lot 150); Obverse: Bare head of Commodus, right; Inscription: Α Κ Μ ΑV ΚΟ ΑΝΤΩ; Translation: Autokrator Kaisaros Marcos Aurelios Kommodos Antoninos; Translation: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus; Reverse: Nude Athlete standing, facing, head, right, placing crown on his head; Inscription: ΙƐΡΟϹ ΑΓΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΙƐΩΝ; Translation: Ieros Agon Nikaieon; Translation: Sacred athletic competition, City and People of Nicaea 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted October 24, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2023 Link: Commodus Commodus Lydia, Hierocaesarea Obv: AVT KAI M AVPH KOMMOΔOC. Laureate and cuirassed bust right. Rev: ЄΠ AI APTЄMIΔΩPOV APX A IЄPOKAICAPЄΩN. Perseus advancing right, holding harpa and severed head of Medusa Æ, 35mm, 20.53g Ref.: RPC IV.2 online 11397 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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