Jay GT4

Good eye to spot the missing Aegis.  Here's mine from the previous year with Aegis.  What makes it an "unassuming" rarity is the provenance.

IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI CENS POT P P
Laureate head right with Aegis

SC
Mars advancing left with Victory and trophy

Rome, 85 CE

13.67g

RIC 387 (C)

Holed in antiquity and plugged in the late 19th century?

Ex-Manfred Olding 2019 n 184; Ex-Sammlung Heynen 1976;Ex-Paul Schürer (1890-1976); Ex-Fritz Reusing (1874-1956)

Comes with old tag probably from Heynen or Schürer. Olding tag incorrectly attributed to RIC 420 (different ending to legend)

Reusing was a German portrait painter of the early 20th Century whose portraits included Richard Strauss, Igor Strawinsky, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein. After Reusing's death, his nephew Paul Schürer inherited and curated the collection. Heynen was a friend of Reusing's, and at an earlier date had evidently sold or exchanged or given a substantial number of coins to Reusing, this being one of those coins!

Very nice!  I like the young portraits of Nero.  

Here's one I couldn't pass up either.  Snatched it up early at an in person show.  Knew it wouldn't be around long.

Nero Pre-Reform Denarius
NERO CAESAR AVG IMP
Bare head of Nero right

TR P III P P PONTIF MAX EX SC
Legend around oak-wreath enclosing "EX. S C.

Lugdunum, 60-61 AD

3.71g

Sear 1936, RIC 22, BMCRE 24, RSC 216

Rare!

Nice ones!   Here's one of Titus and Serapis:

AYTOK TITOY KAIΣO YEΣΠAΣIANOY ΣEB
laureate head of Titus right

ΣAPAΠIΣ
bust of Serapis right, wearing taenia, modius on head ornamented with branches of laurel, date LB (year 2) right

Alexandria mint, 29 Aug 79 - 28 Aug 80 A.D
12.254g, 25.4mm

Milne 456 - 457; Geissen 319; Dattari 426; cf. BMC Alexandria p. 34, 281 (year 3); Emmett 235

Ex-Forum

2011 Forum Best of Type winner

This is the Wildwinds example

Ptolemy Soter, wanting to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their Hellenic rulers,  promoted worship of Serapis as a deity that would win the reverence of both groups alike. This was despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alexander the Great had attempted to use Amun for this purpose, but Amum was more prominent in Upper Egypt, and not as popular in Lower Egypt, where the Greeks had stronger influence. The Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so an anthropomorphic statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as the equivalent of the highly popular Apis. It was named Aser-hapi (i.e. Osiris-Apis), which became Serapis, and was said to be Osiris in full, rather than just his Ka (life force). Ptolemy's efforts were successful - in time Serapis was held by the Egyptians in the highest reverence above all other deities, and he was adored in Athens and other Greek cities.

Lovely examples.  Here's mine from the same series as David's.  I wonder now did I misattribute this one?  Will have to check the difference between  1446 and 1447.  Plus their's a new Hendin number anyway...

ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΤΙΤΟ Σ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ
Laureate head right.

ΙΟΥΔΑΙΑΣ EAΛ ΩΚΥIΑΣ
Nike standing right, left foot on helmet, writing on shield supported by her knee, palm tree at right.

Caesarea Maritima; 79-81 CE

22mm, 7.23g

Hendin 1447, Meshorer 382

My lastest gold aureus:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=175896

RIC 0857 (V) Titus Aureus

T CAESAR IMP VESPASIAN
Laureate head of Titus right

COS V
Cow (heifer)standing right

Rome, 76 CE

6.84g

RIC 857 (C)

EX-Stephen Album Auction 43 lot 69

It has been proposed that the cow depicted on this type is one of the famous statues by the fifth century BCE Greek sculptor Myron. Myron's statues were brought to Rome by Augustus and were placed in the temple of Apollo on the Palatine in 28 BCE. Vespasian moved them to the new Temple of Pax that he began constructing in 71 CE, to celebrate the end of the Jewish War.

Nice one David.  I've had one of these on my watch list for a long time.

 Hermes is Apollo's half brother who became mesmerized by his playing of the lyre.  Apollo then gives Hermes the caduceus as a symbol of their friendship.  The caduceus also became a symbol of trade.

Great to have them both.  Here's a good link:

http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/articles/koson/koson.htm

And here are mine:

On 6/4/2022 at 10:44 AM, Alegandron said:

Awesome coin @Jay GT4... welcome!

maybe you can bring your coin and more pizzas over to my place. I’ll supply the beer!

AUGUSTUS QUINARII


Octavian as Augustus LEFT-Sinister 27 BC–14 CE AR QuinariusEmerita 25-23 AR 13.5mm 1.79g - P CARISI LEG Victory trophy C 387. RIC 1b SCARCE



RI Octavian as Augustus 25-23 BCE AR Quinarius RIGHT facing bust Carisi Emerita Augusta Sear 1642

Thanks but that's not me😀

In any case here's one I can share