LONGINUS

Nerva coins appear to be the least common of the Five Good Emperors. When searching VCoins, only 5 pages of Nerva related coins were displayed. This makes sense considering Nerva’s reign was only 16 months. Trajan, who ruled for 19 years, has 31 pages of related coins on the VCoins site. Antoninus Pius ruled for 23 years and has 28 pages of coins, Hadrian, who ruled for 21 years has 24 pages, and Marcus Aurelius, having ruled for 19 years has 13 pages of related coins on the VCoins site. Anyway, I feel fortunate to have my modest collection. Please post your Nerva coins and your comments.

It appears as though the Saturnalia season is off to a good start. I’m still on the fence and may have to sit this one out. My wife and I are considering a move, only about 3 miles, and whatever I decide, I want to thank @Curtisimo for heading up S.S.S. 23 🎄! Here are are some of the awesome gifts I’ve received in the past.

Great coin and beautiful and unusual photographs @filolif ! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Great coin and post, @panzerman! Here is my one and only Valerian II.

Great post @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix! I have a Roman Imperial denarius reverse featuring Hercules but this hemiobol is my favorite. Don’t let Herc’s angry face fool you. He prefers the square version too because it holds more cheese and pepperoni.

Great post, @DonnaML!

Welcome and great to see your post, @Eric K. 👍 🏛️ !

I almost forgot about my youthful Caracalla with his “Ski-jump ” nose.

Very interesting coin and great post, @Tejas! Your Gordian III has a nose like Bob Hope. It’s fun to look for celebrity lookalikes. Here is my Julia Domna mini collection. Quoting David Bowie’s “Blue Jean” lyrics, “She’s got a turned up nose.”

I love your Flavians, David ! Not a Vespasian but my one and only Salus.

Great graphic, @Salomons Cat! Judaea (personification) is not a goddess but I wanted to pay homage nonetheless. My first ancients (first love ) were Judaean coins in a boxed collection.

I had a lot of fun creating these illustrations for my "Goddesses " collection poster. This may need some editing but here it is as of 10/2 10:45 P.M.

Great question, @kirispupis but I’m not going there. Too many to mention.

Thank you, @Salomons Cat ! Your inspiring words give me wings.

Welcome to the forum @Brad Hayward. Great to see your coin and your post!

An amazing attention to detail post, @Roman Collector I’m not sure I have her hairstyle quite right on this button illustration but hair it is ✂️.

Great post, @ambr0zie! I purchased this Julia Domna denarius because I liked her portrait. I‘ve added several others to my mini-collection featuring portraits resembling real people I‘m acquainted with.

Beautiful coin, @expat! The image centering is perfect on a nice wide flan. Tacitus is on my “Coins to acquire list.“

Great post @maridvnvm I’ve got a Laodicea denarius of Septimius Severus. It’s one of my favorites because it was one of the first denarii I purchased when I decided to rebuild my collection after regrettably selling off most of my previous one. I refer to the image on the reverse as the “Goddess on skis.“ I always have a lot of fun making labels for the archival flips I purchased to replace the variety of old pvc flips. Your post inspires me to get to work on my Antioch, Nabataean, and Seleucid collections.

Interesting post, @beluga! I purchased a Vitellius near the end of last year but I was not drawn to his image. It was the image of Vesta that caught my attention.

I think yours is the nicest of this type I’ve scene @robinjojo.

Great research, @Roman Collector. Thank you for the effort you put into these posts!

Thank you for posting your excellent Nero acquisition, @JayAg47— that’s an impressive coin! Of all the Roman emperors — I think it is Nero who fascinates me the most. Here’s my favorite Nero. I was fortunate to acquire this one near the end of last year from one of my favorite dealers. I need to do some research on what Emperor Nero’s favorite foods may have been.

Beautiful siliqua, @Magnus Maximus — and very informative post. Here’s my first such denomination — I’ll be shopping for more. I purchased this one in commemoration of the anniversary of Valen’s defeat and tragic death at Andrianople.

Great post, @Roerbakmix Seeing a group of coins like yours in this condition excites the heck out of me. My mind starts racing trying to imagine the history they’ve been through. You have some nice Nabataean coins in the group. Thank you for the tag @John Conduitt. You can really get into these once you start looking for them and appreciating the amazing people who used them. I think it’s safe to say that you have at least one of Aretas (named in the Bible ). The jugate portraits (side by side faces in profile ) are very cool! John Anthony really knows these coins—I’d call him an authority. Anyway, here a few of my favorites with attributions that I’m 90% certain about but I’m always eager to make alterations as I learn more.