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a little cupid with Venus:

I have never seen a mouse on an ancient before- love it! Here are a couple of my critters: bee: ram leaping above Tyche: and hound:

Thank you for another great Faustina Friday! I am sad the catalog is finished. 🥲 I had to go back and read your previous FF post about #1342! Very interesting- that must have taken some time to work out. Sadly no exact matches for this page for me!

your Sulzer #1336 is very nice, the patina is beautiful! I do have a few that fit: Sulzer #1337-1338: Sulzer #1340:

The JD from Alexandria mint is making me a little green. Also the Portrait on the Thessalonica Provincial is absolutely beautiful.

I just received this Faustina As today. So she has never been posted her before:

I can never get enough JD. Now seeing the pictures, I need to re-shoot the Pegasus- it does not do the coin justice. 😅 Here are a couple of my favorites:

Perhaps he had an example of the DIVA FAV-STINA legend break- where only the DIVA F was legible? It could easily be mistaken for DIVAE if the AV and left side is worn.

I have two that have Poppies. 🙂 Julia Domna, Sardes in Lydia IOYΛΙA CЄBACTH, Draped bust right CAPΔΙΑΝΩΝ B NЄΩKOPΩN, cult image of Kore facing, wearing polos and veil, between a corn-ear on the left and poppy on the right Julia Domna IVLIA DO-MNA AVG, Draped bust right FELICITAS TEMPOR, Vase shaped basket containing corn ears and poppies

My Favorite Provincial (a JD of course) features Melicertes:

I also wonder what would make this figure clearly male? A very interesting write up, thank you. I do not collect Roman Republican coins but I do enjoy the style and imagery! I have only a coin that depicts *Liberalitas:

Yay, it's Friday! 😄 A very interesting read, especially about Sulzer #1318. I think it is possible that the coin is real- I guess until we find an example it will be a mystery. Faustina Friday is becoming expensive to read- I added four Faustina I this week. 🥲 Sadly, I only have one from this page! Sulzer #1307:

A very nice coin from Thessalonica, I like the details that you can see with the video! I have a weakness for Macedonian Coins, especially from Stobi. Here is one of my favorite JD Provincials from Thessalonica: Julia Domna Bronze AE 25; 6.050g, 19.8mm, 225o, IOVLIA DOMNA draped bust right QECCALONIKEWN Ares advancing right in military garb, spear in right, shield in left Thessalonica mint, c. 196 - 211 A.D.; (unpublished)

I use a gooseneck phone holder for any filming:

Congratulations on your replacement 😄 I have always thought the hash marks on the Septimius elephants was just to show the elephant skin texture. I would love to add a Caesar elephant coin (someday)- and now maybe a few others from this thread that I have not seen before! Here are my elephants: Septimius- (don't want to mess with this one, he is angry) Antiochus VI India, Mysore

I love Barbaric imitations. Here are a two of mine imitating Domna and Septimius from Emesa:

I started out with uncleaned coin lots and found quite a few little treasures in my piles. (Proculus and a Constantine II from Alexandria) I don't clean anymore and not for quite some time but I did keep some of my favorites! Aquilia Severa, Concordia (She is a mess but still fun to find in an uncleaned lot!) Thrace Cherronesos, Fouree Sicily, Syracuse

Thank you for another Faustina Friday. What a fun idea to match the coins to the catalogue. I will be looking forward to the future pages! I do not have any of the 1285-1296 coins 😐 the only Aeternitas of Faustina Senior I have are the eight rayed star and throne and peacock. Sulzer #1297-98: Sulzer #1299(ish) 😄 Sulzer #1303:

A thread I can get into! One of my very first purchases 22 years ago was a Medusa Aegis type and my nickname was Medusa at the time also. 😆 Here are a few of mine: I would love to add one of the Perseus/Medusa type one day and perhaps find better examples than these that I collected so early on!

I was looking forward to Faustina Friday! The Temple reverse is one of my favorite for The Elder Faustina. Here is mine: DIVA - FAVSTINA Draped bust right AED DIV FAVSTINAE Temple with six columns RIC 343, S 4573 Ar Denarius; 18mm; 3.20g

I find myself waiting for Friday's now just to read Faustina Friday. It also is starting to be an expensive reading habit- as I find myself researching and buying new Faustina coins. 😰 I do not have a Pietas reverse for Faustina Senior. I am a left facing portrait fanatic and love that she has both drape and stephane. I do have two Pietas for Julia Domna as she is my main gal. (with Faustina Junior and Plautilla in a close second) IVLIA DO-MNA AVG draped bust right PIE-TAS Pietas seated left, holding palladium in right hand mint of Alexandria

I think my largest is 25mm and while he is out of my collecting area- I couldn't pass up his double eyes. Valerian I. AD 253 - 260 Antoninianus, Antioch; 4.36g; 25mm IMP VALERIANVS PF AVG radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right FELICITAS AVGG Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae

Still have it @Qcumbor 🙂 and its still one of my favorites!

Yours is spectacular, the desert highlights and details are beautiful. I have four of Salonina but none in such beautiful condition as yours! The first two are my favorite portraits for Salonina.

I find your #1 coin very interesting, I might have to go on my own obsessive hunt! 😄 I have the standing version but have not seen the seated before. /return to lurking Mine: