Helvius Pertinax

Great to have you here! I've read your CT posts with great interest and cant wait to see your posts on here. 50 years is an impressive amount of time!  I hope you have a nice time here 🙂

Oh, interesting story! I have a really worn example of the type. Id like to post it, but i may or may not have lost my phone that has every single coin pic of mine on it 😞

Oh nice, I waited for this 😂 Awesome pics, especially the Hadrian in its natural habitat! Can't wait to go to Rome one day and do the same!

3 hours ago, Alegandron said:

Eastern Roman Empire
Manuel I Comnenus 1143-1180 CE
Aspron Trachy
35mm 4g
Christ Gospels
Labaran globus cruciger Virgin maphorium
SB 1966 scyphate

What a satisfyingly round flan!

Ah yes, I asked because I wasn't able to tell if it was Septimius or the bust of Pescennius Niger looking at me there 😂

15 years is quite a long time for an avatar! Mine is this Hadrian denarius that I got 4 months ago.

This is the edit that another collector did for me:

This is by far my most expensive coin, I bought it around 5 months ago. The type is very well-known, featuring the nymph Parthenope on the obverse and Achelous, a river god portraited as a man faced bull, on the reverse. 

In 1718, a german numismatist published a book about recent discoveries in ancient numismatics. I was happy to find one of my coins in the plates, a didrachm:

And since I do a bit of drawing myself, here is my own drawing (I'm not really good at it 😂)

It might also be important to mention that the book I have is a reprint of the original. 

Now feel free to post your coins that have been drawn by either you, or another artist!

I like the big lettering! It's like the coin is screaming "DIVA!!" 

Faustina, screaming out of her grave "IM A GODESS NOW!!" 😅

On 5/25/2022 at 4:49 AM, Etcherdude said:

I won this last week. I like the Pietas portrait.

Big fan of that old inventory number ngl. Being able to know that someone collected this coin a long time ago already... nice provenance!

Congrats, that looks like some nice toning! A nice motive as well, the reverse I particular. I have a similar coin: a lady and a snake, with some dark toning going on 😁

I've decided to save up for a bigger purchase a while ago, so my last coin is from 3 or 4 months ago. I'm in love with the Hadrian, it's my avatar coin!

Hadrian, AR denarius

Rome, 126/7 CE

Obverse: laureate head of Hadrian right

Reverse: Pudicitia seated left, holding Sombrero

Oh no 😂 I had the same idea for a thread! Well, here are my cats then:

Can we let that one through as a rather chubby feline? 🤣

1 hour ago, AncientNumis said:

oops accidentally sent this trying to quote TIF's post, and don't know how to delete. (just disregard this message please).
Sorry

I dont think there's a delete function yet, I hope it comes I the future!

7 minutes ago, JeandAcre said:

@Helvius Pertinax, it's Trajan Decius --you should've covered more of the legend; then it would Really be a guess!  Really solid examples, by the way.

Thank you, I like them both! I know who the other emperor on my own coins is, I was referring to the Bosporian coin.

14 minutes ago, GordianAppreciator101 said:

That Gallienus sure looks decent, so Un-Gallienusy! 😆For the Emperor behind... I'm not telling, let's just say he got a severe case of Valens. 

Oh, i might have phrased it a bit bad, of course I know who the emperor on my other coin is, it's hard to not recognize his face 😂 I was referring to the Bosporian coin.

Countermarks are neat! I have a siglos with two of them, but I just cant find out where they are from 😞

1 minute ago, Etcherdude said:

 

Here are some photos from Trier taken a few years back.

The "Black Gate" is all that remains of the city's Roman wall.

Architectural styles reveal medieval additions on the left contrasting with the heavy rusticated masonry of the 2nd century Roman structure.

The Baroque era reliefs in this gallery reveal another facet of the structure's evolution, it long functioned as a church.

Trier boasts one of the oldest intact Imperial Roman basilicas, the Aula Palatina was built during the reign of Constantine.

Like the Port Nigra, during the middle ages Constantine's audience hall became a church, though it remains one to this day. 

Part of Trier's Roman bath complex

Trier's Landesmuseum is rich in mosaics and other artifacts from antiquity.

My coin from the Trier mint, roughly contemporary with the Aula Palatina.

Constantinian, AE3/4 BI Nummus

Personification of Roma on obverse, She-wolf and twins on reverse.

Thanks for the pictures. My own visit to Trier was at least 7 years ago, I was around 10 years old then, so I cant remember much of it 😂 I remember visiting the Basilica though, and during that visit I also got my first ancient coin that was dug up on an ancient site in Trier. Its a Claudius II, minted in Mediolanum. Ill post pictures of it when I get back home in a few days.

Intriguing for sure, and I would actually say that it's interesting style makes it kinda beautiful to look at. Gallienus should be one of the two emperors, so here is my coin of him:

Who the other emperor could be? Can't wait for the numismatic society to make some guesses!

I don't have a "real" Tetradrachm yet, but am definately planning to get one in the future! Maybe once I go to Uni, I'll have enough money saved up. Until then, this will have to do:

Probus, BI Tetradrachm 

Alexandria, 180/1 CE

Obverse: laureate head of Probus right

Reverse: eagle, head turned right, holding wreath, LS (= year 6)

Just now, AncientNumis said:

Here ya go! Not perfect - and it's taken with a phone so it's portrait - but I love it 😁
Got it as my lock screen on my phone, the home screen is a pic I took of a statue in the Capitoline museum I saw in the same visit.
This is all reminding me how much I love Rome  :))

Oh wow, thats amazing! So cool to hold this millenia old artifact and know that the person on it was in the same building, thousands of years ago - isn't it? Must be!

4 minutes ago, AncientNumis said:

@Helvius PertinaxThat looks really cool! I love the background, it adds a lot to  the photo and makes it seem even more interesting! Love the coins too - seen them before of course but every time I see them I appreciate them more, your collection is super nice in terms of fun quality pieces, lots more than mine 😅
Haha @maridvnvmyeah in some photos they look practically like they're made of gold - we sometimes joke about them being darics or aurei!
🤣

 

Thank you, I'm also a big fan of that background! There were many fancy documents there, but I went with a more simple handwriting, from the 1830s. Here is a more fancy document, just so, you see what I mean:

Just now, CPK said:

Or a Domitian rhino quadrans!

Of course the challenge would be to get a good, reasonably close-up shot of the coin while at the same time capturing enough of the background scene to make it meaningful. 

Yes, that does seem quite challenging. It would need some practice before, so you don't have to stand in front of the Collosseum for ages, fiddling around with your camera equipment while thousands of tourists try to walk by 😂

This is such a touching story! I didnt cry, trust me. No, I didnt! You don't believe me? Well... maybe. But only a tiny bit.

Being away from home and my sweet little cats, this is somehow relatable. Hope they won't die of excitement when I get back! 

Thanks for sharing this interesting story behind this fabulous coin 😀

33 minutes ago, CPK said:

@Helvius Pertinax Nice photos! I like the experimentation. 🙂
 

I've often thought what would be really cool would be to somehow photograph the coins within a realistic, historically accurate "reenactment" scene - complete with other props and even costumes - say, a merchant's table within the Roman Forum, or a centurion's tent in the cold, damp frontier of Britannia, or maybe in the palace of the Emperor or during the Games at the Colosseum. Photographing the coins in their natural habitat as it were, putting them back into their historical settings.

Yes, maybe visiting the Colloseum and taking a picture with the Titus elephant denarius struck to commemorate its opening... that would be awesome! 

Oh no, accidentally posted it already! I wanted to write a bit more. Where can I delete?

😞