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Nice additions, @kirispupis. I like your pharaonic owl and Eumenes I. Great photography also. I look forward to your top 10 bronze list. 🙂

Nice selections, @ambr0zie. I like your # 1, 8 and 10. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 The Tarso stater is on my watch list. Hope to pickup a decent one next year.

All amazing selections, @Kazuma78. You have a very fruitful year! 🙂 I like the cool obverse portraits of coins # 4, 5, 10, 16, 17 and 19. Wow! I understand why you cannot shrink your list to just 10. Thanks for sharing.

Nice additions this year, @Al Kowsky. Your Ptolemaic hockey puck is my favorite. 🙂

Nice addition, @ambr0zie. It is great that the test cut doesn't affect the reverse design. 🙂

Great selections, @Sulla80. Nice description on your selected coins. 🙂 I especially like your elephant biga denarius, and the Mark Anthony/Octavia Cistophorus.

Nice selections, @JayAg47. I like your #10 coin, especially its reverse design. Holding the heads of Sol and Luna is so imaginative IMO. 🙂

Here are two coins with Hercules in my collection. 🙂 Pisidia, Selge Stater. 350-325 BC, AR 26.00 mm., 10.34 g. Obv: Two wrestlers grappling, below, BA. Rev: Hercules standing r., holding club overhead and lion's skin; in r. field, spear head and below, shield. SNG France 1935 Gallienus. Heracleopolis, Pontus. 266 AD. Ae Obv: AΥT KAI ΠO ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC,laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev: CЄBACTO HΡAK [ЄT] ςΞC, Hercules running left, capturing the Cerynean Hind. 12.69g, 29.9mm

Nice acquisition, @ambr0zie. Yours have a good portrait of Achelous. Here is a similar one I picked up last year. Akarnania, The Oiniadai, c. 219-211 BC. Æ (23mm, 6.64g, 7h). Obv: Laureate head of Zeus r. Rev: Head of Achelous r.; monogram behind. HGC 4, 899.

Thanks for another nice Faustina Friday post, @Roman Collector. 🙂 Here are some of my coins with Concordia design on reverse.

What a superb portrait and great provenance, @Romancollector! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, @Curtisimo. Your sestertius has a great portrait as well!

Very nice coins, @mc9. I especially like your sestertius. Cool Faustina portrait! Thanks for sharing.

Very nice collection of coins with three children on the reverse, @Roman Collector. I am putting the Antoninus Pius sestertius on my watchlist. 🙂

I remember reading a post from @DonnaML about the names of the six children on the coins. Just found it! It is at: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-ii-with-one-child-with-2-3-4-6-children-plus-other-empresses-with-children.384702/#post-7818766 I am surely inspired by the post. 🙂

Here is my recent CNG auction win. It is a Faustina Junior sestertius with three children (Annia Faustina, Lucilla, and Fadilla) on the reverse design. I have a small group of Faustina Junior coins with one, two, four and six children. This one is a great complement to my sub-collection. 😀 Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 23.18 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Obv: Draped bust right, hair waved and fastened in chignon with a band of pearls low at back of head Rev: Juno, holding infant, standing left between two young girls. RIC III 1649; MIR 18,18-6a; Banti 75. CNG e-Auction 526, November 2022. The others in my sub-collection are here: Please post if you have Faustina coins with children in the reverse design. Thanks!

Nice coins, @panzerman and @DonnaML. I have one from Frankfurt. Year 1673 🙂

J for Julia Domna.

Link: Troas Troas, Alexandria, Pseudo-autonomous issue, c. mid 3rd century AD. Æ (21mm, 6.66g, 12h). Obv: Turreted and draped bust of Tyche r. vexillum behind. Rev: Eagle standing r. on forepart of a bull. Bellinger A490 London Ancient Coins, Nov 2021.

Link: Mysia, Pergamon. MYSIA. Pergamon. Ca. 166-160 BC. AR cistophorus. 29mm, 12.82 gm Obv: Serpent emerging from cista mystica; all within ivy wreath Rev: Bow in bowcase decorated with aphlaston, flanked by two serpents; ΠΕΡΓ civic monogram to left, horizontal caduceus right to right. Kleiner-Noe Series 7.

J for Julia Mamaea. 🙂 Julia Mamaea Sestertius. Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA. Coated bust on the right. Rev: VENVS FELIX S.C. Venus, seated, carrying scepter and statue.

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Here are two left-facing Sabina. A denarius and a dupondius. 🙂 Greek coins seem to have more left-facing portraits. Here is one from Syracuse.

I have one with a portrait of Christ. 🙂 AV/EL Histamenon Nomisma Michael VII Ducas. Constantinople AD 1071-1078 Obv: Facing half-length bust of Christ Pantocrator, with cruciform nimbus, five pellets within each bar; barred IC - XC in right and left fields; Rev: + MIXAHΛ RACIΛO Δ, crowned facing half-length bust of Michael, wearing loros and saccos, holding jeweled vexillum with pellet on shaft in right hand and globus cruciger in left 31mm, 4.37 g Sear 1868. DOC 2d

Faustina II denarius Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA. Draped bust right. Rev: CONSECRATIO. Peacock advancing right, head turned left. RIC 744 Next: Peacock