John Conduitt Posted April 30 · Supporter Share Posted April 30 I have a few shades of chocolate-ish. This one looks like it might be made of chocolate and has started to melt. It's just about in the Tetrarchy as well, I hope. Constantine I Nummus, 324 Trier, 1st officina. Bronze, 3.08g. Laureate bust right; CONSTAN-TINVS AVG. 6 layer campgate with two turrets and star above; PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG; mintmark PTR in exergue (RIC VII, 449). From the Longworth Hoard, Yorkshire. Next: more tetrarchial chocolate. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted April 30 · Supporter Share Posted April 30 Maximianus Maximianus, AE radiate fraction. 295-299 AD. Cyzicus. IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS PF AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / CONCORDIA MI-LITVM, Emperor standing right, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, standing left and holding sceptre. KΔ in lower centre. RIC VI Cyzicus 16B. NEXT: Emperor receiving victory 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted April 30 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted April 30 Carus, silvered AE Antoninianus, late Autumn 282 [second son, Numerian, elevated to Caesar] - Autumn 283 AD [death of Carus], Antioch Mint (1st Officina). Obv. Radiate bust right, IMP C M AVR CARVS PF AVG/ Rev. VIRTUS AVGGG, Carus, standing right, receives Victory from Jupiter standing left, holding long scepter, star in upper field, A in lower middle field (= 1st Officina, Antioch Mint), XXI in exergue [20/1 copper/silver ratio of alloy]. RIC V-2 125(A), Sear RCV III 12190, ERIC II 141, Cohen 117. 20.25 mm., 3.59 g. [For the dating of Carus’s coins with AVGGG reverse (issued at Antioch mint only), see http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus.] Next, another portrait of a bald (or at least seriously balding) emperor; not Carus himself. 9 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted April 30 · Supporter Share Posted April 30 Respect to my fellow bald and/or balding brothers. I believe that Tacitus fits the bill. Tacitus AE Antoninianus. Ticinum. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVG, Salus seated left feeding serpent. Mintmark T. Next: A coin with a "T" mintmark. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted April 30 · Member Share Posted April 30 This coin is not much bigger than a mintmark... Taras, Calabria 425-415 BC AR ¼ Litra (7mm, 0.19g) O: T with three pellets around. R: T with three pellets around. D'Andrea XVII, 267; Vlasto 1191; Cote 182; McGill II, 147; SNG France 1650; HN Italy 853 Very scarce ex Sam Sloat Coins Next: sea creature 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted April 30 · Member Share Posted April 30 (edited) 16 mm, 3,34 g. Sicily. Syracuse. Second Democracy. Æ hemilitron. 415-405 BC. Head of Arethusa to left, hair bound with ampyx and tied in sphendone; behind head, two leaves / Dolphin swimming to right; below, scallop-shell; between Σ Y P A. Calciati, CNS II, 55, 24; SNG Morcom 687-690; SNG ANS 415-425; SNG Copenhagen 697-699; HGC 2, 1480. Next - a coin showing a beautiful lady. Edited May 1 by ambr0zie grammar, spelling, OCD 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted April 30 · Patron Share Posted April 30 I have always thought Orbiana was very beautiful. Orbiana, 225-227 CE. Roman Æ as, 11.43 gm, 24.5 mm. Rome, 225 CE. Obv: SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, diademed and draped bust, r. Rev: CONCORDIA AVGVSTORVM SC, Concordia enthroned l., holding patera and double cornucopiae. Refs: RIC 656; BMCRE 297-298; Cohen 5; RCV 8195. Next: Late Severan empress. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AETHER Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 52 minutes ago, Roman Collector said: I have always thought Orbiana was very beautiful. Orbiana, 225-227 CE. Roman Æ as, 11.43 gm, 24.5 mm. Rome, 225 CE. Obv: SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, diademed and draped bust, r. Rev: CONCORDIA AVGVSTORVM SC, Concordia enthroned l., holding patera and double cornucopiae. Refs: RIC 656; BMCRE 297-298; Cohen 5; RCV 8195. Next: Late Severan empress. Even beautiful on the coin itself. Which is rare. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 (edited) 6 hour rule. Late-Severan non-empress. Julia Mamaea Denarius,225-235 Rome. Silver, 19mm, 1.84g. Bust of Julia Mamaea, diademed, right; IVLIA MAMAEA AVG. Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, holding palladium in right hand and up-right sceptre in left hand; VESTA (RIC IV, 360). Found Pocklington, East Yorkshire. Next: more non-empress women. Edited May 1 by John Conduitt 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shea19 Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 (edited) Julia Maesa, Augusta, AR Denarius (19mm, 2.27 g), Rome mint. Struck under Elagabalus, AD 218-220. Draped bust of Julia Maesa to right / Pietas standing left, holding acerrum and extending hand over lighted altar to left. RIC IV 263 Next: Pietas Edited May 1 by Shea19 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 4 minutes ago, Shea19 said: Next: Pietas Theodora, AE4 - Posthumous issue under the reigns of the sons of Constantine the great Trier mint, 2nd officina FL MAX THEODORAE AVG, draped and diademed bust right PIETAS ROMANA, Pietas standing holding child. TRS at exergue 1.54 gr Ref : Cohen # 4, Roman coins # 3911 Next : 4th century Q 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 19 mm, 2,06 g . Constans 337-350. Æ follis. Siscia. 348-350. D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG, bust of Constans, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right / FEL•TEMP•REPARATIO, Phoenix, radiate, standing right on rocky mound. Mintmark ΓSIS•. RIC VIII Siscia 232. Next - Constans 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 Constans Centenionalis, 348-350 Treveri. Bronze, 23mm, 5.26g. Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG. Emperor standing left on galley, holding Victory on globe and standard with Chi-Rho in banner; Victory seated at stern, holding rudder; FEL TEMP – REPARATIO; TRP (RIC VIII, 219). Next: Chi Rho 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 1 · Supporter Share Posted May 1 (edited) EDIT: John beat me to it, carry on with Chi Rho Same issue as above, but a poor quality example Constans, AE follis, Siscia. 15 x 18mm. DN CONSTA-NS PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / FEL dot TEMP dot REPARATIO, phoenix, radiate, standing right on rocky mound. Mintmark ASIS dot. RIC VIII Siscia 232 NEXT: Phoenix Edited May 1 by expat 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted May 1 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted May 1 Antoninus Pius, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 6 (142-143 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΑΝΤⲰΝΙΝΟϹ - ϹƐΒƐVϹƐΒ around (beginning at 1:00) / Rev. Phoenix standing right, crowned with circular nimbus [halo], ΑΙ - ⲰΝ [= Aion, Greek equivalent of Roman Aeternitas, also symbolizing the cyclical nature of “time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion_(deity))]; across lower fields, L - Ϛ [Year 6]. 23.5 mm., 12.7 g. Dattari (1901 ed.) 2431 at p. 153 (this coin) [Dattari, Giovanni, Monete imperiali greche, Numi Augg. Alexandrini, Catalogo della collezione (Cairo 1901)]; Dattari (Savio) 2429 & Pl. 117 (this coin) [Savio, A. ed., Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini (Trieste, 2007)] [numbering different because of error: illustrations of 2431 and 2429 switched on Pl. 117]; RPC IV.4 Online 13506 (temporary) (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13506); Emmett 1419.6; Milne 1734 at p. 42; BMC 16 Alexandria 1004 at p. 117 (rev. ill at Pl. XXVI) [“Phoenix (Numidian crane)”], K&G 35.180 (obv. var., draped), SNG Fr. Alexandrie II 2267 (obv. var., draped). Purchased from Naville Numismatics Auction 72 (27 Mar 2022), Lot 341; ex Dattari Collection.* *The phoenix on the reverse of this coin, accompanied by the legend “ΑΙⲰΝ,” clearly relates to the beginning of a new Great Sothic Cycle early in the reign of Antoninus Pius, as most famously reflected in the Zodiac coinage issued in his eighth year. See Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXI Catalog (“The Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection of the Coins of Roman Alexandria,” Jan 9. 2018), Lot 124, p. 68 (available at https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349280): “The Great Sothic Cycle was a calendrical cycle based on the heliacal rising in July of the star Sirius (known to the Greeks as Sothis) and lasting approximately 1460 years. According to ancient Egyptian mythology, in a Golden Age, the beginning of the flooding of the Nile coincided exactly with the rising of Sirius, which was reckoned as the New Year. Only once every 1460 years did Sirius rise at exactly the same time. Thus, the coincidence of this along with the concurrent beginning of the flooding of the Nile gave the event major cosmological significance by heralding not just the beginning of a new year, but the beginning of a new eon. This event also was thought to herald the appearance of the phoenix, a mythological bird which was reborn every 500 to 1000 years out of its own ashes. According to one version of the myth, each new phoenix embalmed its old ashes in an egg of myrrh, which it then deposited in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. So important was the advent of the new Great Sothic Cycle, both to the realignment of the heavens and its signaling of the annual flooding of the Nile, that the Egyptians celebrated it in a five-day festival, which emphasized the important cosmological significance. In the third year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 139/40), a new Great Sothic Cycle began. To mark this event, the mint of Alexandria struck an extensive series of coinage . . ., each related in some astrological way to the reordering of the heavens during the advent of the new Great Sothic Cycle. This celebration would continue throughout Pius’ reign.” Next: Another Antoninus Pius from Roman Alexandria. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 1 · Member Share Posted May 1 The next theme was Chi-Rho requested by John. 18,2 mm, 1,67 g. Gratianus 367-383 AD. Ӕ follis. Siscia. 367-375. DN GRATIANVS PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA ROMANORVM, emperor in military dress walking right, head left, holding labarum, dragging a kneeling captive by the hair, F to left, R above hooked A (symbol 4) to right. Mintmark ΔSISCVE. RIC IX Siscia 14c type xxxvii var. Next - to keep it flowing - Next: Another Antoninus Pius from Roman Alexandria. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted May 1 · Supporter Author Share Posted May 1 Egypt, Alexandria AE Drachm (Bronze, 23.98g, 33mm) Antoninus Pius (138-161)Alexandria RY 12 = 148/9 AD. Obv: AVT K • T AIΛ A∆P •ΑΝΤѠΝΙΝΟC ЄVCЄB •, Laureate head of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev: L / ΔѠΔЄΚΑΤO, Serapis seated left, pointing to Cerberus seated at feet and holding scepter, within distyle temple with large globe in pediment. Reference: Dattari (Savio) 3058; RPC IV.4 Online temp. 13643 Next: Cerberus 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 2 · Member Share Posted May 2 25 mm, 12,71 g. Egypt, Alexandria. Hadrian 117-138. Billon tetradrachm. 133-134 AD. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian, r., seen from rear / L ΙΗ, Sarapis seated, l., holding sceptre; to l., Cerberus. RPC III, 5871; BMC 620-623. Next - 2nd century Alexandria tetradrachm 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 Roman Egypt, Alexandria. Commodus, AD 177-192. Billon Tetradrachm (22mm, 12.13g, 12h). Dated RY 30 (AD 189/190). Obv: [M] A KOM ANTW CЄB ЄYCЄB; Laureate head of Commodus right. Rev: Eagle with wings displayed standing right on thunderbolt; L-Λ (date) in right field. Ref: Milne 2696; Köln 2245; Dattari 3905; K&G 41.119; Emmett 2523.30 (R1); RPC IV.4 3548. Very Fine, dark brown patina. Ex VCoins Auction 253 (ACCG Charity auction), Lot 95, donated by CNG on VCoins. Next: Third century Alexandria tetradrachm 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 RPC Volume: VI №: 10032 (temporary) Reign: Elagabalus Persons: Elagabalus (Augustus) City: Alexandria Region: Egypt Province: Egypt Denomination: Tetradrachm Average weight: 12.63 g. Issue: L B = 2 (218/9) Obverse: Α ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΜΑ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ; laureate head of Elagabalus, right Reverse: L Β; Sarapis bust right, draped and wearing kalathos. 23mm, 11.64g. Reference: D 4137, Ο 2757, Geissen 2313, E 2952 (2) Specimens: 27 NEXT: More Alexandrian tetradrachms 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 Just now, expat said: NEXT: More Alexandrian tetradrachms Roman Provinces: Egypt, Alexandria, under Maximian, AE tetradrachm, 288–289 AD. Obv: A K M A OYA MAΞIMIANOC CEB; bust of Maximian, laureate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: Alexandria standing l., holding bust of Serapis and long sceptre; date: L Δ. 18mm, 7.18g. Ref: Emmett 4093. Next: more of the same 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted May 2 · Supporter Share Posted May 2 Diocletian AD 284-305. Potin Tetradrachm (19.5mm, 7.38 g.) Egypt, Alexandria mint, dated RY 6 (AD 290/1). Obv. A K G OYA ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB, laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev. Eirene looking left, holding branch and scepter, SL (date) across field. No reverse legend. Scarce variety with unusual date order,SL instead of LS NEXT: and more Alexandrian of any type 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientOne Posted May 2 · Member Share Posted May 2 Alexandria. Claudius AE25 Diobol. Nilus Claudius AE25 Diobol of Alexandria. Year 10 = 50-51 AD. TI KLAV KAI CEBAC GEPMA, laureate head right, LI before / AVTO-KPA, bust of Nilus right, child before. Next: Alexandrian diobol. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 2 · Member Share Posted May 2 25,5 mm, 11,22 g. Egypt, Alexandria. Claudius 41-54. Æ diobol. Year 3 - 42-43. ΤΙ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙ ϹƐΒΑϹ ΓƐΡΜΑ, laureate head r.; star before / ΑVΤΟΚΡΑ, hippopotamus standing r.; L Γ (date) in exergue. Köln 79; Dattari 166; Milne 90; Emmett 82; RPC I 5140. Next - any Alexandrian bronze 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broucheion Posted May 2 · Member Share Posted May 2 (edited) Hi All, FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER (UNDER ANTONINUS PIUS) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 14 (150/151 CE) Æ DRACHMA 34mm 16.6grams Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-xxxx-xx-xx.035 Obv: Faustina diademmed draped head facing right. Legend: [CE]B ΘYΓ - ΦAVCTINA. Dotted border. Rev: Nemesis seated facing right (griffin with left paw on spoked wheel). In left field: [LI]; In right field: Δ. Dotted border not visible. Refs: Emmett-1986.14; Geissen-1957; Dattari-3318 var Prov: Ex-Antioch Associates Next: Any Alexandrian bronze. - Broucheion Edited May 2 by Broucheion 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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