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Geta as Caesar, 198-209 AD.

 Denarius, circa 200-202 AD.

 P SEPT GETA – CAES PONT Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / PRINC IVVENTVTIS Geta standing l., holding branch and spear; behind, trophy.

RIC 18; BMC S. Severus 236; C 157.

3.36g, 20.5mm.

 

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Trajan AR Denarius, AD 113-114, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate & draped bust right, seen from three-quarters behind; IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI PP / Rev. Trajan’s column, with spiral bands enclosing large dots on face, placed on decorated base with door in center, flanked by two eagles with beaks facing inwards, and surmounted by statue of Trajan standing facing, holding long scepter in left hand [right arm not visible]; SPQR OPTI-MO PRINCIPI. 17.5 mm., 3.06 g., 6 h. RIC II Trajan 293, RSC II Trajan 558 (laureate bust draped but rev. var.: OPTIMO rather than OPTI-MO), BMCRE III Trajan 455 & Pl. 17 No. 2 (laureate bust draped, OPTI-MO); Sear RCV 891 (3rd ed. 1981) [not in Millennium Edition]. Purchased from cgb.fr Internet Auction, 26 April 2022, Lot 95.

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Faustina II
Alexandria
Billon-Tetradrachm
Obv.: ΦAVCTINA CEBACTH, draped bust right
Rev.: L Є = year 5 (AD 164/165 ), Aphrodite standing left, holding helm and shield set on column on which is inscribed ΔV/NA/MIC,
Billon, 13.55g, 23mm
Ref.: Geißen 2113, Dattari 3606

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Faustina II and PVDICITIA legend:

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Faustina II
AR-Denarius
Obv.: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, Draped bust right.
Rev.: PVDICITIA, Pudicitia (Concordia) standing facing, head right, holding cornucopia and raising skirt.
Ag, 3.44g, 18mm
Ref.: RIC – (Cf. RIC 507a ), CRE 165 [R4]

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Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253
Roman AR Antoninianus; 4.30 g, 21.4 mm, 7 h
Rome, AD 249-251
Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent, hair waved in horizontal ridges (later hairstyle)
Rev: PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia veiled, seated left, with scepter
Refs: RIC 59b; RSC 19; RCV 9495 var (coiffure); CRE 545.

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Herennia Etruscilla
Ionia, Samos
AE28
Obv.: ЄΡЄΝ ЄΤΡΟΥϹΚΙΛΛΑ ϹЄB, Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set upon crescent.
Rev.: ϹΑΜΙΩΝ, Warrior advancing right, head left, with foot set upon prow right, extending hand and holding shield.
Ae, 12.41g, 28 mm
Ref.: RPC IX 682; BMC 363

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Link: Fecunditas. And who was more fecund than Faustina the Younger?

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Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman AR denarius, 3.10 g, 17.7 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 161.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: TEMPOR FELIC, female figure, standing left, holding an infant in each arm; at either side, two children standing.
Refs: RIC 719; BMC 156-157; RSC 221; RCV 5263; CRE 179; MIR 31-4/10a.
Note: The coin well illustrates the "all-round legends" as used December 160 - 163.

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No one?? Alright. It's bad form but I'll respond to my own post. Link: "all-round" legend.

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Lucius Verus, 161-169 CE.
Roman AR denarius, 3.17 g, 18.2 mm, 6 h.
Rome, December 161-December 162 CE.
Obv: IMP L AVREL VERVS AVG, bare head, right.
Rev: PROV DEOR TR P II COS II, Providentia standing left, holding globe in right hand and cornucopia in left hand.
Refs: RIC 482; BMCRE 202-204; RSC 155; RCV --; MIR 37-14/10.

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Link: Providentia. (I would have responded to your Faustina II TEMPOR FELIC coin, but I was away from my desktop.)

Diocletian, billon abdication Follis, 305-307 AD, Trier Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right in imperial mantle (trabea), holding olive branch and mappa, D N DIOCLETIANO BAEATISSIMO SEN AVG / Rev. Providentia standing right, holding [scroll or short scepter?] and drapery with left hand and extending right hand to Quies standing left, holding branch downward with right hand and leaning on scepter with left hand, S - F across fields, PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG; PTR in exergue. 27x28 mm., 9.6 gm. RIC VI Trier 673a (p. 208), Sear RCV IV 12927.  [Die match to example sold by Numismatik Naumann in 2015; see https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893.]

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Maximinus Daia (305-313)
Follis
Antiochia
Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG
laureate head right
Rev: GENIO AVGVSTI
Genio standing left holding radiate head of Sol and cornucopia, star left, B right
4,2g 21 mm.
Ref.: RIC 164b, C 21.

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Julia Paula, AD 219-220.
Roman AR denarius, 2.83 g, 18.6 mm, 6 h.
Rome (some attribute to Antioch), AD 220.
Obv: IVLIA PAVLA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: CONCORDIA, Concordia enthroned left, holding patera; star in left field.
RIC 211; BMCRE 317; Cohen 6; RCV 7655; CRE 449.
 

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Constantius II AE follis. D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left, globe in hand / FEL TEMP-REPARATIO, Emperor, bare-headed and in military dress standing, holding standard with chi-rho on banner in his right hand, resting left hand on shield, two bound captives wearing Phrygian helmets kneeling, leaning to the left before him, star in left field. Mintmark SMNS

21mm, 3.62gr. RIC Nicomedia 71

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50 minutes ago, expat said:

star in left field

 

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Imperator Caesar Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Augustus Pius Felix
Reign: Commodus; Mint: Rome; Date: 192 AD; Nominal: Denarius; Material: Silver; Diameter: 17mm; Weight: 2.82g; Reference: RIC III Commodus 234 var. (star right); OCRE Online: http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.com.234; Rare: R2; Provenance: Subastas Ibercoin Numismaticas Madrid, Spain (Auction 80, Lot 614); Pedigree: –; Special: Variation star in field right

Obverse: Head of Commodus, laureate, right; Inscription: L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL; Translation: Lucius Aelius; Aurelius Commodus Augustus Pius Felix; Translation: Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, the pious and fortunate Augustus; Reverse: Fides Militum, standing left, holding standard in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; in field, star, right; Inscription: P M TR P XVII IMP VIII COS VII P P; Translation: Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Septima Decima, Imperator Octavum, Consul Septimum, Pater Patriae; Translation: High priest, holder of tribunician power for the 17th time, Imperator for the eighth time, consul for the seventh time, father of the nation

Part of my private Collection

 

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Hadrian, AR Didrachm, 128-138 AD, Caesarea, Cappadocia Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ - ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ/ Rev. Club, handle at top, ΥΠΑΤΟϹ Γ ΠΑ-ΤΗΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟϹ [ΥΠΑΤΟϹ Γ = COS III, 128-138 AD; ΠΑΤΗΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟϹ = Pater Patriae]. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 3109 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3109 ; Sydenham 280 [E. Sydenham, The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia (1933)]; Metcalf, Caesarea 280 [Metcalf, W.E., The Silver Coinage of Cappadocia, Vespasian-Commodus, ANSNNM (American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Notes & Monographs) No. 166 (New York 1996)]; SNG Von Aulock 6422 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 3: Pisidia, Lycaonia, Cilicia, Galatia, Cappadocia, Cyprus, Imperial Cistophori, Posthumous Lysimachus, Alexander tetradrachms (Berlin, 1964)]; Ganschow 178d [Ganschow, T., Münzen von Kappadokien, Band 1 Konigreich und Kaisareia bis 192 n. Chr. (Istanbul 2018)]. 21 mm., 6.02 g. Double die match to CNG E-Auction 110, 16 Mar 2005, Lot 134. See https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/70825.

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Faustina Junior
Thrace, Philippopolis
Obv: ΦΑΥCTEINA CEBACTH, Draped bust right.
Rev: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙTΩΝ, Demeter standing left, holding two grain ears and long torch.
AE, 12.93g, 25.6mm
Ref.: Mouchmov, Philip. 133, 139-40 and 142

 

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53 minutes ago, shanxi said:

Thrace

 

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Imperator Titus Caesar divi Vespasiani filius Vespasianus Augustus
Sestertius of the Roman Imperial Period 80/81 AD; Material: AE Bronze; Diameter: 33mm; Weight: 25.52g; Mint: Eastern Mint (probably Thrace); Reference: RIC II, Part 1 (second edition) Titus 500

Obverse: Head of Titus, laureate, right. The Inscription reads: IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII for Imperator Titus Caesar, Divi Vespasiani Filius, Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate, Pater Patriae, Consul Octavum (Imperator Titus, Caesar, son of the divine Vespasianus, Augustus, high priest, holder of tribunician power, father of the nation, consul for the eighth time); Reverse: Captive standing to right of palm-tree; Judaea seated left on arms. The Inscription reads: IVD CAP S C for Iudaea Capta, Senatus Consultum (Conquest of Judea. Decree of the senate).

 

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Titus as Caesar, 69-79 CE.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.27 g, 18.5 mm, 6 h.
Rome, 76 CE.
Obv: T CAESAR IMP VESPASIAN, laureate head right.
Rev: COS V, Eagle standing front on garlanded altar, thunderbolt in claws, wings open, head left.
Refs: RIC.191a; RIC2.861; BMCRE 191; CBN 166; RSC.59a; RCV 2438.

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