expat Posted February 16 · Supporter Share Posted February 16 Antioch 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 16 · Member Share Posted February 16 Two standards... Constantius II 324-337 AD AE3/4 (17.5mm, 1.69g) O: Dude with headband right; FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C. R: Two guys wearing barrels and holding skateboards, feeding two parking meters between them; GLORIA EXERCITVS, some letters in ex. Sear 3986 ex E.R Citus collection; ex Sidd Finch. 😉 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted February 16 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted February 16 (edited) Would that be THE Sidd Finch? It's not even April Fools' Day! Two standards again. Elagabalus AR Denarius, 218-219 AD, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate draped bust right, no beard, ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG/Rev. Two standards between two legionary eagles, CONCORDIA MILIT. RIC IV-2 187, RSC III 15, Sear RCV II 7505 (ill.). 18 mm., 2.8 g. Edited February 16 by DonnaML 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salomons Cat Posted February 17 · Member Share Posted February 17 6 hours ago, DonnaML said: 218-219 AD Elagabalus. Denarius (Silver, 18 mm, 2.93 g, 6 h), uncertain mint in the East, 218-219 AD. Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus to right, seen from behind. Rev: SANCT DEO SOLI / ELAGABAL Slow quadriga to right, carrying the sacred Stone of Emesa decorated with an eagle and surrounded by four parasols. BMC 284. Cohen 268. RIC 195. Thirion 360. Ex Jay Smith Collection of coins of Elagabalus, ex Cayón 80, 28 February 2022, 3145. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 17 · Supporter Share Posted February 17 Elagabalus AR Denarius, Rome 220-222 AD IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate draped bust right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory flying left, open diadem in both hands, shields to both sides, star in right field. RSC 300. RIC 161. BMC 234. 2,8 g - 18,5 mm 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victrix Posted February 17 · Member Share Posted February 17 Link: Victory 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 17 · Member Share Posted February 17 Nike... Taras, Calabria 276-272 BC AR Obol (10mm, 0.57g). O: Kantharos; pellet above and to right, flying Nike with wreath to left. R: Kantharos; pellet above and to left, E to right. D'Andrea XLII, 1271V (Nike to right); Vlasto 1638v (Nike to right); HN Italy 1076 Rare ex London Ancient Coins ~ Peter 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted February 18 · Patron Share Posted February 18 Link: Kantharos Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman provincial Æ 19.0 mm, 4.90 g, 1 h. Cilicia, Flaviopolis, CY 94 = AD 166/7. Obv: ΦΑΥСΤЄΙΝΑ CЄBACTH, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: ΦΛΑOΥΙΟ-ΠOΛЄΙΤΩΝ ЄΤOYC / Ϟ - Δ, Dionysos standing front, head to left, holding kantharos over panther in his right hand and thyrsos in his left. Refs: RPC IV.3 online 10281 (temp); SNG Levante 1541 v. (year); Ziegler 1246-7; BMC --; SNG Paris --. Notes: Double die-match to the specimen in the Ashmolean Museum (RPC example). 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanG Posted February 18 · Member Share Posted February 18 Link : Dionysos Phrygia, Dionysopolis. 2nd-1st Century BC. Menekles Biano, magistrate. Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; thyrsos to left / ΔIONYΣOΠ MENEKΛ BIANO; Dionysos standing facing, head left, holding long thyrsos with left hand and grape bunch with right; behind, panther standing left, head right. BMC 3; SNG Copenhagen 343. 7.71g, 20mm. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 18 · Supporter Share Posted February 18 Phrygia Volume: I №: 3062 Reign: Claudius Persons: Claudius (Augustus) Magistrate: Artemas, son of Demetrios (stephanephoros) City: Cadi Region: Phrygia Province: Asia (conventus of Sardis) Denomination: Brass AE 20 Obverse: ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ; laureate head of Claudius, right Reverse: ΕΠΙ ΑΡΤΕΜΑ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ, ϹΤΕΦΑΝ; Zeus standing, left, with eagle and sceptre. ΡTΛΩ monogram in left field. Specimens: 33 RPC I 3062; SNG Copenhagen 246-7; SNG von Aulock 3685; BMC 18-19. Weight: 5.35 g. Diameter: 19 mm. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted February 18 · Supporter Share Posted February 18 (edited) 12 hours ago, expat said: Phrygia LINK: Phrygia PHRYGIA, Eumenea. Domitia, wife of Domitian. Bronze circa 81-96 (Bronze, 15 mm, 3.04 mm) Obv: ΔOMITIA CEBACTH Draped bust right. Rev. ΚΛ ΤЄΡЄΝΤΥΛΛΑ ΑΡΧΙЄ Rev: ЄΥΜЄ-ΝЄΩΝ Cybele seated l., holding patera and drum. Ref: RPC 1388; Lindgren III 588; Von Aulock, Prygiens –; BMC –. SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –. Edited February 19 by Sulla80 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 19 · Member Share Posted February 19 Phrygia... Heiropolis, Phrygia 2nd-3rd century BC Pseudo-autonomous AE Assarion (19mm, 3.92g) O: Bust of Hekate/Selene right on cresent. R: Winged Nemesis standing facing with head left, holding bridle and plucking chiton from breast; IEPAΠOΛITΩN. Scarce SNG Cop 419-20; BMC 19 ex GB Collection "O Selene, driver of the silver car! If thou art Hekate of many names, if in the night thou doest shake thy mystic torch in brandcarrying hand, come nightwanderer." ~ Apulius ~ Peter 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted February 19 · Patron Share Posted February 19 Link: Hecate Severan period, AD 193-235. Semi-autonomous Æ 14. mm, 1.46 g, 6 h. Phrygia, Apameia. Obv: ΑΠΑ-ΜЄΙΑ, draped bust of Tyche of Apameia, right. Rev: CΩ-TЄI-PA, triple-bodied Hecate-Soteira standing facing, each wearing kalathos and holding torches. Refs: BMC 25.88,110-13; SNG von Aulock 3475; SNG München 131; Sear Gr. Imp. 5065. 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 19 · Member Share Posted February 19 Hekate... Pherai, Thessaly 404-369 BC AE 13 (13.4mm, 1.85g) O: Wreathed head of Hekate left, wearing triangular pendant earring. R: Lion head fountain right, spouting water; ΦEPAIOYN around to right. Rogers 516; BCD Thessaly II 691.2 ex Savoca Coin "Tender-hearted Hekate, bright coiffed, the daughter of Persaios." ~ Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2) ~ Peter 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted February 19 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted February 19 Link: Hecate again. Roman Republic/Imperatorial Period, P. Accoleius Lariscolus, AR Denarius, Sep-Dec. 43 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Diana Nemorensis right, head closely bound with fillet, and hair arranged in close locks above her forehead; behind, P • ACCOLEIVS upwards; before, LARISCOLVS downwards / Rev. Triple cult statue of Diana Nemorensis (Diana-Hecate-Selene) facing, supporting on their hands and shoulders a beam, above which are five cypress trees, the figure on left (Diana) holding bow, the one on the right (Selene?) holding poppy or lily, with Hecate in the center. Crawford 486/1, RSC I Accoleia 1 (ill. p. 9), BMCRR I 4211, Sear CRI 172 at p. 109 [David Sear, The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC (1998)], Sear RCV I 484 (ill. p. 161), RBW Collection 1701 (ill. p. 363). 19 mm., 3.32 g., 10 hr. Purchased May 2022; ex Classical Numismatic Group [CNG] Electronic Auction 491, 5 May 2021, Lot 349 (from the Lampasas Collection); ex CNG Electronic Auction 409, 8 Nov. 2017, Lot 535; ex CNG Sale 76/2, 12 Sep. 2007, Lot 3242 (from John A. Seeger Collection).* *See John Melville Jones, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (Seaby, London 1990) (entry for “Diana,” at p. 97) explaining that in Roman religion Diana was not only generally equated with the Greek goddess Artemis as the divine huntress, but “was also equated with Luna (the Greek Selene) and Hecate [the Greek goddess associated with night, magic, necromancy, the underworld, etc.]. A triple Diana, combining these three forms, appears once on Roman coins, on a denarius of P. Accoleius Lariscolus (43 BC) which shows her as she was worshipped at Aricia near Lake Nemi, the home of the mint magistrate’s family. This Diana Nemorensis is portrayed in the form of a triple statue on the reverse of the coin, the head of the goddess being the obverse type (an earlier interpretation of the type as a representation of the Nymphae Querquetulanae is less satisfactory).” (For that earlier interpretation, see RSC I at p. 9, stating that the referenced Nymphae “preside over the green forests and it was to them that the groves of the Lares on Mount Coelius were consecrated.”) Crawford follows the Diana Nemorensis interpretation, stating that “the types refer to the Aricine origin of the moneyer.” (Crawford Vol. I p. 497.) However, he rejects the theory of Andreas Alföldi that the type was also connected to the fact that Octavian’s mother Atia, who died during her son’s consulship in 43 BCE, was born in Aricia, stating that Lariscolus’s “appointment as moneyer will have taken place in 44 and hence have owed nothing to Octavian.” (Id.) However, in Sear CRI at p. 107, David Sear argues the contrary in the latter part of his discussion of this type: I identify the figure on the left as Diana holding a bow, and the figure on the right as Selene holding a poppy (or lily), following the description by Jochen1 at Coin Talk, in his thread at https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diana-nemorensis.344409/#post-4859090 . The standard authorities generally identify the object held by the figure on the left as a poppy rather than a bow, and the one held by the figure on the right as a lily rather than a poppy, without specifying which goddess is which. In fact, on my specimen, the flower on the right does seem to resemble a lily more than a poppy. I am not aware of any tradition identifying Luna/Selene with either. Although I believe that lilies do open at night. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 19 · Member Share Posted February 19 (edited) Carry on... Severus Alexander / Hekate Thyatira, Lydia 223-235 AD AE25 (7.36g) O: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; R: Hekate Selene, head facing left, wearing a short chiton and holding two torches, full moon around shoulders (billowing veil?); ΘV - ATEI - P - HNΩN. SNG Fitzwilliam 1374 ex Ancient Imports "When at thy coming my father has given thee the deadly teeth from the dragon's jaws for sowing, then watch for the time when the night is parted in twain, then bathe in the stream of the tireless river, and alone, apart from others, clad in dusky raiment, dig a rounded pit; and therein slay a ewe, and sacrifice it whole, heaping high the pyre on the very edge of the pit. And propitiate only-begotten Hekate, daughter of Perses, pouring from a goblet the hive-stored labour of bees. And then, when thou hast heedfully sought the grace of the goddess, retreat from the pyre; and let neither the sound of feet drive thee to turn back, nor the baying of hounds, lest haply thou shouldst maim all the rites and thyself fail to return duly to thy comrades." ~ Apollonius of Rhodes (Argonautica 3,1028-1051) An interesting passage from Apollonius describing the Holocaust, or scared sacrifice to the Cthonic deities. A similar scene can be found in The Odyssey where Odysseus makes sacrifice to the Restless Dead during his journey into the Underworld to find the seer Tiresias. ~ Peter Edited February 19 by Phil Anthos 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 19 · Supporter Share Posted February 19 Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ As (24mm, 9.34 g.) Rome mint, Special emission, AD 229. IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head right, / P M TR P VIII COS III P P, emperor in ceremonial quadriga right, holding eagle-tipped sceptre, SC in ex. Cohen 379. RIC IV 498a, Sear 8080 scarce 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientOne Posted February 19 · Member Share Posted February 19 Cilicia, Irenopolis. Severus Alexander Æ24. Obv: ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ϹƐΥ ΑΛƐΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, r., seen from rear. Rev: ƐΙΡΙΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΔΟΡ Θ; head of Heracles, r.; club over shoulder. RPC VI, 30290 temp. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted February 20 · Member Share Posted February 20 Cilicia 9 mm, 0,55 g. Cilicia, Kelenderis. AR obol. Circa 425-400 BC. Horse prancing right within beaded circle / ΚΕ, Goat kneeling right, head turned to look back. Göktürk 9; Cf. SNG BN 116-7 (obol, goat left); Cf. SNG Levante 29 (obol, goat left). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted February 20 · Supporter Share Posted February 20 Link: Obol Roman Egypt. Alexandria. Galba, AD 68-69. Æ Obol (19mm, 3.63g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 68/69). Obv: [ΣΕΡΟ]ΥΙ ΓΑΛΒΑ ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙΣ [ΣΕΒΑ]; Laureate head of Galba to right. Rev: Canopus of Osiris to right; L-B (date) to right. Ref: Dattari (Savio) 318; Emmett 181.2; K&G 17.28; RPC I 5352 (Leu note: 7 examples, this one as nice as any illustrated). Extremely rare and unusually attractive for the issue. Ex Elsen 110 (10 Sept 2011), Lot 560. Ex CNG 87 (18 May 2011), Lot 904. Ex Leu Web Auction 26 (13 July 2023), Lot 2458 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor robinjojo Posted February 21 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted February 21 Link: Canopus of Osiris Antoninus Pius (138-161), Egypt, Alexandria. BI tetradrachm, year 2 (AD 138/9). Bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust right/ Canopus of Osiris right.; ЄTO VC B (date) around. Emmett 1373 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted February 22 · Member Share Posted February 22 Pius 18 mm, 2,56 g. Antoninus Pius 138-161. AR denarius. Rome. 141-143. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TR P COS III, laureate head right / ANNONA AVG, modius with four grain ears and a poppy. RIC 62. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted February 22 · Supporter Share Posted February 22 8 minutes ago, ambr0zie said: ANNONA Vespasian, Roman Empire, denarius, 77/78 AD, Rome mint. Obv: CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev; ANNONA AVG, Annona seated left, holding corn ears. 19mm, 3.33g. Ref: RIC II Vespasian 964. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 22 · Supporter Share Posted February 22 Antoninus Pius AR denarius, Rome, AD 152-153. 18 mm, 3.35 g. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TR P XVI, laureate head right. / COS IIII, Annona standing left, holding corn-ears in left hand and resting right hand on modius set on prow to right. RIC 221; RSC 290; BMCRE 520. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted February 22 · Member Share Posted February 22 Antoninus Pius / Securitas 140-145 AD AE As (24mm, 10.66g) O: Laureate head right; ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III. R: Securitas standing left, holding long sceptre and leaning on column; SECVRITAS PVBLICA, S-C. RIC III, 828 / BMC 1765-66 ex Francis J. Rath 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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