Anyone up for a game of coin UNO?

[Prieure de Sion]

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1 hour ago, Roman Collector said:

grapes

 

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Elagabal
Bronze of the Roman Imperial Period 218/222 AD; Material: AE; Diameter: 19mm; Weight: 4.55g; Mint: Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior; Reference: Varbanov 3799; Provenance: Ex Stacks & Bowers Numismatics USA; Provenance: From the Martineit Family Collection of Ancient and World Coins

Obverse: Laureate and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right. The Inscription reads: AY K M AYP ANTΩΝΙΝΟC for Autokrator Kaisaros Marcos Aurelios Antoninos (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus); Reverse: Grape cluster. The Inscription reads: ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΙϹΤΡΟΝ for Nicopoliton pros Istron (of Nicopolis ad Istrum).

 

[IanG]

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Elagabalus, 218-222 AD.

 Denarius, circa 218 AD.

IMP CAES M ANTONINVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / PONTIF MAX TR P Roma seated left, holding Victory and sceptre; behind, shield.

RIC 8; C 222; BMC 1.

2.78g, 20mm.

[expat]

Link: Roma seated left

[shanxi]

Link: holding branch

Volusian
Rome, AD 251-253
Antoninian
Obv.: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped and curasse bust right.
Rev.: PAX AVGG, Pax standing left holding branch and scepter
Ag, 3.95g, 21.5mm
Ref.: RIC 179, RSC 70
Ex Collection Karl Pollak

[Roman Collector]

Link: Pax.

Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Unofficial orichalcum "denarius," 4.52 g, 16.2 mm, 11 h.
Unknown mint, AD 156-162 or somewhat later.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right (Beckmann type 5 hairstyle).
Rev: PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding branch in extended right hand and cornucopia in left hand (reverse of Antoninus Pius, RIC 78b).
Refs: Unlisted.

 

[AncientOne]

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Unknown Pseudo-autonomous Æ16

Obv: ΙЄΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟC / Laureate and draped bust of the Senate right. Rev: ΣΤΡ ΦΛ ΚΑΛΛΙΚΡΑΤΟΥ / Zeus standing left, holding patera. Strategos Flavius Kallikrates.

Edited April 4, 2023 by AncientOne

[shanxi]

Link: Zeus holding patera.

By the way, what does Zeus do with the patera? The highest Olympian god sacrificing to the gods ???? Hardly possible.

Diocletianus
Alexandria
Billon-Tetradrachm
Obv.: ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB, laureate head right.
Rev.: LZ (year 7, 290/291), Zeus enthroned left with patera and sceptre, eagle to left
Billon, 7.24g, 20.2mm
Ref.: Kampmann/Ganschow 119.67, G3252, D5779

Edited April 5, 2023 by shanxi

[Prieure de Sion]

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21 minutes ago, shanxi said:

Alexandria

 

Commemorative series, struck under Constantine I. the Great
Follis of the Roman Imperial Period 333/335 AD; Material: silvered AE; Diameter: 18mm; Weight: 2.73g; Mint: Alexandria; Reference: RIC VII Alexandria 64; Provenance: Ex Artemide Aste Numismatica San Marino

Obverse: Bust of Constantinopolis, laureate, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak, left, holding reversed spear in right hand. The Inscription reads: CONSTAN TINOPOLIS for Constantinopolis (Personification of the City Constantinople); Reverse: Victory, winged, draped, standing left on prow, holding spear in right hand and shield in left hand. The Inscription reads: SMALA for Alexandria, 1st officina.

 

[Roman Collector]

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Livia, under Augustus, 27 BC - AD 13.
Roman Æ diobol, 7.41 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, 6th series, AD 10-11.
Obv: Bare head right with Nodus hairstyle.
Rev: Date (LM=40) within oak wreath.
Refs: BMC 16.4, 31; SGI 209; Emmett 57; RPC 5054.
Notes: Lindgren sale 38, lot 110.

[Prieure de Sion]

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3 hours ago, Roman Collector said:

Augustus

 

Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus
Denarius of the Roman Imperial Period 21/20 BC; Material: Silver; Diameter: 20mm; Weight: 3.86g; Mint: Samos, Ionia; Reference: RIC I (second edition) Augustus 475; Obverse: Head of Augustus, bare, right. The Inscription reads: CAESAR for Caesar; Reverse: Young bull standing right, head erect. The Inscription reads: AVGVSTVS for Augustus.

   

 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Prieure de Sion

[DonnaML]

Link: bovine animal.

Roman Republic, A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus (Aulus Postumius Albinus, son of Aulus [mint magistrate ca. 96 BCE], and grandson of Spurius [Consul 110 BCE]), AR Serrate Denarius, 81 BCE. Obv. Draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder, figure of stag’s head at end of bow (horns to left), bucranium above [off flan] / Rev. Roman priest standing facing on rocky ground (on Aventine Hill), head left, with right arm extended holding aspergillum, sprinkling heifer, bull, or ox* which he is about to sacrifice, a lighted altar between them, A POST - AF - SN • ALBIN [AL in monogram] around. Crawford 372/1, RSC I Postumia 7, Sear RCV I 296 (ill.), Michael Harlan, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012) (“RRM I”) Ch. 1 at pp. 1-7, BMCRR I 2836. 18.54 mm., 3.85 g.  Ex Spink & Sons Ltd. (before 2000 because of address on Spink coin tag; probably before 1974 given citation to Sydenham but not Crawford.) 

* Crawford and Sear identify the animal as a bull, RSC as an ox. For the heifer identification, see RRM I (using this coin-type as the cover illustration for the book) at pp. 3-4. Harlan argues that in the legend which, as Crawford acknowledges, is the basis for the reverse of this coin -- namely, the sacrifice to Diana on the Aventine Hill founding her temple there ca. 500 BCE, establishing Rome as the caput rerum for all of Italy [and symbolizing the victory of Sulla over the rebel Italians in 82 BCE] -- the sacrificed animal was a heifer with wondrous horns, not a bull or an ox.  (Harlan's citation is to Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, ch. 45 [available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0145%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D45] ).

Edited April 5, 2023 by DonnaML

[shanxi]

Link: bust of Diana

C. POSTUMIUS
Denarius, 74 BC, Rome
Obv.: Bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder.
Rev.: Hound running right, spear below, C. POSTVMI/TA ligate
Ag, 3.77g, 18.2mm
Ref.: Crawford 394/1a, Sydenham 785.

[IanG]

Link: Spear

Being from Britain this reverse type of seated goddess with shield and spear is of particular interest. The Romans copied it and Hadrian used it for British coins but replaced the goddess with a female figure personifying Britain, namely Britannia. After the Romans left in the early 400s Britannia was absent from British coinage until 1672 when Charles II reintroduced her and she has never been absent from our nation's coins since, albeit that over the years the spear has become a trident.

Eumenes I, Mysia, Kingdom of Pergamon.

AR Tetradrachm. Circa 263-241 BC.

Laureate head of Philetairos right / Athena seated right, elbow resting on shield, crowning ΦΙΛΕΤΑΙΡΟΥ with wreath held in her extended hand, spear diagonally in background, ivy leaf in outer left field, A in inner left field, bow in right field.

SNG France 1612.

17.15g, 29mm.

[El Cazador]

57 minutes ago, IanG said:

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Being from Britain this reverse type of seated goddess with shield and spear is of particular interest. The Romans copied it and Hadrian used it for British coins but replaced the goddess with a female figure personifying Britain, namely Britannia. After the Romans left in the early 400s Britannia was absent from British coinage until 1672 when Charles II reintroduced her and she has never been absent from our nation's coins since, albeit that over the years the spear has become a trident.

Eumenes I, Mysia, Kingdom of Pergamon.

AR Tetradrachm. Circa 263-241 BC.

Laureate head of Philetairos right / Athena seated right, elbow resting on shield, crowning ΦΙΛΕΤΑΙΡΟΥ with wreath held in her extended hand, spear diagonally in background, ivy leaf in outer left field, A in inner left field, bow in right field.

SNG France 1612.

17.15g, 29mm.

Fantastic portrait and hair details 

[DonnaML]

Link: Mysia, Pergamon. The only coin I have that's simultaneously listed in Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, and Roman Provincial catalogs.

Augustus, AR Cistophoric tetradrachm [ = three denarii]*, 27-26 BCE, Province of Asia [NW Asia Minor], Mysia, Pergamon Mint. Obv. Bare head right, IMP•CAESAR downwards behind, lituus before / Rev. Capricorn** swimming right with head turned back to left, cornucopiae on its back, AVGVSTVS below; all within a laurel wreath tied in bow at bottom. RIC I Augustus 488 (2nd ed. 1984) [see http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.488]; RSC I Augustus 16a (3rd ed. 1978) (ill. p. 132); RPC I Online 2208 [see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2208]; Sear RCV I 1585; Sutherland Group IIIβ, nos 87–98a [see Sutherland, C.H.V., The Cistophori of Augustus (London, 1970)]; BMCRE I Augustus 698; BMCRR II (East) 287. 26 mm., 11.7 g. Purchased Feb. 2022 from Wessex Coins, UK. [Footnotes omitted.]

Edited April 6, 2023 by DonnaML

[shanxi]

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Mysia, Parium
Cornelia Supera (Augusta, 253)
Obv: G CORN SVPERA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: C G I H P, Capricorn right, holding globe; cornucopia above.
(C G I H P = Colonia Gemella Julia Hadriana Parian)
SNG von Aulock 7448, RPC IX 382
AE, 4.01g, 21 mm.

[Prieure de Sion]

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43 minutes ago, shanxi said:

Mysia, Parium

 

Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caracalla
Province Bronze of the Roman Imperial period 211/217 AD; Material: AE; Diameter: 25mm; Weight: 7.88g; Mint: Parium Mysia, Asia Minor; Reference: SNG Copenhagen 294, BMC 108var; Provenance: Ex Naumann Collection (2017)

Obverse: You can see the draped, cuirassed bust of Caracalla with a laurel wreath facing right. The inscription reads: ANTONINVS PIVS AV for Antoninus Pius Augustus; Reverse: You can see a genius standing to the left, holding a patera (sacrificial bowl) with his outstretched right hand over an altar lit with garlands. A cornucopia (cornucopia) is depicted in the crook of the left arm. The inscription reads: C G I H PA for Colonia Gemella Iulia Hadriana Parium.

 

[IanG]

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Diocletian.

 Siscia, AD 299.

IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI Genius standing left with patera and cornucopia, B in left field, *SIS in exergue.

RIC 85a.

10.90g, 26mm.

[expat]

SIS in exergue

Valens AE3. 367-375 AD. DN VALENS PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / GLORIA ROMANORVM, emperor walking right, head left, holding labarum, and grasping bound captive at the top of the head, R in right field. Mintmark dot ΓSISC. RIC 14b, type x(b); Cohen 11.
17mm, 2.26gr

 

 

 

[DonnaML]

Link: bound captive.

Lucius Verus AR Denarius, Rome Mint AD 165-169 [RSC] / AD 165 [Sear RCV II]. Obv. Laureate head right, L VERVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX / Rev. Captive Parthia, wearing breeches and peaked cap, seated right on ground with hands tied behind back; to right in front of captive, quiver, bow, and shield; TRP V IMP III COS II. 19 mm., 3.26 g. RIC III 540, RSC II 273 (ill. p. 231), Sear RCV II 5358, BMCRE IV 385. Purchased from Savoca 133rd Silver Auction, 15 May 2022, Lot 370.  

[shanxi]

Link: Verus

Lucius Verus
Cappadocia, Caesarea
Obv.: ...OYHPOC CEB , laureate and draped bust right
Rev.: KAICAREWN T P ARGAIW ET G with lower case final W, bust of Tyche right
AE, 16.9mm, 3.93g

Edited April 7, 2023 by shanxi

[Hughie Dwyer]

6 hours ago, shanxi said:

Lucius Verus

I've been looking to post this coin ever since it came a few weeks ago. It's not the first time this coin has been on the forum, though. Many of you will recognise it as @YOTHR's  Lucius Verus Coin of the Day. I had been looking for a coin such as this for a while and this was the perfect one. Many thanks to @YOTHR and @Prieure de Sion for being such a great store. I recommend them to all! 😀

 

[Prieure de Sion]

3 hours ago, Hughie Dwyer said:

I had been looking for a coin such as this for a while and this was the perfect one.

If you are happy - I am happy too 🙂 

[Prieure de Sion]

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Providentia

 

Marcus Antonius Gordianus III
Antoninianus of the Roman Imperial Period 239/240 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 21mm; Weight: 4.47g; Mint: Antiochia ad Orontem; Reference: RIC IV Gordian III 172

Obverse: Bust of Gordian III, radiate, draped, cuirassed, right. The Inscription reads: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG for Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus; Reverse: Providentia, draped, standing left, holding globe in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand. The Inscription reads: P M TR P II COS P P for Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Secunda Consul Pater Patriae (High priest, holder of tribunician power for the second time, consul, father of the nation).

On of the rarest Gordian coin types, with bust to left on an Gordianus III Silver Antoninianus

[Roman Collector]

Link: Gordian III antoninianus. This was a Secret Saturnalia gift. 🙂


Gordian III, 238-244 CE.
Roman AR antoninianus, 4.85 g, 23.2 mm, 6 h.
Rome, 1st officina, 1st emission, June-December, 238.
Obv: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding signum and scepter.
Refs: RIC 1; Cohen 86; RCV 8609; Hunter 6.