Today is my birthday - Show me your Victories!

[Furryfrog02]

Today marks the 39th time I have revolved around the Sun. While I'm not big on celebrating birthdays, when the car dealership and Target are the ones who wish you a happy birthday, it stings a bit. 

I understand that today is also Mother's Day - Shout out to all the Mater Patriae and Mater Castorum out there! ... but come on, when can a frog get the appreciation due for hanging on to this crazy spinning rock for 39  revolutions around the Sun?

I've been really trying to clamp down and focus on my collection lately with respect to images of Victory. I would love to see your best or most uncommon Victory.

I will start with one of my favorites:

 

The picture is garbage, but the portrait is great as is the depiction of Victory on the reverse.  I especially love how the feathers of her wings are each individually shown. 

[Edessa]

May all your birthdays be crowned by Victory!

Vespasian, AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.32g, 6h). Rome mint, struck AD 77-78. Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG; Laureate head to right. Rev: Emperor standing to left, holding spear and parazonium, crowned by Victory standing to left, holding wreath and palm; COS VIII in exergue. Ref: RIC II.1 935; C. 130; BMCRE 204; Calicó 624a. Ex Roma eSale 95 (13 Apr 2022), Lot 939

 

[Roman Collector]

Happy birthday, @Furryfrog02! Fun theme for a thread, too.

I've always enjoyed the depiction of Victory standing on a globe on this antoninianus of T-Bone.

Trebonianus Gallus, 251-253 CE.
Roman AR antoninianus, 3.49 g, 20.3 mm, 7 h.
Antioch, unmarked officina, 252-253 CE.
Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust (viewed from back) of Trebonianus Gallus, right.
Rev: VICTORIA AVG, Victory standing right, on globe, holding a wreath and a palm.
Refs: RIC 94; Cohen --; RSC 127b; RCV 9654; Hunter p. cvi.
Notes: Scarce. Only six examples are to be found among the 949 coins representing 11 hoards summarized by Metcalf (p. 87).

[CPK]

Many happy returns @Furryfrog02!

Here are a couple Victories:

 

 

And a namesake:

 

 

[Curtisimo]

Happy Birthday @Furryfrog02!

[CPK]

Don't want to forget this one.

[Prieure de Sion]

 

Marcus Antonius Gordianus III
Bronze of the Roman Imperial Period 238/244 AD; Material: AE; Diameter: 35mm; Weight: 24.5g; Mint: Antiochia ad Pisidiam, Galatia; Reference: RPC VII.2 2742, Krzyżanowska XXII/96, XXIV/98; Provenance: Ex Harlan J. Berk Numismatics; Obverse: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear. The Inscription reads: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG for Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus; Reverse: Victory advancing right, holding trophy in both hands. The Inscription reads: VICTORIA DOMINI ANTI COL[ONI] S R for Victoria domini, Antiochia Colonia, Senatus Romanus (Victory of the Dominus (Sovereign), Colonia of Antiochia, by the Roman Senate).

 

 

 

First - Happy Birthday to you! 

Since I like the large bronzes of Gordianus from Antioch so much - I have left you here one of the specimens with a beautiful large Nike / Victory.

 

 

[Furryfrog02]

These are some beautiful coins! I haven't seen some of these reverses before. Now I have more things to add to my ever-growing wish list haha. 
Thanks everyone for sharing 🙂

[Ancient Coin Hunter]

Here are two:, and happy belated birthday. The Alexander piece celebrates victory over the Germans, whilst the Pupienus piece commemorates victory over Maximinus Thrax.

 

Edited May 15, 2023 by Ancient Coin Hunter

[Qcumbor]

A most happy B'day FF

Here's a victory riding a quadriga of horses, while yours is of tadpoles if I remember corrctly 😄 

Q

 

Edited May 15, 2023 by Qcumbor

[Al Kowsky]

[ominus1]

..ah, what we call ''Pre Christian Angels'   ^^    ..happy B-day FF..:)...one of my favorites i hardly ever show..

[Broucheion]

Hi @Furryfrog02,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

 

AUGUSTUS (16 JAN 27 BCE - 19 AUG 14 AD)
CYPRUS, UNCERTAIN MINT, 26 CE
Æ
Size: 20x21 mm
Weight: 6.85 g
Die Axis: 01:00
Broucheion Collection RI-2000-10-23.001

OBV: Augustus head facing right. Legend (starting 1:00 positiion): AVGVSTVS - DIVIFIMPCAESAR. Dotted border.
REV: Nike advancing to left. Legend: COSOCTA - V - ODESIG IX. Dotted border.
Refs: RPC I-3904, BMC-0001, FITA 80-1, Amandry 1a (Paphos?); ANS 1952.142.248 & ANS 1952.142.249; Parks 2004, 1.

Notes: Amandry observes there are two legend varieties paired with two different styles of portrait for RPC 3904 and 3905. To Amandry, this suggests two mints. Armandry in Cypriote coinage under Roman rule (30 BC-3rd century AD), from https://kyprioscharacter.eie.gr/en/scientific-texts/details/numismatics/cypriote-coinage-under-roman-rule-30-bc-3rd-century-ad [as of 15 May 2023]:
"In 30 BC, after the death of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Cyprus fell under the direct control of Octavian. But in 22 BC, Augustus ceded the island to the Senate to be governed by proconsuls of praetorian status. They were generally unpromising senators who rarely reached higher status after their service in Cyprus." ...

"The first coinage issued after 30 BC was struck in honour of Augustus: it is precisely dated to 26 BC, as the reverse legend bears COS OCTAVO DESIG IX. The reverse type Nike on globe holding wreath and palm - echoes the Victory type struck in Rome after Actium. The attribution to Cyprus is certain, as these coins frequently occur on the island and nowhere else. The official who ordered this provincial issue (featuring all the characteristics of an imperial one) was certainly the legatus of Cyprus. Probably at the same time, coins of the CA series, whose nuclear mint was in Asia, were produced in Cyprus, in a branch mint. To refer to M. Grant’s terminology, these coins were part of a 'supra provincial' coinage."

- Broucheion

Edited May 15, 2023 by Broucheion
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[AETHER]

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Just stopping by to wish you a happy birthday!

 

[expat]

Happy (belated ) birthday Furry. Here is Victory/Nike on a fresco from Pompeii around the time of Nero

[jdmKY]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Here are several Imperatorial Victories 

[Dafydd]

Happy Birthday ! @Furryfrog02 You have wrinkled out some great Victories here.

Here is a Victory I consider interesting and ambitious given Pupienus' short tenure.

Pupienus, 22nd April # 29th July 238. Sestertius April-June 238, Æ 29mm., 18.91g. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. Victory standing facing, head l., holding wreath and palm branch. C 38. RIC 23a.

[DonnaML]

A very Happy Birthday to you! 

I have more coins depicting Victory than you can shake a wreath at, but here are a few.

Roman Republican:

C. Caecilius Metellus Caprarius

C. Annius & L. Fabius Hispaniensis 

Ti. Claudius Nero

M. Nonius Sufenas

Imperial:

Nero

Septimius Severus

Constantine I

Constantius II

Valentinian I

[Di Nomos]

Happy birthday! Yours is two days after mine. Well , 13 years and 2 days to be exact!

Beautiful show of coins everyone.

Don't have a coin with Victory exactly, but do have Nike (hope that's acceptable). Stater from Terina in Bruttium c. 380 BC. 

[CPK]

Let's see...I've got a couple more.

Two for the price of one!

 

I suppose Nike counts as well?

 

 

 

[Sulla80]

Happy Birthday & Best wishes, @Furryfrog02, a great burst of Victories that you have elicited from all in this thread.  Here's a favorite from Roman Egypt, Valerian in his fourth regnal year with a billowing victory in beautiful detail:

https://www.sullacoins.com/post/gallienus-and-usurpers-in-ad-260

 

This one from Cato (the wine vendor, not the "younger" who died for his principles in Utica, Africa - modern Tunisia) ranks up there pretty high on my list of favorites - along with his more famous relative's similar coin. https://www.sullacoins.com/post/cato-the-younger

 

[The_Collector]

Happy birthday @Furryfrog02!! 
 

Here is my contribution to the victory posts. It’s a denarius of Marcus Aurelius with Vic Ger on the reverse. Hope you had a great birthday!

[robinjojo]

On 5/14/2023 at 6:52 PM, Furryfrog02 said:

Today marks the 39th time I have revolved around the Sun. While I'm not big on celebrating birthdays, when the car dealership and Target are the ones who wish you a happy birthday, it stings a bit. 

I understand that today is also Mother's Day - Shout out to all the Mater Patriae and Mater Castorum out there! ... but come on, when can a frog get the appreciation due for hanging on to this crazy spinning rock for 39  revolutions around the Sun?

I've been really trying to clamp down and focus on my collection lately with respect to images of Victory. I would love to see your best or most uncommon Victory.

I will start with one of my favorites:

 

The picture is garbage, but the portrait is great as is the depiction of Victory on the reverse.  I especially love how the feathers of her wings are each individually shown. 

Happy birthday and Mother's Day!  I've been out of town this past weekend visiting my 95 year old aunt in LA.  Ninety-five rounds around the sun is an impressive feat, one which I doubt will match, but who knows what the Fickle Finger of Fate has instore for us.

I think the most usual Victory depiction that I have is this one:

Roman Republic Anonymous Didrachm c. 225-214 BC.  From Roma100, Lot 920, post auction sale.

Crawford 28-3

6.43 grams

I think, were I an ordinary Roman taking a little jaunt down the road, encountering a quadriga charging from the opposite direction, driven by a kid with a couple of wings and accompanied by this guy throwing lightening bolts would be a big distraction for me - probably using a license plate pinched from somewhere else as well! 

 

 

In a more conventional context and probably somewhat safer as well, is this tetradrachm from Syracuse, with a flying Victory, which, I assume, is maintaining at least the minimal required altitude:

Syracuse, Tetradrachm, Second Democracy, 466-405 BC.  Struck circa 420-415 BC.

HGC 2, 1322; SNG ANS 227; SNG Copenhagen 663

 

 

And for Mother's Day:

Faustina II, AE sestertius, 161 AD.  Birth of twins.

RIC 1665

20.98 grams

[Severus Alexander]

A few more for you!

[Furryfrog02]

Thanks everyone, for the well wishes...and even more, for all the absolutely beautiful depictions of Victory!
I've been at this for a few years now and I am still amazed what I haven't seen. Most are beyond my reach but I have added a couple to my wish list based off of this thread.