expat Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 As beloved by @Furryfrog02 I too am beginning an affection for Victory reverses. Please post yours for all to enjoy. This is my fav so far. 18 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Ancient Coin Hunter Posted July 13 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 13 My current favorite is from the short-lived three-month reign of Pupienus (and Balbinus) where Pupienus' forces were victorious over Maximinus Thrax at Aquileia in Northern Italy. Maximinus had besieged the city when it declared for the senatorial emperors but was killed by his own troops after it had become an unsuccessful endeavor. 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 Victory gets everywhere, so it's easy to get numb to her. But then she appealed to everyone from the Celts to the Saxons.Touto ‘Walking Victory’ Unit, 10-15Cantiaci Tribe, Kent. Silve, 14mm, 1.26g. Diademed head left with beard of pellets; TOVTO in front. Winged Victory walking right, holding sword at waist; E-P across field (ABC 432; VA 442; S 116). 15 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 Pale Gold Phase ‘Two Emperors’ Thrymsa, 645-675Kent. Gold, 13mm, 1.19g. Diademed and draped bust right; pseudo legend around. Two small busts facing; above, Victory with wings enfolding the figures; pellet to each side of Victory’s head (SCBC 767). 14 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 ..i have many...1st one i came too in pics ole Max Thrax w/ Victory Germania over captive reverse (29mm 19.05gms)...yeah i loe'em all too 🙂...they are borrowed angels..^^ 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted July 13 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 13 Here's my only Greek victory: Coele-Syria. Chalkis ad Libanon. Lysanias 40-36 BCE 19.88mm 4.32g Obverse: Diademed head of Lysanias right, monogram below chin Reverse: ΛYΣANIOY TETPAP-ΧOY KAI APXIEPEΩΣ, Athena standing left, holding Victory and resting hand on grounded shield, monogram in right field RPC I 4770 And here's a Roman one. Vespasian, 69-79 AR Denarius 18 mm, 3.16 g, 7 h Rome, 72-73 IMP CAES VESP AVG COS IIII Laureate head of Vespasian to right Rev. VICTORIA AVGVSTI Victory walking to right, placing wreath on standard BMC 74. Cohen 618. RIC 362 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 Here's a victory over the britts, and my first roman silver ever (40 years ago, and still have it) Septimius Severus, Denarius - Rome mint, 210 CE SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, Laureate head of Sevrus right VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory facing, holding palm and attaching shield to palm tree 2.72 gr Ref : RCV #6384, Cohen #729 Q 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 Here is my Pupienus Sestertius and a favourite of mine too @Ancient Coin Hunter 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. Attractive brown tone, Very Fine. Ex Navilles 2021 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryro Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 Fun thread idea and some great coins already! Nike knew what was up and liked to spend her spare time with MSCs... 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 ..here's one of my favs of the Republic...i'll let the coin speak for itself...:) 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted July 13 · Supporter Author Share Posted July 13 Here is a recent Republican purchase of mine. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted July 13 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 13 Thanks to @Ryrofor enlightening me that Nike and Victoria were the same! Yeah...still learning here... Lysimachos 287/281 BCE Perinthos 17.08g Kopf des vergöttlichten Alexander / Athena mit Nike-Statuette auf Cippus und Schild, Beiz. Monogramm und 2 gegenläufige Pferdeprotomen. Thompson in Festschr. Robinson (1968), -, vgl. 256 HGC 1750q; Thompson, Armenak-Hoard (=ANS MN 31, 198 - Müller, Lysimachus - Arnold-Biucchi in Festschr. Price (1998) Unpublished variant(?) PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BCE AR Stater 23mm, 8.88 g, 12h Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap decorated with laurel branch and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left. Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 43 (D17/R21 – this coin); RG 5; HGC 7, 356 Ex Sigmund Collection. Ex CNG March 1999 KINGS OF BITHYNIA. Prusias I Chloros circa 230-182 BCE Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 28 mm, 10,27 g) Laureate head of Apollo to left. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ Helmeted and winged figure of Athena-Nike standing to left, crowning the king's name with her right hand and resting her left on a shield by her side; in field to left, monogram. HGC 7, 615. RG 16. SNG von Aulock 6880 13 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kali Posted July 13 · Member Share Posted July 13 L. Valerius Flaccus, (108 - 107 B.C.) AR Denarius O: Winged and draped bust of Victory right, X below chin. R: LVALERI / FLACCI (downwards on left), Mars walking left, spear in right, trophy in left over shoulder, apex left, head of grain behind. Rome 20.0mm 3.89g SRCV I 183, Sydenham 565, Crawford 306/1, RSC I Valeria 11 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocatarinetabellatchitchix Posted July 13 · Member Share Posted July 13 What’s better than Victory on Victori…nus ? Trier mint Cologne mint Hybrid with reverse of Claudius II from Milan 12 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Kowsky Posted July 13 · Member Share Posted July 13 Romano Gallic Empire. Postumus, AD 260-269 (struck AD 261). Trier Mint, 3rd emission. AE Sestertius: 25.49 gm, 31.5 mm, 6 h. Obverse: Postumus laureate, draped, cuirassed, IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG. Reverse: Victory (spaghetti type) advancing to the left with wreath & palm frond, captive at her feet, VICT OR IA AVG. RIC V 170. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 I ALWAYS love a good Victory/Nike thread. Thanks @expat! Everything that has been shared so far has been amazing! I'm going go ahead an knock things down a peg or 50 with my two latest Victory purchases. They aren't pretty by any stretch of the word but I didn't have examples and the price was right (~$10) so I was more than happy to add them. Surprisingly, this is an upgrade from my other Trajan Victory As.... Trajan AE As 98-99 AD Obverse: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M, laureate head right Reverse: T R POT COS II PP S-C, Victory walking left, holding palm-branch and shield inscribed SPQR This one is rougher. Marcus Aurelius dupondius with Victory inscribing something on a shield. I can't quite figure it out. 😞 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 I have a trio of Victories commemorating victory in Britain in the early 3rd century...Septimius Severus Denarius, 210-211Rome. Silver, 2.21g. Head with laurel wreath from right; SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT. Victory with palm branch and wreath from right; VICTORIAE BRIT (Victory in Britain) (RIC IV, 332).Caracalla Denarius, 210-213Rome. Silver, 3.22g. Head with laurel wreath from right; ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG BRIT. Victoria with trophy from right; VICTORIAE BRIT (Victory in Britain) (RIC IV, 231A). Geta Denarius, 209-211Rome. Silver, 2.95g. Head with laurel wreath from right; P SEPT GETA PIVS - AVG BRIT. Victory with palm branch and wreath from left, head from left; VICTORI-AE BRIT (Victory in Britain) (RIC IV, 92). 12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Ancient Coin Hunter Posted July 13 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 13 I think Severus was going for a total victory over the northern Britons including the Scots and Picts to an extent. Not sure what they would achieve building perhaps another wall north of York (and more northerly than the Antonine wall). It always strikes me on the TV documentaries that no one mentions the Antonine wall just Hadrian's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 13 · Supporter Share Posted July 13 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Ancient Coin Hunter said: I think Severus was going for a total victory over the northern Britons including the Scots and Picts to an extent. Not sure what they would achieve building perhaps another wall north of York (and more northerly than the Antonine wall). It always strikes me on the TV documentaries that no one mentions the Antonine wall just Hadrian's. Yes he died at an unfortunate moment. I'm not sure what was left much further north than the Antonine Wall - it's already 200 miles north of York (the same as York to London). Perhaps a few raiders on Orkney. Although Agricola got to Aberdeenshire. It used to be that no-one mentioned the Antonine Wall, but these days it seems to be the thing, at least on British TV. "Did you know there was a second wall?" to dramatic music. Too many people know about Hadrian's Wall to say much else about it. Edited July 13 by John Conduitt 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kali Posted July 13 · Member Share Posted July 13 Otacilia Severa (244 - 249 A.D.) Egypt, Alexandria Billon Tetradrachm O: MWTCEOV HPACEMCTPA diademed draped bust right. R: Nike advancing right. L-B (Year 2) to right. Alexandria Mint 245 A.D. 23mm 13.28g Dattari 4989, Emmett 3557.2 Rarity 5 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay GT4 Posted July 14 · Member Share Posted July 14 (edited) I won't post a Flavian Victory, rather one of my other favorites the Bretti. Victory over Romans in the punic wars... Head of Ares left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a griffin; grain ear below. ΒΡΕΤΤΙΩΝ Nike standing left, placing wreath on trophy to left and cradling palm in her left arm; caduceus between. Bruttium, 214-211 BC 11.72g SNG ANS 34. HN Italy 1975; Scheu 6 Rare with caduceus Edited July 14 by Jay GT4 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted July 14 · Supporter Share Posted July 14 Victory on the obverse! 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtisimo Posted July 14 · Supporter Share Posted July 14 Nice Victories all. 9 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinoLR Posted July 14 · Member Share Posted July 14 very stylized on this antoninianus of Tetricus 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted July 15 · Member Share Posted July 15 There are so many coins with reference to Victory that one could certainly fill pages with them. I have therefore tried to find a single coin that I particularly like - and have discovered this Nero with me. I particularly like this coin because this type is not always so well preserved - and Victory has been preserved in extraordinary detail. In addition, the portrait of Nero is almost flawless. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Hemidrachm of the Roman Imperial Period 59/60 AD; Material: Silver; Diameter: 14.40mm; Weight: 1.84g; Mint: Caesarea, Cappadocia; Reference: RPC I 3646, Sydenham 86, RIC I (second edition) Nero 618, Sydenham 83; Obverse: Head of Nero, laureate, right. The Inscription reads: NERO CLAVD DIVI [CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GE]RMANI for Nero Claudius Divi Claudii Filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Nero Claudius, son of the divine Claudius, Caesar, Augustus, victor over the Germans); Reverse: Victory, naked to waist, standing right with right foot on globe, inscribing round shield resting on her right knee. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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