Ancients => I scored two ol' hot chicks for $100 (cha-ching!!)

Helena? (mother of Constantine the great?)

... second guess => Julia Domna

 

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Does anyone else think that Severina unfortunately looks just like her husband Aurelian but with a slightly different hairdo?

Z.

 

Doug, the oldest I can think of is Octavia with Marc Antony but I can imagine there being an earlier issue.

Sorry did you mean eldest in age? Livia got up there in years, same with Sabina I think.

 

Oh and nice score, Steve! That Lucilla looks hot!

 

Mark antony wife was the first roman female depicted on a coin, Octavia. Flavia is aslo depicted on some coins, expensive too :-(

 

Two pretty nice looking coins. If you didn't mention those are peacocks on them I would have never guessed it.

 

Nice sestertii Steve.
Yes, sestertii are the kind of stuff that can stand some wear and still be attractive. In my young age I've had some kinda weakness for them too :


Lucilla, Sestertius
Rome mint, circa 164-166 AD
LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, Draped bust right
VENVS, Venus standing left, holding an apple and raising drapery from left shoulder, SC in field
24.42 gr
Ref : Cohen # 77, RCV # 5507


Crispina, Sestertius
Rome mint, circa AD 180-182
CRISPINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right
LAETITIA, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and rudder, SC in field
19.86 gr
Ref : Cohen # 27, RCV # 6007

Q

 

Some nice looking ladies. Heres the best I could come up with

 

I think my most aged sestertius is this Maesa with double chin.

 

Doug you werent gonna give the answer to your question?

 

He is a master of suspense!

 

In the favorite phrase from middle schoolers I have known: I don't know.

 

Then why ask, lol.

In books ive read some say its octavia and some say fulvia.

Even Wiki mentions it.

 

So I have been saving my money and probably after the holidays will start buying a coin a month, given that my job situations stays the same.

My first purchase will be a Ptolemy coin of giganticness.

After that, my plan is to buy only females on coins. The goal will be to collect as many different ladies as possible. My question is, and it seems relevant to the thread which is why I'm asking here, is there somewhere I can get a list of ladies on coins? Or is that not really possible?

 

A good list of all the men and women. Some of the women will be unattainable since only a few are known.

http://dirtyoldcoins.com/roman/Roman-Emperors.html

 

Thanks!

Are there other women who were featured as well? For example, guys who minted their moms or wives? (And a possible list of those?)

 

Steve great lookin' couple of ladies. When do you have time to wait on an auctions, when you never stop buying coins.???

 

Lord Geoff => ERIC II has a list of 207 Roman Rulers and/or their mates, etc ... that is what I use to determine who is who (it also has a nice "rarity rating list", for lack of a better description) ...

I really like my copy of ERIC II, but it was quite expensive (however, I'm pretty sure that you can download it or parts of it) ... you may want to look into that option?

Cheers

 

Thanks Steve I will file that away for when I begin purchasing.

 

Sadly I have yet to acquire any ladies. So, I will content myself with liking all the great coins I'm seeing here.