Ancients: Guess the Ruler

YUP!


from Laconia lacedaemon (sparta)

 

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Ill do an easy one

 

I don't do well in LRB ants and cents. I would say without the ten head It wouldn't be... but, Diocletian?

 

I just edited my answer.... does it still count?

 

Its Diocletian

 

I always think of Diocletian having a really tall forehead and having a few lines. I was thinking Maximianus for a moment because of the shorter forehead and lack of wrinkles

 

Yeah, Its not the most typical portrait.

 

Nice job Randy...
Do you know if the lower marks around his neck whiskers or some kind of necklaces...

 

I believe just hair.


Diocletian AE Antoninianus. Siscia? mint. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right IOV ET HERCV CONSER AVGG, Jupiter, half naked, standing right holding sceptre & globe, facing Hercules with lionskin, club & victory on globe, crescent & delta between, XXI in ex. RIC V 323.

 

Trajan?

 

Negative

 

Alexander the Great

 

I thought it would be a fun change up from Roman Busts

KINGDOM OF MACEDON. Alexander III, The Great (336-323 B.C.), Silver Dekadrachm of 5 Shekels, 40.08g,. Minted at Babylon, struck c.327 B.C. Alexander The Great on Bucephalus right, thrusting his sarissa at a mahout and his master seated on an Indian elephant to right; the mahout and master look back towards Alexander, the master grasps the end of Alexander’s sarissa with his right hand, the mohout brandishes a sp ear in his right hand above his head while holding two further spears in his left hand, Ξ abo ve. Rev. Alexan der standing to left, wearing military attire, holding a thunderbolt in his right hand and a sarissa in his left, Nike flies above to right to crown him, monogram of AB in lower left field


I don't think it needs to be said; not my coin.

 

RIC lists #323 as Antioch which is where I placed my coin below offered here for comparison of the portrait:


...but that is old news. The new challenge for ID is below:

 

Antonia

 

I'm sure Mat is right, and probably saved me the embarrassing Claudius guess

 

If that pony tail weren't in the picture, I would be dropping male names as well

 

Holy smokes ... apparently I missed a few rounds (great coins and awesome guesses!!)

 

I admit it. I thought cropping out the pony tail completely would be unfair so I just crowded it in the hope that someone would be 'dropping male names'. Trying to fool Mat with a female portrait seems futile.