WOW, going through my whole collection, I really do NOT have flowers! Have several grain ears. However, I was able to find this little flower examples within the coin scene... RI Lucilla AR denarius Juno seated holding flower, child in swaddling clothes Seaby 36 RI Tetricus II 273-274 CE BI Ant SPES w Flower
Hi Alegandron—Your coin passes the flower category because Lucilla may have worn enfleurage which is an ancient floral perfume. Actually the men probably wore it too. Check it out: http://www.scienceinschool.org/2011/issue21/caesar
Civic issue, struck in Temnos and commemorating Alexander III, this Tet has grapes surrounding a vase in the lower left field of reverse. Price 1686.
Here is to a happy First Day of Spring @Deacon Ray: Just received today! Jewish War, 66-70 AD Æ Prutah, 17.2mm, 2.92gm; dated "Year 2" and struck 67/68 AD. Obv: Amphora with broad rim and two handles. Rev: Vine leaf on branch. Reference: Hendin 1360
Does olive branch count ? M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus. Denarius Rome mint, 58 BC M SCAVR AED CVR In two lines above camel, EX | SC, in exergue REX ARETAS, King Aretas of Nabataea, kneeling right beside a camel, holding an olive branch P HVPSAEVS AED CVR in two lines, CAPTVM in the right field, C HVPSAE COS PREIVER in two lines, Jupiter driving a quadriga left, holding a thunderbolt Ref : RCV #379 Q
this little AE has a bottle brush lookin' tree on the reverse... Troas, Skepsis. Circa 197-188 BC O: forepart of Pegasos left. R: fir tree within linear border,Σ | K across fields. SNG Copenhagen 477; BMC 82. 10 mm, 1.7g
Caria, island of Rhodes, 1st Century BC Obverse: radiate facing head of Helios Reverse: rose, magistrate's name SFAIROS below, all within wreath **Giant 35.5mm bronze** Ashton Imperial p. 80, #106 Thick enough that someone started drilling a hole and gave up part way through!
Some grapes on a tiny rarity: MYSIA, Perperene, 4th century BC. AE 10. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠΕΡ, grape bunch with vines. Cf. SNG France 2310; M. B. Barth - J. Stauber, Die Münzen von Perperene, Epigraphica Anatolica 23 (1994), 3a.
Happy Equinox @Deacon Ray! Man am I ready for spring!!! Achaea. Corinthia, Corinth. Caracalla Æ24. Obv: Laureate, draped bust of Caracalla left. Melikertes-Palaimon. Rev: CLI COR / Melikertes-Palaimon reclining right on the back of a dolphin, pine tree in background. 24mm., 8.1 g. BCD Corinth 930. Aeolis, Elaea. Lucius Verus AE16 Obv: LOVKIOC KAICAP, Bare-headed youthful bust r. Rev: ELAI TWN, Kalathos with grain-ears and poppies. Lydia, Silandos. Pseudo-autonomous Æ21. Roma/Kore Pseudo-autonomous issue 3rd cent. AD. Æ (5,62 g. - 21 mm). Obv: ΘEA PΩMH, Helmeted and Cuirassed bust of Roma right. Rev: CΙΛΑΝΔΕΩΝ, Cult statue of Kore facing between poppy and grain-ear. SNG Copenhagen 546. Phoenicia, Tyre. 104-117 AD. Obv: Turreted head of Tyche right, palm branch behind head, uncertain object before. Rev: Date palm with two fruits on tree. Date Q-OC across fields. BMC 354.
