Deities and Personifications A-Z

Concordia


Otacilia Severa. AR Antoninianus. Wife of Philip I . AD 244-249
Obv: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG - Diademed bust right, draped and on a crescent.
Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG - Concordia seated left holding patera and double cornucopia.
Rome mint: AD 247 (6th Issue, 4th Officina)
23mm 3.4g
RIC IV 125c

 

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May I post a 13th Century historic medieval Venetian coin?
The reverse of this grosso depicts the image of Jesus Christ seated on a throne.
Christ

The obverse depicts Doge (Jacopo Contarini) together with the Venetian city’s Saint Mark.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Contarini
There are many types of these identified by the Doge name at reverse left. St. Mark is at the right.

Silver Grosso of Doge Raniero Zeno, 1253-1268, Venice

 

This Dionysus from Thasos can take us to D. You gotta like the god of wine, grape harvest, and ritual ecstasy.

THRACE, Thasos
AR Tetradrachm
(After 146 BC)
16.72 grams, 31 mm
Obv: Wreathed head of Dionysos right.
Hair is neatly braided, vine-ed &
berried with a few locks of loose
hair cascading down to the shoulder
Rev: Hercules standing left, holding club
& lion's skin with control monogram.
HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN.
Grade: gVF to aEF
Other: SNG Cop 1046ff.
May 2014 Pecunem Sale 16, lot # 86.

 

Only under 'B' for the baby variety. Full grown I'll put under 'C' (or 'J'?)

Italy - Venice
Pietro Zani, r. 1205-1229
AR Grosso, 19.79 mm, 1.9 grams
Obv.: [·+·]P·ZIANI· ·S·M.VENETI outside (Z retrograde), D/U/X down banner held between doge and St. Mark facing
Rev.: [I¯C] X¯C across field, Christ enthroned facing

I like that Follis @TIF - very interesting having the obverse struck on both sides

 

D is for Demeter:


Faustina Junior, Augusta AD 147-175/6
Roman provincial AE 20.7 mm, 5.96 gm
Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, diademed and draped bust right
Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC ΠΑVΤΑΛΙΑC, Demeter seated left, with corn ears and long torch
Refs: BMC-9; Ruzicka-95; Moushmov-4104; Schönert-Geiss-58

 

Dioscuri


Roman Republic, C. Plutius
121 BCE
AR denarius, 18 mm, 3.9 gm
Obv: helmeted head of Roma right; X behind
Rev: the Dioscuri riding right.; below, C. PLVTI; in exergue, ROMA
Ref: Crawford 278/1; Sydenham 410; Plutia 1


Diana


Roman Republic, C. Postumius
73 BCE, Rome
AR denarius, 18.74 mm, 3.6 gm
Obv: bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder
Rev: hound running right, spear below; C. POSTVMI, TA in exergue
Ref: Crawford 394/1a

Dido (Was she real or is she fictional? Maybe she doesn't belong on this list.)


PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus
CE 218-222
AE29, 13.4 gm
Obv: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Dido building Carthage; she stands to front before the arched gate of the city, looking left, holding a rule and transverse sceptre; above the gate, a mason at work, [below, a man digging with pick]; murex shell in upper field, palm tree to right
Ref: Rouvier 2375; BMC 409; AUB 245; Price & Trell 748

Demos


EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero
year 3, CE 56/7
tetradrachm
Obv: NEPKΛAYKAIΣΣEBΓEPAYTO; laureate head right
Rev: Demos of Romans standing right with sceptre and cornucopia; ΔHMOΣPΩ-MAIΩN; LΓ
Ref: Emmett 116.3 R3, Milne 141

Dikaiosyne (My first Egyptian tet. I thought it was hideous and now I avidly collect these Roman Egyptian coins, some of which are uglier than this one )


EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
year 11, CE 147/8
tetradrachm, 23 mm, 11.7 gm
Obv: ANTΩNINOC CEBEVCEB; laureate head of Antoninus Pius right
Rev: L-ENΔ-E-KATOV; Dikaiosyne seated left, holding scales and cornucopia
Ref: Emmett 1377.11, R1

 

DIANA

ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denarius. 4.03g, 18.8mm. Rome mint, 64 BC. C. Hosidius C.f. Geta, moneyer. Crawford 407/2. O: Draped bust of Diana right, wearing stephane, earring, and double necklace of pendants; bow and quiver over shoulder; III VIR down left, GETA down right. R: Calydonian Boar standing right, pierced by spear and harried by hound below; C HOSIDI C F in exergue.

 

That is one action-packed reverse!!

 

DEMETER
ANTONINUS PIUS
Billon Tetradrachm. 10.87g, 22.8mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 4 = AD 140/1. Dattari 2182; Emmett 1374.4; RPC Online 14239 (5 spec.). O: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: L D, Veiled and draped bust of Demeter right, wearing kalathos decorated with disk, torch on shoulder.
Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1981.492)

DIOSCURI

MAXIMUS
AE29. 9.54g, 29.1mm. MOESIA INFERIOR, Tomis, circa AD 235-238. Varbanov 5513 (R4). O: Γ IOYΛ OYHP MAΞIMOC KAIC ΓEP, barehead, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: MHTPO ΠONTOY TOMEΩC, Dioscuri reclining left, side by side, heads facing, right one holding patera, left one resting on rock; each with star above forehead; ∆ in left field.

DIONYSOS

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis
Civic Issue
AE28. 12.36g, 28mm. Circa AD 2nd-3rd centuries. RPC Online 2045; SNG Cop 428. O: IЄPAΠOΛЄI-TΩN, head of youthful Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath. R: The Abduction of Persephone: Hades in galloping quadriga right, carrying off struggling Persephone.

 

Yeah, it kind of steals Diana's thunder .

 

Dikaiosyne standing:


Elagabalus, Augustus AD 218-222, with grandmother, Julia Maesa, Augusta AD 218-224/5
Roman provincial Æ pentassarion, 14.55 g, 28.4 mm, 12:00
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, under Legate Julius Antonius Seleucus, AD 218-222
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΜΑΙCΑ ΑVΓ, confronted busts of Elagabalus and Maesa
Rev: VΠ ΙΟVΑ ΑΝΤ CΕΛΕVΚΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙ-ΤΩΝ, Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae; E (5) in field, right
Refs: Moushmov 674; AMNG 962; Varbanov 1620; Mionnet S. 2, 101, 273; similar to BMC 3. 36, 63.

 

Demos

Lydia, Tralleis. AE22. ΠYΘIA
Tralles, AE22. AD 253-260.
Obv: IEΡOC ΔHMOC, head of Demos right, hair bound in a taenia.
Rev: TΡAΛΛIANΩN around prize crown inscribed ΠYΘIA.
BMC 109-110

Dikaiosyne

Phrygia, Prymnessus. Nero. Æ 20mm. Ti. Julius Proclus, magistrate.
Obv: Laureate head right; NEPO NA KAISAP A - PRYMNHSSHS.
Rev: Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and grain ears; TI IOYLIOY PPKLOY in legend.
RPC I 3207; von Aulock, Phrygiens 1031.
Ti. Julius Proclus, magistrate.

 

DIONYSOS:

Thrace Thasos 146-50 BCE AR Tet Dionysos Herakles Club Lion skin

DIANA:

RR Allius Bala 92 BCE AR Den Diana Biga Stags Sear 221 Craw 336/1


Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 Diana Boar Hannibal capital Italia SCARCE

DIOSCURI:

RR AR Sestertius After 211 BCE 12mm 1.0g Rome mint Roma r IIS - Dioscuri riding stars in ex ROMA Sear 46 Craw 44-7 RSC 4

DIDO:

 

Diana

Gordian III, AD 238-244
AR Denarius, Rome, AD 240.
Obv.: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: DIANA LV-CI-FERA; Diana standing facing, head right, holding torch in both hands. Reference: RIC IVc 127, (7th Issue, 1st Officina)
20mm, 2.6g, 6h;


Gallienus, AE antoninianus. Rome, sole reign. 257-258 AD. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right / DIANA FELIX, Diana walking right, drawing bow and holding arrow, hound at foot. RIC V-1 Rome 174 var (bust type);
24.74mm 3.0g
RIC V 174v

Dea Caelestis

Caracalla Denarius. 201-206 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate draped bust right / INDVLGENTIA AVGG, Dea Caelestis, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, riding lion over waters gushing from rock on left, IN CARTH in ex.
RIC IV 130, Sear 6806; RSC 97.
2.6g, 19.3mm

 

The dei genitales ...

... were divinities thought by the Romans to be the parents of all things, living or non-living. Dis genitalibus is a dedicatory phrase to the gods of childbirth, perhaps for having had children or to obtain fertility or to protect an unborn child.

The only coins which depict them are denarii of Crispina, though no record of her ever having a child is known to historians.


Crispina, AD 177-182
Roman AR denarius, 19.5 mm, 3.15 g
Rome, AD 180-181
Obv: CRISPINA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust right
Rev: DIS GENITALIBVS, large rectangular altar (or altar enclosure)
Refs: RIC 281A; BMCRE 31; Cohen 15; RCV 5999 var.

 

There are so many great coins in this thread & it's fun to learn about so many deities. I'd forgotten about Dea Caelestis. I've got one of those leaping lion coins.

Septimus Severus
AR Denarius
A.D. 193-211
Struck in A.D. 204
3.31 grams, 18-19 mm
Obv: Laur. head of Severus r.
SEVERVS PIVS AVG.
Rev: Dea Caelestis seated facing
on lion springing to right,
water rushing below.
IN CARTH in exergue,
INDVLGENTIA AVGG.
Grade: EF
Other: Sear 1756, R.I.C. 4 #266, BMC RE 335, RSC 222. Ex La Galerie Numismatique (Heritage Jan 2013) lot 61072 From Eye Appealing Coins Sept 2013.

 

As do I.

 

Dionysos:



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John

 

AMISOS, PONTOS
AE 20
OBVERSE: Head of youthful Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy
REVERSE: Thyrsos leaning against cista mystica draped with panther skin; AMISOU below
Struck at Amisos 85-65 BC
8.8g, 21mm
SNG BM Black Sea 1199-1200; HGC 7, 243