The Roman Provincial Portrait Gallery Group Collaboration Thread

Very nice, patina and bold details.

 

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Excellent detailed Tyre Melkhart Trajan, congrats top post.

 

Shall we move on to Antoninus Pius and Faustina Senior?

 

I only have two provincial of Antoninus Pius, the first a Drachm from Alexandria depicting the Pharos lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And the second from Ephesus also depicting another wonder of the ancient world the Temple of Artemis with two other temples both sides of it, both large coins at 36mm.

 

This Alexandrian obol is a bit unusual having the tapered edges of the cast-in-cup flan on the reverse rather than the usual obverse. I have seen this on other obols but it is not usual.


From Zeugma, this AE18 shows a die clash reverse upper left. The reverse is the standard Zeugma temple with grove of trees in a fenced courtyard.

 

ANTONIUS PIUS
AE 25
OBVERSE: AVTO KAI TI AIL ADRI ANTWNINOC CEEBV, laureate head right
REVERSE: IOVLIEWN TWN KAI LAODIKEWN, turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; QE-HP P in fields
Struck at Laodikeia ad Mare, 140-141 AD 9.28g, 25mm
SNG Copenhagen 350 var, BMC 57

ANTONIUS PIUS
AR Didrachm
OBVERSE: ANTWNEI-NOC CEBACTOC, laureate head right
REVERSE: YPAT B PAT PATR, Helios, holding globe and sceptre, standing atop Mt. Argaeus; * in exergue
Struck at Caesaria, Cappadocia, 139 AD
6.2g, 21mm
Syd 301c

ANTONIUS PIUS
AE23
OBVERSE: [AVT]O KAI TI AIΛ AΔ[ ] (retrograde)
Laureate head left
REVERSE: ZEVΓMATEWN,
Tetrastyle temple with peribolos containing grove and having a colonnade (only roof slabs shown) to left and right, and in front a portico or panelled wall of two storeys; all within wreath
Struck at Commagene Zeugma Syria, 138-161AD
8.80g, 23mmBMC 3GIC 1492v

 

Both nice coins, I especially like the Zeugma temple, great patina. I am on the lookout for one myself are they all only 18-23mm and reasonably heavy for their diameter or is there another larger flan?

 

A double-header...

ANTONINUS PIUS
AE25. Rare. Heavy specimen. 10.43g, 24.6mm. CILICIA, Flaviopolis, 140/141 AD (Year 68 of Flaviopolis). SNG von Aulock 8672; SNG France 2181; Waddington 4285; Ziegler 1244. O: AYT KAI TI AIΛ AΔP ANTΩNEINOC CEB, laureate head right. R: ΘEA ΦAYCTEINA ΦΛAYIOΠOΛEITΩN, draped bust of Faustina right; ET - ΞH in field.

 

I haven't been keeping up with this thread and has been my loss. Flipping through it there's some great coins that I need to take the time to go back and really look at them.
I have been putting in some hours at work lately.

Forgive me but since I got this from JA, I think a couple months back I've yet to share it, so stepping back a page to Trajan.



Trajan, AD 98-117.
Æ10, 8.6g, 12h. SYRIA, Cyrrhestica, Cyrrhus.
Obv.: AVTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOS APIST CEB ΓEPM DAK ΠAΡΘI; Laureate head right.
Rev.: KYPPHC/TWN in two lines; A below; all within wreath.
Reference:Butcher 1; BMC 2; SNG Copenhagen 45 var. (B on reverse).

 

Great coins all! Here are a few of my Antoninus portraits from some harder to find cities.


Bithynia, Tium. Antoninus Pius AE18. Zeus Syrgastes

Caria, Ceramos. Antonininus Pius AE33 Zeus Chrysaoreus

Lesbos, Mytilene. Antoninus Pius AE18

Syria, Commagene, Samosata. Antoninus Pius AE24

Thessaly, Magnetes. Antoninus Pius AE22

 

Dang, this terrific thread rolled on without me...until now

A relatively recent purchase of a denarius I had to buy.

Antoninus Pius AR Denarius, Pietas reverse
Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD). AR Denarius (19 mm, 3.90 g), Roma (Rome), 151-2.
Obv. IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head to right.
Rev. TR POT XV - C - OS IIII / PIETAS, Pietas standing right, holding forelegs of a hind which stands on it’s back legs and a plate of fruit; altar to right.
RIC 21

 

Hello everyone,

this is my Augustus coin I want to share:
Carthago Nova Mint,
Bare head of Augustus to the right, AVGVSTVS DIVI F, Rev: Tiara,
REX PTOL C LAETIVS H V Q


The condition is not so good, but I like the coin nevertheless

 

Let's move on to Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior!


Faustina II, AD 147-175
Roman provincial AE 20.7 mm; 5.96 gm
Thrace, Pautalia, AD 147-175
Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙ-ΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, pearl-diademed and draped bust, right
Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC ΠΑ-VΤΑΛΙΑC, Demeter seated l., with corn ears and long torch. Refs: BMC-9; Ruzicka-95; Moushmov-4104; Schönert-Geiss-58

 

...speakin' of Trajan..(JK).. that's a nice one @Smojo

 

very nice!

 

I bought this one because I thought the youthful portrait of MA on it was very nicely done.

MARCUS AURELIUS
AE Diassarion. 10.44g, 26mm, THRACE, Philippopolis, circa AD 139-161. Varbanov 805. O: Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟC ΟVΗΡΟC ΚΑΙCΑΡ, bare head of Marcus Aurelius to right, with neat beard. R: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Apollo, nude, standing left, holding a phiale in his right hand and his bow in his left.

 

Here is a sestertius-size Antoninus Pius at Hadrianopolis, Thrace.

34-32 mm. Tyche seated left on rocks, holding rudder. River god swimming at feet left.
ΑΔΡΙΑWΝ ΝΑ-Ι-ΓΕΑΙWΝ [I think]. In ex: possibly EAP
I have not found an academic reference for it. There are several cities with names beginning like "Hadrian..." and RPC on-line gives one looking somewhat like this reverse, but from Treb Gallus (much later) from
"Hadrianopolis Province: Asia: Conventus of Philomelium"

Head has the city Hadrianoplois in Trace with a river-god, but BMC does not list one until Septimius Severus. If anyone finds a reference for it, let me know.

 

I'll throw in a denarius with a Roma seated reverse:


Marcus Aurelius AR Denarius, Roma reverse
Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD). AR Denarius (18 mm, 3.39 g), Rome, 165 AD.
Obv. M ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS, Laureate head right.
Rev. P M TR P XIX IMP III COS III, Roma seated left, holding sceptre and palladium.
RIC 141

 

Shall we move on to Lucius Verus and Lucilla?


Faustina Jr. and Lucilla
Roman Provincial AE 28.2 mm, 16.17 gm
Mallus, Cilicia, AD 164-169
Obv: ΑΝΙΑΝ ΦΑYΤΙΝΑΝ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and dr. bust of Faustina Jr., r.
Rev: ΛΟYΚΙΛΛΑΝ CΕΒΑCΤΗΝ ΜΑΛΛΩΤΩΝ, bare-headed and dr. bust of Lucilla, r.
Refs: SNG von Aulock 5725; SNG Levante 1277; Sear Greek Imp 1808

 

LV...

LUCIUS VERUS
AE25. 7.66g, 24.8mm, MACEDONIA, Amphipolis, circa AD 161-169. RPC Online Vol. 4 #4242 var (obv. legend). O: AVT KAI L AVPH OVPH, bare-headed bust of Lucius Verus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right. R: AMPHIPOLEITWN, turreted Tyche seated left, holding patera.

LUCIUS VERUS
AR Didrachm. 6.64g, 21.4mm. CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea, AD 161-166 (Cos 2). Metcalf 131d; RPC Online Vol. 4, #7030. O: AYTOKP OYHPOC CEBACTOC, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: YΠATOC B, Mt. Argaeus with two large rocks at its base, left rock decorated with a deer leaping left, right rock with a tree; on summit, Helios standing left, holding globe and long sceptre.