Sabina Denarius Roma 128-136 AD Tellus eastern mint

Reference.
unpublished
obverse of Sabina reverse Hadrian
RIC 390; Rev. RIC 276

Obv. SABINA AVGVSTA
Diademed and draped bust right

Rev. TELLVS STABIL
Tellus standing left, holding plough-handle and rake, two corn ears behind.

2.73 gr
19 mm
6h
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Note.
Ex Gorny & Mosch, Auction 233, lot 2366 2015

 

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Wow, nice find. Never seen the type before.

 

it's quite extraordinary eastern and mule

 

some Sabina's Rome minted look like Hadrian with long hear.
this is my https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-post-your-hadrians.236881/page-41#post-3103536
1e Rome minted happy man here

 

That's a really interesting find, @Okidoki ! I've never seen a mule of Sabina before. Do you know anything about its provenance?

 

I don't think that's just a mule. The obverse is oddly engraved with a similar non-standard reverse. The house suggested it may be an unofficial imitation. I think it's an unofficial hybrid and chose to pass, but I'm glad somebody here got it.

 

Way to rake in an interesting coin! I like seeing tool on ancient coins.

 

it is eastern mint, and there they mixed two obverse and reverses so mule.
the BM made it eastern (this coin), both
a hybrid can not be, that are two sides of different rules, a mule is of same ruler.
officially easterns can not be mule, so i have it in my easter minted collection of hadrian
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5768
Mule are here posted
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5997

Best,

Eric

 

Note.
Ex Gorny & Mosch, Auction 233, lot 2366 2015

 

I'm confused.

In the Gorny & Mosch lot description from 2015 (sale 233, lot 2366) they call it a hybrid and a contemporary imitation. (RRR! Hybride Prägung! Zeitgenössische Imitation!). In the Roma auction just completed they note, "Contemporary Imitation (?)" Neither of those descriptions mention the British Museum.

May I ask, where did the BM "make it eastern?" This coin does not appear in their collection online, which only displays one denarius from an eastern mint, out of 70 denarii shown. In that case the hair style is in the early fashion for Sabina, like that of Matidia, and Hadrian is on the obverse. Stylistically this obverse and that reverse are not similar.

Is there another reference for this coin someplace?

 

i am in contact with the curator of the BM, who is working on the next update of RIC

 

That must be nice. What did he say? How did he explain it?

 

an interesting piece
here another eastern mint on RIC 276
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.hdn.276c

 

huh... okidoki's got a direct line to the BM... hey buddie ..^^.. kool koin too.

 

I really like the Sabina portrait!

 

I hadn't even considered that there are eastern Sabina coin. Doh. Fantastic.

 

Very nice coin @Okidoki ! The Tellus reverse with plow and rake is very nice. I really like that agrarian style.

I only have one Sabina. I BELIEVE this is a likeness of her, and not Hadrian with a wig!


RI Sabina 117-137 Denarius 3-18g Venus standing right holding an apple RSC73

 

Once again, I'm not understanding something here. To illustrate another coin from an eastern mint you linked us to a page for a coin in which it states on the page that the mint was Rome.
"
Typological Description

• Date Range
  • From Date: AD 134
  • To Date: AD 138
• Object Type: Coin
• Manufacture: Struck
• Denomination: Denarius
• Material: Silver
• Authority
  • Authority: Hadrian
• Geographic
  • Mint: Rome
  • Region: Italy

So what makes it "eastern?" Is it the use of the TELLVS STABIL reverse type?

Returning to the Sabina: Did your informant at the BM have more to say than "interesting?" It is interesting at a number of levels, but I'm not sure an eastern origin is one of them. Could be, of course, but can't say without a good basis.