My kids and I were lucky enough to (again) be the recipients of the amazing generosity of the members of this forum. This little beauty came in the mail this week but was only opened this morning since FFIVN and I have been at Cub Scout camp all week and came home exhausted every day. As some of you have seen, recently my daughter has been wanting to join us when cleaning our ancients and looking at our coins or when we look at all of your amazing coins here on CT. When I opened this one up today, I told my daughter that this was her first ancient coin. She was exctatic and had to show the dogs and her stuffed animals lol. My son was a bit jealous but I reminded him that he has been the recipient of the kindness of members here before and now it was his sister's turn. I also let him identify it which helped This Septimius Severus denarius rounds out our Severan family (Mom, Dad, and Sons) in denari. Thanks again to all of you here on CT for being so awesome! Without further ado, here are the coins (the part you all came here for to begin with!) Septimius Severus AR Denarius Emesa mint Obverse: IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, laureate head right Reverse: FORTVN REDVC, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae Julia Domna AR Denarius Obverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right Reverse: IVNO, Juno standing half-left, holding patera & scepter, peacock standing left, head turned back Caracalla, as Caesar Denarius Obverse: M AVR ANTONINVS CAES, draped & cuirassed bust right Reverse: SPEI PERPETVAE, Spes advancing left lifting skirt & holding flower Geta, as Caesar Denarius 198 AD Obverse: P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, draped bust right Reverse: FELICITAS TEMPOR, Felicitas standing left left, holding cauduceus & cornucopiae We are missing Elagabalus from our Severan family but we do have a Severus Alexandar: Severus Alexander Denarius Obverse: IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped bust right Reverse: ANNONA AVG, Annona standing left with corn-ears and cornucopiae, modius at foot If you have made it this far, kudos to you! Please feel free to post your Severan Dynasty coins and lets have a big family reunion!
Very nice set you have there. Here's mine. Dad, and known military genius, liar, and murderer. Mom, and a very strong and wise Roman matron. Brother murdered by brother Brother doing all the murdering, then getting murdered. Wife of brother doing the murdering, and was murdered by him. Evil murderous aunt Evil murderous cousin who was murdered in turn Controlling freak and mother to weak naive emperor , and was murdered along with her son. Naive cousin and weak emperor who got murdered Yep, the Severan clan did a lot of murdering and got murdered a lot.
That is a great family line up @Sallent ! I think the kids and I need to fill out the rest of the Severan family as well
I still need to hunt for a few of the wives of Elagabalus before I call it even. I don't necessarily want them all, but one or two would be nice.
Nice selection of Severans, and cool to hear that your daughter was excited about receiving her first ancient. Here's Mama Domna and her two little angels... JULIA DOMNA AR Denarius. 3.0g, 19.5mm. Rome mint, AD 201. RIC 540; Vagi 1723; BMC 4. O: IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right; hair elaborately waved. R: AETERNIT IMPERI, laureate and draped bust of Caracalla right, vis-à-vis bareheaded and draped bust of Geta left. Ex Dr. Walter Neussel Collection
When shopping for an Elagabalus, consider getting one of the coins that will test your son's attribution skills. The formal names for Caracalla and Elagabalus were the same. There is enough confusion out there that I felt the need for a page where I give five rules that will help ID Imperial coins of the pair. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html While most coins can be separated by the different obverse legends used by one or the other, Both issued coins inscribed ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG. Fortunately, Caracalla used it later in his life when he was older than Elagabalus ever lived to be. These coins are separated by the age of the portrait. Details on the matter can be found on my old page: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html Has your son taken the quiz at the bottom of that page? Unfortunately, the matter is not as simple when dealing with Provincial coins. We start with the fact that Elagabalus ruled for a short time in his teen years so any coin showing a child or adult will be Caracalla. The ones showing teens will require more effort. ID for these coins can include not only the fact of who is shown but 'why' you believe that is the case. Sure, you can just copy an ID from a matching coin you see online and hope it is right but learning to ID coins should be like math in grade school when you are required to 'show your work'. Each of the coins below has a detail that makes it certainly a coin of one or the other. Not all coins do.
@dougsmit We haven't done the quiz yet. Before we look for our Elagabalus we will definitely take it.
