It's been some time since I've seen these mentioned on this forum but Claire Franklin is a truly brilliant cartoonist as well as a numismatist. I highly recommend subscribing to the Coinsweekly.com newsletter to see her weekly updates. They can all be viewed here: https://coinsweekly.com/category/cartoon_en/ Here's her latest: This is referring to Bodenstedt 55, a hekte type with only ~20 examples on CoinArchives, making this an obscure reference to an even more obscure field and I love it. A few other recent great ones: One for @TIF :
Wow, @AncientJoe , that COIN! Incredible creativity! I have not seen that one. Very very nice! Congrats finding it.
The cartoons are always very enjoyable. Her amount of creativity to be able to come up with a funny cartoon every week amazes me. And amazing is the right word for me to describe your coin too!
These are WONDERFUL for any ancient coin collector! I'll be following her going forward. And great, now I'll have to eat some shrooms And don't get me started on your coins beauty, artistry and in EL!!! Here's a not nearly as fun, though lovely, archaic example I have with Athena and the more common janiform heads: I've got a snake riding a horse but no snake pulled chariot (hopefully @TIF illuminates us with hers) Griffin: Cash, grass or Akragas nobody rides for free: And a good old gallic barbarous:
I love Franklin's World!! As a Faustina fanatic, my favorite cartoon features a very gravid Faustina II! Of course, the cartoon reminds me of this coin: Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman oricalchum sestertius, 22.36 gm, 33.7 mm, 12 h. Rome, AD 160. Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: FECVND AVGVSTAE S C, (Faustina as) Fecunditas standing left, between two children (thought to represent Faustina III and Lucilla), holding two infants in her arms (thought to represent Commodus and Antoninus). Refs: RIC 1635; BMCRE 902-904; Cohen 96; Strack 1336; RCV 5273; MIR 10.
I have that FECVNDITAS type as a denarius: 19-18 mm. 3.15 grams. Denarius. Faustina Jr. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. FECVND AVGVSTAE, with Faustina as Fecunditas standing left, between two children [as @Roman Collector wrote] (thought to represent Faustina III and Lucilla), holding two infants in her arms (thought to represent Commodus and Antoninus). Sear II 5251. struck "161-175."
One of the cartoons had a griffin seated right raising his left paw. No one posted one, so here is my contribution--a small example from Teos, Ionia. 7 mm. 0.33 grams. A hemiobol. The reverse has a four-art incuse square. Sear Greek --, as 3512 but a much smaller denomination. Weber 6213. SNG Cop Ionia, Teos, cf. 1442 at 0.54 grams. Type of von Aulock 2258 (1.31 grams) and 2259 (1.25 grams), but a smaller denomination. Rosen --. Klein 479 (0.37 grams). Finally this denomination!
Another cartoon had snakes pulling a chariot. Here is my Republican example: 18 mm. 3.97 grams. Denarius. 78 BC. Moneyer M. Volteius M.F. Head of Liber right wearing ivy wreath, no legend M VOLTEI M F in exergue below Ceres driving a biga of snakes, holding torch in each hand, bird (heron) behind. Crawford 385/3. Sear I 314. It looks like the chariot might run over their tails. Ouch!
