Mars Perseverance Rover Landing...Show Your Mars Coins!

And today we go to Mars....landing in an hour and twenty minutes (roughly)

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/

Gordian III AR Antoninianus. 243-44 AD. 23mm 4.4 grams

IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM, Mars walking right holding spear and shield.

Interesting use of the Accusative Case...

The accusative case in Latin communicates a number of things in relation to the verb of a sentence. It can be the direct object, which receives the action of the verb directly. It can communicate the place to which a person is moving, the duration of time it takes or simply be the object of some special prepositions...




Show your favorite Mars coins...!

 

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I have bunches of Mars coins, none are my favorite, all are my favorite!


RR Veturius 137 BCE AR Den Mars X Oath Scene pig S 111 Cr 234-1


My Mars rock is perhaps 4.6 Billion years old.

 

Watching it live as I look at the forum

 

Just watched the landing with my son. Amazing.

 

Pics soon or so they say!

 

Very appropriate topic for today!
Don't have many Roman coins but one of my favorites purchased from Barry Murphy several years ago:




AR didrachm circa 300-276 BC 7.46 gm RRC 13/1
O: head Mars left wearing crested Corinthian helmet
R: horse head right wearing bridle on plinth; grain ear to left; [R]OMAN[O] on plinth

The first Roman coin portraying Mars

 

Caracalla Denarius
206 AD
Obverse: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right
Reverse: PONTIF TRP VIIII COS II, Mars in military dress standing left leaning on shield holding reversed spear

 

Septimius, Elagabal, Alexander

 

P. Satrienus. 77 BC. AR Denarius. Rome Mint. 3.27g.
O: Helmeted head of young Mars right; Control mark LXXX behind.
R: ROMA; She-wolf advancing left with paw raised; [P]·SATRIE/[NVS].
Crawford 388/1b; BMCR 3234; RSC Satriena 1

 

Trajan, AD 98-117
Roman AR denarius; 2.92 gm, 20.1 mm, 7 h
Rome, AD 114-117
Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC, laureate and draped bust, right
Rev: P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Mars walking right with spear and trophy

 

It might look like a coin but it's actually a (MID) Martian Identity Disk.

 

Moneyer: Cn. Cornelius Lenturlus. Denarius circa 88 BC

Obverse: Helmeted bust of Mars r., with spear over l. shoulder and sword over r.

Reverse: Victory in biga r., holding reins and wreath; in exergue. CN·LENTVL.

Reference: Babelon Cornelia 50. Sydenham 702. Crawford 345/1.

Yay! This is one of the few occasions where my little country is involved in space travel. There is some Norwegian tech in the rover, and the helicopter is being controlled by a Norwegian. I’m glad we’re finally able to contribute to space exploration.

 

Gordian III, 238-244 AD. AR Antoninianus (25x21m; 4.63 gm; 6h). Antioch mint, 243-244 AD. Obv: Radiate and cuirassed bust right. Rev: MARTI PACIFERO. Mars, portraying an era of peace, running left holding olive branch before him in right hand and reversed spear (point between legs) and shield in his left hand. RIC IV, 212; RSC 162a.

 

It always blows me away how, except for the Flat Earthers, everyone accepts how we've landed rovers on Mars including using a Sky Crane, yet 1 in 10 Americans don't believe we landed Men on the Moon 50 years ago. FWIW, technically it is MUCH more difficult to do what has just been accomplished than landing men on the Moon.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the people who made the Perseverance mission possible!!!

The coin is just a heavily circulated Barber quarter that I used for scale. The rock beside it is a 34 gram piece of Martian meteorite. It's fun to hold it and look at Mars at night.

 

Very nice example, @Silphium Addict !

Mine:


Roman Republic
Anon
AR Heavy Denarius - Didrachm
310-300 BCE
7.3g 21mm
Mars-
Horse ROMANO -
FIRST Craw 13-1 Left

 

That coin was OBSCENELY a KILLER deal! Congrats on that, and both sides are well defined.

 

Some of my favourite MARS :

 

Mars obverses:

Ti. Veturius



Q. Thermus M.f., with a Mars who's obviously not been working out during the pandemic:



L. Julius L.f. Caesar



P. Satrienus



Publius Fonteius P.f. Capito



A Mars reverse (Hostilian)



A slightly stocky, but very solid-looking, Roman bronze Mars Ultor (Mars the Avenger):