Roman bronze attribution!

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by JayAg47, Jul 4, 2021.

  1. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    I'd need some help identifying these coins please,
    So the bust looks like Octavian, with the reverse shows what I assume is a galley?
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    This coin appears to be of Hadrian, but who is on the reverse? I doubt it's Sabina, afaik I've never seen a coin of her with her hair in a bun!
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  3. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    More likely to be Marcus Aurelius and Faustina II, I think. There are a fair number of such coins, such as RPC IV.3, 4980 and RPC IV.2, 6412.
     
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  4. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    Frickin spammers everywhere :mad::mad::mad:
     
  5. gsimonel

    gsimonel Well-Known Member

    But the obverse looks much more like Hadrian. I don't see any trace of a beard.

    I agree that the reverse is not Sabina. Perhaps it's a local city Goddess?
     
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  6. dltsrq

    dltsrq Grumpy Old Man

    I agree, Hadrian. Might the bust on reverse be Dionysus?
     
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  7. lehmansterms

    lehmansterms Many view intelligence as a hideous deformity

    It appears the reverse bust's hair is bound with a wreath of ivy leaves - on that basis, I'd second dltsrq's guess that Dionysos is the reverse type.
    Possibly something like this - if so, the seeming hair "bun" may actually be the pine cone end of a thyrsos over his shoulder?
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=303426
     
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