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No worries at all! Always glad to have another ancients collector onboard. And I LOVE that coin! Artemis is literally lighting a fire under Zeus's butt!

 

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We're on what -- broken but beautiful?

This coin may not be beautiful in the typical sense, but it's beautiful to me because of its rarity.


Faustina I, AD 138-140.
Roman AR denarius, 3.17 g, 17.4 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 143.
Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: PIETAS AVGVSTI, hexastyle temple on stepped podium, above, a quadriga, Victories as acroteria.
Refs: RIC –; BMCRE 322-323; Cohen –; RSC 253b; Strack –; RCV –;CRE 130.
Note: Extremely rare; known specimens limited to the two in the British Museum collection, a specimen in the ANS collection (ANS 1956.127.574), and one in a private Ukrainian collection (CRE 130). This coin is a double die-match to BMCRE 323 and to the ANS specimen.

Next: More broken but collectable.

 

Next up: chubby face

 

Nero aureus - too many twinkies!

next - Nero in silver...

 

Woah! LOL, looks like they are getting ready to spit that pig!

 

next: Nero denarius

 

Nero denarius / Salus

next... Nero bronze.

 

Here's my rather sorry looking sestertius, purchased during a trip to Besançon, France in 1992:




Next: Any coin of, or including Nero's mother, Agrippina Junior

 

Here's a "twofer" denarius of Nero with his mother , Agrippina.

next.. another coin of Agrippina.

 

Next up: another "hot mom"

 

Julia Mamaea
Sestertius
Venus reverse

19.49 grams



Next: Another empress!

 

Well, the hottest mom on Roman coins IS another empress, so I'll keep posting!


Twelve children in 11 pregnancies.*

Next: Baby on coin.

1. Domitia Faustina, born 30 November 147. She was dead for sure by 161, but died most likely in 150 or 151.
2. Lucilla, born 7 March 149.
3. Faustina III, born 150/151. She survived until about 180/81.
4. T. Aelius Antoninus, born 152. Died in infancy/early childhood.
5. Son dead in infancy, late 157 or early 158. He might have been T. Aelius Aurelius.
6. Fadilla, born 159. She survived Commodus.
7. Cornificia, born August 160. She survived until 212, when she was killed by Caracalla.
8. Twins T. Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus and L. Aurelius Commodus, born 31 August 161. The first born twin died in infancy or early childhood.
   
9. M. Annius Verus, born towards the end of 162. He died at the age of 7 after having a tumor surgically removed from his head.
10. Hadrianus, born mid 163-164 (likely before Lucilla's marriage to Varus in 164). Still alive as "son of Emperor Marcus" in inscriptions from c. 180.
11. Vibia Sabina, born c. 170-171, who would have been the three-year-old at Sirmium when Herodes Atticus was there in 174.
    
    

 

next: juno

 

For baby on coin:

Infant and child morality was a constant tragedy in those times.

The twins on the reverse must be Twins T. Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus and L. Aurelius Commodus.



For Juno:




Next: Ceres

 

Dupondius of Claudius with Ceres seated reverse...

next, another bronze of Claudius.

 

NEXT: Libertas

 

Claudius I AE As, AD 42, Rome Mint. Obv. Bare head left, TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P / Rev. Libertas standing facing, head right, holding pileus in right hand, left hand extended, LIBERTAS AVGVSTA / S - C. RIC I 113, Sear RCV I 1860, BMCRE 202. 31.62 mm., 11.18 g.



Next, Libertas not on a coin of Claudius.

 

L. Farsuleius Mensor, Denarius, Rome, 75 BC, AR (g 3,2 mm 19 h 7), Diademed and draped bust of Libertas r. behind, pileus and S C before, MENSOR, Rv. Warrior, holding spear and reining biga r., assists togate figure into biga below, control numeral in ex. L FARSVLEI. Crawford 392/1b Farsuleia 2 Sydenham 789. Former: Estatebureau

Next: RR fourrée

 

RR FOUREE


RR fourée
mule
anon
Q Fabius Labeo
denarius 18mm 2.9g
after 124 BCE
Roma X
Jupiter Quadriga thunderbolt scepter
Cr 159 obv Cr 273-1 rev

Next: RR Brockage

 

You know that's one of the main glaring deficiencies of my RR collection