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Here's my Valerian II goat with rider

Valerian II, AR antoninianus, 23 mm 4.2 grams

Struck: 257-258, Cologne.

Obverse: VALERIANVS CAES, radiate, draped bust right

Reverse: IOVI CRESCENTI, the child Jupiter sitting right on the goat Amalthea, looking left, right hand raised, left hand holding the goat's horn.

Reference: RIC 3 (Lyons); Cohen 26 (Saloninus); Elmer 67a; Goebl 0907e; Sear 10731.





Next: Saloninus (the other grandson)

 

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Saloninus Caesar (son of Gallienus), Billon Antoninianus, 258-260 AD, Cologne Mint. Obv. Radiate draped bust right, SALON VALERIANVS CAES/ Rev. sacrificial implements (lituus, jug, simpulum, and sprinkler), PIETAS AVG. RIC V-1 9, RSC IV 41, Sear RCV III 10767 (ill.). 20.5 mm., 3.13 g.



Next: A Roman Provincial coin with a bust of Sabina, like this one, the second of my NYINC purchases that I've written up:

Sabina (wife of Hadrian) Billon Tetradrachm, Year 15 (130/131 AD), Alexandria, Egypt mint. Obv. Draped bust right, wearing double stephane, with hair coiled and piled on top of head, ϹΑΒΙΝΑ - ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ / Rev. Sabina (as Demeter) seated left on throne without back, hair plaited over stephane, wearing chiton and peplos, holding two ears of corn with right hand extended, and, with left hand, holding long scepter, ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ ϹƐΒΑϹΤΗ around; LΙΕ [Year 15] at 11:00 on reverse between ears of corn and Sabina's head. RPC [Roman Provincial Coinage] Vol. III 5773 (2015); RPC III Online at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5773; BMC 16 Alexandria 917 at p. 106 [Poole, Reginald Stuart, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria (London, 1892)]; Emmett 1334.15 [Emmett, Keith, Alexandrian Coins (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1308 at p. 32 (differentiated at p. 152 from Milne 1309, on basis of reverse hairstyle) [Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins (Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], ill. at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/56405 [Specimen No. 10 of RPC 5773, held by Oxford, Ashmolean Museum]; Sear RCV II 3954. Purchased from Zuzim Inc. on Jan. 14. 2022 at NYINC 2022. 24 mm., 12.309 g.*



*One of only two basic reverse types of Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm with a bust of Sabina on obverse; the other type shows Sabina standing on reverse. Various subtypes exist with different legends (ϹΑΒΙΝΑ vs. ϹΑΒƐΙΝΑ) and hairstyles (queue vs. upswept) on both sides.

 

One of my first Empress coins of what I thought was pretty "flashy" at the time:


Next up: more "flashy" empress hairdos

 

Aelia Flaccilla, AE Follis (23 mm, 5.74 g), Nicomedia, 383-388. AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG Draped bust of Aelia Flaccilla to r./ Rev.SALVS REI PVBLICAE / SMNB Aelia Flaccilla standing facing, branch in field to l.

Next: Another empress with a great hairstyle

 

Aelia Pulcheria

next: Emperor not endowed with great looks

 

next up: another from the year of the four emperors

 

Denarius 68 CE. during year of the 4 emperors with Jupiter Capitolinus / Vesta.

next ... one of the emperors of that year...

 

I believe Nero was emperor in 68 AD


NEXT: a bright brass-colored dupondius or sestertius

 

next: Domitian dupondius

 

Domitian dupondius with COS XV in the obverse legend.
Roman Imperial Domitian (81-96), Dupondius 90-91, Rome mint Obverse: radiate head right
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XV CENS PER P P
Reverse: Virtus standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium, SC in fields
VIRTVTI AVGVSTI
Weight 12,67 g.
Next another Domitian dupondius.

 

DOMITIAN
AE Dupondius
OBVERSE: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P, radiate head right
REVERSE: S-C, Mars advancing left, holding Victory & trophy
Struck at Rome, 86 AD
11.6g, 27mm
RIC 482

Next: Mars

 

next: Mars

 

277 AD. Lugdunum mint. Obv: IMP C PROBVS P F AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: MARS VICTOR legend with Mars advancing right carrying trophy and spear; II in exergue. RIC 84; Sear 11992.3.47 grams

Next Mars advancing left.

 

Next: a different Mars on a RR

 

Here's a Mars...

Moneyer: Albinus Bruti f.
Obv.: Head of Mars right, wearing crested helmet
Rev.: ALBINVS [BRVTI•F] - Two carnyces in saltire; above, oval shield; below, round shield
Mint: Rome (48 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.93g / 17mm / 2h
References:

• RSC 26 (Junia)
• Sydenham 941
• Crawford 450/1
• HCRI 25
• RBW 1576

Provenances:

• Ex. Collection Dr. iur. Hans Krahenbuhl
• Purchased from Numismatica Arimiensis, 18-Sep-1978

Acquisition: Leu Numismatik Online auction Auction 9 #268 23-Oct-2021



Next - carnyx

 

RR denarius of CN. Lentulus, c. 88 BC.
Mars right.

next , RR denarius with sister of Mars...

 

beat me to it - next carnyx...

 

Decius sestertius with Dacia reverse / carnyx.

next, imperial silver of Decius...

 

Next : anything dacian

Q

 

Trajan sestertius with victory over Dacia reverse.
next... continue anything Dacian...