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Venus with the epithet, "Felix."


Faustina Jr, Augusta AD 147-175.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.18 g, 18.2 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 170-175.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right, with Beckmann type 9 hairstyle.
Rev: VENVS FELIX, Venus seated left, holding small statuary group of the three graces and scepter.
Refs: RIC 731 var.; BMC p. 407* accession no. 1982,0202.7; Temeryazev & Makarenko 240; Staal p. 142, p. 169.

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JULIA MAMAEA. Æ. Sestertius. 224 AD
Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA. Coated bust facing right.
Rev: VENVS FELIX Seated Venus, with scepter and statue.
16.58g. 27 mm.
RIC. 701

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Tyche holding Ares.

Ionia, Metropolis. Salonina AE22. Tyche holding Ares
Obv: CAΛΩN XPVCOΓONH CЄBA. Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set upon crescent.
Rev: ЄΠI CTP AVP ЄVΠOPOV B MHTPOΠOΛЄITΩN. Tyche standing l., holding cornucopia and Ares.
Aur. Euporos II, strategos.

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Ionia

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Themistokles, AR Hemiobol, struck ca. 465-459 BC
Dia.: 8 mm
Wt.: 0.24 g
Obv.: Head of Hephaistos right, wearing laureate pilos; Θ-E flanking /
Rev.: ΘE monogram in dotted square border within incuse square.
Ref.: Nollé & Wenninger 5a; Cahn & Gerin 8 = SNG München 585; SNG Copenhagen;
Very rare.
Ex Plankenhorn Collection of Ionian Coins

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Here's the head honcho, on the reverse. 4.29 grams.



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next: another Olympian god

 

Athena. Olympian Goddess, I guess we cannot be discriminatory!
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Here's an AE 30 of Henna, 44-36 BC, with Ceres (Demeter) on the obverse.

16.17 grams



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12 Olympians - Roman republican style:

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The Nerva Antonines


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*Insert Pamela Anderson photo here.

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Family dinner...


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GP97579. Bronze tetrobol, Lorber CPE B275, Svoronos 505 (8 spec.), Weiser 28, SNG Milan 552, BMC Ptolemies -, SNG Cop -, Hosking -, Noeske -, Malter - obverse edge beveled, central depressions, Alexandria mint, weight 45.469g, maximum diameter 33.0mm,

next: a coin of Magnus Maximus

 

I was thankful to finally have something which qualified.

 

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Set of two duplicate Gratian coins I mistakenly bought thinking they were different reverse types... I was tired that day.

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That's a chunk!