[ancients] Post your Hadrians...

Cool pick-up => man, I love those big, fat Sestertii ... yummy-yummy!! (very tough lookin' coin)

 

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Here's one I hadn't posted before, an Aegyptos picked up this summer at the ANA World's Fair of Money.


Hadrian, CE 117-138
AR denarius, 18 mm, 2.95 gm
struck CE 134-138
Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P; bare head right
Rev: AEGYPTOS; Aegyptos reclining left, holding sistrum; ibis standing right at feet
Ref: RIC II 297

 

Very Nice TIF every thing is very good in possition

 

Hadrianus AS Roma 125-28 AD Janus

Reference.
RIC 662; C 281.

Obv. HADRIANVS - AVGVSTVS
laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder

Rev. COS - III S - C in field
Janus standing front, holding sceptre and resting l. hand on hip.

12.06 gr
26 mm
h 6

g VF

 

A very interesting reverse type....

 

yes it looks veiled

 

Wow TIF, I like your coin (I did not notice it until just now) ...

=> I'm lovin' the "Ibis" (man, I've gotta get myself an Ibis!!)

 

Oh sorry, Oki => I also love your new coin (yah, I always love your cool Hadrian examples!!) ... keep-up the great work, my friend!!

 

He's just flirting with TIF.

 

Hadrianus Denarius Roma 117 AD Concordia.

Reference
RIC 17; C 251.

Obv. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG
laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder.

Rev. P M TR P COS DES II
Concordia seated left, patera in right hand, resting left elbow on statue of Spes standing on cippus, cornucopiae under chair.
in ex. CONCORD

Maten.
2.87 gr
20 mm
h 7

 

Wow Oki => that's a beauty (I love the toning => sweet eye-appeal)

 

Hadrianus Sestertius, Roma 134-38 AD Providentia

Reference.
RIC 772; C 1205

Obv. HADRIANVS - AVG COS III P P
laureate head right.

Rev. PROVIDEN-TIA AVG / SC
Providentia standing left, head left, holding wand over globe and sceptre.

23.43 gr
32 mm
aVF

Extra:
Wand
An augur holding a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins
Roman ritual wand[edit]
The lituus was a crooked wand (similar in shape to the top part of a crosier) used as a cult instrument in ancient Roman religion by augurs to mark out a ritual space in the sky (a templum). The passage of birds through this templum indicated divine favor or disfavor for a given undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group.

 

Nice bronze additions!

 

Hadrianus Sestertius, Roma 134-38 AD Roma & Hadrian

Reference.
RIC 754e

Obv.HADRIANVS AVG. COS. III. P. P.
Laureate, draped bust right, seen from back.

Rev.FELICITAS AVG. S. C
Hadrian standing right holding roll clasping right hands with Felicitas standing left holding caduceus.

maten.
30 mm
26,01 gr

 

After JB his topic i thought of this coin of mine with i picked up.
1e pic is my own fotograph (to dark)
2e pic from seller.

my question is patina added after stipping?

thx in advance.

eric

 

Hmmm, it does look like there is something fishy goin' on (maybe too harshly cleaned?) ... but oh my, the coin is certainly very cool lookin' (I like it)

 

i think its ok,
when i delete my own pics would it still be fishy? my friend?|

 

looks like

 

Hi Oki ... hey, how come there is "green" showing-up in different regions of these new photos? (is there bronze disease dancing around on this coin?) ... if so, perhaps that's why it was so harshly cleaned?

Oooops, sorry => this is a "different" coin that you just posted (my bad) ... again, I'm not really the go-to guy where fake and altered coins are concerned (I have "people" that steer me outta danger) ... my coin-friends

 

this coin not mine just similar patina.