One of my favorite pickups of December was this chunky provincial issue from Flaviopolis, Cilicia. I particularly love the melange of colours and the double bust design with A-Pi and Faustina I. Let's see if we can put together a nice thread featuring coins with a bust on both the obverse and reverse. Post them in whatever combination you have... ruler with wife, ruler with son, ruler with god/goddess, god with goddess, et al. ANTONINUS PIUS with FAUSTINA I AE24 10.43g, 24.6mm CILICIA, Flaviopolis, 140/141 AD (Year 68 of the Era of Flaviopolis). SNG von Aulock 8672; SNG France 2181; Ziegler 1244. O: AYT KAI TI AIΛ AΔP ANTΩNEINOC CEB, laureate head right. R: ΘEA ΦAYCTEINA ΦΛAYIOΠOΛEITΩN, ET-ΞH across fields, draped bust of Faustina right.
Brutus the elder and Ahala - both ancestors of Brutus the assassin who had killed tyrants in their day so he honored them a decade before he killed Caesar. A fourree:
nice new coin Z, the color is pretty awesome. this is really my only double bust coin... leo v and constantine v...
Very nice Z. Love these big provincials. MARCUS ANTONIUS Ionia Silver cistophoric tetradrachm OBVERSE: M ANTONIVS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT, head of Antony right, wreathed in ivy, lituus below, all within wreath of ivy and grapes REVERSE: III VIR R P C, bust of Octavia right on cista flanked by snakes Ephesus 39 BC 11.8gm, 26mm RPC I 2201, Sydenham 1197, Sear 262 AUGUSTUS AE Dupondius OBVERSE: CAESAR DIVI F, bare head of Octavian right REVERSE: DIVOS IVLIVS, wreathed head of Julius Caesar right Gallic or Italian mint 38 BC 30mm; 17.90 g CR535/v1, RPC620v
CALIGULA AR Denarius OBVERSE: C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT, bare head right REVERSE: DIVVS AVG PATER PATRIAE, radiate head of Divus Augustus right Struck at Lugdunum, 37/8AD 3.5g, 18mm RIC I 10 NERO AR Billon Tetradrachm OBVERSE: NERW KLAV KAIS SEB GER, radiate bust right, wearing aegis REVERSE: AVTOKPA, draped bust of Alexandria right in elephant skin headdress, LIB to right, year 12 Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, 65/6AD 10.8g, 28mm Köln 172-174; Curtis 36-54, Dattari 204, SGI 633, RPC 5289.
I would have called this Melqart rather than Hercules. That is not saying I have not missed the revision of this ID. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart So, I see they are related.
NERO AR Drachm OBVERSE: NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERM, laureate head of Nero right. REVERSE: DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVG, Claudius' laureate head right Struck at Caesarea, Cappodocia, 63/4AD 3.6g, 17mm RIC 621, RSC 3, RPC 3648
Some provincials that can apply : Antoninus Pius & Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, AE35 . AVT K T AIL ADP ANTWNINOC CEB E, laureate head right M AVPHLIOC KAICAP VIOC CEBAC, laureate, draped bust of Marcus Aurelius right 27 gr, 35 mm Ref : Sear #1523 Augustus and Rhoemetalkes, Bronze Semi autonomous coinage of Thracia, c11BC-12AD KAISAROS SEBASTOU, Bust of Augustus right BASILEWS ROIMHTALKOU, Busts of Rhoemetalkes and his wife right 9.82 gr Ref : Sear #5396 Nero and Agrippina, tetradrachm Alexandria mint, AD 56-57 NEP KLAY KAIS SEB GEP AYTO, Laureate of Nero right AGPITTTTINA SEBAETH, bust of Agrippina junior right LG in right field 12.5 gr Ref : RCV # 1989
Nero and Poppaea, tetradrachm Alexandria mint, AD 63-64 NERO KLAY KAIS SEB TEP AY, radiate head of Nero right TTOTTTTAIA SEBASTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, LI in right field 12.3 gr Ref : RCV # 2002 v, Emmet # 129 Trajan, Tretradrachm struck in Tyr, c110-111 AD AVTOKR KAIC NER TRAIANOC CEB GERM DAK, Laureate bust of Trajan right, eagle in field DHMARC EX UPAG E, Laureate bust of Melkhart right 15.34 gr Ref : Sear #1088 var, Prieur # 1495_179 Trajan, Bronze struck in Laodicea, c114-115 AD AUTOKR NER TRAIANOC ARICT(KAIC CEB), laureate head of Trajan right IOULIEWN TWN KAI LAODIKEWN BXR, Turreted bust of Tychee right, IOU in field 9.97 gr Ref : Sear #1080 Q
How about four heads? A very large 38 mm. Gordian III and Tranquillina at Seleucia ad Cadnumun, Cilicia. Tyche and Apollo on the reverse.