Double Header - Antoninus Pius & Faustina I

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.

 

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Very nice coin.

Unfortunately, I can't participate since I do not have any dual bust coins.

 

Antoninus Pius with his adopted son Marcus Aurelius, denarius

 

Caracalla and Julia Domna with Serapis from Marcianopolis

 

Constantine the Great and Sol (a pre Christian type)

 

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:

 

Love the pre-Christian Constantine and the Brutus fourree!

 

Some very nice coins, Z and D.

Julia Mamaea and Tyche, Arabia Bostra...

 

Nabataea, Rabbel II and Queen Gamilat...

 

nice new coin Z, the color is pretty awesome.

this is really my only double bust coin...

leo v and constantine v...

 

Trajan and Hercules The Dynamic Duo! AD 110/111. Tyre, Phoenicia

 

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

 

The reverse on this coin is spookily lifelike. The portrait looks almost modern rather than ancient.

 

Lovely coin I would love to own.

 

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.