Phoenix on the Rocks & other LRBs

Nothing fancy here, just some decent 'Vota in Wreath' coins that I liked...


CRISPUS
AE3
2.93g, 18.8mm
Siscia mint, AD 320-324
RIC VII Siscia 175 (R3)
O: IVL CRIS-PVS NOB C, laureate head right.
R: CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, laurel wreath enclosing VOT/./X, dot in badge at top of the wreath; BSIS palm branch in exergue.

A nice small module variety from Alexandria...

CONSTANTIUS II
AE4
2.17g, 15.2mm
Alexandria mint, AD 347-348
RIC VIII Alexandria 33 (C3)
O: DN CONSTAN-TIVS PF AVG, pearl-diademed bust right.
R: Laurel wreath enclosing VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX; SMALA in exergue.

This last one looks like the cleaning job was left to an angry chicken, but it's a significant upgrade to my previous Jovian box-checker.

JOVIAN
AE3
3.22g, 21.2mm
Sirmium mint, AD 363-364
RIC VIII Sirmium 118
O: DN IOVIA-NVS PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
R: Laurel wreath enclosing VOT/V/MVLT/X; BSIRM in exergue.

No, really, a SIGNIFICANT upgrade from the previous one...

 

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ARCADIUS (395-408) - ROME - RIC IX 53c-V​

Mine is of a common emperor, Arcadius, but it has for peculiarity to be the silver known only one struck with a long legend (NotInRic). This long legend is understandable that Arcadius is at this moment there an august minor, second, hierarchically after Honorius.

Crédit photo : ©Siliquae​

Silique, 383-387, R5

A/ D N ARCADIVS P F AVG
Dominus Noster Arcadius Pius Felix Augustus, Notre Maître Arcadius Pieux et Heureux Auguste
Buste à droite, drapé et cuirassé, tête diadémée (Perles).
R/ VRBS-ROMA//RP
Urbs Roma, La ville de Rome
Rome casquée assise à gauche sur un trône, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une lance renversée de la main gauche.

Argent, Poids : 2.27 gr, Diamètre : 17 mm, axe des coins : 12h
RIC IX 53c-V, RSC manque
La monnaie est sur Nummus-Bible


Commentaires :
Inconnue au RIC avec cette légende du droit sans césure (3a au lieu de 3b).
Vente Gadoury - 11/2013
Vente Gorny & Mosch Giessener - 03/2006
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=283671

Fiche de la monnaie sur la base Siliquae

 

Ok, the Arcadius siliqua is my favourite here!

Btw I'm so glad to have a found a group where you can post more than one coin without the Forum Nazis spanking you!

Anyway, check out my Maximinus Daia:

6.26g, 24mm
Laureate head of Maximinus II right "IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS PF AVG"

Genius of the Roman people standing left pouring liquer from a patera onto an altar and holding a cornucopiae "GENIO IMPERATORIS" "E" in right field "ANT" in ex

 

Welcome @SIliquae !

 

Continuing my LRB foray, a couple of budget but interesting issues from Constantine I.

I've always wanted one of these 'eyes to heaven' coins. He just looks so religious on them...

CONSTANTINE I
AE3
2.98g, 18.9mm
Heraclea mint, AD 327-329
RIC VII Heraclea 92
O: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, diademed head right, looking up, eyes towards heaven.
R: VOT/XXX within wreath, D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG around, dot SMHA in exergue.

This next one is a scarce, Rome mint-only issue. Doug has a bunch of them with an intriguing mintmark (featuring a coiled serpent). I'd love one of those, but this is the one I have for now.

CONSTANTINE I
AE3
3.4g, 19.2mm
RIC VII Rome 146 (R3)
O: CONSTA-NTINVS AVG, bust right, wearing cuirass and crested helmet.
R: ROMAE A-ETERNAE, Roma seated right on shield, inscribing X/V on shield that rests on her knee; P-R in field, RP in exergue.

 

@zumbly , your Constantine actually does appear to be looking upward. Many of the so-called "eyes to God" portraits show him with chin tilted defiantly upwards, eyes straight ahead... more arrogant than pious. I wonder if the whole "eyes to God" interpretation is just numismatic lore designed to appeal to those who collect bible-related coins. Or, perhaps the designation is incorrectly applied to some coins. Yours truly does appear to be looking upwards.

Example (not my coin):

 

I almost stopped posting when I saw I was to follow that solidus from TIF...

My most recent purchases of LRB's types (common but nice).....Aurelian and Constantius II:

 

I believe that this is a dealer's thesis, but it does quote Eusebius (on page 15) regarding this pose:

"How deeply his soul was impressed by the power of divine faith may be understood from the circumstance that he directed his likeness to be stamped on the golden coin of the empire with eyes uplifted as in the posture of prayer to God: and this money became current throughout the Roman world."
Eusebius 4:15

Constantine was probably a less than pious ruler on occasion (or to anonymously quote someone I was e-mailing recently, "a vain, egoistic, greedy, thieving, dishonest man - and damn his memory"), so part of the appeal for me was the irony .