Julia Domna

My coin drought was put on hold whilst I snagged a couple of nice coins.

Size and weight: 18 x 19mm, 3.59g
Obverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA
Draped bust right.
Reverse: MATER AVGG
Cybele (Magna Mater), towered, draped, seated on a throne in a car drawn by four lions. She gestures with a branch extended in her right hand and rests her left arm on a drum, set on the throne.
Reference: Sear RCV (2002) 6592; RIC IV 562; BMCRE V p.163, 48.

 

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Oooh, nice one, Pish! The type is on my never-ending wish list

 

oh wow, that lion quadriga is pretty awesome pish!

i have juno, peacock julia.....

 

I don't have a peacock, maybe in the future.....

 

Great coin with great style! It's one of those reverse types you want in a better grade for all the detail, and you've got it.

 

That is a nice reverse and much harder to find than the Mater Deum types also with lions.

 

Awesome PP. Love the lions.

 

Great lions.

 

Wow! I love it! Who thought of a Lion Quadriga?
Fantastic coin, Pish.

 

I am pretty sure that someone else on the board has one....

Zumbly?

 

WOW !!! LOVE that reverse Pish!!! Doug's mini-me lion is cool too!!!

My examples are the more mundane common types...

 

Holy Fricken Shmokes => that baby is a total winner!! (congrats, Pishpash)

Ummm, I do also have a pretty cool Julia Domna example (wanna see it?)





=> hey, but your "lion-quad" is definitely kickin' my coin-ass!!

 

Fantastic example! Particularly the reverse. I do have one, but yours tops mine by a mile.

 

One has to love those improbable quadrigas : lions, snakes and whetsoever. Being very classical in my behavior, I only have the horses biga version



Julia Domna, Denarius Rome mint, AD 215
IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, draped bust of Julia Domna right
LVNA LVCIFERA, Luna in biga of horses left, a crescent above her head and drapery billowing in semi circle behind
2.95 gr, 19-20 mm
Ref : RCV # 7101, Cohen # 105 , RIC IV, I # 379c, Hill # 1477
Ex A. Lynn Collection ; Manhattan sale I #358
Ex Freeman & Sear Mail Bid Sale 6 # 538.

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Q "only"??? That is a stunning coin, the detail on the reverse is breathtaking.

 

Here's a close up, just for you Pish



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Wow, that really is stunning.

 

@panzerman, thanks for the comment, but I think you'd really edit your posting and write them out of the text you quoted rather than inside, for everyone's better comprehension


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Rookie mistake! thanks for pointing that out. I think that I have decided to go into
silver too, these denarius/antoninius types are so diverse and interesting!