Happy Birthday To Me

Well, another year gone by and I'm officially one year older. My how the time has flown right on by. Anyway, in honor of my "day", I purchased an inexpensive RR Quinarius (I didn't want to spend a lot on myself, if you know what I mean). The coin arrived Saturday, but I didn't open it till this morning.

Without further ado.....

C. EGNATULEIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS EGNATULEIUS
AR Quinarius
OBVERSE: Laureate head of Apollo; behind, C. EGATVLEI C. F. Q.
REVERSE: Victory l., inscribing shield attached to trophy; beside trophy, carnyx; between Victory and trophy, Q; in ex
Struck at Rome, 97 BC
1.6g, 18mm
Crawford 333/1, Egnatueleia 1, Syd 58

The gens Egnatuleia was a plebeian family of Rome. C. Egnatuleius was a Republican moneyer who produced coins while Quaestor in 97 BC. He is not known to have progressed past the quaestorship.

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HBD!

 

OMG, JW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You were so kind for mine, and I missed YOURS! Best to you my friend. I absolutely enjoy ALL your posts, and you are one of the more instrumental of the CoinTalkers that really has been educating me. I sincerely THANK you for all your great help as I read all your posts. Hope you are feeling well.

Now, to your OP Coin: LOL, I have been quietly collecting Quinarii as they are a cool denomination, and really CONFLICT with my philosophy of collecting History. But, Quinarii are scarcer than Denarii, and continue to get scarcer in Imperial times, even when they denigrate into AE issues. This is a great find! Great job! Love those little Q's!

 

Here are a few of my Quinarii... dedicated to your BIRTHDAY!

 

A few more...




Even a freebie: RI Augustus Quinarius - possibly Asia Recepta - blank wore-off-rev Obv-Rev.JPG

 

And a few Flying Horses...

 

Happy birthday! Always enjoy your posts and coins!

John

 

Happy Birthday!


Julian II, AD 360-363
AE3, 21mm, 2.6g, 12h; Heraclea mint: 361-363
Obv.: D N FL CL IVLIANVS P F AVG; helmeted, cuirassed bust left holding spear and shield.
Rev.: VOT / X / MVLT / XX - Legend within wreath // HERACLA

 

Happy birthday, my handsome and popular big brother!

Here's a coin I haven't shown before.


CILICIA, Tarsus. Elagabalus
218-222 CE
Æ 23mm, 6.91 g, 12h
Obv: laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Ciliarch crown decorated with seven imperial portraits, ЄΛ, and KOIN monogram; A/MK in center of crown
Ref: Cf. SNG France 1557 (similar type with five heads on crown); cf. SNG Levante 1079 (same); SNG Copenhagen 374 corr. (obv. legend)
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind
Ex Cederlind 125 (1 July 2002), no. 96

The reverse shown a crown of the Ciliarch or Cilicarch , the High Priest of Cilicia who presided over provincial temples dedicated to certain emperors. The different busts that decorate this crown represent the various emperors who were honored with temples throughout the region. Unfortunately I can't discern the identities of the individuals shown on this crown. I'm not sure if they've been identified on any of these coins.

Levante expanded the ЄΛ and KOIN monogram to ЄΛЄVΘЄPON KOINOBOVΛION (“free session of the assembly”)

Some information from Curtis Clay (Forvm post):

The Cilicarch (note spelling with added C, since it derives from "Cilicia") is the High Priest of Cilicia. His most important function was as chief priest of the provincial temple or temples of the emperors.

The busts on his crown, which vary considerably from depiction to depiction, are those of the emperors and empresses who were honored in those provincial temples.

Tarsus had temples of Hadrian and Sept. Sev., so the crown of the Cilicarch retained its depictions of those imperial families even under Max. Thrax. Whether new emperors upon their accessions were regularly added to the cult in the established provincial temples, and their busts added to the crown of the Cilicarch, I cannot say.

Source: R. Ziegler, Städtisches Prestige und kaiserliche Politik, Studien zum Festwesen in Ostkilikien im 2. und 3. Jh. n. Chr., Düsseldorf 1985.
Jochen's coin: SNG Levante 1092 var.; SNG Paris 1594-5 (both same dies as Jochen's).

 

Happy Birthday Big Brother ! Hope to wish you this joyful day in the coming decades. I chose my recent commemorative bronze of Crispus. Not a single RR coin in my possession yet. Cheers..

 

Happy Birthday

 

You all know the tune...A very happy un-birthday to us, to us; a very happy un-birthday to us, to us...

 

Happy Birthday JW, what a great coin to celebrate your Big Day!! and Many More!!

 

Hey, happy birthday JW. Here's one of those birthday cake denarii of AP...

 

party party, just got my rare rare rare rare rare Caracalla from Samaria Judea !! briljant
Congrats Bing boy !!

 

Happy Birthday, Bing!!

That's an awesome Quinarius you got there.

Have a rockin day!

Erin

 

Happy Birthday Bing, you have another one to look forward to next year and hopefully another great coin.

 

For some reason I think if Bing when I hold this coin.

 

Well, you COULD send it to me. That is one beautiful coin Anoob.