Saturday Night Free For All

Thank you! I like those too. I really like the Lion, it’s one of my favorites. I really like the Hercules too but wish it had detail on the face. I’ve got a pretty good collection of these coins from Gallienus at Antioch. I’m trying slowly to get the major reverse types and have many of the common ones. The big flans are nice on these and I have another I really like too with a big flan:

Thank you! Yes, I’ve been building my Claudius II Antioch collection as well. I started with some scrappy coins but have been upgrading if I happen to find them at a good price. Eventually, I should sell off some of the duplicates but I love them all so much and many of the rougher coins are from my early collecting when each coin was a treasure, so I’m pretty attached to all of them and would have a hard time selling any. My name is Orange Julius and I’m a hoarder.

I appreciate the replies here and missed this thread. I hope some of you will join my this Saturday for some free for all posting on anything and everything!

 

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@Orange Julius,
Exellent centered Gallienus coin, in beautiful condition.

Here is my latest coin ( and maybe the last one i buy ),
Martinian AD 324. Nicomedia
Follis 19,84 mm, 2,58 g
D N M MARTINIANO P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right
IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing to left, holding Victory on globe in right hand and eagle-tipped sceptre in left, captive on ground to right, eagle to left holding wreath in beak, X above IIΓ in right field, SMNB in exergue.

 

Wow! That’s one you don’t see often! That’s a cool coin. The closest I have are coins that were minted in the same issue but for others, such as this ugly Constantine II minted from the same mint and issue as some Martinian coins… but obviously not him.

and these coins from the same mint and in the same issue as Valerius Valens coins… but again obviously not him..


I missed this Saturday due to sleep creeping up on me but will return next week.

 

Happy Saturday. I'm working on these two tonight. What coins are you looking at tonight?

Any guesses on the reverse legend for the Otacilia and who's on the portrait of the Pax coin?

 

Ok, no guesses? Well if you guessed in your mind… the reverse on the Otacilia is PVDICITIA AVG and the other coin is a rare Volusian from Antioch.

Of the two, the Volusian is (uglier) but far more interesting.

RIC breaks up coins from the Antioch mint onto two Groups based on the obverse legends. Interestingly this coin has the Group I obverse legend of IMP CC VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG (rather than IMP C V AF GAL VEND VOLVSIANO AVG), with a Group 2 PAX AVGVS reverse. It seems that this coin would be a transitional coin with the older legend and newer reverse.

Additionally, this coin has an interesting mint mark, with IIV both front and back. While RIC only notes dotted mint marks for this coin for Volusian, for the mint of Antioch in general, RIC IV notes: “The officinae seem to run from 1 to 7, but 5 is never found (.,..,... or IIV, .... or IV, VI, VII) : will it eventually turn out that there were four officinae only and that VI, VII were irregular variants of IV, IIV (four and three)?” So with officina 5 not found, IIV is likely an interesting way of writing 3, instead of a backward way of writing 7.

Also! I'm telling you this coin may be of a rougher style but it is interesting. The obverse of my coin was struck with a die with a chip just below Volusian's nose. This die chip makes the obverse die easy to spot. Although I haven't looked hard for it, I did happen on this other coin (temple coin just below mine) that is struck with the same obvserse die across (at least) these two reverse types. They are both of officina IIV (3/7), so it makes sense. Anyway a fun coin!

My coin

Volusian, Antioch mint, 251-252 AD.
IMP C C VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, VII beneath bust
PAX AVGVS, Pax standing facing, head left, branch upward in right hand, transverse sceptre in left, VII below.
Unlisted with obverse legend and exergue numerals but RIC IV 230v.

Not my coin... but showing the same obverse die used, with the die chip below the nose.

The other coin in last week's post is of Otacilia Severa with a PVDICITIA AVG reverse. This coin is much more common and not quite as interesting but still nice looking and a good addition. ...one interesting characteristic is the obverse legend which is an earlier legend, including her full name MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA where later legends of the same reverse abbreviate Marcia.

Otacilia Severa, Rome mint, 144-146 ad.
MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed draped bust right on crescent
PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicita seated left, raising veil, holding sceptre.
RIC IV 123c

Anyway, what are you working on tonight!? Let's see some of your Saturday Night coins! Remember, this is a free for all, so post anything you wish, new coins, old coins, artifacts, random thoughts, music, whatever.

I have some other new stuff I may post if there's anyone out there reading. Thanks!