Usually Victory is upright--standing or advancing, or even flying. Have you seen Victory seated? Roman Alexandria, Egypt. Philip I. 244-249, year 4 Emmett 3497 Forschner 981 Show us your Victory seated coins!
Even Victory gets tired sometimes . The issues of the two Catos come to mind. Her Greek counterpart Nike liked the occasional sitdown too. This one from Terina.
M. PORCIUS CATO; GENS PORCIA AR Quinarius OBVERSE: M • CATO • PRO • PR, wreathed head of Liber right REVERSE: Victory seated right, holding palm branch over her left shoulder and patera in her right hand, VICTRIX in ex Utica, Africa 47-46 BC 1.4 g, 13 mm Cr462/2, Porcia 11 CONSTANS AE3 OBVERSE: D N CONSTANS P F AVG - Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE: FEL TEMP REPARATIO Exe: SIS• - Constans standing left on galley, holding Phoenix on globe and labarum; Victory seated to right, steering Struck at Siscia 348-50 AD 1.6g, 17mm RIC 198 (VIII, Siscia), LRBC 1140
Here is mine. Victory is sitting. She looks very tired on my coin! I guess she must get tired of all the standing and advancing left or right, and sometimes feels it it unfair when Athena gets to sit down yet she still needs to stand in her hand! VITELLIUS, AR DENARIUS, VICTORY, 69 AD Ruler/Emperor: Vitellius; City/Region: Rome; Denomination: AR Denarius; Composition: Silver; Date: 69 AD; Obverse: A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS IMP, head of Vitellius, bare, right; Reverse: Victory, draped, seated left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left; Reference: BMC 4, Cohen 121, RIC 71
Constantine I A.D. 328 19x20mm 3.2gm CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG; head with rosette diademed, looking up to heavens CONSTANTINIANA DAFNE; Victory seated l. on cippus, palm branch in left hand and laurel branch in right hand, looking r.; trophy at front, at the foot is a kneeling captive with head turned being spurned by Victory, A in left field. in ex. CONS RIC VII Constantinople 32
Cool @Valentinian ! Virtually all my seated Victory are Quinarii... Seated Victory: Imitating Octavian-M. Porcius Cato AR quinarius 13.89 mm 1.29g imitating Octavian r blundered legend - Victory seated r patera Cr 343-462 RARE RI Hadrian AR Quinarius 1.3g, 14mm Rome, AD 119-122 cuirassed laureate COS III Victory seated wreath palm RIC 108a RI Aelia Flacilla w Theodosius I 373-388 CE 21mm 5-7g Victory Christogram shield Antioch RIC IX 61 (Frank's pic is better than mine...) RI Vespasian 69-79 CE AR Quinarius Victory seated wreath palm RIC 802 Rare RR Porcius Cato AR Quinarius 89 BC Bacchus Liber Victory S 248 Cr 343-2
Aelia Flaccilla (379-383) AE4, RIC IX Constantinople 61: Victory seated right, inscribing Christogram on shield set on a column. Basiliscus (475-6) AV semissis (2.42g), Constantinople, Victory with a shield seated right, in left field, star; in right, cross-rho.
Septimius Severus denarius Obv:- [IMP CAE L SEP S]EV PERT AVG COS II, Laureate head right Rev:- VICT AVG, Victory seated left holding wreath and palm Ref:- RIC 427, RSC 677, BMCRE 402a RIC and RSC cite Cohen 677, BMCRE cites Cohen 677 and Oldroyd bequest, 1946 (ex. L.A.L.). Cohen doesn't appear to provide a source. No examples if Reka Devnia, so a relatively scarce coin
I have coins where Victory is advancing right, or left, standing here or there, in scribing a shield, the ol' gal has got to be tired by now! I have got to make getting a seated Victory coin a priority.
Love all the posts everyone!! I seem to have a few quinarii but I'll throw in my example of the post by @Victor_Clark ---Constantine:
