Got these in the mail today. Not my usual purchase This one, Clodius Albinus, I picked up from Mat so it may look familiar. Clodius Albinus, as Caesar, AR Denarius 19 mm 3.34g D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES, bare head right / MINER PACIF COS II, Minerva standing facing with olive branch, shield & spear. RIC 7, RSC 48. BMC 98 Ex Allan Barker Collection. and this, an Alexandrian denarius of Septimius Severus. Septimius Severus AD 193 - AD 195 IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG: Head of Septimius Severus, laureate, right / AEQVITAS II: Aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand RIC 344 Alexandria Hopefully Doug will comment on the AEQVITAS II. Fell free to share any related coins.
Clodius Albinus is fun. Not someone you see every day. I had one of his denarii in my old 2007-08 collection, but alas, the picture of it has not survived.
Cool pickups.... I seemed to have deleted my old photo of Clodius Albinus but I did pick these two up a week or so ago.....mostly because they were at the right price: M ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS; laureate head right / P M TR P X-X IMP III COS III; Roma seated left on shield, holding Victory with right hand and spear with left. Domitia, AE 20 mm. of Cadi, Phrygia. 4,58 g. Wife of Domitianus DOMITIA CEBACTH, draped bust right. KADOHNWN, cult image of Artemis Ephesia facing. RPC 1361 BMC 23.
Well done @randygeki ... that is a tougher Emperor to get! CLODIUS ALBINUS: RI Clodius Albinus 193-197 CE AR Denarius ROMAE AETERNAE Roma seated SEPTIMUS SEVERUS: RI Septimus Severus 193-211 AR Denarius Genius Sacrificing DOMITIA: Well BUMMER @Mikey Zee ! I don't have one!
Really nice, Randy Geki! I haven't seen an Alexandrian Septimius Severus denarius :O. All I have is one from the Rome Mint, but I've been looking for a decent example of an Emesa mint denarius for a while now. I love the Emesa style so much! Here's the Rome one. This was actually my first coin from Forvm , and my first, what I would call a, high grade coin.
No Albinus examples for me yet, but I've got my eye open for one. Probably won't be in the best grade, but that's OK.
Thanks all and sweet coins! Doug was saying that theorize that the II in AEQVITAS II refers to Alexandria as the 2nd city of the Empire.
lol...my first thought was "that CA looks familiar". i still need one of that fellow. my only SS denarius is from rome, an eastern mint version is still on my list...
There was a time not all that long ago that rather few dealers recognized the relatively scarce Alexandria mint Septimius denarii so you could pick them up cheaply since most are not all the high grade. Most know them now. The distinction was first made in the 1920's and appears in all the standard books for Septimius. In the 1990's, they started recognizing that a few denarii of Albinus were also struck in Alexandria. Few people care probably because nice ones are not common and denying the collectability of poor coins is fashionable. https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.asp...R_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1
Two great additions, Randy! Here my denarii of Clodius: The denarius with clasped hands was struck at Lyon - note the different style to the rome issues. (I remember Steve has quite a nice Clodius denarius as well).
