Pertinax is here!

And that's a good thing. Congrats.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Pertinax (Augustus)
Coin: Silver Denarius
IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG - Laureate head right
PROVID DEOR COS II - Providentia standing left, raising right hand toward star, left hand at waist.
Mint: Rome (193 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.50g / 18mm / -
References:

• RIC IV 11a

 

Congratulations for a lovely Pertinax: fortunately, the bronze has not been "manipulated" and has a naatural look !

 

Great coin @Julius Germanicus - really like the look of that one. I don't have any Pertinax coins yet but it's definitely on my list.

 

great coin! It is interesting that a ruler that lasted only a few months had a coin that circulated enough to have the wear shown on your coin. With the drop in coin size, it seems like this one would have been removed from circulation or stamped a larger denomination.

 

JG, sweet new coin, congrats. Awesome coins everyone.

~Doug

 

Nice!!

 

I just got me a copy of the catalogue to the Guelma hoard, which included 7.486 Sestertii buried in Algeria during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus.
It shows that Sestertii of all emperors, even those issued by Augustus, continued to be in circulation at least until the late 250s without being stamped.
Three quarters of the coins included were struck after the time of Commodus, so there might have been some hoarding of the earlier, heftier pieces.
The inclusion of rarities such as Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Macrinus and Diadumenianus, and the Gordiani Africani however seems to prove that those were not collected as one might expect but remained in circulation as well.

So my Pertinax obviously achieved it´s wear by 60 years of constant use as small change in the pockets of Romans. Nevertheless, according to Sear, it retains "a pleasing portrait of this short-lived emperor".

 

I've always loved a Pertinax! These are awesome.

I finally managed to find one that I liked that was okay-ish on the wallet! lol




Pertinax
(1 Jan 193 - 28 March 193 AD)
Full name: Publius Helvius Pertinax

AR Denarius (18mm, 3.25g)
Rome, 1 Jan 193 - 28 March 193 AD
“IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG”
Garlanded head to the right.
“VOT DECEN TR P COS II”

Pertinax in toga, standing left, offering patera over tripod-altar.
RIC 13a. Sear 6048. R2.


Now to find his wife, Flavia Titiana! Like looking for a needle in a haystack. Actually I think I read somewhere that the only Titiana coins were Egyptian, not Rome Imperial.