I just received this one in the mail from @John Anthony 's auction of last week. It features the emperor Titus, A.D. 79-81. I am quite pleased with it and it looks better in hand than in photos, with a nice silvery appearance. Titus, A.D. 79-81 Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 9.3 grams, 12h EGYPT, Alexandria. Year 3 = A.D. 81 Obverse: AVTOK TITOY KAIE OVEEPAEIANOY EEB; Laureate head right. Reverse: OMO-NOIA; Homonoia seated left, holding out branch, LT in lower left field. Reference: RPC 2467; Dattari 423 From the @Mat Collection A little more about Homonoia: "Homonoia was extended under Roman rule in the highly urbanized East as a symbolic mechanism for dealing with intra-city tensions and for linking the sometimes intensely individual eastern city-states. A temple of Homonoia at Aphrodisias in Caria appears as the setting for the wedding of Callirhoe and Dionysios in the first-century CE romance Chaereas and Callirhoe; the temple is objectified in coinage of Aphrodisias that shows the cult statue of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias with those of other cities, under the legend homonoia: "Deities in the coin issues served as symbols that mediated the power within regional alliances, bolstered the prestige of the divine realm in human activity and provided the glue that bound together the political and the cosmic spheres." In the first century CE, the Greek rhetorician Dio Chrysostom sought in one of his Discourses to establish homonoia between two cities that each claimed the sobriquet "first city", Nicaea and Nicopolis." Feel free to post any Titus tets here or others of the Flavian dynasty
I wondered who picked that up! I also bought a little something in JA's last auction. Not a provincial though. I have just one Alexandrian Titus and it happens to be this same coin. EGYPT, Alexandria. Titus regnal year 3, CE 80/1 billion tetradrachm, 25.5 mm, 12.34 gm Obv: AVTOKTITOVKAIΣOVEΣΠAΣIANOVΣEB; laureate bust right Rev: OMO NOIA; Homonoia seated left on throne, holding olive branch; LΓ in left field Ref: Emmett 233.3, R1; Milne 459
It is a decent coin. Parted with it cause I got this one. A much scarcer type. First time sharing. @David Atherton has seen it already. Titus (79 - 81 A.D.) Egypt, Alexandria Billon Tetradrachm O: AVTOK TITOV KAIΣ OYEΣΠAΣIANOY ΣEBA, laureate head right. R: [NIΛOΣ], bust of Nilus with lotus flower, LΓ=year 3 (80/81 A.D.). 24mm 11.4g RPC II 2466 (4 spec.)., Dattari 425, Emmett 234.3
A nice rarity ... Titus Alexandrian tetradrachms are not all that common! Here is one of my favourite Homonoias, with a star mintmark(?) on the reverse. Titus AR Tetradrachm, 12.83g Alexandria mint, 80-81 AD RPC 2471 (5 spec.). Obv: AYTOK TITOY KAIΣ OYEΣΠAΣIANOY ΣEB; Head of Titus, laureate, r. Rev: OMONOIA; Homonoia seated, l.; date LΓ to l., star in r. field Ex CNG E409, 8 November 2017, lot 463.
This is my third of the 12 Caesars. Perhaps I will collect some more Alexandria tets of Suetonius' list. I know that the denarii get a bit pricey.
Great coin @David Atherton ! I'm thinking now of focusing on tets of Alexandria for my 12 Caesars, but I imagine those of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius might be a bit rare.
Galba & Otho are sometimes cheaper in Tetradrachm form then Denarii. Vitellius is the one who gets pricer in Tet form. I was just lucky with mine.
I recall a funny line that Frank Robinson used in his sales (more than once) that Homonioa was the offspring of Homophobia and Paranoia.
