Coins with wedding themes

I'm about to perform a wedding this afternoon, and I was just curious to see what coins you guys have with wedding themes on them. Please feel free to share any.

It is really a fantastic story, I did the divorces for both bride and groom from their previous spouses, and they met on the day I was driving both of them to court to do their dissolutions of marriage (both were uncontested so I was able to schedule them for the same time). While in my backseat, and later while waiting for the judge to arrive, these two clients got acquainted, and on the drive back to my office a little friendly in my backseat. I forgot about all that until just a week ago (roughly a year later) I get a call that they've been living together want to marry each other. I was very surprised as I never expected to be marrying two clients from two separate divorce cases that met under those circumstances. Love is strange, I guess. Being a notary in Florida, I can do the wedding.

So that's the story on how I get to do my first wedding ceremony this afternoon, after probably divorcing over 100 couples over the last 5 years.

Here's a wedding theme coin:

 

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Great story, I guess their first born will be named Sallent

I have both contestants





Q

 

Great coin, funny story!

There's an analogy in there somewhere. Hmm, yeah... it's like a TPG making money on resubmissions from people who believe it will grade better the next time . Maybe you'll get to do their divorce too, although I guess you'd only be able to represent one of them next time.

Here's an emperor who married at least four times:


EGYPT, Alexandria. Elagabalus
tetradrachm, 24 mm, 13.27 gm
regnal year 4
Obv: laureate head right
Rev: Elagabalus standing right and empress (Aquilia Severa or Annia Faustina) standing left, each holding scepter, clasping right hands; L ∆ across field
Ref: Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4098; K&G 56.43; Emmett 2929.4 (R4)

 

Randy, is that a "one year after the wedding" coin?

 

Congratulations on your inadvertent match making! Here's my marriage coin, which I purchased a few years ago but I don't believe I've ever posted:

"Alexander I Balas cemented his alliance with Ptolemy VI by marriage to Ptolemy’s daughter Cleopatra Thea circa 150 BC. Five years later Ptolemy broke the alliance, backing a new claimant to the Seleucid throne, Demetrius II. Scarcely twenty “marriage” tetradrachms are known to exist. They are struck from only three obverse dies, all exhibiting a freshness that would point to a very brief issue."

 

Wow, that's awesome !

Q

 

I like that his wife is in front .

 

Here's mine

Julia Paula. AR denarius, Rome auxiliary mint, struck 219–20 CE. 2.99g, 6h. BMCRE 318–20, RIC 214, RSC 12. Obv: IVLIA PAVLA AVG; draped bust r. Rx: CONCORDIA; Julia and Elagabalus standing, clasping hands.

 

The Caracalla coin is showing him and Geta clasping hands, so not a wedding coin. But great detail on that reverse!

 

Oh ! Does it ?
So far I've always relied on a description saying it was Plautilla and Caracalla, but from the pose and cloths you must be right : I stand corrected, thanks

Q

 

I'm not sure just being on the same coin makes it a wedding issue but this AE38 of Stratonicaea does show Caracalla and Plautilla (Zeus reverse).


To their credit, while several Roman emperors were divorced and even killed their wives, none issued coins commemorating the event. However the ultimate Roman wedding coin has to be the Republican issue of L. Titurius Sabinus showing happy bridegrooms from Rome carrying off girls from the neighboring Sabines to be their brides. Rome was founded by bachelors who needed to go out of town to find wives and carrying them off without paying dowries was cheaper. Those unfamiliar with this concept might read the Wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptio

 

Great coin and GREAT story @Sallent ! LOL, my Uncle won TWO US Supreme Court cases AGAINST the US Government. He had all these publications, accolades, etc., but it was his partner who handled all the divorces that made all the money for their firm!

LOL Randy!

My wedding theme:

RR L TITURIUS LF SABINUS AR Denarius Rape of Sabines 89 BCE Sear 249 Craw 344-1a

Oh, and the traitor:


RR Titurius Sabinus 89 BCE AR Den Tarpeia buried shields S 251 Cr 344-2a

 

You've showed this before but somehow the Zeus part went over my head. Zeus. On a horse?

Sounds like a mild oath. "Zeus on a Horse! Is Agora ever going to ship my coin?!"

I had to look it up. Zeus Panamaros. So far what I've found is in French .

 

Maybe I'm wrong. Looking in RSC it does describe this type as Caracalla and Plautilla. A similar CONCORDIA type of Geta says "Geta and Concordia" (but Concordia is veiled) or "Geta and Caracalla." In parenthesis it says that Cohen thought it was Caracalla and Plautilla on the coin of Geta, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

So it seems there's some confusion about who is who. I do think that the left-hand figure on your coin looks more like Geta than Plautilla, but now I'm not so sure. On the OP's coin you can see the obvious female hairstyle. But the toga on the left-hand figure on your coin is draped in a similar manner as on female figures. If the figure on your coin had an obvious female hairstyle it would be easier to say for certain that it's Plautilla. But I guess since the references say "Caracalla and Plautilla," they're probably correct.

 

Pshhh, brahs...

Before Livias

Augustus with
Livia
IONIA.EPHESUS.
27BC-AD
14.AE.1 unit. 7.09g, 21mm,
12h
MagistrateArchiereus
Asklas.
Jugatebustsrightof
AugustusandLivia.
Reverse.APXIEPEYΣ/AΣKΛ
ΑΣ/EΦΕ/NIKOΣΡ/ΑTOΣ,
stagstanding right, above
bowcase.
Ref:RPCI2587(6examples

And I have recently acquired an ancient Alabama wedding photo

Alabama, Thessaly, Gyrton. 3rd century B.C.
AE trichalkon (18.07 mm, 4.93 g, 4 h).
Head of hero Gyrton right.
ΓYPT/ΩИIΩN, bridled horse prancing left.
BCD 83.4; Rogers 228. VF.
From the Arnoldoe Collection

 

?? please enlighten me..or is this a southern province citystate like Athens Georgia..

 

Haha. You got it the deep South.

 

Very cool story @Salent ! Liking the coins everyone my collection lacks a marriage theme so far.

 

I eventually received five shipping notifications for the one package. I would have of course preferred just one notification, but two weeks earlier. Zeus on a Horse!