Let's march through time with Roman Imperials!

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  1. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Clodius Albinus.jpg
    CLODIUS ALBINUS
    AR Denarius
    OBVERSE: D CL SEPT ALBIN CAES, bare head right
    REVERSE: PROVID AVG COS, Providentia standing left, holding sceptre and wand over globe
    Struck at Rome
    2.95g, 19mm
    RIC IV 1 (c); Cohen III 55
    ex CT-MB
     
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  3. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    i was just looking at a Clodius Albinus coin up for auction a few days ago..i'm gonna see it i can find it again...:)
     
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  4. randygeki

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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    CLODIUS ALBINUS:

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    RI Clodius Albinus 193-197 CE AR Denarius ROMAE AETERNAE Roma seated
     
  6. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I guess it's OK to move on to Septimius Severus now.

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  7. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

  8. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Septimius Severus denarius...

    Septimius Severus, A.R. Denarius, Rome mint, 210 C.E.

    3.3 grams, 19.1 mm

    Obverse: Laureate head right, SEVERVS PIVS AVG

    Reverse: PMTRP XVIII COS III PP

    Neptune standing left, nude but for cloak over left shoulder and right arm, right foot on rock, right arm resting on right knee, trident vertical behind in left hand.

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  9. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Who's got an aureus? Wanna see a SeptSev aureus, for some reason.
     
  10. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

  11. lrbguy

    lrbguy Well-Known Member

    Now that Septimius is up, here's one for his wife, Julia Domna. What better example than a dynastic issue that brings together the rest of the family?
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    Two boys, ... ah .... names?

    Anyway, the one on the left is the older by a year, and wears a laurel indicating he is an augustus. His younger brother is bare headed and is but a lowly Caesar (ha). Yeah, right, just a Caesar.
     
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  12. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    Caracalla and Geta?
     
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  13. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Here's a few of one of my favorite Augustas:
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  14. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    ...panzerman!?!:watching:
     
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    ominus1 Well-Known Member

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  16. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    Wow !
    It's been fast the last couple of hours !!!

    I'm late on some, but Clodius Albinus was ready in the starting blocks, so here it is

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    Septimius Severus, and Domna

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  17. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Some Severus and Domna action:

    Severus PART MAX PM TRP X COS III PP Denarius.jpg
    Domna Fecunditas Dupondius.jpg
     
  18. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    i've bid on several Sept. Severus AR's but still only have this lymes one so far(very old pic) bonus coins from abe, septimius severus 003.JPG bonus coins from abe, septimius severus 004.JPG
     
  19. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    If we're adding Caracalla and Geta I've been waiting a long time to post this one :)

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    Caracalla

    ANTONINVS PIVS AVG
    Laureate head of Caracalla right

    LAETITIA TEMPORVM
    The spina of the Circus Maximus decorated as a ship facing l., with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina's other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing l.; below, seven animals: an ostrich at l. and bear at r.; between them a lion and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a panther attacking a bison.

    Rome 206 AD

    3.34g

    Ex-Londinium coins, Ex Professor K.D. White with original envelope.

    Sear 6813, RIC 157, BMCRE 257, CSS 793

    Very rare! Only 2 examples in the Reka Devnia hoard

    Better in hand

    Notes by Curtis Clay:

    This famous type commemorates the chariot races and animal hunt that took place on the seventh and final day of Severus' Saecular Games in 204 AD, as described in the inscriptional acts of those games which were found in Rome in the 1870s and 1930s. According to the acts, after three days of sacrifices and three days of honorary stage shows, Severus and Caracalla held circus games on the seventh day, consisting of chariot races and then a hunt of 700 beasts, 100 each of "lions, lionesses, panthers, bears, bisons, wild asses, ostriches". Dio Cassius describes the same hunt, adding the detail that the cage from which the animals were discharged was formed like a boat: "The entire receptacle in the theater had been fashioned in the shape of a boat and was capable of receiving or discharging four hundred beasts at once; and then, as it suddenly fell apart, there came rushing forth bears, lionesses, panthers, lions, ostriches, wild asses, bisons, so that 700 beasts in all, both wild and domesticated, at one and the same time were seen running about and were slaughtered. For to correspond with the duration of the festival, which lasted seven days, the number of the animals was also seven times one hundred." In Dio's text this passage follows directly on his account of Severus' Decennalian Games in 202 AD, causing scholars to accuse Dio of misdating the hunt or to postulate that similar hunts of 700 animals were held both in 202 and in 204. But the true explanation, in my opinion, is that Dio's Byzantine epitimator Xiphilinus, on whom we are dependent for this section of Dio's text, has simply jumped without warning or transition from Dio's description of the Decennalian Games of 202 to his description of the circus spectacle concluding the Saecular Games of 204. This hypothesis easily explains why Dio's text as we have it makes no mention of the Saecular Games themselves or of any event of 203: Xiphilinus omitted this whole section of Dio's history! The seven kinds of animals named by both Dio and the inscriptional acts are also depicted in the coin type: on good specimens, especially the aureus BM pl. 34.4, the ostrich and the bear are clear, the lion has a mane, the ass has long ears, the bison has horns and a hump. Two large felines remain, of which we may suppose that the one accompanying the lion is the lioness and the one attacking the bison is the panther. The animals are named somewhat differently in Cohen, BMC, and other numismatic works: though numismatists have long cited Dio's text to explain the coin type, no one previously seems to have posed the question whether the seven animals in the lower part of the type might not be the same seven that Dio and now the inscriptional acts too name! These circus games with the ship and 700 animals were held in 204 AD, but the coin type commemorating them did not appear until two years later: on aurei of Septimius the type is die linked to a dated type of 206 AD, and for Caracalla the type passes from a draped and cuirassed obverse type on the aureus to the "head only" type on his denarii, a transition that took place in 206 AD according to his dated coins.
     
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  20. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Hehe. One of the times trudging through ebay paid off. They only posted the front of the coin on the main post. You had to select the listing and scroll to the 2nd pic to see the reverse (that's a double entendre folks!) So no one bid on it and I got some booty...later that day I got the coin as well;)
     
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