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Antoninus Pius Italia
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III
Laureate head right

ITALIA
Italia, towered, seated l. on globe, holding cornucopiae and sceptre.

3.12g
Rome 140-143
RIC 73c. BMC 214

Next up...a coin naming a province

 

Denarius of Hadrian rv. Hispania reclining Next coin Provincial silver

 

HADRIAN
Rare. AR Tridrachm. 9.34g, 24.8mm. CILICIA, Aegeae, CY 164 (AD 117/8). Prieur 716; SNG Levante 1713-4; SNG BN 2328; RPC III 3335/5 (this coin cited). O: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ, Laureate bust right, slight drapery. R: ΑΙΓЄΑΙΩΝ, Amaltheia standing facing, head right, holding cornucopia and infant Zeus, who is holding wreath aloft; at feet to right, goat kneeling right, head left; ЄΤΟΥС ΔΞΡ (date) in legend.
Ex Michel Prieur Collection; ex Garth R. Drewry Collection

Next: Deity as a child

 

Edit : cancel

 

Baby Jupiter:


Valerian II, Caesar AD 256-258.
Roman billon antoninianus, 3.14 g, 22.5 mm, 5 h.
Cologne, AD 257-258.
Obv: VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust, right.
Rev: IOVI CRESCENTI, infant Jupiter seated facing on goat standing right, his right hand raised.
Refs: RIC 3; Göbl 907e; Cohen 26; RCV 10731; Hunter 9.

Next up: Someone with the rank of Caesar but who died before becoming Augustus.

 

CRISPUS
AE3. 3.7g, 19.1mm. Antioch mint, AD 325-326. RIC VII Antioch 64 (R2). O: FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left. R: PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS, campgate with 7 layers, 2 turrets, star between; SMANTЄ in exergue.

Next: a patricide

 

Caligula sestertius 39 A.D. Oh by the way he says he's innocent. Next coin Matricide

 

Mother killer Nero


Next Regicide

 

King killer Alexander I Balas (killing Demetrios I Soter).

Alexander I Balas Æ Bronze. Cyrrhus mint (149/8 B.C.)
Obverse: Diademed head of Alexander I Balas right.
Reverse: KYPPHΣΤΩN; Zeus standing facing, head left, holding filleted wreath, at his feet an owl; ΔΞP (year 164, 149/8 B.C.) in left field, monogram below.
21mm; 6.41g

Next: Fratricide

 

Brother killer 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

Next a coin that proclaims someone's age...

 

Caesar was 52 (LII) when this fourree was issued.


Next, a coin with a Roman numeral that is no longer part of the Roman numerals taught in modern schools.

 

Romans loved monograms, special symbols / numerals, etc. on the Republican coinage...usually very creative

Roman Numeral: IIS = Sestertius = 2-1/2 Asses or II (Two) and S for Semis (Half-As)


RR AR Sestertius After 211 BCE 12mm 1.0g Rome mint Roma r IIS - Dioscuri riding stars in ex ROMA Sear 46 Craw 44-7 RSC 4

Next up: Another AR Sestertius

 

Time for a new theme, @Alegandron ...

 

LOL, WOW! I did not think THAT was difficult!

Ok-ok... Here is a weenie-one: Next up: TIBERIUS

 

Hopefully I don't give you weenie envy...

Tiberius

AD 14-37 CE. AR Denarius minted at Lugdunum. Laureate head right of Tiberius. Reverse: Female figure (Livia?) seated right. RIC 26; BMC 34. Appealing portrait; Choice Very Fine.The "Tribute Penny" of Biblical fame.


Next up: Silver Caligula

 

Denarius of Caligula Next coin Claudius

 

Denarius of Claudius


Next: Nero

 

NERO
54-68 CE. AE Dupondius of
Lugdunum, 66. Laureate
head / Securitas seated with
sceptre. RIC.445.

Next up: someone Nero killed

 

Syria, Trachonitis. Caesarea Paneas
AE20, Struck after 65 AD
Diva Poppaea Sabina, with Diva Claudia, died 65 and 63 AD, this coin deified the two.
Obverse: DIVA POP-PAEA AVG, statue of Diva Poppaea seated left within distyle temple set on high podium.
Reverse: DIVA CLA-VD NER F, statue of Diva Claudia standing left on basis within hexastyle belvedere set on high podium.
References: RPC I 4846, Hendin 1270
Size: 20mm, 5.0g

Up next: still someone Nero killed