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Blasphemy!!!

 

Thessaly:


Domitian and Domitia, AD 81-96
Roman provincial AE Assarion; 5.12 gm. 20 mm
Thessaly, Larissa, AD 82-96
Obv: ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΝ ΚΑΙΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΛΟΙ, laureate head of Domitian, right
Rev: ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΣΤΗ, draped bust of Domitia, right
Refs: SGI 891; BMC 7.7,76; RPC II 278; Rogers 88.

Next: Husband and wife on opposite sides of the coin.

 

Divus Augustus, Ruled 27 BC-14 AD, with Julia Augusta (Livia),
AE Dupondius, Celtiberian/Roman Hispania, Colonia Romula, Struck under Tiberius after 16 AD
Obverse: PERM DIVI AVG COL ROM, Radiate bust of Augustus right; star above, thunderbolt before.
Reverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA GENETRIX ORBIS, head of Livia left set on globe, her head surmounted by a crescent.
References: RPC I 73, SNG Copenhagen 421
Size: 32mm, 22.3g

Augustus captures the deified features of Sol (Apollo) and is associated with his wife Livia (Julia) as Luna. Livia is presented as the mother of the world, placed between the globe and the crescent moon. The accent is placed on the divine role of Augustus surmounted by a celestial body, not unlike that of J. Caesar, accompanied by the lightning of Jupiter. Livia is represented with the lunar (ascending) attribute placed on the globe which indicates that she is alive and mother of the present Augustus, Tiberius.

Augustus had married Livia in 38 BC. Livia Drusilla was the daughter Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alifida. She was born on January 30, 58 BC. At sixteen, she married Tiberius Claudius Nero from whom she had two sons, Tiberius and Nero Drusus. She divorced her husband in 39 BC when she was pregnant with her second child to marry Octavius, the future Augustus. Married for fifty two years, the emperor preceded her in the grave on August 19, 14. Livia survived him fifteen years and died in 29 at the age of 87 years. Suetonius portrays her as cunning and upstart, having accomplished everything to secure the throne to her son Tiberius.

Next, Hispanic/Iberian coin struck under Tiberius.

 

Sorry

 

Tiberius Spain


TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS P M
bare head of Tiberius left

C I I A M IVLIVS SETTAL L SESTI CELER II VIR
altar, marked SAL AVG, C I I A around.

Italica Spain

RPC 196
12.8g 29mm

Next up, Centaurs

 

M. AURELIUS COTTA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Roma, COTA below, X behind
REVERSE: Hercules holding club in biga of centaurs holding branches. M.AVRELI below, ROMA in ex
Struck at Rome 139 BC
4.29g, 16mm
Aurelia 16, BMC.914, Craw.229/1
ex. Pliego Numismatics

Next: Roman Republican denarius older than 139 BC

 

M Junius Silanus (145 BCE)

Next: Show me a nice ass (donkey)...what else did you think I meant? Get your mind out of the gutter

 

oops

 

How about a MULE? Or, a Half-Ass.


RI Julia Flavia Titi Diva 90-91 CE d-Titus concubine-uncleDomitian AE Sestertius 33mm 20.4g - Carpentum mules SPQR - SC

mule1
/myo͞ol/
noun

1. 1.
   the offspring of a donkey and a horse (strictly, a male donkey and a female horse), typically sterile and used as a beast of burden.

Next up: Donkey again...

 

Okay Tetradrachm of Messana Obverse. nymph driving mule biga Caltabaino 524 420-413 B.C.
Next Coin Coin with animal on both sides

 

A. Scaurus

Next: show me camel(s).

 

CAMEL(s)


RI Trajan CE 98-117 AR drachm Struck CE 114-116 Arabia Petraea Bostra - Camel SNG ANS 1158



RR Aemilius Scaurus and Plautius Hypsaeus 58 BC AR Denarius camel scorpion quadriga 4.1g 19mm Rome Cr 422-1b

ICONIC... and the only thing I ever smoke are Cubans.



Next up: RABBIT

 

Messina AR litra


Next: coin of Rhegium

 

My only Rhegium coin:


Bruttium Rhegion 415-387 BCE AE 11mm 2.46g Facing lion hd - Laureate hd of Apollo L SNG ANS 697 var

Next up: WALKING non-Roman LION

 

LUCANIA, Velia
305-290 BCE
AR didrachm, 17.5 mm, 7.3 gm
Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet, decorated with griffin; at left, A
Rev: YEΛHTΩN; lion standing/walking right on exergual line; above dolphin between I and Φ
Ref: SNG ANS 1375-6

Next: a creature leaping

 

GORGEOUS Didrachm, @TIF

LEAPING


Sicily Akragas Punic occup 213-210 BC AR Half Shekel 19 mm 2.9g Male head r Triptolemos wreath grain -Horse leaping r Punic Ḥ SNG COP 378

Next Up: SWIMMING

 

Clearly this poor horse (with as snake riding on his back) was leaping, when someone inexplicably cut him in half!



Next up: snake riding a horse
Edit: was beaten by Alee G... But I posted request for next post first. Who wins?
Edit to my edit: request is now up. Swimming stands... Or sinks

 

Ali G says:

 

River god Orontes wins the summer Olympics in swimming at Her feet. Next : Running.