Just Thought I'd Buy a Coin

I haven't purchased hardly any coins this year what with selling off some of my collection and taking care of my wife post surgery. So I thought I'd treat myself to an indulgence. Nothing special, but a nice example nonetheless.

HADRIAN
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: AΔΡIANOC CEBACTOC, laureate draped bust right
REVERSE: YΠATOC Γ ΠATHΡ ΠATΡIAOC, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae
Struck at Caesarea, Cappadocia, 121-122 AD
2.6g, 18mm
Sydenham, Caesarea -; Metcalf, Caesarea105
ex JAZ Numismatics

Post any coin you've purchased lately just to satisfy a need for a new coin in your collection.

 

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Coingrats Bingo! I've not a single Roman drachm... Though I also had to get a Hadrian,or 2 accidently, recently.
It's my first of him celebrating his "world trip"!

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.77gm). Struck 134-138 AD. Head right / Egypt reclining against basket left, holding sistrum, ibis at feet. RIC II 297; RSC 99.
This coin commemorates Hadrian's visit to Egypt in 130-131 AD. It was while Hadrian was on tour in Egypt that his favorite, Antinoüs, "mysteriously" drowned in the Nile. So great was the emperor's grief that he commanded a series of religious rituals to be performed in the young man's honor, and, on the site where the body was recovered, Hadrian ordered the construction of a city called Antinöopolis in honor of the young man.

PS, I hope the little lady is doing better and life is returning to normal.

 

very nice both, I've only bought the 1 coin so far this year just been selling my moderns off looking to buy something nice pretty soon though.

Heres my only purchase so far this year;

Constans Æ Centenionalis. Treveri
AD 346
OBV: D N CONSTANS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust left
REV: FEL TEMP REPARATIO, soldier dragging young barbarian from hut
TRS in exergue.

RIC 224. 4.28g, 21mm

 

Good thinking - and nice coin, Bing. I hope everything goes well for your soulmate (and you).

 

She does not seem to be getting better, so this recovery drags on and on. I'm trying to keep up with things, but I'm a poor excuse for a housekeeper, and worse still as a cook. My poor wife not only has to suffer in her recovery, but with my horrible dinners (thank God for pizza delivery).

 

I have been in the same boat, Bing - my sympathies. Remember, your microwave (and TV dinners) are your friends …………… but maybe not hers.

 

For sure, and thanks for the chuckle.

 

Nice coin Bing, haven't seen any of this type before.

 

I love that Hadrian seems to be doing an eyeroll on your new coin, Bing. And, I do hope the missus starts feeling better soon.

I'm tempting the wrath of the postal gods by showing this coin before it's arrived, but it was a recent purchase that satisfied a need to buy a coin. It's been a somewhat slow year in Coinland for me too.


GORDIAN I
EGYPT, Alexandria, Gordian I, (A.D. 238), billon tetradrachm, year 1 = A.D. 238, (11.87 g), obv. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian to right, around A K M GORDIANOC CEM AFP EVCEB, rev. Athena standing left, holding spear and shield, L A to sides, (S.-, Dattari 12387, Emmett 3340, Koln 2599).
Ex Dr C. Haymes Collection

 

Great Drachm, @Bing ! Nice addition to your great collection that I enjoy.

Here is one I recently captured... from YOU.


PHOENICIA TYRE
AE20
OBVERSE: Turreted head of Tyche to right, palm branch behind
REVERSE: Galley to left, prow terminating in volute, aphlaston at stern, NA (= 76/5 B.C.) and Tyre monogram above over IEΡAΣ [AΣNΛON] in monogram above, Phoenican letters below
Tyre 76-75 BC
7g, 20mm
BMC 26, 255, 254
Ex: @Bing

Sometime soon, would enjoy meeting again to see more of your collection.

 

Anytime buddy. Just give me a call. I still have a coin you purchased a couple of months ago.

 

Will do. No worries, no hurries. Looking forward to it!

 

James, you did the right thing. Our hobbies can provide us with a great escape route from daily frustrations & anxieties. After my brother Henry passed away several months ago I did the same thing as you by adding an interesting coin to my collection. It helped relieve some of the grief & guilt I was experiencing. Being positive isn't easy but it is helpful .

 

I do a different kind of ancients, over toward India. Hope y'all aren't offended. For now I label this one as AE Mauryan. Will maybe find out a better attribution later. This one is from about 200 BC I think.

 

Nice Hadrian, hope your wife is getting better, my prayers are with you and your wife

 

Great lookin' drachm, Bing. I'm sorry to hear about your wife's health problems - I've been spending a great deal of time in a nursing home with an ailing family member the past few months and it is both exhausting and very, very sad. Hang in there.

Scrounging coins has been a pleasant diversion though. I recently got my first Sabina silver from an eBay seller who was also offering one from her husband. Not the highest grade for sure, getting them in the mail was like a little ray of sunshine. Who says shopping isn't therapy?



Sabina Denarius
(128-136 A.D.)
Rome Mint
SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG PP, draped diademed bust right, queue down neck / CONCORDIA AVG Concordia seated left, holding patera and sceptre, cornucopiae under chair.
RIC 399a; Cohen 25.
(2.92 grams / 17 mm)

Hadrian Denarius
(134-138 A.D.)
Rome Mint
[HADRI]ANVS AVG COS III P [P], laureate head right / SALVS AVG, Salus standing
left sacrificing over altar from patera, holding sceptre.
RIC 268; RSC 1329.
(3.15 grams / 15 mm)

 

Here's one of my most recent which filled a hole in the collection.

I purchased the coin because of the unusually good reverse detail and good silver. If you have seen this type before the reverses are often poorly struck or were the product of worn dies.

From this we can conclude that it was a common type at the time.

Please feel free to share your Valerian II JOVI CRESCENTI types or CONSECRATIO coins, or any old Valerian II you may have.

Valerian II, AR antoninianus, 23 mm 4.2 grams

Struck: 257-258, Cologne.

Obverse: VALERIANVS CAES, radiate, draped bust right

Reverse: IOVI CRESCENTI, the child Jupiter sitting right on the goat Amalthea, looking left, right hand raised, left hand holding the goat's horn.

Reference: RIC 3 (Lyons); Cohen 26 (Saloninus); Elmer 67a; Goebl 0907e; Sear 10731.

 

That is indeed a very nice Valerian II. I recently got one with the boy on the eagle flying heavenward that is, unfortunately, a more typical strike. It is a type I've wanted for a while, and it was cheap. But I can't tell what is worse - the awful strike or actual wear.



Valerian II Antoninianus
(son of Gallienus; post.)
(c. 257-258 A.D.)
Lyons (RIC) or Cologne Mint
DIVO VALERIANO CAES, radiate and draped bust right /CONSACRATIO, eagle flying right, bearing the deceased young Caesar to heaven.
RIC 9; Göbl 0911e; RSC 5.
(2.41 grams / 21 mm)

I have a couple of (somewhat) better ones. An interesting, fleeting figure from an interesting time:




I still need a goat!

 

MANUEL METROPOLITIAN TETARTERON S-1967 DOC 14 CLBC 4.4.1
OBV Bust of Christ, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll n in l. hand. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.

REV. Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and collar piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. labarum on long shaft , and in l. Globus cruciger

Size 19mm

Weight 3.54gm

Just added to my collection Bing.