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Taking Horus and Harpocrates as being the same deity, here's one:


Julia Domna, AD 193-211
Roman AR denarius, 3.61 g; 17.7 mm.
Rome, AD 201.
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: SAECVLI FELICITAS, Isis standing right, foot on prow, nursing infant Horus.
Refs: RIC 577; BMCRE 75; Hill 504; Cohen 174; RCV 6606.

Next up: Isis.

 

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ISIS


RI AR Den Julia Domna 200 CE Felicitas Isis Horus RIC 577

Next: ISIS again

 

VESPASIAN
Æ Diobol
OBVERSE: AYTOK KAIΣ ΣEBA OYEΣΠAΣIANOY, laureate head right
REVERSE: Draped bust of Isis right wearing uraeus crown
Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, Year 5 = 72/73 A.D
9.15 g, 24.9mm
RPC 2438; Milne 427; Emmett 217
Ex Zuzim Judaea Coins, New York

Next: Another example of a uraeus crown

 

Excellent coin! How were you able to identify the Morris Collection with Phil Peck?

 

Does Isis wear a uraeus crown? I thought it was a solar disc with horns. Hmm. [Edited: apparently sometimes a uraeus serpent was included with the solar disc and horns]

Anyway, the reverse of this Hadrian shows a pharaoh wearing a uraeus headdress of the same type seen on King Tut's mask (a "nemes" headdress). The thick patina makes it a bit difficult to see the uraeus in this picture.


EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian
Arsinoites nome
RY 11 (126/7 CE)
Æ obol; 20 mm, 5.12 gm
Obv: AVTKAITPAIΔPIACEB; laureate bust right
Rev: head of Egyptian pharaoh right; APCI to left, NOI to right, L IA to right
Ref: Emmett 1221.11

Next: something easy and wide-open: a provincial of Hadrian.

 

LOL, well, that is hard for me! Unless my Hadrian Limes is tossed in cuz the Legions were using this as token monies as they were in "hot zones" along the borders in the Provinces. (my theory).

 

Drachm of Hadrian Amisos 131-132 A.D. Rv Athena stg facing head left. RPC 1250 2.09 grms 18 mm Next coin Trajan Provincal

 

Egypt, Alexandria. Trajan
AE drachm, 34.73 mm, 21.18 gm
Regnal year 12 (108/9 CE)
Obv: [AVT TRAIAN] CEB ΓE[PM ΔA]KIK, laureate and draped bust of Trajan right, seen from behind
Rev: Trajan, raising hand and holding scepter, driving biga of centaurs right; above, L IB
Ref: Emmett 464.12 (R4).
Ex Tom Buggey Collection
Ex Jean Elsen


Next: centaur

 

Thessaly. Magnetes.
AE19, 7.23g, 196-146 BC
Obv: Laureate head of Zeus right.
Rev: ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ; The centaur Chiron advancing right, holding branch over shoulder; star below.

How about some ancient gold?

 

VALENS
AV Solidus
OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: RESTITVTOR REIPUBLICAE, Valens standing right, holding labarum in right hand & Victory on globe in left, cross to left. Mintmark star ANTE star
Struck at Antioch, 364 AD
3.6g, 19mm
Antioch RIC 2d,xxxvii-5

Next: Different AV Solidus

 

AV Solidus ex: NFA auction (one of my first ancients)
Zeno
next topic: his nemisis
AV Solidus Basiliscus

 

Well, this thread is dead for 12 more hours...

 

I have one/ but I will wait first to see if anyone here has one....to make it fair.
John

 

Shortly after the Heritage sales of the collection, I noticed some coins show up on CNG's Coin Shop with the collector identified. It's been mentioned in a few threads here as well, I believe. You could try doing a search for his name using the CT search function.

 

Strange though, right? Why bother coming up with a fake name just to reveal the identity shortly afterward?

 

12 hour rule. Here's a Faustina Pudicitia. Let's see another Pudicitia.


Lucilla
Empress CE 163-169, wife of Lucius Verus
AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.25 gm
Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA; draped bust right
Rev: PVDICITIA; Pudicitia, veiled, standing left, with right hand preparing to draw a veil across her face (or had she just drawn the veil off her face?), left hand at side
Ref: RIC III 780

 

PUDICITIA


RI Julia Maesa AR Denarius Pudicitia 3.1g 19mm Sear 2183

I figger since I am not the well-font of Roman Imperial coinage, then...
Next: More Pudicitia

 

Otacilia Severa
AR antoninanus, 244-249 CE Mint: Rome, 244-245 CE, 22mm x 25mm, 4.12g Obv: MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG
Diademed and draped bust right, with a crescent behind her shoulders.
Rev: PVDICITIA AVG
Pudicitia seated left, right hand drawing veil from face and holding a transverse sceptre in her left arm.
Ref: RCV (2005) 9159; RIC IV ..

Next up: Another Otacilia Severa

 

Side note: I have always been in LOVE with this coin of yours TIF! But for some reason I feel that she could go in the Coins that go bump thread? It's funny how sometimes the most beautiful things can also have such an eerie quality:


(my ex. but we broke up)

Back to... Next up: Another Otacilia Severa

 

Otacilia Severa
AR Antoninianus, Rome, AD 246-248
Obv.: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust on crescent right
Rev.: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae
Ag, 4.10g, 21.2mm
Ref.: RIC 125c

Next: Concordia