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Where is Victory?

 

The Pompeians, M. Porcius Cato, Spring 47- Spring 46 BC, AR Denarius, Utica mint

Ref: Crawford 462/1c; Porcia 9

While I don't really like branding him as "useless", and he had at least one military victory against the Goths, he certainly didn't stick around long enough to do much one way or the other.

Florianus, AD 276, Cyzicus, Antoninianus
Obv: IMP FLORIANVS AVG, bust right, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum
Rev: CONCORDIA MILITVM, Victory standing right, holding wreath in right hand and palm against left shoulder, facing Emperor in military dress standing left, right hand outstretched and holding long scepter in left hand; P in exergue.

Next: Another Victory (seated, standing, obverse, reverse...)

 

Constantinople Commemorative
Struck under Constantine the Great, 334-335AD
Siscia mint - BSIS
OBV: CONSTANTINOPOLIS
REV: Victory standing on prow of ship with a sceptre and shield
18.5mm
2,1g

something of Alexander the great

 

Alexander the Great


Makedon Alexander III 336-323 BC AE 17 Quiver Club

Next: Iberia

 

@Sulla80 , quote of Zander Klawans about Arcadius: ""Affairs of state did not interest him and the government was ruled by others ""

From Cordoba Spain:


next: coin from a Spanish mint

 

AUGUSTUS
AE28. 11.4g, 28.1mm. SPAIN, Celsa, 27 BC - AD 14. L. Baggius and Mn. Flavius Festus, duoviri. RPC 273; ACIP 3164c. O: AVGVSTVS DIVI F, laureate head right. R: C V I CEL L BAGGIO MN FESTO II VIR, bull standing right, head facing.
Ex Stevex6 Collection (CNG E316, 4 Dec 2013, lot 292); ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.57.5263)

Next: More bull

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
year 8, 144/5 CE
AE drachm, 33 mm, 22.9 gm, Zodiac series, "Venus in Taurus"
Obv: Laureate draped bust of Antoninus Pius right
Rev: bull butting left; above, diademed and draped bust of Aphrodite left; star before her; L H (date) in exergue
Ref: Emmett 1450.8

Next: another zodiac sign

 

Akragas AE hemilitron, Akragas (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy) mint, c. 420 - 406 B.C.
21.219g, 27.9mm
Obv: AKP-AΓANTIN-ON, eagle standing left on fish, raising headup screaming, wings open.
Rev: crab from above, eel in right claw, octopus to left of conch shell below, six pellets.
Calciati 47 var.

This coin was a gift from Mrs. TheRed, so . . .

Next: A coin that was received as a gift

 

This large provincial was a gift from Doug Smith, who grew tired of trying to take good photographs of it. It's a tough one and my attempts aren't any better than his.


CILICIA, Tarsos. Valerian I
253-260 CE
AE 32 mm, 19.06 gm
Obv: AVKΛΙΠOVΛΙOVAΛЄPIANOCCЄ; Π - Π; radiate, draped, and cuirassed (?) bust right.
Rev: TAPCOVMH TP OΠOΛЄΩC; A/M/K - Γ/Γ in fields; KOINOBOVΛION ЄΛЄVΘЄ__ in exergue; Athena seated left on throne, holding cornucopia and dropping a voting pebble into amphora to left; shield below.
Ref: SNG Levante 1193; SNG BN 1821-2 (I do not have these reference books; references taken from similar ex CNG coin)
ex Doug Smith

Next: another coin received as a gift

 

next: another coin received as a gift

 

The late Roger Bickford-Smith who taught me what I know about Eastern Severans had no interest in plated coins so he gave me this Caracalla fourree knowing that I did collect them. BONI EVENTVS


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Keep the gift coins coming - another gift but this one from a CT friend

 

AV Quarter Stater ND Amphipolis Mint Alexander III/ Philip III
Struck under Antipater
Macedon

My wife's upcoming Christmas present to me for being a nice husband

 

My wife gave me this one last Christmas!


Mysia, Pergamon, 200-133 BC.
Bronze Æ 15.7 mm, 3.55 g, 12 h.
Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with star.
Rev: AΘΗ-ΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ, owl standing facing on palm, with wings spread,TK monogram left and ΠΛ right.
Refs: SNG Copenhagen 388 (same); c.f. SNG von Aulock 1375-6, BMC 197-199, SNG France 1920-2, SNG BN 1913-6 (various monograms).

Next: Another gifted coin.

 

Gifted to Finn Johannessen by Charles Euston on 9 June 2010.

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. 3.52g, 21.8mm. Smyrna mint, circa end AD 268 - early AD 269. New RIC V/1 Online temp #811 (4 spec., this coin cited and illustrated). O: IMP C M AVR CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right. R: MINERVA AVG, Minerva standing right, holding spear and resting left hand on shield resting on ground; SPQR in exergue.
Ex Finn Johannessen Collection

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CONSTANTIUS I
AE Follis or Nummus
OBVERSE: IMP C CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, laureate head right
REVERSE: FIDES MI-LITVM ("The loyalty of the military"), Fides enthroned holding a scepter in right hand and a military Ensign of the left hand; pellet right in field; TT in ex.
Struck at Ticinum 305-306 AD
9.15g, 28mm
RIC VI 55a; Sear 14170
Gift from Jamesicus, CT; A rare reverse for this ruler

Next: Saturnalia gift

 

Saturnalia gift:


In 2018 I received a copy of "Art in Coinage" by C.H.V Sutherland (first edition) and an absolutely cool & artistic token ca. 1835-1875 with classical imagery of Venus.


Next is an ancient coin that’s been published in a book.


Edit to add: just last night I read a little from this book and repaired the dust jacket.

 

A favorite coin from this year, Phraatakes Tetradrachm Shore plate coin 312:

Next: a book & coin combination (plate coin is not a requirement)

 

. Sorry, had posted this before.

 

Couple of my coins mentioned in this book:



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