Surprised nobody's posted this one. Though to be fair, it is probably the rarest of the Constantius II AE3s and 4s.
Oh man, going back through the list and it looks like we forgot everyone's favorite nut-job, Commodus! Commodus AR Denarius 183 AD Obverse: M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS, laureate head right Reverse: TR P VIII IMP VI COS IIII P P, Victory standing right, naked to waist, writing on shield set on palm EDIT: awww nevermind...I see that @maridvnvm got him
All been covered - but can never have enough Victory. Probus: Theodosius: Constantius I: Trajan: Valerian: Constantine I: Licinius:
I think this is the list of those we're still missing (after Nero): Otho Vespasian Domitian Nerva (Aelius) Antoninus Pius Pertinax Didius Julianus Geta Macrinus (& Diadumenian) (Maximus) Balbinus & Pupienus Philip & family Decius & family Valerian & some family (Valerian II, Saloninus) Macrianus & Quietus Postumus Tetricus I Florianus Numerian Carausius & Allectus Galerius Severus II Maximinus II Delmatius & Hannibalianus Constantine II Vetranio Constantius Gallus Julian II Magnus Maximus (& Flavius Victor) Valentinian III Marcian Zeno Here's Theodosius II:
I think that about taps me out then, unfortunately. I have a Postumus but no picture right now since I am re-doing all of them. Looking forward to seeing everyone else's coins. That'd be pretty amazing if we could get them all.
What an impressive lot of Victories. The list wipes out my Roman imperials, so I am going to cheat with some Roman Republicans. My RR collection is pretty small, but I was surprised how often Victory showed up, usually driving a chariot, but sometimes as an obverse bust, standing, flying, etc.: Roman Republic Denarius Anonymous Issue (157-156 B.C.) - Rome Mint Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) behind / Victory driving galloping biga right, holding reins and goad. Crawford 197/1a; Syd. 376; RSC Early Republic 6; Sear 76 (3.43 grams / 18 mm) eBay Dec. 2017 Roman Republic Denarius M. Cipius (115-114 B.C.) Rome Mint Helmeted head of Roma right; [M. CIPI. M. F.] before, X behind / Victory in biga right with palm-branch, rudder below, [ROMA in exergue] Crawford 289/1; Cipia 1; (3.63 grams / 15 mm) Notes: "This moneyer has been identified with a certain Cipius, who was called the "snorer" because he pretended to be asleep in order to facilitate his wife's acts of adultery" https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cipia-silver-denarius-victory-palm-167603400 Roman Republic Denarius C. Maianius (153 B.C.) Rome Mint Helmeted head of Roma right, X behind / Victory in biga right, C MAIANI below, ROMA in exergue. Maiania 1; Crawford 203/1a; Sydenham 427. (3.71 grams / 18 mm) eBay June 2017 Roman Republic Denarius L. Julius Bursio (85 B.C.) Rome Mint Head of Genius or Apollo Vejovis right, trident over shoulder, control-mark behind / Victory in quadriga right [L IVLI BVRSIO] in exergue, [control mark]. Crawford 352/1c; Julia 5. (3.13 grams / 21 mm) eBay Feb. 2017 Roman Republic Denarius D. Junius L. f. Silanus (90 B.C.) Rome Mint Mask of bearded Silenus right, plough right, all within torque / Victory in biga right, with whip and palm, carnyx beneath, [D SILANVS L F] in exergue. Crawford 337/1a; Junia 19. (3.63 grams / 18 mm) eBay June 2017 Roman Republic Denarius M. Porcius Laeca (125 B.C.) Rome Mint Helmeted head of Roma right, LAECA behind, X below chin / Libertas in quadriga, crowned by Victory, M POR ROMA below. Crawford 270/1; Sydenham 513; Porcia 3. (3.83 grams / 19 mm) eBay Sep. 2013 Seaby notes "This moneyer was a descendant of P. Porcius Laeca, praetor in 195 BC, who proposed and carried the Lex Porcia de Provocatione. This granted Roman citizens outside the city right of appeal in criminal matters…(this) is commemorated by the reverse type." (http://www.beastcoins.com) Roman Republic Denarius Appius Claudius Pulcher, T. Manlius Mancinus, Q. Urbinus (111-110 B.C.) Rome Mint Helmeted head of Roma right, / Victory in triga right, AP CL T MANL Q VR in exergue. Crawford 299/1a; Sydenham 570; Claudia 2. (3.85 grams / 18 mm) eBay Dec. 2013 Roman Republic Denarius L. Valerius Flaccus (108-109 B.C.) Rome Mint Draped bust of Victory right, [star under chin] / [L VAL]ERI [FLACCI] Mars walking left, with trophy; flamen Martialis cap before and grain-ear behind. Crawford 306/1; Sydenham 565;Valeria 11. (3.37 grams / 18 mm) eBay Mar. 2017 Roman Rep. Quinarius C. Egnatuleius C.f. (97 B.C.) - Rome mint C·EGNATVLEI·C·F·Q, laureate head of Apollo right / Victory standing left inscribing shield set on trophy, in left field, carnyx, Q, ROMV in exergue, Egnatuleia 1; Crawford 333/1. (1.59 grams / 17 X 15 mm) eBay Dec. 2017 Roman Republic Quinarius Publius Vettius Sabinus (99 B.C.) Laureate head of Jupiter right control letter left (X) / Victory r. crowning trophy P•SABIN between, control letter (X?) right, Q in exergue Crawford 331/1; Vettia 1; Sydenham 587 (1.77 grams / 15 mm) AZ July 1989
VERINA - VICTORY Ex: Warren Esty @Valentinian Extremely rare AE2 of Verina, wife of Leo I, 457-475 According to ERIC II, the 167th most common Roman person on coins. That's rare! 20 mm. Corroded. This is the only AE type for her. AEL VERINA AVG SALVS REPVBLICAE, Victory seated right, inscribing chi-rho on shield. CONE in exergue RIC X, 656, "R3" (extremely rare) possibly minted at Constantinople as the mint mark says, but circulated only near Cherson, in the north Black Sea Crimean region. Not great condition BALBINUS - VICTORY Balbinus, AD 238 AR Denarius, 20mm, 3.7g, 12h; Rome, AD 238. Obv.: IMP C D CAEL BALBINVS AVG; Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rev.: VICTORIA AVGG; Victory standing front with wreath and palm. Reference: RIC 8 Ex: @John Anthony
AELIA FLACILLA - VICTORY Aelia Flaccilla A.D. 373- 388 21mm 5.7gm AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG; draped, with elaborate head-dress, necklace and mantle. SALVS REI-PVBLICAE; Victory seated right, inscribing Christogram on shield set on a column, in right field T. In ex. ANTΓ RIC IX Antioch 61 Wife of Theodosius I and mother of Arcadius and Honorius Ex: @Victor_Clark
Cato "The Younger" Roman Republican, M. Porcius Cato, denarius, 47-46 BC, Utica, North Africa Obv: Female bust draped right, M. CATO. PRO. PR. before Rev: Victory seated right, holding patera, VICTRIX, in exergue Ref: Crawford : 462/1c (no ROMA on Obverse) His idea of "victory" over Caesar was a bit stoic. Plutarch gives a full story - I'll leave out the end, other than this: when offered intervention by a relative of Julius Caesar to broker a peace... Cato would not suffer him to do this. "For if," said he, "I were willing to be saved by grace of Caesar, I ought to go to him in person and see him alone; but I am unwilling to be under obligations to the tyrant for his illegal acts. And he acts illegally in saving, as if their master, those over whom he has no right at all to be the lord...."" -Plutarch Lives, Life of Cato the Younger, 66.1 His coins are easily confused with those of his namesake (of uncertain relation), the M Porcius Cato of this coin. Roman Republican, M. Cato, AR denarius, 89 BC, Obv: Diademed and draped female bust r., behind, ROMA and below neck truncation, M CATO Rev: Victory seated right, holding patera in right hand and palm branch in left; below seat, ST and in exergue, VICTRIX Ref: Crawford 343/1c (ST below seat) Edit: for the identity of this M Cato, Crawford refers to Wiseman & Rowland: "M. Cato, father of Uticensis (Cato the Younger), was dead by 91, when his son was in the care of Livius Drusus (Plutarch, Cato Min. 1,1); another man of the same name, descended from the Censor's first marriage, was an ex-praetor who died in Transalpine Gaul at about the same time (Gellius xiii, 20, 12); after the deaths of these two men, with no other M. Cato alive except Drusus' infant ward, it was unnecessary for the moneyer to add his affiliation. He could have been a son of the ex-praetor or perhaps a (younger) son of C. Cato M.f.M.n., cos. 114" - Crawford, M., & WISEMAN, T. (1964). The Coinage of the Age of Sulla. The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 4, 141-158. and This note on amphorae stamped "M. Porcius": Rowland, R. (1969). M. Porcius the Wine Merchant. Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte, 18(3), 374-375.
Thank you! I don't know many of Cato (The Younger)'s coins, but I do remember that he met quite a horrific end: Cato did not immediately die of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed, and throwing down a little mathematical table that stood by, made such a noise that the servants, hearing it, cried out. And immediately his son and all his friends came into the chamber, where, seeing him lie weltering in his own blood, great part of his bowels out of his body, but himself still alive and able to look at them, they all stood in horror. The physician went to him, and would have put in his bowels, which were not pierced, and sewed up the wound; but Cato, recovering himself, and understanding the intention, thrust away the physician, plucked out his own bowels, and tearing open the wound, immediately expired. From his wiki page
The Gallo-Roman emperor Laelianus: Laelianus. Antoninianus. 22-20 mm. 4.39 grams. IMP C LAELIANVS PF AVG RIC 9. Sear III 11111.
Here is an updated list of the Romans cited so far, in order of first appearance. * Coins of starred people show either 1) a small Victory on a globe being presented to someone or 2) a Roman provincial coin. A full imperial Victory type would be welcome. (I am not claiming there always is one.) Victorinus, Valerian, Gallienus, Claudius II, Tacitus, Valentinian I, Trajan, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Pescennius Niger, Julia Domna, Augustus, Diocletian, Eugenius, Basiliscus, Aquilia Severa* (provincial coin), Trebonianus Gallus, Nero, Aemilian, Marius, Octavian (Augustus), Titus, CONSTANTINOPOLIS, Valentinian II, Theodosius, Aelia Flaccilla, Eudoxia, Constantine, Aurelian, Galba, Severus Alexander, Quintillus, Maximinus Thrax, Magnentius, Elagabal, Valens, Arcadius, Honorius, Constans, Licinius*, Crispus, Constantius II, Gordian III, Vindex, Tetricus II, Gordian II, Decentius. Vitellius, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Probus, Lucilla*, Lucius Verus, Carus*, Carinus*, Maximian, Constantius*, Maxentius* (Victory is a tiny statue), Licinius II*, Jovian*, Gratian*, Johannes, Galla Placidia, Leo I, Theodosius II, Verina, Balbinus, Geta, Postumus, Domitian (Fourree), Philip I, Trajan Decius, Vespasian, Laelianus, When more are posted, you are welcome to copy this list and add to it and repost the updated version.
Maxentius with Victory as a type: Maxentius, 306-312. 24-22 mm. 5.78 grams. VICTORIA AVG N RIC Rome 272.
Magnus Maximus AE4. VICTORIA AVGG Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm. Type struck 383-388. Magnus Maximus 15-13 mm. 1.19 grams. 6:00. Note the termination "GG" with two G's, not three. RIC IX Lugdunum 34, R, plate IV.18. mm LVGP or LVGS. This reverse issue was struck only for Magnus Maximus and only at Lugdunum.