A Cornucopiae for Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving in the USA and one of the main symbols of the holiday is the cornucopiae, an allegory for the abundance for which we are thankful.

Here's a coin with Annona -- symbolizing "amber waves of grain" -- with a big ol' cornucopiae!

Marcus Aurelius, Augustus AD 161-180.
Roman AR denarius, 3.15 g, 18.1 mm, 11 h.
Rome, 36th emission, AD 178.
Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head, right.
Rev: COS III P P, Annona standing left, holding corn-ears in right hand over modius and cornucopia in left hand; to right, prow.
Refs: RIC 424; BMCRE 691; Cohen 151; RCV 4893; MIR 436-4/30.​

Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating today.

 

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...surely i can dig up a cornucopia ....happy thanksgiving RC

 

Happy gobble gobble day!

 

Happy Thanksgiving for the ones who celebrate!
I always like showing this coin because of the reverse image and meaning


Antoninus Pius AD 138-161. Rome Denarius AR 19 mm., 2,64 g
RIC III Antoninus Pius 234
Date Range: AD 153 - AD 154

ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVII, head of Antoninus Pius, laureate, right / LIBERALITAS VII COS IIII, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, emptying coins out of cornucopiae, held in both hands

Hope you all manage to get some of the coins from the cornucopiae!

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ptolemy IV Philopator, Ptolemaic Kingdom
AE drachm (Series 5)
Obv: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right
Rev: Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia to left, ΔI between legs
Mint: Alexandria
Date: 222-204 BC
Ref: CPE B495, Svoronos 1125, SNG Cop 199
Size: 65.94g, 42mm

 

There is not much felicitas in your life without something to eat so the goddess often is represented carrying a cornucopiae:
Empress Salonina - Antoninianus - FELICITAS PVBLICA - Cologne mint

 

Nebraska Corn country…………

 

A cornucopiae and a "turkey" being basted




Domitius Domitianus
A.D. 295- 296
24mm 10.8g
IMP C L DOMITIVS DOMITIANVS AVG; laureate head right.
GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae, eagle to left; A in right.
In ex. ALE
RIC VI Alexandria 20

 

Gobble Gobble!

Maximinus II
AE Follis
311 AD
Obverse: IMP C GALER VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG, laureate head right
Reverse: BONO GENIO PII IMPERATORIS, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopiae. Crescent over K in left field, B over X in right field Mintmark ALE

 

Happy Thanksgiving, @Roman Collector and to all Ancients Forum members. I’m thankful for this awesome forum and for the great folks who contribute to it.

Here’s a recent acquisition from what I’m calling my Roman Renaissance to build up my Roman collection.

 

Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a cornucopia from the Ptolemaic Empire, showing off their wealth by minting a heavy gold octodrachm:

 

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I'm going to spend the day catching up on everyones' top-ten lists. Best entertainment on the internet for a coin junkie like me. Much gratitude to all of you for making this such a rich and enduring community!

 

Here is a sestertius of Trebonianus Gallus, Libertalitas with a cornucopiae and a coin-counter as big as a tennis racket.


Trebonianus Gallus Sest.
(251-253 A.D.)
Rome Mint
[IMP C]AES C [VIBIVS T]REBONIANVS GA[LLVS AVG], laureate, draped & cuir. bust right / [LIBERALI]TAS AVGG S-C, Liberalitas standing left with abacus (coin counter) and cornucopiae.
RIC 113; Cohen 57; Sear 9673.
(17.72 grams / 27 x 25 mm)
eBay Nov. 2021

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

 

What's even better than a cornucopiae? Two cornucopiaes...


Alexander II Zebinas, AE 21 mm, Antioch, 125-122 BC
Obv.: Radiate head of Alexander II Zebinas as Helios, right.
Rev.: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ / AΛEXANΔPOY, two intertwined cornucopiae tied by diadem, Σ / wreath in l. field, A in r. field.

 

Antoninus Pius Sestertius


Elagabalus Denarius

 

double cornucopia



single:

 

Here is a coin with double cornucopiae I was eagerly waiting - however in hand I wasn't as impressed as I was expecting, anyway, not a bad coin and the more cornucopiae the merrier



Dupondius Æ
Tiberius, Commagene, AD 19-21, TI CAESAR DIVI AVGVSTI F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXI, winged caduceus between two crossed cornucopias
29 mm, 13,70 g
RPC 3869; RIC I Tiberius 90

 

Here is my largest cornucopia, out of the many coins I have depicting them. I received this coin very recently and haven't written it up yet, so this is a sneak preview!



I hope that everyone here in the USA who celebrates Thanksgiving is having a wonderful holiday. I'm thankful for this place, and for all of you.

 

Happy Thanksgiving! Here is one from Hadrianopolis, Thrace.


Faustina II. Æ 23mm
Hadrianopolis, Thrace. AD 161-176.
Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, draped bust to right
Rev: AΔΡIANOΠOΛITΩN, Homonia standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia.
RPC IV.1 Online 3916 (temporary); Jurukova 69-70; Varbanov 3227.
6.63g, 23mm, 6h.