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Roughly the same coin...

NEXT : a monument on reverse

 

Tajan's column

Next, non Roman monument.

 

Antoninus Pius, Ephesus : the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus, one of the 7 Wonders of the World !

NEXT : another monument, in Rome or not.

 

next: temple

 

Temple of Diva Faustina, of course.


Faustina I, AD 138-140.
Roman AR denarius, 3.44 g, 18.7 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 143.
Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: DEDICATIO AEDIS, hexastyle temple on stepped podium, above, a quadriga, Victories as acroteria.
Refs: RIC 388; BMCRE 306; Cohen 191; Strack 426; RCV 4596; UCR 434; CRE 127.

Next: Building with interesting acroteria.

 

ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate bust right
TEMPLVM DIVI AVG REST / COS IIII, front-view of the Temple of Divine Augustus, with 8 columns and 2 statues inside.

NEXT: temple with people in front of it

 

RR denarius of C. Egnatius Maxumus with Cupid / temple of Jupiter Libertas with two figures standing in front of it. c. 75 BCE.

next... another with Cupid...

 

PLAUTILLA (Augusta, 202-205) AR Denarius. Rome.
Obv: PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA - draped bust right.
Rev: VENVS VICTRIX - Venus standing left, holding apple and palm frond, and resting elbow upon shield decorated with hourglass(?); to left, Cupid standing left, holding helmet.
RIC 369 (Caracalla);
3,24 g, 19 mm

Next - another Augusta from 3rd century.

 

Herennia Etruscilla, AR Antoninianus, Rome mint. 249-251 AD. Pudicita reverse.

Next- 4th Century Roman empress

 

Galeria Valeria AD 305-311, AE follis of Thessalonica. 27.63mm/ 5.79 grams
Obverse > GAL VALE-RIA AVG, Diademed bust facing, head right, hair weaved in rows and curled around side of head at base of neck, wearing embroidered robes with two necklaces.
Reverse > VENERI V-ICTRICI,Venus standing facing, head left, apple in uplifted right hand, raising drapery over left shoulder with left hand. Star in left field,Gamma in right field.
Mintmark > dot SM dot TS dot. RIC VI #36 Thessalonica ; Officina 3, AD December 308- May 310.

Next....Gamma mintmark.

 

Arcadius, AE3 with mintmark ANT Γ

NEXT : another Roman facing bust but not a solidus!

 

next: byzantine 40 follis

 

Justinian I
Nicomedia
Year 13


Next: A Byzantine follis overstrike

 

Next : purely epigraphic reverse

 

Nothing but writing on the reverse:


Tiberius, AD 14-37.
Roman orichalcum Dupondius, 14.32 g, 29.15 mm, 1 h.
Rome, AD 22/23.
Obv: PIETAS, veiled and draped bust of (Vipsania? as) Pietas, right, wearing a stephane.
Rev: DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F TR POT ITER around large SC.
Refs: RIC Tiberius 43; BMCRE Tiberius 98; CBN Tiberius 74; Cohen 1; RCV 1741.

Next: wearing a veil and stephane.

 

Herennia Etruscilla, 250 AD
BI antoninianus
PVDICITIA AVG

5.6 grams




Next: Let's continue with another veil or stephane.

 

Honestly not sure if this is either of the above.

NEXT: wild female hairdo

 

Thessaly, Larissa, AE 20-22 - 400-344 BCE
Head of the nymph Larissa facing
ΛΑΡΙ - Σ - ΑΙΩΝ parly retrograde, Horse trotting right
8.88 gr
Ref : Sear # 2131

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