Had a rough few weeks lets see some Cheerful coins

Hi David, sorry to hear about your loss and health problems. I hope things will look up soon.

I post a coin that you know very well and which gives me joy every time I open my albums. Maybe it will cheer you up to see it again:

Carinus , AD 283 - 285

Obv.: IMP CARINVS PF AVG
Rev.: FIDES MILITVM - K (crescent) AE
Mint: Rome, 5th officina, 6th emission AD 285
Measurements: 3.71 gr, 22mm

About Carinus, we will probably never know if he was a capable emperor or if he was the bloodthirsty tyrant that his successor made him out to be. I strongly suspect that he was much better than his reputation.

After all, he deified his father, his brother and his son as evidenced by the coins. In his short reign, he waged war against the Germanic Quadi at the Danube and he led a campaign in Britain, earning him the titles of Germanicus Maximus and Britannicus Maximus.

After the death of his father and his brother he marched east where he successfully dealt with the revolt of Sabinus Julianus in Pannonia.
He confronted Diocletian at the battle of the Margus River in July 285.

The reports are contradictory: Carinus was either victorious, but killed at the height of his triumph by an officer who's wife he had seduced or, more likely in my view, his troops defected to Diocletian who had instigated his murder.

In any case, I think the coin below is a particularly nice example for two reasons:
1. The revers shows how important the trust of the army was for any Emperor of the 3rd century and that it was fatal for Carinus to lose this trust.
2. I think this portrait with the curly beard is the most charming depiction of the emperor. It stands for a last flourishing of the old individualistic style of coin portraiture before coin portraits under Diocletian would become increasingly more uniform and stylized.

 

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I thought it was a bad dream, or a sort of joke. I feel your pain . It seems that Covid's impact is lasting. I don't know what to say. Just keep your courage and try to remain steady beside your wife. As they say : Big problems don't come always alone. Better than coins, I'll make a prayer right now, before I post my reply. May God heal your wife and cherish your hearts again. My condolences for the lost.

 

bcuda, I'm sorry to read of your family loss & other misfortunes that seem to be piling on relentlessly. All these misfortunes sound like another chapter in The Book of Job. May the strength of Jupiter be with you & help restore some level of normalcy.


Q. Antonius Balbus. Rome Mint, 83-82 BC. AR Denarius Serratus: 4.07 gm, 19 mm, 5 h. Obverse: Laureate head of Jupiter. Reverse: Victory in a quadriga holding the reins, palm-branch, & wreath. Crawford 364/1d.

 

This coin shows Tyche with the zodiac of Aquarius before her, as if he's trying to heal her with blessed water.

 

Very scary and I wish you an excellent 2022 - you deserve it. I hope all is better for you going forward.

 

Dang man, that sucks. Glad you are on the mend even if things are still not great.

Here is my contribution, a coin featuring Asclepius.

Claudius II, Gothicus
Antoninianus
268-270 AD
Mediolanum Mint Obverse: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG: Bust of Claudius Gothicus, radiate, draped, right Reverse: SALVS AVG: Asclepius, standing left, holding serpent-entwined wand in right hand. P in exergue

 

Oh, my friend in so sorry to read all that has happened to you in such a short amount of time.
First, my sincere condolences to you and your father (you're a good guy being there for your father).
As well, my family and I will be pulling for your wife, both to make it through with the same quality of life as she had before and that they get her a room ASAP!
In regards to your bite, I'm glad that you got to keep the leg but that sounds awful and scary and awful scary. My best advice is to see if the doctors think doing some rehabilitation work would help. I've put that kind of stuff off in the past and then once I did it I picked myself for not doing it sooner.
Lots of love and healing coming your way from me

 

I'm sorry to hear about the very rough time you've been having, @bcuda. I hope your wife gets a bed soon and recovers well. Here are a trio of coins that look forward to the return of health, fortune and happiness.


ROMAN REPUBLIC
AR Denarius. 3.78g, 19mm. Rome mint, 49 BC, Manius Acilius Glabrio, moneyer. Crawford 442/1a (651 obv, 723 rev dies for both types); Sydenham 922. O: Laureate head of Salus right; SALVTIS behind. R: Valetudo standing left holding serpent and leaning elbow on column; MN ACILIVS III VIR VALETV around.
Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12776

ANTONINUS PIUS
AE Drachm. 27.11g, 33.9mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 8 (AD 144/5). RPC Online temp #15717; Dattari 2891; Emmett 1687.8. O: AYT K T AIL ADP ANTWNEI NOC CEB EYC, laureate head right. R: Tyche wearing kalathos reclining left on garlanded lectisternium, resting left elbow on cushion, holding a rudder in right hand.
Ex stevex6 Collection

GORDIAN III
AR Antoninianus. 5.64g, 25.5mm x 22.7mm. Rome mint, AD 241-243. RIC IV 86. O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right. R: LAETITIA AVG N, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and anchor set on ground in left hand.
Ex Michael Kelly Collection

 

I am sorry my friend you are having such bad things going on there. If you believe prayers work then you have mine coming your way. I too have an affliction, I have stage 4 colon and lung cancer (never smoked). So we can pray together if you like. Here is a GOLD French coin my Uncle carried one like this in his pocket for luck in WWII He called it "Angel in my pocket". I hope this Coin gives you luck and hope.

 

Dang, sorry to hear about your painful issues, that's a shame. Here's a do-don't coin, hope it helps!

 

about as much healing as you can fit on a coin, via Vcoins

LYDIA. Nicaea Cilbianorum (Cilbiani Inferiores). Marcus Aurelius (Caesar, 139-161). Ae., 54.91 gm, 42mm, AVT KAI M AYΡ ANTΩNINOC, laureate head right,; Asklepios standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, looking at Hygieia, standing right, holding serpent in arms., Telesphorus standing facing in the middle , VF, some pitted areas , Probably unique and un published .

guessing plague related?

 

Hope & Consolation

 

Here are some Angels. They make me happy maybe they will make you happy too



1 oz silver Scottsdale bar

 

1911 10 Korona

 

I understand about the Brown Recluse. I was bit on my hand in 2018. Almost lost it. Weeks of pain. Took a year to finally heal. Still have joint pain from it.

 

You and your family are now surrounded by Angels

 

Sorry to hear about your loss and misfortunes, @bcuda.

Here is Salus and other coins on snake theme.




Here is a coin with Athena striking a monster. Hope it could provide you with some fighting spirit during this tough time.

 

So sorry to hear about the passing of your stepmother and the really rough times you have been through. I hope your wife recovers very quickly and you and all your loved ones are well.

Have never seen a brown recluse, but what a scary episode with that spider! Hope the spider died after being so mean.

Please keep positive - like Archangel Michael subduing the dragon on this House of York Angel - and wishing you and yours best sailing in 2022: