Mars is associated with so many things...... The classic MARS VICTOR [ATTACH] CLEMENTIA (Clemency / mercy) [ATTACH] CONSERVAT[OR] MILIT...
I agree with Lyons Obv:– IMP CL TACITVS AVG, Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right Rev:– TEMPORVM FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, holding...
The OP coin is certainly Lugdunum (Lyon). I have a couple. Obv:– IMP C CL TACITVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:– VIRTVS AVG,...
Hadrian would be a better place to start
Here are a few dolphins from me..... Italy, Herculaneum, Central Thermae The tepidarium has a vaulted ceiling. The floor has partly collapsed,...
Hadrian. Cappadocia. Caesarea AR Hemidrachm / Nike
Here is the Trajan version from the Forvm Fake reports and the same reverse die on some Hadrian fakes too [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I was not aware that this coin type was produced at more than one mint. Your first coin just seems to be from a western mint (nominally Cologne)...
They certainly knew about the debasement of the coinage and held on to coins with higher silver content.
Here is the earlier (scarcer) version of the same type. [ATTACH]
I think those are later than the DOMNA type. Yours certainly isn't Alexandrian.
Your obverse is also IVLIA AVGVSTA...
Fortuna types certainly exist for Domna from the east. I have a few. DOMNA AVG - FORT AVG - Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia...
I suspect it to be unofficial. The Fortuna seated type does occur in the eastern mints but from the earlier IVLIA DOMNA AVG types. The style on...
I have an obverse brockage too. This probably deserves to be dragged out and an updated image created. [ATTACH] My best/favourite manufacturing...
Hi Curtis, I do indeed have a standard SEV IMP VIII, BONA SPES. It is far from ideal but is good enough. [ATTACH] It appears to be from...
Here is a typical Jupiter type of Diocletian from Lugdunum Obv:– IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust seen from the...
Oval flans can occur for a whole range of reasons. Here we have a coin that would have probably been round if not for an off-centre and uneven...
If you look at the coinage of Diocletian and Maximianus Herculius from this period you will notice that each emperor generally favoured their...
Lots of the coins from these early issues come of nice full flans. I saw that one but already have two of the type in my collection. Bastien...
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