I think Marcus Aurelius is supposed to be next? Marcus Aurelius Caesar AR Denarius, AD 145-146, Rome Mint. Obv: AVRELIVS CAE-SVG PII F, bare head...
I don't know how many different coin types there are showing a quadriga of elephants, but I would very much like to have one!
I have no coins with Telesphoros, and only one depicting Asklepios, a coin that I would characterize as "Republican Provincial": Mysia, Pergamon...
I suspect it's the photos. It's not easy to take photos of slabbed coins. Or even to see them, sometimes.
The last king of Rome supposedly fell in 509 BCE. The first Roman coins weren't issued until a couple of hundred years after that. But several of...
Great job -- it's magic!
Wow. I had no idea. That's amazing!
It couldn't possibly be a she-wolf with the twins under her, could it? That would make it a Roman provincial, of course. But that wouldn't explain...
That certainly makes sense.
There's a theory that this sort of cross-hatching on elephants is supposed to represent their wrinkled skin, not any kind of armor.
I wouldn't have thought so either, but when I raised that question in another thread, someone said that in fact elephants can be very very quiet,...
It's not unheard of at all for Virtus to be depicted with spear and shield; here's an example from Valerian on which she carries both (but note...
@Orielensis, a beautfiul coin, with a great elephant head. Here's my own example of the type, with my description reaching essentially the same...
That very fact shows it's a fake.
My only coin with Silenos: Lydia, Tralleis/Tralles, AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm, 78/77 BCE, Magistrate ΠTOΛ (Ptol-). Obv. Cista mystica with lid...
Here's my example, with the control-letter "V" on both sides. Hercules looks very stoic given where the lion's right hind claw appears to be....
Thanks to all of you for the compliments and for posting your own coins. Now that I have two quinarii of my own, I can see how appealing they are,...
A nice backwards baseball cap on that last one!
I can't comment on your setup or any of the technicalities (I take my photos with my cellphone camera!), but I do want to say that that's a really...
My first 50 Roman Republican coins were all denarii. But I've seen a lot of people post very appealing examples of the quinarius (half-denarius)...
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