Your Isis and Horus is indeed from the Rome mint.
Nice score, @Ryro! You can add that bare-bottomed Venus Victrix denarius to match that sestertius with that reverse design. Speaking of which,...
These coins were issued by Antoninus Pius, the proud grandfather! This one looks like a goddess standing around, but the coin likely...
My only one from Caria: [IMG] Plotina, c. AD 105-122. Roman provincial Æ 20.0 mm, 5.43 g, 6 h. Caria, Tabae, AD 105-122. Obv: ΠΛΩΤЄΙΝ CЄΒΑCΤΗ,...
I'll have to rectify that! It's the finest known example ... because it is the only known example, LOL! [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman...
Great acquisition for your collection, @Finn235! Interesting bust style, too. I have one Diadumenian from Antioch. [IMG] Diadumenian, Caesar AD...
What a lovely coin! Gorgeous patina!
Here's one from Hierocaesarea: [IMG] Quasi-autononymous issue, time of Nero. Roman provincial Æ 14.6 mm, 3.24 g, 6h. Lydia, Hierocaesarea;...
[IMG] Julia Domna, AD 193-217 Roman provincial Æ 29.3 mm, 13.67 g, 6 h. Ionia, Ephesus, AD 193-217. Obv: CЄBACTH IOY ΔOMNA, bare-headed and...
That's very special and important and you should report its existence to the editors of MER-RIC. I have found previously unknown varieties...
You see that on sestertii of the Antonine period. I have always attributed that sort of thing to the mint workers filing some rough spot off the flan.
Just a flan crack, which happened in the course of striking. See this one of Marcus' wife: [ATTACH]
It's a gorgeous coin!! An error in attribution, though, in two respects: 1) RIC 1128 has a Mars reverse; yours is RIC 1128a, with the Annona...
What a great write-up, @JayAg47, about an area of history that I never learned about in my admittedly Eurocentric and USA-centric formal...
Throughout his entire reign, Gallus' coinage tried to portrayed him as a different kind of emperor from Decius -- Gallus as a benevolent ruler who...
L ΔѠΔ-Є-ΚΑΤΟΥ. [IMG] Faustina Jr, AD 161-175. Billon Tetradrachm, 13.82 g, 23.2 mm. Alexandria, AD 148/9. Obv: ΦΑΥCΤΙΝΑ CЄΒΑCΤΗ, pearl-diademed...
I bought this one from Jonathan Kern back in 2000. [IMG] Julia Soaemias, AD 218-222. Roman AR Denarius, 3.02 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h. Rome, AD 220-221....
Barbarous imitation of a "two victories" type.
Here are a few coins with globes: [IMG] Faustina I, AD 138-141. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.12 g, 32.6 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 150. Obv: DIVA...
Dang. Too late. Well, here's a Tranquillina: [IMG] Tranquillina AD 241-244. Roman provincial Æ 24.1 mm, 8.06 g. Thrace, Deultum, AD 241-244. Obv:...
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