Those were a challenge to attribute! Good job, @furryfrog02 !
I think the goddess is holding a patera and scepter, like this one, making her Felicitas. [ATTACH]
These are typically well-circulated and not infrequently on weird-shaped flans. Here's my example: [ATTACH]
That's a diademed and draped bust of an empress. Hairstyle could be any of them from Julia Mamaea through Salonina.
Very nice! Love the portrait!
Aeternitas was the Roman personification of eternity and stability. As such, she is often depicted with the immortal phoenix as an attribute, as...
And here's a left-facing Domitian with a similar reverse actually minted in Syria (Antioch): [ATTACH] Domitian as Caesar, AD 69-81 Roman...
I also have one of these "brass as" coins of Trajan. [ATTACH] Trajan. A.D. 98-117. Roman orichalcum as, 8.49 g, 23.5 mm, 6 h. Struck in Rome for...
I think it's there, below the bust. Compare its location to that on my coin, above yours.
Bronzes of this period circulated for decades and high-grade specimens are quite scarce. Here's a typical Aelius sestertius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Stunning!
This coin of Miletos, in Greek Ionia, from 200 BC. It depicts the statue of Apollo Didymeus, from the Temple of Apollo in Didyma. [ATTACH] Greek...
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Marcian monogram and a Leo I and Verina: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Here's a Trajan with a long inscription, requiring both obverse and reverse to contain it. More importantly, enough of the titulature is complete...
Not even close, but this may be the longest in my collection. Sixty-two characters, if you count the denomination, E, in the field: [IMG] Gordian...
That is a lovely coin! SCORE!! Here's a Max Thrax sestertius from my collection: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Oh, all the time. I get e-mails about auctions and I look through them and like a kid in a candy store, I bid!
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