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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7437352, member: 75937&quot;]Very nice, [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]! You may be interested in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/venvs-caelestis-a-uniquely-elagabalan-goddess.362819/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/venvs-caelestis-a-uniquely-elagabalan-goddess.362819/">this article</a> I wrote about Venus Caelestis and your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also written about the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ric-listing-ancient-counterfeits.313956/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ric-listing-ancient-counterfeits.313956/">many listed in RIC that are unofficial</a> or ancient counterfeits. There are only a few officially issued denarii of Julia Soaemias:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>RIC 237 IVNO REGINA, Juno standing r.</li> <li>RIC 241 VENVS CAELESTIS standing l.<ul> <li>--without star in field (RSC 2d)</li> <li>--with star in r. field (RSC 8)</li> <li>--with star in l. field (RSC 8a)</li> </ul></li> <li>RIC 243 VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus seated l., child at her feet</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>I believe the denarii with the following reverse types are unofficial: ANNONA AVG, IVNO (Juno stg l.), PIETAS AVG, PVDICITIA, SAECVLI FELICITAS, and the three VESTA types. </p><p><br /></p><p>With the exception of the Venus standing type without the star, all of the official ones have been posted, so I will post these crude imitative issues of Soaemias and Elagabalus. They were likely produced in Sarmatia. I have previously written an <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/barbarous-four%C3%A9e-denarii-of-elagabalus-and-soaemias.350571/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/barbarous-four%C3%A9e-denarii-of-elagabalus-and-soaemias.350571/">article</a> about them.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elagabalus-concordia-imitative-denarius-jpg.1027397/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Elagabalus AD 218-222, 3.28 g, 18.2 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Fourrée Denarius, imitative issue, (after AD 250?).</p><p>Unknown (Sarmatian?) mint.</p><p>Obv: ΛNTONINVS PIVS FEL ΛVG; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: CONCORDIΛ; Two standards between two aquilae; NILIT in exergue (sic, the N backwards and replacing the correct M, and the L looking like an upside-down T).</p><p>Refs: imitation of: RIC 187; BMC 275; C 15; Thirion-344.</p><p>Notes: See CNG E-Auction 281, June 20, 2012, lot 369 (same dies).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/soaemias-vesta-seated-imitative-denarius-jpg.1027398/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Julia Soaemias, AD 218-222.</p><p>Fourrée Denarius, imitative issue, (after AD 250?).</p><p>Unknown (Sarmatian?) mint, 3.12 g, 18.6 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΛESIA (sic), Vesta seated left, holding simpulum and scepter.</p><p>Refs: cf. RIC 247-248; BMCRE p. 539, f (ancient forgery); RSC 22a.</p><p>Notes: See CNG E-Auction 281, June 20, 2012, lot 373 (same dies). Correctly identified in the BM catalogue as a hybrid with a reverse of Julia Domna, although the authors of RIC accept it without comment as an official type of Soaemias.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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