With Mothers Day this weekend, how about we share some coins from mothers of the past, good & bad. Medieval coins are welcome. Happy Mothers Day to all who may post or lurk CT. Faustina Jr. (146 - 175 A.D.) AR Denarius O: DIVA FAUSTINA PIA, Draped bust right. R: CONSECRATIO Pietas standing left, sacrificing from patera over a lighted altar and holding a sceptre. Rome 3.2g 18.5mm RIC III 741 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 57-4/10' BMCRE 711 note; RSC 65 Very Rare Published on Wildwinds! FAUSTINA Sr. (138 - 141 AD) AR Denarius Lifetime Issue O: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right. R: IVNONI REGINAE, Peacock seated on throne and scepter behind. Rome 18mm 3.5g RIC-340, RSC-221 BMC (Antoninus Pius) 145 (same reverse die) Ex Robert Kutcher Collection (Triton X, 8 January 2007), lot 1606 (part of) Ex.Hixenbaugh Ancient Art Ltd Published on Wildwinds! Julia Domna (193 - 217 A.D.) AR Antoninianus O: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, Diademed and draped bust right, resting on crescent. R: VENVS GENETRIX, Venus seated left holding hand out, and scepter. Rome 4.5g 23mm RIC 388a, RSC 206a Julia Mamaea (222 - 235 A.D.) AR Denarius O: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right. R:VENVS GENETRIX, Venus standing left, head left, holding scepter and apple; at feet to left, Cupid standing right with hands raised. Rome 3.6g 20mm RIC 355 (Severus Alexander), RSC 072 Poppaea (63 - 65 A.D.) Billon tetradrachm O: NEPΩ KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AY, radiate head right. R.ΠOΠΠAIA ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, date LI right (year 10). Alexandria mint 63 - 64 A.D. 12.5g 25mm Milne 216, Curtis 132, RPC I 5275, Geissen 157 Ex. Harlen J. Berk
To the Omega, the moms and women all over the world, thank you for making life beautiful and putting up with us for another year:
Happy Mother's Day weekend! Well here is Helena (later St. Helena) - Mother of Constantine... She was very vain... even though the coin is super rough she ensured that her hair looked great!! OBV: FL IVL HELENAE AVG REV: PAX PUBLICA Mint of Constantinople
Madonna and Child VRBS AQ VENSIS REGNI SE CES 1&91 (1491) AVE REDNA SELORV MATER REGIS AGELOR 1491 Mariengroschen Mint: Aachen
She may have ticked me off quite a bit and cancelled my marriage to the lovely Orbiana, but overall, she was a good mum... she always had my best interests at heart: Happy Mother's Day to Julia Mamaea! AE As. Rev: VENUS VICTRIX. This coin from Myrina in Aeolis, featuring as it does Nero with his mother Agrippina, is possibly the least suitable coin I have for the thread.
Here's one of the major MUM machines of ancients.... Faustina II Junior Silver Denarius 3.36g.,17mm, Rome mint, A.D. 154-156, Obverse. FAVSTINA AVG-PIIAVGFIL Draped bust of Faustina right, Reverse. CONC-O-RDIA, Concordia seated left, holding flower & resting left arm on cornucopiae set on globe below seat...(RCV 4704; RIC 502a)
Otacilia Severa, (244 - 249 A.D.) AR Antoninianus O: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, resting on a crescent. R: IVNO CONSERVAT, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter. Rome, 246 - 248 A.D. 24mm 5.1g RIC 127; RSC 20 Scarce
Julia Domna (wife of S. Severus) AR Denarius, Rome, circa AD 196-211 Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right Ref: MATER DEVM, Cybele, towered, seated to left on throne, between two lions, holding branch in right hand and sceptre in left, left arm resting on drum Ref: RIC IV 564 (Severus); BMCRE 52 (Septimius and Caracalla)
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world"...not sure the origin, long before it was a song...but so true.
Herennia Etruscilla Ae Sestertius 259 AD Obv Bust right draped and wearing a diadem Rv Pudicitia seated left. RIC 136a 17.42 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen Mother of Herennius Etruscus as well as Hostilian. We know very little about this woman other than she was the wife of Trajan Decius. She probably saw the elevation of both her sons to the rank of Augustus but beyond that we cannot even be certain that she was still alive when her youngest son perished from the plague. I can only imagine what that must have been like as I saw how my mother felt after she had to bury two of her three children before she passed.
Fulvia: First Living Woman on a Roman Coin... RImp Marc Antony 43 BCE AR Quinarius 13mm 1.67g Lugdunum Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia Lion DVNI LVGV Cr 489-5 Syd 1160 Died 40 BC Sicyon, Greece Years active 52–40 BC Spouse(s) Publius Clodius Pulcher Gaius Scribonius Curio Mark Antony Children Claudia Publius Clodius Pulcher Gaius Scribonius Curio Marcus Antonius Antyllus Iullus Antonius Family Fulvii - wikipedia.org
Ancient mothers and children. Hadrian, Alexandria Diobol -- Isis and Harpocrates (Horus the Child) Antoninus Pius, Alexandria Tetradrachm -- same theme Faustina II, with four daughters: Annia Faustina [a/k/a Faustina III] and Lucilla standing beside Fecunditas (representing Faustina), and the two infants in her arms identified as Fadilla and Cornificia. The coin was probably issued to celebrate the birth of Cornificia, the then-youngest child, in August 160 AD: Faustina II with a reverse showing her twin sons b. 31 Aug 161 AD: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (the older twin, d. 165 AD) and Commodus, the ninth and tenth children of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina II: Faustina II sestertius with six children: the four girls standing on either side of Felicitas on the reverse of this type have been identified as Marcus Aurelius’s and Faustina II’s daughters Annia Faustina (a/k/a Faustina III), Lucilla, Fadilla, and Cornificia -- the last of whom was born in 160 AD. The two infants held in her arms have been identified as Faustina II’s twin sons b. 31 Aug 161 AD: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (the older twin, d. 165 AD) and Commodus, the ninth and tenth children of the royal couple Julia Domna (Isis and Harpocrates) Julia Domna -- the two small children at the feet of Hilaritas perhaps represent Julia's already-grown children Caracalla and Geta: Plautilla with a reverse showing Pietas (representing Plautilla) holding a child, believed to have been issued to celebrate the 204 AD birth of a baby who died in infancy: Julia Maesa with a reverse depicting Fecunditas with a child at her feet; it's not clear whether that child is supposed to represent any particular grandchild of hers. Fausta -- holding two small children believed to represent Constantine II Caesar and Constantius II Caesar:
since mom's a star-- Helena A.D. 318- 319 18mm 3.1g HELENA N F; draped bust right. REV: eight rayed ✶ in laurel wreath. in ex. TSA RIC VII Thessalonica 48 ex-Failmezger Fausta. Augusta, AD 324-326. Æ Follis (18.5mm, 3.11 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 318-319. Draped bust right / Eight-rayed star within wreath. RIC VII 51; LRBC 824. Dark green patina, some smoothing, short flan crack. Good VF.
Demeter, in despair over the seizure of her daughter Persephone by Hades, ate poppies in order to fall asleep and forget her grief.
