[Ancients] Dual-portrait coins. Show off your own !

I've always found dual-portrait coins very appealling, but they are often scarce to rare and very sought after, hence on the expensive side.

Please show us yours if you have some, it might give quite a nice portrait gallery.
Jugate busts, confronted busts, janiform heads, one on each side or whatever

I'll start with a Nero & Poppaea alexandrian tettradrachm


Nero and Poppaea, tetradrachm
Alexandria mint, AD 63-64
NERO KLAY KAIS SEB TEP AY, radiate head of Nero right
TTOTTTTAIA SEBASTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, LI in right field
12.3 gr
Ref : RCV # 2002 v, Emmet # 129

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Recently acquired for my Pink Floyd Animals collection (track 2, Dogs), this Macrinus & Diadumenian has very nice portraits

 

At the end of the Second Century BC, the decline of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires left a power vacuum, and a number of cultures in the Levant began minting their own coinage. The Nabataean's first efforts consisted of overstriking old bronzes with dies that followed the Athena/Nike typology of Alexandrine staters.

This coin exhibits an unintentional jugate portrait between Athena and the king on the host coin, which I believe is Antiochus IV...

 

Agrippa and Augustus, Nemausus
Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, Stratonicea (with countermark removed)
Caracalla and Julia Domna, Marcianopolis - Serapis and the denomintion E usually face the opposite way on this issue,

Caracalla and Geta, Marcianopolis - The boys did not like each other so there are relatively few coins combining them.

Philip II and Serapis, Marcianopolis - When you don't have a wife, use a god.

Vabalathus and Aurelian, Alexandria

...and a triple showing the family of Sasanian king Varhran II


Who owns the triple reverse showing the family of Septimius Severus, the Carausius and his brothers coin or the facing portraits of the Licinii? All these would be welcome in my collection but not likely to be joining me anytime soon.

 

Nice posts folks
Doug, the sassanian is awsome !

Here's a scarce AE35 from Cyprus, showing portraits of Antoninus Pius as Augustus and Marcus Aureliusas Caesar


Antoninus Pius & Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, AE35
Æ35 minted in Cyprus.
AVT K T AIL ADP ANTWNINOC CEB E, laureate head right
M AVPHLIOC KAICAP VIOC CEBAC, laureate, draped bust of Marcus Aurelius right
27 gr, 35 mm
Ref : Sear #1523

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The republic, and especially imperatorial give quite a few examples of good dual portraits

Here's a janiform head :


D. Junius L.F. Silanus, As
As minted in Rome, 91 BC
No legend, Head of Janus
D SILANVS L F, Prow of galley right
12.08 gr
Ref : RCV # 738

And some historical note that comes with it :

The following comment from : http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/historia.htm

"Decimus Junius Silanus was the son of M. Junius Silanus, who commanded the army that was defeated by the Germanic Cimbri in Transalpine Gaul.

Decimus was the stepfather of Marcus Brutus, the murderer of Caesar, having married his mother Servilia. He was elected consul in 63 for the following year ; and in consequence of his being consul designatus, he was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. He was consul 62, with L. Licinius Morena, along with whom he proposed the Lex Licinia Julia".

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Four fourrees from the late Republic (Imperatorial) and early Imperial periods:
Brutus honored his ancestors who had killed tyrants (Brutus the Elder and Ahala).

Mark Antony and the young Octavian:


Octavian and the divine Julius Caesar:


Tiberius and Augustus:


Believe it or not I also have a few coins that are not fourree. Ancus Martius (Marcius in some places) and Numa Pompilius were legendary kings of Rome.


Dei Penates were minor gods:


and Honos and Virtus were personifications:


That's right, the coins with real people are fakes and the ones with fake people are real.

 

MN. FONTEIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC AR Denarius

 

SEXTUS POMPEY AE As

 

MARCUS ANTONIUS Ionia Silver cistophoric tetradrachm

 

AUGUSTUS AE Dupondius

 

AUGUSTUS AE Dupondius (Gallic or Italian mint)

 

CALIGULA AR Denarius

 

I also have a sextus Pompey As :


Sextus Pompey, As
As struck in Sicily c.43-36 BC
Head of Janus with features of Pompey the Great, MAGN above
Prow of galley right, PIVS IMP in field
16.57 gr
Ref : HCRI # 336, RCV #1394, Cohen #16

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NERO AR Billon Tetradrachm

 

NERO AND CLAUDIUS Drachm from Caesarea, Cappodocia

 

TITUS AR Billon Tetradrachm

 

GORDIAN III and TRANQUILLINA AE26

 

VABALATHUS ANS AURELIANUS Antoninianii

 

The "must have" Antony and Octavian :


Mark Antony and Octavian, Denarius
Denarius minted in Asia minor c.41 BC
M ANT IMP AVG III RPCM BARBAT QP, Bare head of Mark Antony right
CAESAR IMP PONT III VIR RPC, Bare head of Octavian right
3.62 gr
Ref : HCRI # 243, RCV #1504, Cohen #8
Ex Coll Alain M.

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