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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7302961, member: 91461&quot;]While I did catch the first half of today&#039;s auction. Only to watch the 5-9 Macedonian shield coin delicatessens<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, depending on your criteria, go for gobsmacking amounts.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It was still entertaining to watch.</p><p>But, I digress. This thread is for your favorite coins of the Roman&#039;s personification of their home country and ideal woman,&nbsp; Roma.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277138[/ATTACH]</p><p>(She&#039;s awful at break-ups, but man does she know</p><p>how to fill out a dress)</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins as early as 280-276 BCE bare images that may be her earliest on coinage. Which makes me wonder,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277145[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>what is the earliest portrait of Roma that we have here on Coin Talk?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And whoes got the best looking?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>My earliest</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277154[/ATTACH]</p><p>ANONYMOUS. RR Denarius (206-195 BCE). Mint: Rome.</p><p>Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left.</p><p>Rev: ROMA.</p><p>The Dioscuri on horses rearing right, each holding spear; prow below.</p><p>Crawford 114/1.</p><p>3.7 g. 19 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best looking Roma... oh, gee. Looky there. It just so happens to have a MSC on it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277132[/ATTACH]</p><p>T. Quinctius Flamininus, 126 BCE, AR denarius. Rome, 3.91g, 18mm.</p><p>Obv: Helmeted bust of Roma right; flamen&#039;s cap behind; XVI ligate below chin</p><p>Rev: The Dioscuri riding right, each holding a couched lance, stars above; Macedonian shield between T-Q below; ROMA in exergue.</p><p>Crawford 267/1</p><p>The key feature of the type – the Macedonian shield on the reverse – is very clear on this example.</p><p>Issued by a descendant of the more famous Flamininus, a philhellene who prosecuted the second Macedonian War against Philip V and proclaimed freedom for Greece.</p><p>Ex: AMCC 2 consigned by Caesar_Augustus</p><p><br /></p><p>One of her most popular:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277133[/ATTACH]</p><p>M.Nonius Sufenas</p><p>AR Denarius, (c.59 BC), head of Saturn right, harpa, conical stone and sc behind, svfenas behind s.c, rev. Roma seated left on shields, being crowned by Victory, sex.noni in ex., pr.l.v.v.p.f around (Cr. 421/1; Syd. 885), 81 B.C.16 mm., 3,49 g. nearly very fine</p><p>This type may refer to the moneyer&#039;&#039;s father, Sextus Nonius, who inaugurated the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae in honour of Sulla&#039;&#039;s victory at the Colline Gate in Ex: Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>And a few more for THE goddess of Rome:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277136[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caecilia</p><p>Denarius. AR. Rome. (125 BCE). A / Head of Rome to the right, behind ROMA and in front X. R / Macedonian shield, around M. METELLVS Q. F., all within a laurel wreath. 3.70g. FFC.204. Banker&#039;s punch. Limited. BC / BC +. Ex Pliego</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277135[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1277170[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277147[/ATTACH] </p><p>(So Please Quiver Rigorously)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody have a Roma they wanna share?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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