antoninus

I found very nice coin with all details. Is this antoninus pius and roma sitting ?

 

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That's Elagabalus, who had two main varieties of obverse legend: one derived from IMP CAES M AVR AVR ANTONINVS P F AVG by contraction or omission; the other is ANTONINVS PIVS FELIX AVG.

It's easy to distinguish his coins from Antoninus Pius, who is an older, bearded man:



It's harder to distinguish his coins from those of Caracalla, because his portrait may look similar. However, note:

Titles beginning IMP CAES AVR are either very early in Caracalla's reign, and therefore have the head of a young boy, or belong to the first half of Elagabalus' reign, in which case the portrait shows a youth of about eighteen.

Moreover, Caracalla did not use the legend ANTONINVS PIVS FELIX AVG.

 

then why is on coin described imp antoninus avg? what is that meaning?
thx for answer

 

That was his name! There were three with that name, the other is Caracalla.

 

@Bojan: That coin does not look right to me. I can't condemn it out of hand, but the portrait looks all wrong to me.

 

Widget me.Elagabalus

 

Elagabalus 218-222

 

I dont know what you mean. But I dont buy coin just searching with metal detector. all this is last month. probably I will have some more question later for some coins

 

Beautiful Romans

 

Yes! I like roman coin. better than any other period

 

Wow!

 

Great find with a metal detector. I agree that the portrait of the OP coin looks a bit off, but on the other hand if you dug it out of the ground it is probably not a fake.

 

I'm most probably wrong @Bojan, but when portraits are compared, perhaps you can see where I'm coming from:

 

It was often with Roman emperors to take on formal names from previous emperors when they came to power as a way to associate themselves with the previous emperor. Both Caracalla (his nickname based off the name for a popular hooded cloak of the time, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla#names) and Elagabalus (his priest name based on the name of the sun god he worshiped, sometimes also referred to as Heliogabalus, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus) were formally Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.

There was a lot of power in a name back then.

 

Cool! I see a Vespasian, Septimius Severus and wifey Julia domna to name a few. Please share all your finds
I love looking at metal detector finds. I go out with my detector when it's not too cold. But living in Utah, the oldest things I've found are wheat pennies and mercury dimes. The coolest thing I've found is a token for a pack of cigarettes from the 40s or 50s...
And thanks for sharing so far

 

I look for my coins and found more couple coin with antoninus is this all elagabelus ? All face was diferent and with my phone camera is not very good picture.

 

I would guess some are Caracalla. I thought my Elagabalus was Caracalla for over a year until one of my CT friends pointed it out and corrected me. You may want to look them up on AC search.

 

I think #3 might be Caracalla, and #4 is definitely Elagabalus. #1 & 2 I bet are Elagabalus, and #5 might be a young Caracalla.

 

Here is my Elagabalus:


Elagabalus
AR Denarius AD 218-222.
Rome, AD 221/2. IMP
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG,
laureate and draped bust of
Elagabalus right. Reverse
ABVNDAN-TIA AVG,
Abundantia standing facing,
head left, emptying contents
from cornucopiae; in right
field, star. RIC 56; BMC 189;
RSC 1a. Boldly struck
And here is young Caracalla:

Caracalla
198-217AD
SilverDenarius (2.91 gm)
RomeMint
Obv:ANTONINVSPIVSAVG
;Laureatedrapedbustright.
Rev:FELICITASAVGG
;Felicitas standingleft,holding
caduceus &cornucopia.
RIC IV 127 ; RSC 64

...not so easy to tell apart without doing some research...