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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 2160023, member: 4298&quot;]I think I might be of some help with the Rome mint....but just as almost everyone here at CT ...</p><p>Then, just a few coins for your pleasure to see them, and mine to show off</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0030-0210.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Octavian, Denarius </b> Italian mint, possibly Rome, 31-30 BC</p><p>Anepigraph, bare head of Octavian left</p><p>CAESAR - DIVI F, Victory standing right on globe, holding wreath</p><p>3.84 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 408, RCV # 1552v, Cohen # 66, RIC # 255</p><p>The following comment is taken from CNG, sale 84 # 957 :</p><p><i>&quot;Following his victory at Actium, Octavian ordered a golden statue of Victory, standing on a globe and holding a wreath and palm, to be set up on an altar in the Curia in Rome. This statue had been captured by the Romans from Pyrrhus in 272 BC, and it assumed a somewhat tutelary mystique, protecting the Roman state from dissolution. In AD 382, the emperor Gratian ordered its removal. Two years later, the senator and orator Symmachus urged Valentinian II to replace it, a request that was met with stiff opposition from the bishop of Milan, Ambrose. Though it was briefly returned to its place by the usurper Eugenius, it was again removed following his defeat. Petitions to Theodosius I for its subsequent replacement were refused, on grounds that the once-important symbol of the gods’ blessing on the Roman Empire was now nothing more than a piece of paganism&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0035-510np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Agrippa, As - </b>Posthumous issue of Caligula, in honour of his grandfather</p><p>Rome mint, ca AD 37/41</p><p>M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head of Agrippa left with rostral crown</p><p>Neptun standing left, holding trident and dolphin. Large S C in fields</p><p>10.9 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV #1812, Cohen #3</p><p><br /></p><p>The following comment is a (quick) translation from CGB about a similar coin :</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Although Augustus associated his close friend Agrippa in his coinage, he didn&#039;t for him alone. Gaius honoured the memory of his grandfather, recalling he had been COS III in 27 BC while Augustus was COS VII at the same time. </i></p><p><i>Gaius, however, as the new emperor would like us to remember his double filiation : Through his father, Germanicus, he&#039;s descended from Nero Drusus and Antonia, thus from Tiberius ; through his mother Agrippina the elder, he tells us Agrippa and Julia are his grand parents and he&#039;s a grand grand son of Augustus. Agrippa remained prestigious all along the first century CE, although he had died 12 BC. Titus then Domitian will also strike this type, seemingly very succesfull towards population (see RCV 2589 and 2894)&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0070-210np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Nero, Denarius - </b>Rome mint, AD 64/65</p><p>NERO CAESAR, laureate head of Nero right</p><p>AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS, Nero standing facing, holding branch and victory on globe</p><p>3,32 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV #1941, Cohen #45, RIC # 47</p><p>The following comment, from NFA, auction XX catalog, # 118 :</p><p><i>Nero&#039;s coinage reform of A.D. 64 saw a reduction in the weight standard of both the aureus and denarius denominations. A whole new range of reverse types was introduced with an unmistakably imperial flavor, in marked contrast to the senatorial types of the pre-reform coinage. This coin depicts a standing figure of the emperor, wearing the radiate crown of the sun god Sol, holding a branch of peace and a small figure of Victory. An allusion to the settlement of the Parthian question, following Corbulo&#039;s successes in Armenia in A.D. 63, seems unmistakable. It is tempting to identify this reverse type with the statue of the sun god, with the facial features of the emperor, erected by Nero in front of his Domus Aurea (Golden House), which was one of the principal features of the reconstruction following the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64. The Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) was later erected on the site of the Domus Aurea&#039;s ornamental lake, and received its popular name from its close proximity to Nero&#039;s statue</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0082-210np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Otho, Denarius - </b>Denarius minted in Rome in 69 AD</p><p>IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, Bare head of Otho right</p><p>SECURITAS PR, Securitas standing left</p><p>3.50 gr</p><p>Ref : RIC # 8, RCV #2162, Cohen #17</p><p><br /></p><p>Q</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah ! and Mickey Zee, I already have two kids. They are grown up now, and we finally got rid of them, hence not in the mood for adopting anyone else <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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