Double bubble feature: Domna'd if I do. And Domna'd if I don't! Or: Best these buns Isis cans

There are quite a few barbarous Severans. Many, including these, are low to middle grade silver and solid. We simply do not know the status of every coin that does not fit the current theories of mint ID. I would love to know what the scholars of the next century thinks about the whole mess.

Others are fourree.


What we must remember is that saying something about one unofficial coin says nothing about every other unofficial coin. It is doubtful in my mind but some of the coins we dismiss as 'not official' could have been just as sanctioned as the acknowledged mints. Discovery and organization of mint organizations working backwards from coins is much slower than it would be if we had records documenting the complete system. What we 'know' and 'think' today is a bit different from fifty years ago and considerably different from a hundred or two hundred years ago. There is no reason to doubt that the next century will go by without change.

 

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How in Hell I could miss that cheeky chubby thread by the time you posted it (I didn't even "like" it ), it will remain a mystery, butt now I can't butt post my own (well not my own, really, just a coin...)


Julia Titi, denarius - Rome mint, c.79-81 CE
IVLIA AVGVSTA T AVG F, Bust of Julia right
VENVS AVG, Venus leaning on a column, holding helmet and sceptre
3.03 gr
Ref : Cohen #12, RCV #2611

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One of my biggest scores of 2021 was this long-sought-after denarius, the VENERI VICTRICI reverse type featuring the cult image of Venus Victrix from Pompey's Temple of Venus.


Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman AR denarius, 3.23 g, 18.7 mm, 5 h.
Rome, c. AD 164-167.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Beckmann type 9 hairstyle.
Rev: VENERI VICTRICI, Venus standing right, resting right arm against column and holding transverse spear in right hand and helmet on extended left hand.
Refs: RIC 713; BMCRE 161-162; Cohen/RSC 240; RCV 5265; MIR 41-4/10b; CRE 223.

 

My Julia Domna is much more puritan...

 

Mine isn't the cheeky version, but it's Julia Domna, and I jump at any chance to post a coin, so here she is. Vesta couldn't be coaxed into letting her coverings dip even a little bit...I tried.

 

Well, time to remember my #1 2021 purchase, also winning the popularity prize in my Top 10.
When buying it I was under the impression it's rarer than it actually is, but even if it's somewhat common and it has (curious) surface and legends issue, I still think it's a GREAT coin.



Titus AD 79-81. Rome
Denarius AR
17 mm, 2,53 g
AD 79
RIC II, Part 1 (second edition) Titus 34; Old RIC II Titus 9; RSC 268
Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, head of Titus, laureate, right / Rev: TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII P P, Venus standing right, resting on column, holding helmet and spear

 

THICC.
I like it