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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7390553, member: 110350"]A great post, as always, with beautiful coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of coins with Cybele that I haven't shown too recently:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [<i>portion in brackets off flan</i>] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [<i> = Aristobulus II of Judaea?</i>],* in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g. (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183</i>.) SB Binder 8 RRC 431/1 (85, 88, 89, 92)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286086[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>* </i>See Sear RCV I at p. 148: “Aulus Plautius strikes as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by [Michael] Harlan in RRM [see <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE </i>(2nd Revised Edition 2015), Ch. 18 at pp. 146-148] . . . who identifies the kneeling figure as Aristobulus [= Judah Aristobulus II of the Hasmonean Dynasty, d. ca. 49 BCE], the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome.”<i> </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II (wife of Marcus Aurelius & daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, ca. 170-176 AD[?], Rome mint. Obv. Draped bust right, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA / Rev. Turreted Cybele seated left, holding olive branch with right hand extended, left elbow resting on drum, lion at her side next to throne, MATRI MAGNAE. RIC III MA 706, RSC II 172, Sear RCV II 5159 (ill.) (dated 161-175), BMCRE MA 134*, Dinsdale 005550 [Dinsdale, Paul H., <i>The Imperial Coinage of the Middle Antonines: Marcus Aurelius with Lucius Verus and Commodus</i>, Ch. 4, <i>Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 </i>(<a href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20158-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20158-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04 - Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (med_res).pdf</a>) at p. 56; photo at p. 62]. 18 mm., 3.05 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286087[/ATTACH] </p><p>*Mattingly (BMCRE4, p. cxliv) believes this reverse type honors Faustina "as an earthly likeness of the 'great mother', Cybele." Mattingly assigns coins of this type (along with other reverses) to her "last issue" (ibid), and even postulates that they may have been issued posthumously (op. cit., n. 2).</p><p><br /></p><p>(It's a bit difficult to see the turret on top of Cybele's head on the reverse, but I promise it's there!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7390553, member: 110350"]A great post, as always, with beautiful coins. Here are a couple of coins with Cybele that I haven't shown too recently: Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [[I]portion in brackets off flan[/I]] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [[I] = Aristobulus II of Judaea?[/I]],* in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g. ([I]Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183[/I].) SB Binder 8 RRC 431/1 (85, 88, 89, 92) [ATTACH=full]1286086[/ATTACH] [I]* [/I]See Sear RCV I at p. 148: “Aulus Plautius strikes as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by [Michael] Harlan in RRM [see [I]Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE [/I](2nd Revised Edition 2015), Ch. 18 at pp. 146-148] . . . who identifies the kneeling figure as Aristobulus [= Judah Aristobulus II of the Hasmonean Dynasty, d. ca. 49 BCE], the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome.”[I] [/I] Faustina II (wife of Marcus Aurelius & daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, ca. 170-176 AD[?], Rome mint. Obv. Draped bust right, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA / Rev. Turreted Cybele seated left, holding olive branch with right hand extended, left elbow resting on drum, lion at her side next to throne, MATRI MAGNAE. RIC III MA 706, RSC II 172, Sear RCV II 5159 (ill.) (dated 161-175), BMCRE MA 134*, Dinsdale 005550 [Dinsdale, Paul H., [I]The Imperial Coinage of the Middle Antonines: Marcus Aurelius with Lucius Verus and Commodus[/I], Ch. 4, [I]Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 [/I]([URL='http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20158-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf']http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04 - Faustina II - Undated, 158-176 (med_res).pdf[/URL]) at p. 56; photo at p. 62]. 18 mm., 3.05 g. [ATTACH=full]1286087[/ATTACH] *Mattingly (BMCRE4, p. cxliv) believes this reverse type honors Faustina "as an earthly likeness of the 'great mother', Cybele." Mattingly assigns coins of this type (along with other reverses) to her "last issue" (ibid), and even postulates that they may have been issued posthumously (op. cit., n. 2). (It's a bit difficult to see the turret on top of Cybele's head on the reverse, but I promise it's there!)[/QUOTE]
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