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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 5355179, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks all!</p><p><br /></p><p>Second up - <b>Familiar Faces, New Titles</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>I&#039;m not entirely certain how I got stuck on this path, but I somehow decided to collect not only one from each emperor, but also from their tenure as Caesar, as Augustus, and posthumous issues. All of these are common emperors, but the titles are mostly scarce to extremely rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>10. Tiberius as Caesar under Augustus AE As (8 AD)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227078[/ATTACH]</p><p>Probably one of the more common on this list, even though Tiberius spent decades as Augustus&#039; on-again, off-again heir apparent, the coinage honoring him as such is somewhat sparing. This predates the use of Caesar as an explicit title meaning heir apparent, but the use of AVGVST F instead of DIVI AVG F indicates that the coin was struck when Augustus was still alive.</p><p><br /></p><p>9. Divus Septimius Severus AR denarius, consecration by Caracalla and/or Geta</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227071[/ATTACH]</p><p>Severus&#039; immense lifetime denarius output coupled with family strife for the duration of 211 AD makes his consecration coinage seem miniscule compared to the bulk of Severan coinage. This one just struck me as nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. Gordian III as Caesar under Pupienus and Balbinus, AE sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227073[/ATTACH]</p><p>Not *so* rare, but compared to the sea of Gordian III coins on the market, the rare issue from his three months as Caesar under Pupienus and Balbinus just seems particularly special.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. Diva Sabina AR denarius, consecration by Hadrian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227070[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As discussed in a recent thread, Hadrian was a homosexual and despised his wife Sabina, who, aside from an apparent affair with the historian Suetonius, suffered her husband&#039;s escapades with Antinous in silent dignity. Hadrian deified his wife, but kept the commemorative issue short. All coins of Sabina are less than common, but deification issues are a special find.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Nero as Caesar AR didrachm of Antioch</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227067[/ATTACH]</p><p>Why the coinage of Nero as Caesar dwarfs that of Britannicus is a mystery to me. This one sports a particularly attractive youthful bust, and is a rare example of a coin that specifically calls out the denomination - ΔIΔPAXMON</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Diva(?!) Claudia Octavia, unauthorized issue by local authority of Mindios?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227064[/ATTACH]</p><p>Discussed in detail here <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-illegal-coin-and-exciting-mystery-lydia-sardes-for-diva-claudia-octavia.367560/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-illegal-coin-and-exciting-mystery-lydia-sardes-for-diva-claudia-octavia.367560/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-illegal-coin-and-exciting-mystery-lydia-sardes-for-diva-claudia-octavia.367560/</a> </p><p>The obverse legend ΘΕΑΝ ΟΚΤΑΟΙΑΝ indicates that Octavia has been deified on this issue - but she clearly wasn&#039;t, as Nero had her put to death!</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Divus Victorinus AE antoninianus, Consecration issue by Tetricus I, or possibly interregnum issue</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227072[/ATTACH]</p><p>Perhaps one of the most surprising coins to come from the Gallic Empire - Victorinus was emperor for only a short while, barely kept his dominion held together between the pressures from the barbarians and the new emperor Claudius II, and was ultimately killed by a jealous soldier whose wife he had apparently seduced! Still, he was given the only posthumous honors out of the four Gallic emperors, either by his successor Tetricus, or else by his mother Victoria during the interregnum before Tetricus could be contacted to accept the succession.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Divus Hadrian, consecration issue by Antoninus Pius[ATTACH=full]1227069[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite his reputation today, Hadrian was deeply unpopular when he died, and his memory was nearly condemned to be forgotten. Antoninus threatened to abdicate if his adoptive father was not deified, an act that so moved the Senate that they granted his request and bestowed the honorific Pius to the new emperor. The compulsory consecration coinage was kept to a minimum, and is rare today.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Divus Augustus AE dupondius, consecration by Tiberius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227068[/ATTACH]</p><p>By far the most common coin on the list, this is actually my first Divus Augustus with his portrait, and it&#039;s just a really attractive coin, despite the off-center strike (which got me a killer deal on it!)</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Caligula as Caesar, with Tiberius, AE &quot;as&quot; of Carthago Nova, Hispania</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227065[/ATTACH]</p><p>Despite ample coinage issued for original heirs Germanicus and Drusus, Tiberius saw fit to allow Caligula only one extremely limited issue of three denominations of AE coinage from Carthago Nova in Hispania while the latter held the title of Caesar and Heir apparent. These ~100 coins across all three denominations are the only physical mementos of the Mad Emperor prior to the death of Tiberius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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